Fatah Hamas reconciliation

Israeli couple returns to kibbutz ravaged by Hamas attack

Three months on, signs of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks remain everywhere in Kibbutz Kfar Aza.

 Ayelet Khon and Shar Shnurman walk past the remains of a home that was destroyed following the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, January 13, 2024
 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas adjusts his glasses as he listens during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured), in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 25, 2021.

Palestinian rivals agree on elections to end dispute but doubts persist

Hamas deputy political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh (R) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

PA’s Abbas, Hamas’s Haniyeh meet for first time in nearly six years

A demonstrator waves an Algerian flag

Algeria’s last chance saloon on Palestinian reconciliation


Egypt: Israel must not take action against Hamas leaders during negotiations

Saudi news site Elaph reported that Director of Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate Major General Khaled Fawzy met with Israeli officials to discuss the Hamas-Fatah talks.

Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Yahya Sinwar (R)

EU representatives commend Fatah-Hamas reconciliation talks

The EU Heads of Mission in Jerusalem and Ramallah applauded the talks between Palestinian leaders.

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah waves upon his arrival with his government ministers to take control of Gaza from the Islamist Hamas group

PA government convenes in Gaza for the first time in three years

Hamdallah: “I urge everyone without exception to embrace the leadership, reconciliation and national unity and to put our national interest above factional and party considerations and interests.”

Palestinians celebrate the arrival of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and his government to take control of Gaza from the Islamist Hamas group

Analysis: Despite fanfare, Hamas and Fatah will be hard to reconcile

It is hard to see any way the PA can govern the Strip in a sustained way while Hamas retains the military power it refuses to relinquish.

PEOPLE WATCH as Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah visits the Shejaiya neighborhood in Gaza City yesterday.

Abbas says PA must control everything in Gaza including security

Palestinian leader says he will not accept a recreation of "the Hezbollah model" in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas greets delegates after addressing the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, US, September 20, 2017.

Unlike past, Israel not slamming Fatah-Hamas reconciliation moves

“Hamas is trying to gain international legitimacy, without accepting Israel’s right to exist, without disarming and without accepting the Quartet principles.”

Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad (L) and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

PA prime minister in Gaza to take over administrative control

"We return to Gaza in order to conclude reconciliation and national unity and end the painful impacts of divisions and to rebuild Gaza brick by brick," says PM

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah waves upon his arrival with his government ministers to take control of Gaza from the Islamist Hamas group

Palestinian Authority officials set for historic Gaza visit

The visit is part of a historic bid to work on ending the territorial division between the West Bank and Gaza.

A Palestinian holds a flag during a protest

Ahead of Gaza reconciliation, Hamas frees Fatah men

Hamas opted for reconciliation with Western-backed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah because it is short of funds and friends.

Shadi Abu Obeid (L), a member of the Palestinian Fatah movement, is greeted by a relative in Gaza City after his release from a Hamas prison on October 1, 2017.

For first time in over two years, PA to hold cabinet meeting in Gaza

The decision to send the PA government to Gaza came just over a week after Hamas announced the dissolution of its governing-body in the Strip.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 4, 2007.