Now, the program is ending. According to coverage in Maan, a Palestinian news agency, P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas ended the program on Monday while allowing for low-income families of prisoners ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Turkish parliament during an extraordinary session on August 15, 2024 in Ankara, Turkey. (photo credit: Serdar Ozsoy/Getty Images ...

(JTA) — The Palestinian Authority will no longer pay stipends to the families of convicted terrorists and other prisoners, in a gesture to President Donald Trump. The longstanding program ...

President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree on Monday “revoking” legal articles relating to the allowances initiative. The order presented the move as a restructure, moving the fund from the ...

WASHINGTON — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree on Monday canceling legislation that conditioned welfare payments to Palestinian security prisoners on the length of ...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas ordered the cessation of payments to the families of terrorist prisoners and "martyrs" on Monday, aiming to appease the US and Europe over the ...

Dan Diamond is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. He was previously a national health reporter covering politics, policy and public health. He joined The Post in 2021 after covering ...

Israeli police have confiscated books and arrested Palestinian booksellers following a raid on two famous East Jerusalem bookshops. The raid on The Educational Bookshops happened on Sunday and ...

Education: University of Illinois, B.S. in communications and M.S. in communications Dan Balz is chief correspondent at The Washington Post. He joined The Post in 1978 and has been involved in ...

Largely cloudy today with only limited bright spells breaking through at times. It will be mostly dry but the odd spot of drizzle cannot be ruled out locally, mainly in the first half of the day ...