Fatah’s conditions “make reaching reconciliation very impossible”, the head of Hamas’ Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh said yesterday. Speaking at a conference to mark 30 years since the movement was launched, Haniyeh said Hamas “insists” the [ More … ]
Hamas has been holding talks over proposal for national reconciliation and cease-fire with Israel Palestinian resistance group Hamas has some notes on a proposed Egyptian paper for inter-Palestinian reconciliation, a senior group leader said Wednesday. [ More … ]
Hamas handed over control of the Gaza Strip’s borders with Egypt and Israel to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday. Hamas handed over control of the Gaza Strip’s borders with Egypt and Israel to the Palestinian [ More … ]
Israeli officials presented mix reactions to the Palestinian reconciliation agreement on Thursday, with leaders both criticizing and welcoming the landmark agreement. Israeli media reported that following the announcement from the Hamas and Fatah movements that [ More … ]
Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed an agreement on Thursday to end a decade-long split following talks mediated by Egypt. Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed an agreement on Thursday to end a [ More … ]
A Hamas spokesperson has said that reconciliation talks with the Gaza-based movement’s Palestinian rival should be aimed at ’empowering’ it to fulfill its potential as an armed resistance movement. The future of Hamas’ military wing [ More … ]
Senior delegates from Egypt arrived in the besieged Gaza strip on Sunday, ahead of talks designed to unite Palestine’s Fatah and Hamas groups. Egyptian delegates arrived in Gaza on the eve of a fresh attempt [ More … ]
Speaking a day after his first public meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Al-Sisi urged Palestinians to be “ready to co-exist” with Israelis in his UN speech. Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday said [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that Jerusalem will remain the eternal capital of a Palestinian state, as he attempts to shore credibility following recent setbacks. President Mahmoud Abbas referred to Jerusalem as “Palestine’s eternal [ More … ]
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Thursday announced a new political initiative to end the Palestinian division. The movement said it is ready to dissolve the administrative committee it formed in March, immediately after a [ More … ]
Mohammed Dahlan is expected to meet with senior officials, raising concerns that the Palestinian leader is engaging in a Gaza power grab. Exiled former Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan arrived in Cairo on Tuesday from Abu [ More … ]
Several Hamas-affiliated Palestinian lawmakers said on Sunday that the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA) stopped payment of the salaries of 37 Hamas Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members living in the occupied West Bank. PLC member Ayman [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused fellow Fatah members of using a recent prisoner hunger strike to ‘conspire against him’ over the recent hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Fatah [ More … ]
Hamas’s former chief in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, has been elected overall head of the Palestinian resistance group, succeeding Khaled Meshaal, its official media announced Saturday. Hamas’s former chief in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, has been elected [ More … ]
As the political and electricity crises in the Gaza Strip has continued to deepen, United Nations (UN) Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov released a statement on Wednesday calling for a [ More … ]
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