Palestinian National Authority

The EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell late Friday accused Israel of having "created" and "financed" the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which launched unprecedented attacks on Israel on Oct. 7.

In the occupied West Bank, Hafeth Ghazawneh waits in quiet frustration for customers to visit his falafel stall, which has been deserted since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel.

His breakfast and lunch offerings were popular with craftsmen from workshops near Al-Bireh, the twin city of Ramallah, before the Israel-Hamas war broke out.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes the return of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip following the current Israeli war on the enclave

Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis is set to meet with his Palestinian counterpart, Riyad al-Maliki, in Athens on Friday.

It will be their third meeting, with the first one taking place in September in New York, in the context of the UN General Assembly meeting.

An early morning strike by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank killed six Palestinians, while an Israeli police officer died when a roadside bomb hit her vehicle Sunday, sources on both sides said.

"Representatives of the PRCS received 4,760 trucks with which humanitarian aid was delivered to the people of the enclave from Egypt between October 21 and December 22," according to the statement, TASS reports.
It is added that the humanitarian aid mainly included food, medicine and drinking water.

This was confirmed by Husam Badran, a member of the Hamas representative office in Qatar, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. According to Badran, Hamas wants an end to the war and a "Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem."

At least 100 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, according to figures from the Palestinian Authority in the enclave. The military action comes amid growing international pressure on Israel for a ceasefire and calls inside the country to resume talks to free the hostages kidnapped by the radical Palestinian movement Hamas on October 7.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called "truth" all the accusations in recent years that he is not working for the Middle East peace process and solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by creating a separate, Palestinian state.

Israel bombed Gaza on Thursday as a top White House advisor was due to arrive in Jerusalem with a rift growing over U.S. calls for its ally to exercise restraint.

The war has left besieged Gaza in ruins, killing more than 18,600 people, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, and devastating homes, roads, schools and hospitals.