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Weekly
Bulletin
The Weekly Bulletin, focusing on the West Bank, serves
as the basic component of all service packages. An extensive
document distributed every Monday, the Weekly Bulletin
provides information regarding the previous week’s
most pertinent political and security developments and
enables clients an understanding of the current atmosphere
on the Palestinian street. |
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Week
of August 5 - 11 2012
The main event of the past week was the combined assault on an Egyptian army base close to Rafah, in which 16 soldiers from the Egyptian Border Guard were killed. Much to the displeasure of Hamas, it seems likely that this event will shape not only the future relations between... more |
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Week
of July 29 - August 4 2012
This past week was significant and unprecedented, as the new watershed in the relations between the various Palestinian organizations and the Bashar Alassad regime in Syria, as well as... more |
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Week
of July 22 - 28 2012
The past week was dominated by the visit to Egypt by the Hamas PrimeMinister in the Gaza Strip, Isma’il Haniyyah, and his meeting with the newEgyptian President, Muhammad Mursi. The visit follows earlier, separatemeetings between... more |
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Week
of July 15 - 21 2012
The main events of the past weeks were the separate meetings held between PA Chairman Mahmud A’bbas and Hamas Politburo head Khaled Masha’l and theEgyptian President Muhammad Mursi. Mursi, who is interested in conveying amessage of diplomatic continuity and avoiding... more |
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Week
of July 8 - 14 2012
The key event of the past week was the declaration by the government of Salam Fayyad in Ramallah that it intends to hold local elections on October 20, 2012. The declaration, which was accompanied by a notification to the Palestinian Central Election Committee to begin... more |
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Week
of July 1 - 7 2012
The past week marked a further decline in the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority and Chairman Mahmud A’bbas. There can now be no doubt that the PA is facing its most serious crisis since A’bbas entered his position at the end of 2004. Sae’b Ariqat, one of A’bbas’s closest associates, admitted this week that there is “tension” in the... more |
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Week
of June 24 - 30 2012
Unsurprisingly, attention focused over the week on the election and swearing in of Muhammad Mursi as the new president of Egypt, and the transfer (albeit hesitant and partial) of powers from the Supreme Military Council to the president. All the players in the region, including Hamas, the PA, Israel, Jordan,and the Muslim Brotherhood movements throughout the... more |
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Week
of June 17 - 23 2012
The central event of the past week was the military escalation in the Gaza Strip, which has continued for almost a week. As of the time of writing, 16 Palestinians have been killed and over 60 injured in the Gaza Strip [at least five of the dead and one-third of the... more |
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Week
of June 10 - 16 2012
The past week saw the clear resumption of the political and media hostilities between Fatah and Hamas. It also seems increasingly probable that the Second Cairo Agreement, signed almost one month ago under the... more |
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Week
of June 3 - 9 2012
Further contacts took place over the past week in Cairo between Fatah andHamas as part of the effort to form a Palestinian unity government. The talks are being held under the auspices of the Egyptian Intelligence Service, and the Egyptians are applying heavy pressure on... more |
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