Mahmoud Abbas

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Gender	Male
Age	88
Date of birth	November 15,1935
Zodiac sign	Scorpio
Born	Mandatory Palestine
Nationality	Palestinian
Spouse	Amina Abbas
Party	Fatah
Books	The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism
	Through Secret Channels
	Tareq Abbas
Children	Yasser Abbas
	Mazen Abbas
	Tareq Abbas
Parents	Reda Abbas
Presidential term	January 19, 2005 –, November 23, 2008 –
Position	President of the State of Palestine since 2008
Date of Reg.	2019-02-13 22:26:02
Date of Upd.	2023-11-11 22:48:09
ID	414307

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Mahmoud Abbas Life story

Mahmoud Abbas, also known by the kunya Abu Mazen, is the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority. He has been the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization since 11 November 2004, PNA president since 15 January 2005, and State of Palestine president since 8 May 2005.

David Cameron warns Israel over Gaza civilian casualties

Nov 24,2023 12:10 pm

... Lord Cameron was speaking on the day he visited Ramallah in the West Bank where he met Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority and other senior Palestinian leaders...

Rumbling Middle East fault lines make this Israel-Gaza war different

Nov 13,2023 11:11 am

... Prime Minister Netanyahu has not revealed his plan for the day after the fighting ends in Gaza, but he has rejected America s idea of installing a government led by the Palestinian Authority, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas and ejected by Hamas from Gaza in 2007...

Few reasons for optimism after Antony Blinken's diplomatic dash

Nov 5,2023 6:40 pm

... He travelled to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a convoy of armoured SUVs and vans, speeding through streets cordoned off by soldiers from the Palestinian Palace Guard...

Bowen: Five new realities after four weeks of Israel-Gaza war

Nov 3,2023 9:11 am

... The Palestinian Authority (PA), which is the main rival to Hamas, is a deeply flawed organisation, and many who support it believe its aged President Mahmoud Abbas needs to step aside...

Israelis and Palestinians fear worst to come after Gaza violence

Oct 25,2023 1:11 pm

... He was educated at Imperial College, London, is an adviser to President Mahmoud Abbas and is a senior member of Fatah, the faction once led by Yasser Arafat that dominates the Palestine Liberation Organisation...

BBC correspondents answer your questions on the conflict between Israel and Hamas

Oct 24,2023 1:51 am

... The Fatah leader is President Mahmoud Abbas who heads the Palestinian Authority (PA) which governs parts of the occupied West Bank...

Israel carries out air strike on West Bank city Jenin

Oct 22,2023 5:31 am

... Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is the leader of the PA and is from the Fatah political party...

Cairo Summit: Arab leaders reject forced displacement of Palestinians

Oct 21,2023 12:11 pm

... Mahmoud Abbas, who is head of the Palestinian Authority which has control over areas of the occupied West Bank but not the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, also said Palestinians could not be forced to leave...

Israel carries out air strike on West Bank city Jenin

Oct 20,2023 2:01 pm

Israel carried out an Air Strike in Jenin in the northern West Bank early on Sunday, saying Hamas was using a mosque as a " terrorist compound".

Palestinian Authority officials said Two People died when the Al-Ansar mosque was hit.

Although the Israeli military regularly raids targets in the West Bank , it rarely uses air strikes there like it does against Hamas-controlled Gaza.

Pictures from The Scene showed rubble and significant damage to The Building .

The Israeli military said those killed were from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups and were organising an " imminent terror attack".

It said The Compound they were using was under the mosque and had been in use since July. It released images of what it said were entrances to The Compound , alongside images of weapons, computers and security measures pictured at The Site .

The IDF did not confirm whether a plane, helicopter or drone had been used in the Jenin strike on Sunday, but Israeli media reported that it was a fighter jet.

The reports said if confirmed it would be only the send Time In about two decades that a fighter jet had hit a target in the West Bank .

The Palestinian Authority health ministry says two other Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank overnight. It brings the total number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank since 7 October to 89.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) runs parts of the West Bank . Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is the leader of the PA and is from the Fatah Political Party .

The Gaza Strip is run by Fatah's rival Hamas, which carried out deadly attacks on Israeli military posts and kibbutzes near Gaza on 7 October, killing More Than 1,400 people and taking More Than 200 hostages into Gaza.

Israel has been carrying out an intensive air bombardment of Gaza ahead of an expected ground offensive there and has vowed to destroy Hamas as an organisation.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 55 more Palestinians in Gaza were killed in Israeli air strikes overnight and More Than 4,300 have been killed in total since 7 October, More Than half of them women and children.