For those trying to read developments between Israel and Gaza over the past weeks, the picture has been unusually puzzling. ‘A month ago European diplomats and Palestinian officials in the West Bank suggested that Israel and Hamas were taking “baby steps”, as one Palestinian analyst termed it, towards a truce. Then earlier this month, as […]

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‘A senior Hamas leader has dismissed the possibility of new negotiations over prisoner swap with Israeli unless the latter releases dozens of Palestinian prisoners it has rearrested after a previous exchange deal. Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, made the remarks on Friday, adding that Israel has rearrested at […]

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‘Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi may request Israeli assistance in fighting a mounting insurgency in the neighboring Gaza Strip, an Egyptian source familiar with the matter told Israeli media Thursday. On Tuesday, the Islamic State (ISIL) jihadist group posted a video threatening to topple Gaza’s de-facto government, the Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement, and establish its […]

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‘ISIS insurgents threatened Tuesday to turn the Gaza Strip into another of their Middle East fiefdoms, accusing Hamas, the organization that rules the Palestinian territory, of being insufficiently stringent about religious enforcement. The video statement, issued from an ISIS stronghold in Syria, was a rare public challenge to Hamas, which has been cracking down on […]

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‘Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced Israel’s seizure of a Swedish-flagged ship that was heading to the Gaza Strip as part of an aid flotilla to break the regime’s long-time blockade of the impoverished territory. In a statement as well as in comments posted on Twitter, Hamas slammed the “kidnapping” of the activists on board […]

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‘Israel’s prime minister on Sunday slammed the international community’s silence over recent rocket attacks from Gaza and warned that a strong reprisal could be forthcoming. Benjamin Netanyahu said he hasn’t heard a word of condemnation […]

‘The inability — or unwillingness — of both the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority and the Hamas-led administration in Gaza to provide a relatively acceptable example of good governance based on giving ordinary people a say in […]

‘Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas issued a thinly veiled call for an Arab military intervention to overthrow Hamas in Gaza, along the lines of the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen. But the kind of intervention […]

‘The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas have seized electronic insects that were flying the skies of the Gaza Strip, according to Al-Majd, a security website close to Hamas. Al-Majd reports that the devices are used by […]

‘The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas have seized electronic insects that were flying the skies of the Gaza Strip, according to Al-Majd, a security website close to Hamas. Al-Majd reports that the devices are used by […]

‘The European Union (EU) has kept Hamas on its terrorism blacklist despite a court ruling ordering the 28-member bloc to remove the Palestinian resistance movement from the register. The measure comes as EU foreign ministers […]

‘Amnesty International has published a damning report on Hamas’s conduct during last summer’s Gaza war, accusing it and other Palestinian armed groups of committing “war crimes” by firing rockets and mortars into Israel. The report, […]

‘Senior member of Hamas’ political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzkouk yesterday revealed that Quartet peace envoy Tony Blair is trying to blackmail Hamas in return for reconstructing the Gaza Strip. On his Facebook page, Abu-Marzouk revealed five […]