Al-Ayyam (Palestine)

Al Ayyam (in Arabic الأيام; The Days) is a newspaper, based in Ramallah, Palestine.

[1] Although it is an independent publication,[2] it is considered to be a pro-government[1] and pro-Fatah paper,[3] and is funded by the Palestinian Authority.

[4] In February 2008, a Hamas-controlled court banned the distribution of Al Ayyam in the Gaza Strip after the newspaper published a cartoon that ridiculed Hamas legislators and Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.

The editor of the paper Akram Haniyeh and the offending cartoonist were sentenced to prison terms in absentia.

[4] As part of a unity deal between Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization in May 2014, Al Ayyam returned to distribution in Gaza.