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Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Saturday that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi called for intensifying efforts to settle the Palestinian issue and revive peace talks as well as end the inter-Palestinian division.

Over the last three years, murders in cases of theft, robbery and physical attack in the Gaza Strip have become common. Money changer Ameen Sharab from Khan Yunis was stabbed to death in a robbery attack on May 30, 2013. Mohammed Mahdi and his nephew Anas Tammous from Deir al-Balah refugee camp were killed against the backdrop of a family dispute on June 24, 2013. Aliyan al-Talbani from Deir al-Balah city was killed in an armed robbery on July 31, 2013. Money changer Fadel al-Astal from Khan Yunis was killed in a fight over bank checks in May 2014.

RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday evening in a speech that “his hand is still reaching for peace,” repeating his administration's stance that the recent wave of violent upheaval that has gripped the occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel must be extinguished. 

RAMALLAH, October 7, 2015 (WAFA) – PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat said on Wednesday that Palestinian leadership will not remain silent in the face of the persisting Israeli escalation in the occupied territories, and will continue to report all Israeli “crimes” committed against Palestinians to the International Criminal Court.

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The Palestinian Authority will no longer uphold the agreements it has signed with Israel over the last 20 years, PA President Mahmoud Abbas told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.

Terming this decision a response to Israel’s policies in the West Bank, Abbas said Israel “must assume all of its responsibilities as an occupying power.”

Abbas used the speech to assail Israel, accusing it of systematically violating all its agreements with the Palestinians and of trying to destroy the two-state solution.

The Palestinian Authority's unity government will resign, President Mahmoud Abbas has said.

He told his Fatah faction that the cabinet had to be dissolved because the rival Hamas movement would not allow it to operate in Gaza, which it dominates.

But a Hamas spokesman said it rejected any unilateral dissolution.

The technocratic cabinet, comprising 17 independent ministers, was sworn in a year ago to try to end a long-running rift between Fatah and Hamas.

A senior Hamas official has called on Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to set the date for presidential and parliamentary elections, Anadolu reported today. Mousa Abu-Marzouk announced this on his Facebook page to coincide with a meeting of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).