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During his speech before the UN General Assembly today, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared he is no longer bound by the Oslo Accords because of alleged violations by Israel.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that the Palestinian National Authority is no longer bound by the Oslo Accords, and called on Israel to “assume all its responsibilities as an occupying power”.

“The peace process must be multilateral”. Abbas faces the world body knowing that the most recent polling back home shows a strong majority of Palestinians believe it’s time for him to step aside.

An Israeli army spokeswoman would not comment on the number of injuries, but said clashes were continuing in the West Bank.

The woman, 18, attempted to stab soldiers Tuesday morning at the city’s Kikar HaShoter checkpoint which separates the Palestinian and Jewish sections of Hebron.

Clashes broke out between masked Palestinians and Israeli security forces at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday, the last day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, police said.

Unrest however hit the flashpoint Hebron area in the southern West Bank, with Israeli forces shooting a Palestinian woman who allegedly tried to stab a soldier. Salah Hashlamoun told NBC News that his daughter died from her wounds in the hospital and disputed the Israeli...

Two passengers in the auto suffered light injuries and Levlovich died. He has called Iran a “terrorist state” in his campaign against the deal.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor took issue with the statement for largely ignoring the Jewish people’s connection to the Temple Mount.

In a sign of the increasingly tense situation, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian attacker on Tuesday after she tried to stab a soldier at a West Bank checkpoint.

An overwhelming majority of Palestinians, at 88%, think the PA should bring Israel to the ICC to stand trial for building settlements on the “occupied territories”, an Israeli enterprise most Palestinians (65%) think has nullified prospects for a two-state solution....

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip between Sunday night and Monday morning struck southern Israel but did not cause any casualties or damage, an army spokesman said.

“We have to remember that there are 330,000 Palestinians in east Jerusalem and 99.9 percent of them are not taking part in this violence”, Michaeli said.

The survey conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that a slight majority, 51 percent, oppose the two-state solution while 48 percent are in favor.

Gold also cited Hamas and the Islamic movement of Northern Israel as responsible for revving up Palestinians to clash with Israeli police in the religious compound.