Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement delivered death sentences on Sunday to three Palestinians it ruled had taken part in what it said was an Israeli-directed assassination of one of the group’s senior commanders. A Hamas security court said the three men had confessed to the killing of Mazen Fuqaha, a Hamas[…]
Hamas says it has arrested the killer of senior commander Mazen Faqha, who was shot dead in March, and said the suspect had carried out the assassination on Israel’s orders. Faqha, 38, was shot dead in the head and the chest at the entrance of his Gaza City home on[…]
The National Committee to Support Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strike has called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to suspend municipal elections scheduled to be held Saturday and to halt its contested security coordination with Israel as some 1,600 Palestinians entered their 22nd day on hunger strike in Israeli prisons on Monday.[…]
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was elected chief of the group’s political bureau, a Hamas source said today. Haniyeh was selected in polls that were held today in both the Gaza Strip and Doha simultaneously via video conference. He will replace Khaled Meshaal, Hamas’ long-time leader who has been the[…]
Hamas has presented a new political document that accepts the formation of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, without recognising the statehood of Israel, and says that the conflict in Palestine is not a religious one. The positions were made official on Monday in Qatar’s capital, Doha, by Khaled[…]
The Palestinian Authority has notified Israel that it will no longer pay for the electricity Israel supplies to Gaza, as the World Bank warned of power outages deepening a humanitarian crisis. The move could lead to a complete power shutdown in Hamas-ruled Gaza, and cut off medical services and water[…]
Constant fuel shortages and insufficient infrastructure have brought about a “humanitarian crisis” for Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the World Bank said on Thursday. In a report ahead of an international donor conference next week, it said Thursday that foreign aid alone cannot rescue the stagnant Palestinian economy without[…]
Direct and indirect communications are underway between Fatah and Hamas leaders, a member of Fatah’s central committee said on Thursday, in order for the two movements to take “practical steps towards ending the conflict” between the two political factions, which was aggravated last weekend when the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA)[…]
The Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, is expected to officially recognise a Palestinian state on 1967 borders – but still without recognising Israel – in a new political charter to be unveiled soon. The ruling party in Gaza has been working to revise its charter, written in 1988, which critics accuse[…]
Hamas authorities have shut the Gaza border with Israel after the killing of a senior commander, which Hamas blamed on “Israel and its collaborators”. The rare measure reflected Hamas’ shock after the killing of Mazen Faqha , who was found shot dead at the entrance of his Gaza City home[…]
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