Nearly eight weeks into an Israeli aid blockade, the United Nations says food and medical supplies are running out.

RAMALLAH (Reuters) -Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas named close confidant Hussein al-Sheikh as his deputy and likely ...

An Israeli air strike has killed 10 people after flattening a three-storey home in Gaza.  Strikes across the region have ...

Sheikh, born in 1960, is a veteran of Fatah, the main PLO faction which was founded by Arafat and is now headed by Abbas.