Tag: hamas

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak (2nd L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (3rd R) speak to the press next to a burnt armoured vehicle near the Kerem Shalom border crossing after unidentified gunmen crossed into Israel from Egypt on 6 August AFP PHOTO / DAVID BUIMOVITCH
EgyptPolitics

Israel and Hamas react to Sinai attack

IDF spokesman: the militants killed were in the "advanced and final stages…

Ahmed Khalifa
Ahmed Khalifa
Palestinians unload their belongings from a taxi as the ready to cross to Egypt through the Rafah border crossing between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt (photo: AFP / Said Khatib)
EgyptPolitics

Hamas and Morsy to open Rafah

Over a weekend of meetings the Egyptian President and Hamas Prime Minister…

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Politics

President Morsy emerges as regional mediator on Gaza

After a weekend of meetings with Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and the…

Maryam Ishani
Maryam Ishani
Palestinians wave their national flag during a rally in front of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Hamas's prime minister in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniya called on Egypt on Wednesday to keep the Rafah border crossing open around the clock (AFP)
Politics

Hamas calls on Egypt to end Rafah crossing quotas

Permanently opening the border crossing and removing the quota, would allow Egypt…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Palestinian medics wheel a victim into Al-Shifa Hospital following an Israeli attack in Gaza City (Photo: AFP/MAHMUD HAMS)
Region

Israeli strikes kill one in Gaza

An attack earlier in the day on a Hamas compound east of…

Maryam Ishani
Maryam Ishani
Kamel Ranaja was reportedly killed in Damascus, Hamas is accusing Mossad of carrying out his assassination
EgyptPolitics

Senior Hamas member killed in Syria, Israel accused of responsibility

The senior Hamas member was the assistant to another Hamas official killed…

Ahmed Khalifa
Ahmed Khalifa

Palestinian Authority blames Gaza for deficit mess

By Jihan Abdalla / Reuters RAMALLAH: Paying for the upkeep of the…

DNE
DNE

EU urges Gaza’s Hamas rulers to end executions

By AFP JERUSALEM: EU officials in Jerusalem and Ramallah on Wednesday condemned…

DNE
DNE

AN ISRAELI VIEW: Growing signs of frustration

By Yossi Alpher In recent weeks and months, we have confronted a growing…

DNE
DNE

From Al-Azhar, Hamas PM salutes ‘heroic’ Syrians

By Samer al-Atrush / AFP CAIRO: Gaza premier Ismail Haniya on Friday hailed…

DNE
DNE