Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party will hold its first congress since 2009 on Tuesday as the 81-year-old leader seeks to close ranks and fend off a key rival.

The Hamas movement is currently discussing the possibility of attending Fatah’s seventh conference later this week, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasim told Ma’an on Sunday.

“Egypt’s position toward Hamas is changing, at the expense of its relations with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, as Cairo seems to be more supportive of his rival for the presidency, dismissed Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan,” writes Ahmed Fouad.

Israel should prepare for a possible wave of terror attacks amid growing instability in the West Bank caused by a power struggle in the Palestinian Authority over who will succeed President Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate warned on Sunday.

He is friends with the mayor of Jerusalem and once tried to buy an Israeli insurance company. His parents’ names are emblazoned across a hospital campus, a tribute to generous donors. But to many Israelis and Palestinians, Jared Kushner is a mystery.

“Israelis and Palestinians are now redrawing the lines for a new diplomatic battle in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election,” writes Uri Savir.

Omar Nazzal has spent seven consecutive months in detention with no charges, a formal indictment or a scheduled court hearing.

Abed al-Karim Abu Haloub has been in a coma in Gaza for over 40 days, requiring treatment in the West Bank. Israel repeatedly refused to allow him to leave.

“The Israeli right is taking matters into its own hands as uncertainty over US President-elect Donald Trump’s diplomatic strategy reigns,” writes Mazal Mualem.

A daring new master plan for Jerusalem envisions a giant international airport near Jericho, a railway line from Ramallah, a huge commercial and employment area near Qalandiya, a Biblical park in the Refa’im nature reserve, ring roads and dozens of new hotels.

“We are facing a wave of nationalist terrorism by pyro-terrorists whose aim is to kill Jews and to terrorise,” the right-wing minister and key power-broker in the country’s coalition government Naftali Bennett said on Sunday.

“Until the disgrace of the threat of eviction is lifted from Amona, Ofra and elsewhere, no rain will fall,” Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, the chief rabbi for Samaria and the community of Elon Moreh, said Thursday.