The Palestinian Authority (PA)

The PA’s security forces used force to disperse a series of protest demonstrations against the Annapolis meeting. They were instigated by Hamas (which kept a low profile), the Islamic Liberation Party and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Palestinian security forces deployed to disperse before the demonstrations began, following a decision by Read more...

The protests of the Annapolis meeting’s opponents in the Palestinian Authority were focused in the Gaza Strip, although there was dissent in Ramallah, Hebron and other locations. Read more...

Using the false slogan that Al-Aqsa is in danger, Hamas has undertaken a campaign to put Jerusalem at the top of the Palestinian agenda. Its purpose is to undermine the Annapolis meeting and deflect attention from criticism of the massacre of Fatah supporters at the memorial rally for Yasser Arafat. Read more...

On the eve of the Annapolis meeting the Palestinian terrorist organizations are making an effort to carry out terrorist attacks from the Gaza Strip and in Judea and Samaria. In our assessment, the attacks are meant to deflect attention from the meeting and show that the path of “resistance” (i.e., terrorism) is the strategic alternative Read more...