Israel's security cabinet agreed on Sunday to "prevent the collapse of the Palestinian Authority" and demanded the group ends "its anti-Israel activity", the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
The pledge by Israeli ministers includes no specific plans and came days after a major military raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin that killed 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier.
In January, Israel's hard-right government announced sanctions against President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority, which nominally controls parts of the West Bank, over a push to get the UN's top court to issue an opinion on the Israeli occupation.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said at the time that the sanctions were aimed at "pushing [the PA] to the brink, financially and institutionally", and were part of "a new war against the Palestinian people".
The Israeli security cabinet on Sunday voted on a "draft decision submitted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu", which says "Israel will act to prevent the collapse of the Palestinian Authority", the premier's office said
The declaration also demands that the PA "cease its anti-Israel activity in the international legal-diplomatic arena", as well as "incitement" and "illegal construction in Area C" of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli control.
It is almost impossible for Palestinians to obtain construction permits in Area C, which covers about 60 per cent of the occupied territory.
Violence in Jenin - in pictures
Another demand was to stop "payments to the families of terrorists".
That referred to stipends provided by the PA to families of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops and to families of prisoners in Israeli jails, or the inmates themselves, including those convicted of killing Israelis.
As part of the sanctions imposed in January, Israel withheld dozens of millions of dollars in tax revenues from the PA over its financial support for militants.
The Israeli government also ordered a moratorium on Palestinian building plans in parts of the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
The statement on Sunday said Mr Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant would present "steps to stabilise" the embattled PA.
Israeli media said the proposed measures may include the establishment of industrial zones for Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank, and other moves to support the Palestinian economy.
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Torque: 385 and 650Nm
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Brief scoreline:
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Timeline
2012-2015
The company offers payments/bribes to win key contracts in the Middle East
May 2017
The UK SFO officially opens investigation into Petrofac’s use of agents, corruption, and potential bribery to secure contracts
September 2021
Petrofac pleads guilty to seven counts of failing to prevent bribery under the UK Bribery Act
October 2021
Court fines Petrofac £77 million for bribery. Former executive receives a two-year suspended sentence
December 2024
Petrofac enters into comprehensive restructuring to strengthen the financial position of the group
May 2025
The High Court of England and Wales approves the company’s restructuring plan
July 2025
The Court of Appeal issues a judgment challenging parts of the restructuring plan
August 2025
Petrofac issues a business update to execute the restructuring and confirms it will appeal the Court of Appeal decision
October 2025
Petrofac loses a major TenneT offshore wind contract worth €13 billion. Holding company files for administration in the UK. Petrofac delisted from the London Stock Exchange
November 2025
180 Petrofac employees laid off in the UAE
Gertrude Bell's life in focus
A feature film
At one point, two feature films were in the works, but only German director Werner Herzog’s project starring Nicole Kidman would be made. While there were high hopes he would do a worthy job of directing the biopic, when Queen of the Desert arrived in 2015 it was a disappointment. Critics panned the film, in which Herzog largely glossed over Bell’s political work in favour of her ill-fated romances.
A documentary
A project that did do justice to Bell arrived the next year: Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum’s Letters from Baghdad: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Gertrude Bell. Drawing on more than 1,000 pieces of archival footage, 1,700 documents and 1,600 letters, the filmmakers painstakingly pieced together a compelling narrative that managed to convey both the depth of Bell’s experience and her tortured love life.
Books, letters and archives
Two biographies have been written about Bell, and both are worth reading: Georgina Howell’s 2006 book Queen of the Desert and Janet Wallach’s 1996 effort Desert Queen. Bell published several books documenting her travels and there are also several volumes of her letters, although they are hard to find in print. Original documents are housed at the Gertrude Bell Archive at the University of Newcastle, which has an online catalogue.
