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[…]
The European Union’s lower court has annulled the bloc’s decision to keep Hamas on a list of terrorist organisations, but maintained the measures against the group for a period of three months or until appeals against the decision were closed. It stressed that Wednesday’s decision to remove Hamas from the[…]
Israel’s Shin Bet security service says it has uncovered a vast Hamas network in the occupied West Bank that was planning large-scale attacks against Israelis in occupied Jerusalem. Hamas did not immediately comment on Thursday’s announcement of the arrests. The Shin Bet said it arrested more than 30 Hamas fighters[…]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday appointed a five-member panel to investigate Israeli attacks on UN shelters during the Gaza war and the discovery of Hamas weapons at UN sites. Ban announced plans to set up a probe during his visit to Gaza last month after describing Israeli shelling[…]
President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday the shrine of late President Yasser Arafat wills be moved to Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine, at the earliest possible opportunity. Abbas said during a ceremony opening Arafat’s museum in Ramallah that the late Palestinian leader deserves to “remain immortal in the hearts of our[…]
Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza participated in a Hamas-organised rally Friday over Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque, the scene of recurring clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in recent days. Leaving mosques after prayers in Gaza City, they chanted slogans pledging to defend the mosque and waved green flags, the[…]
The Palestine Liberation Organization said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blatantly manipulated the facts when he compared Hamas with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in a U.N. speech on Monday. “Netanyahu’s speech at the U.N. was a blatant manipulation of facts and attempted at misleading the[…]
Palestinian factions are getting closer to reopening the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Palestinian territories, following an agreement last Thursday between rivals Hamas and Fatah to hand over control of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian unity government. Informed Palestinian sources told media that pportunities for reaching an[…]
Hamas authorities in charge of the Gaza Strip told Israel on Wednesday that they have arrested the people thought to be responsible for firing two mortars towards southern Israel on Tuesday night. The shells landed between Eshkol and Sdot Negev on Tuesday, and no damage or injuries were reported. Hamas[…]
Hamas’s former Gaza prime minister Ismail Haniya said on Saturday the Palestinian group would not hold any direct talks with Israel. There would be “no direct negotiations with the Zionist enemy”, Haniya said in a public address in the Gaza Strip, and called on Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to[…]
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