The Foreign Ministry has welcomed the appointment of Hussein Al Sheikh as vice president of the State of Palestine and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) as a major step in the “reform and ...

An Israeli air strike has flattened a three-storey home in Gaza City, killing 10 people – half of them children – as Arab ...

Hussein al-Sheikh has been named the PLO’s first-ever vice-president and will be acting head if Abbas dies or steps down.

For many ordinary Palestinians, the appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh was emblematic of how out-of-touch the leadership of the ...