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FILE.- Interim Palestinian leader and the front-runner in the upcoming Jan. 9, 2005 presidential election Mahmoud Abbas talks during his first official campaign speech in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Saturday Dec. 25, 2004.(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

The unpopular and politically weak 90-year-old Palestinian leader struggles for a role in Gaza

November 15, 2025 at 5:07 p.m.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas turns 90 on Saturday, still holding authoritarian power in tiny pockets of the West Bank, but marginalized and weakened by Israel, deeply unpopular among Palestinians, and...

A displaced Palestinian man carries his belongings as he walks past destroyed buildings in the heavily damaged Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Many unresolved questions remain as a ceasefire holds in Gaza

October 11, 2025 at 4:11 p.m.

A ceasefire was holding in Gaza between Israel and Hamas on Saturday after two years of war. But will the agreement lead, as U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed, to “a...

Displaced Palestinians walk along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, moving toward northern Gaza, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Many unresolved questions remain as a ceasefire begins in Gaza. Here’s what we know.

October 10, 2025 at 10:07 p.m.

Bombardment stopped and Israeli troops pulled back in Gaza on Friday under a breakthrough ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

Displaced Palestinians gather on the coastal road near Wadi Gaza after the announcement that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of a peace plan to pause the fighting, as Israeli tanks block the road leading to Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

What we know about the next steps in the deal to pause the war in Gaza

October 9, 2025 at 8:27 a.m.

A breakthrough deal pausing the war in Gaza has been reached. But will it lead, as U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed, to “a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace”?

FILE – President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the West Wing of the White House, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

What to know about the Gaza peace plan agreed to by Trump and Netanyahu

September 30, 2025 at 6:17 a.m.

After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threw his support behind the U.S. peace plan for Gaza, the question now is whether Hamas will agree.

Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly via video, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

‘Palestinians will not leave,’ their president tells world leaders at UN in defiant speech

September 26, 2025 at 6:04 p.m.

The Palestinian president is speaking over video to world leaders after the United States revoked his visa.

Naima Abu Ful poses for a photo with her 2-year-old malnourished child, Yazan, at their home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Dozens of kids and adults in Gaza have starved to death in July as hunger surges

July 24, 2025 at 9:22 p.m.

Health workers and aid groups fear hunger that has been building in Gaza for months under Israel's blockade is now reaching a tipping point into accelerating death.

The Al-Najjar family eats peas with rice in their family tent in Muwasi, on the outskirts of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, April, 25, 2025(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families

April 27, 2025 at 12:42 p.m.

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.

An injured United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) worker is brought into al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following what the U.N. described as a strike in which an explosive ordnance was “dropped or fired” in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN to reduce staff in Gaza, blaming Israel for a strike that killed its employee

March 24, 2025 at 2:22 p.m.

The United Nations said Monday it will “reduce its footprint” in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli tank strike hit one of its compounds last week, killing one staffer from...

FILE – A man walks between tents for displaced Palestinians next to destroyed buildings following the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, file)

President Donald Trump doubles down on plan to empty Gaza. This is what he has said and what’s at stake

February 12, 2025 at 8:31 a.m.

Behind U.S. President Donald Trump’s vows to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” lies a plan to forcibly drive a population from its land, rights groups say,...

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