The next battle between Israel and Hamas will change the shape of the Middle East, Hamas Gaza leader Yehya Sinwar said on Saturday. Addressing Palestinian academics in the Gaza Strip, Hamas’s Gaza leader Yehya Sinwar [ More … ]
Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed a tax treaty Monday, Israel’s Finance Ministry said, according to Reuters. Meanwhile, the Arab Gulf country has reportedly refused to help rebuild Gaza under the pretext of presence [ More … ]
Speaking to Middle East Eye, Meshaal, head of Hamas in the diaspora, calls on all Palestinians to unite on a ‘comprehensive uprising’ against Israeli occupation Hamas now leads the Palestinian people because the primary role [ More … ]
The Hamas delegation to Cairo includes members from the diaspora Saleh Al-Arouri, Izzat Al-Rashq and Husam Badran as well as officials from its Political Bureau in Gaza Dr. Khalil Al-Hayya, Essam Al-Dalis and Zakaria Abu [ More … ]
Israeli soldiers reportedly deliver Shin Bet message to Palestinian doorsteps, while others asked to report at stations for interrogation Israel’s internal intelligence agency Shin Bet is intimidating members and supporters of the Hamas movement in the occupied West [ More … ]
A rare joint conference with Fatah’s Jibril al-Rajoub and Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri was the first major joint media appearance for the two Palestinian parties since 2017. A joint video conference between the two biggest Palestinian [ More … ]
Hamas chief in Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar said ‘there is a possibility for an initiative to move forward with the file’ of exchanging prisoners. Israeli officials and Palestinian leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) [ More … ]
Member of Hamas Political Bureau, Mousa Abu Marzouq, revealed that his movement has rejected holding talks with the US due to its bias towards the Israeli occupation, Quds Press reported on Friday. According to Quds [ More … ]
Israel has killed Islamic Jihad Commander Bahaa Abu al-Atta in Gaza and the Palestinian group says one of its political leaders was also targeted in Damascus Palestinian group Islamic Jihad has said one of its [ More … ]
Palestinian officials announced a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip this morning after 24 Palestinians and four Israelis were killed in the worst fighting for five years. The Israeli army on Monday lifted protective restrictions on [ More … ]
Israeli fighter jets bomb alleged Hamas facilities in besieged enclave, with a man and a woman reported injured in Rafah Israeli fighter jets bombed multiple alleged Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early on Friday, [ More … ]
Haniyeh attributed Netanyahu’s hostile remarks to ‘panic’ for facing ‘a global boycott’ and ‘a torrent of graft allegations’ Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh has blasted recent criticisms of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by Israeli [ More … ]
A U.S.-sponsored draft resolution that for the first time would have condemned the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls Gaza, failed to win the required two-thirds majority in the U.N. General Assembly. Before Thursday’s vote, [ More … ]
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 … ]
Israelis and Palestinians in ‘advanced stages’ of indirect negotiations to defuse tension Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed one Palestinian and wounded eight on Wednesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry in the besieged enclave said. The [ More … ]
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