The Palestine Liberation Organization's Central Council last met in 2018, hampered by internal divisions between the Palestinian factions. Abbas, 86, elected for a four-year term in 2005, has been facing growing opposition to his grip on power.
"For two days, there was anti-Gazan, anti-Hamas anger on social media in Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, even though the march was organized by Palestinian Islamic Jihad," said Orit Perlov, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies.
Israel and the United States say PA's salaries to imprisoned terrorists and their families encourage further violence.
Hussein al-Sheikh, the PA's civil affairs minister, could be the next potential PA leader if the 85-year-old president descends to step down, Arab media reports. Fatah officials reject speculations, say arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences in Israel, remains the front runner.
According to a report in Lebanese satellite television channel Al Mayadeen, Abed al-Karim Awadah, 35, managed to escape on Saturday morning from the Gaza detention center where he was being held.
During Saturday's demonstration by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, dozens of protesters chant "Death to the House of Saud" and wave posters of the leader of Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia. Meanwhile, Dubai’s deputy police chief says senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar should be placed on the United Arab Emirates' most wanted list for supporting Houthi drone attacks against the UAE.
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Al-Maliki criticizes the United States for not using its "special" relationship with Israel to pressure it to abandon what he claims is Jerusalem's "rejection of a two-state solution and peace negotiations."
The terrorist group apparently believes "killer Zionist dolphins" exist and are spying on its naval forces in the coastal enclave. Israel is often accused by its enemies of enlisting animals for espionage or other military purposes.
Report says man arrested after Hamas security forces bug a phone conversation between him and an Israeli security officer who paid him for his part in the 2018 killing of Dr. Fadi al-Batsh in Malaysia.
PA envoy to Cairo reports that Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to focus on developments in the Palestinian arena and efforts to advance the peace process and "end the Israeli occupation."