The Palestinian Authority (PA)

During the past two weeks events focused on the meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). . Ehud Olmert and Abu Mazen agreed to a series of measures to ease the humanitarian conditions of the Palestinians, centering around facilitating the passage of goods and people between Israel Read more...

The Palestinian terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip continue to violate the ceasefire by sporadically firing Qassam rockets at population centers in the western Negev. However, the scope of rocket fire from the Strip has decreased, and there has been a sharp decrease in other forms of terrorist activity. Responsibility for most of the continued Read more...

The focus of the past two weeks was an unwritten understanding for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. It was reached in a phone conversation between Palestinian Authority chairman Abu Mazen and Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, and began on November 26. Despite the understanding, the Palestinian terrorist organizations continued sporadic rocket fire at Sderot Read more...