Rami Hamdallah

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will be on working visits to the State of Israel and Palestine from 12 to 14 June.
 

Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed an agreement on Thursday (12 October) on ending a decade-long split following talks mediated by Egypt in Cairo, with president Mahmud Abbas calling it a “final” accord.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly condemned the deal, saying it would make peace with his country “much harder to achieve”.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniya spoke on Sept. 18 for the first time in nearly a year, adding impetus to a surprise reconciliation between their factions locked in bitter dispute for 10 years.

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah is poised to visit Gaza for talks, a senior official said yesterday,
after Hamas agreed steps towards resolving a decade-long split with its West Bank-based rival Fatah.

Israel removed metal detectors from entrances to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City on July 25 in favor of CCTV cameras, hoping to calm days of violence, but Palestinians said the modified security measures were still unacceptable.

The Palestinian government decided Oct. 4 to delay municipal elections for up to four months after the high court ruled they should be held only in the West Bank and not in the Gaza Strip.
However, a new date for the vote was not set by the government based in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory run by President Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has welcomed the signing of a memorandum between Bulgaria and Palestinian authority which creates a joint ministerial committee.

Borisov was on a visit to Ramallah on Wednesday where he met counterpart Rami Hamdallah.

Welcome to Palestine PM @BoykoBorissov pic.twitter.com/0QMSOq9QN2

A team from the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) has spoken about a $5-billion Turkish plan prepared by the Center for Multilateral Trade Studies at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) to rebuild Gaza City, after a series of meetings with officials from both Israel and Palestine. 

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is in Israel and Palestine on Wednesday and Thursday for a number of high-level meetings. The PM’s itinerary includes a brief tour of the Holocaust Monument for a wreath-laying ceremony followed by a meeting with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Both men will give a joint press conference and then meet alone. At 4 p.m.

The Palestinian consensus government has failed to meet its commitment to rebuild the war-torn Gaza Strip, former Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya has said.