A year after rival political parties Hamas and Fatah agreed to end their bitter divisions, the unity deal they signed appears to be on the brink of collapse. This week, a ministerial delegation from the Ramallah-based consensus government headed to the Gaza Strip, the stronghold of Hamas, for what was to[…]
A Hamas spokesman said Monday that ministers of the unity government informed him they were leaving the Gaza Strip upon instructions by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah after failing to register civil servants. Sami Abu Zuhri said in news conference that he was informed that the cabinet did not have the[…]
The Syrian regime no longer has any relationship with former ally Hamas and will never trust the movement again, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Friday. “There is no relation at all on the formal level or on the popular level,” the president told Swedish newspaper Expressen,[…]
Days after winning re-election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday backtracked from hard-line statements against the establishment of a Palestinian state in the face of a diplomatic backlash. In the closing days of his campaign, Netanyahu said there could be no Palestinian state while regional violence and chaos persist[…]
Israel’s military says it has opened several criminal investigations into incidents that took place during last year’s Gaza war against Hamas. In a statement late Thursday it says the Military Advocate General ordered six investigations, two of which were concluded with no wrongdoing found. One case concerns the death of[…]
A CIA agent “desperate” to make contact with Hamas in Gaza pleaded for help from a South African spy in the summer of 2012, according to intelligence files leaked to Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit. The US lists Hamas as a radical organisation and, officially at least, has no contact with[…]
Hatem is only 14 but has already lived through three wars with Israel. Now the young Palestinian says he is making sure he’ll be ready to fight in the next one. “The Israelis killed my niece last summer. Now I want to kill them,” he told AFP after completing a[…]
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday that it cannot afford to repair Gaza homes damaged in last year’s war with Israel because donors have failed to pay. “The agency has exhausted all funding to support repairs and rental subsidies,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)[…]
Hamas on Sunday prevented dozens of children orphaned during its 50-day war with Israel from entering Israeli territory in a pre-arranged trip, organisers and officials said. The week-long visit was planned for 37 children whose parents were killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip in July and August this year. It[…]
Israel’s military struck a Hamas site in the Gaza Strip early Saturday in its first airstrike on the Palestinian territory since this summer’s war. The Israeli military said the airstrike on what it called a “Hamas terror infrastructure site” in the southern Gaza Strip was in response to a rocket[…]
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