PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas's office responds to Trump's comments, stresses it strongly opposes any plan aiming to deport Palestinian Arabs from the Gaza Strip.

Only the Palestinian Authority is legitimately placed to assume governance ... Trump said on Monday he will declare illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border a national emergency, send troops there and ramp up deportations of criminal offenders ...

Salfit District Governor Abdallah Kmeil: "The prisoners (i.e., terrorists) are a model of nobility, honor and purity. They are the most noble among us all, after the Martyrs. We feel all the love and appreciation for them."

The PA’s President, Mahmoud Abbas, has remained adamant that Hamas should not play a role in the governance of post-war Gaza.

Rantawi, Jordanian writer and political analyst, writes in the Al-Jazeera Arabic website about the urgent need for new approaches to Palestinian internal reconciliation and the liberation of the PLO

Following the long-sought cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the major challenge for the Israelis and the stateless Palestinians is how to achieve a lasting peace that will end the disastrous cycle of death,

The three female hostages were released as part of the phased ceasefire agreement Israel and Hamas reached last week.

The Israeli government appears to be “repositioning” itself following the resignation of its far-right members, namely Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, FRANCE 24’s Noga Tarnopolsky said.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday proposed international security forces and temporary UN leadership to stabilize post-war Gaza where he warned that Hamas has recruited as many fighters

Under the terms of the fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal , fighting will be halted in Gaza for at least six weeks. Dozens of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners will be freed, while more aid flows in .

The Al Jazeera news network says the Palestinian Authority arrested one of its reporters after preventing him from covering an Israeli operation in the occupied West Bank. The Qatar-based news

The release of four female Israeli soldiers from Hamas captivity on Saturday came at a heavy cost for Israel. Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners, 120 of them