Israel detains Palestinian speaker for six months
RAMALLAH: An Israeli military court on Tuesday ordered the Hamas speaker of the Palestinian parliament be held in administrative detention for six months, his office told AFP. The order against Aziz Dweik, who was detained by Israeli troops on Thursday last week, came as Israeli officials arrested another Hamas lawmaker, the fifth senior member of [...]
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Meshaal may step down as Hamas chief
GAZA CITY – Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, who survived a 1997 Israeli assassination bid, has confirmed he wants to step down after eight years in the post, the Islamist movement said Saturday.
“Political bureau chief Khaled Meshaal has notified Hamas’s consultative council that he does not wish to be a candidate for the movement’s future leadership,” a statement said. …
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Israel arrests Palestinian Speaker
GAZA CITY- Gaza’s Hamas prime minister on Friday called on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to end all dialogue with Israel after troops arrested parliamentary speaker Aziz Dweik.
In a speech during weekly Friday prayers, Ismail Haniya also urged Abbas to reconvene the long-dormant Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), or parliament, whose activities have been frozen for nearly five …
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The media consensus on Israel is collapsing
ORDAN MICHAELSMITH
With Hamas and Fatah meeting in Cairo, reconciliation between the rival Palestinian political parties is likely only a matter of time. Official US policy holds that Hamas is only a terrorist entity, and any agreement between the two factions jeopardises continued US aid. There is reason to believe, however, that more flexible, productive positions will be expressed in the US …
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Israeli strike kills two Palestinians in Gaza
GAZA: An Israeli aircraft and tank strike killed two Palestinians close to the border fence in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Wednesday, medical officials said. Residents of the north Gaza town of Beit Hanoun said Israeli planes and tanks had fired into the area. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the attack and an army statement [...]
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Israel navy intercepts flotilla ships off Gaza coast
JERUSALEM: The Israeli navy on Friday boarded two international ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists who were trying to run the blockade on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, a military statement said. The Irish-flagged Saoirse (“Freedom”) and the Canadian ship Tahrir (Arabic for “Liberation”) were intercepted by naval commandos in international waters off the Gaza coast, ending the [...]
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477 Palestinian prisoners freed in swap deal
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KEREM SHALOM (AFP) – Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, looking pale but cheerful, on Tuesday returned to Israel after five years of Hamas captivity, sparking the release of 477 Palestinian prisoners under a landmark swap deal.
“Gilad has returned home,” the Israeli army’s chief spokesman Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai told reporters…
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Hamas releases Israeli soldier in prisoner swap
Gaza’s Hamas rulers released captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on Tuesday in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, a Hamas military source said, in a deal ending a saga that has gripped Israel for five years.
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Hamas chief to greet Palestinian prisoners
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DAMASCUS (AFP) – Damascus-based Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal will welcome 40 exiled Palestinians to Egypt on Tuesday in exchange for the release of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, the Islamist movement said.
“The movement decided to send a high-level delegation headed by Meshaal to welcome the prisoners in Egypt,” Hamas…
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Stars align for Mideast prisoner deal
JERUSALEM: The contours of the prisoner swap deal between Israel and the Hamas militant group have long been known: Israel would free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip. But it required a unique set of circumstances, ranging from domestic problems on both sides to a revolution [...]
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Israel police arrest Hamas MP
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police arrested a Hamas lawmaker on Monday who had been sheltering for more than a year in the International Red Cross (ICRC) offices in East Jerusalem, a police spokesman said. Ahmad Attoun had taken shelter in the ICRC building along with another Hamas legislator and a…
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Turkey PM toughens line towards Israel
ANKARA: Turkish prime minister refused to back down in a row with Israel Tuesday, accusing his country’s former allies of behaving like a “spoilt child” and threatening to visit the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. As Israel said it wanted to avoid relations worsening, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed a halt to all military cooperation and [...]
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Hamas in ‘informal’ truce with Israel
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GAZA (Agencies) – The Israeli military and Palestinian militant groups entered a de facto truce on Monday, after four days of escalating violence in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel that left at least 15 Palestinians and one Israeli dead.
Taher al-Nunu, a spokesman for the Hamas government told a…
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Israel arrests 120 Hamas members in West Bank: Palestinians
Palestinian sources said the arrests were carried out just hours after Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza fired rockets into southern Israel, breaking a truce brokered in April.
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USAID halts aid to Gaza
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RAMALLAH (AFP) – USAID is halting humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip over alleged meddling by the Palestinian group Hamas, a US official said on Friday. “We deeply regret that USAID-funded partner organisations operating in Gaza are forced by Hamas’s actions to suspend their assistance work,” the official said on…
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Hamas, Fatah bid to seal reconciliation in Cairo
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CAIRO (AFP) – Rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas opened talks Sunday in Egypt aimed at implementing a reconciliation agreement struck in May, state news agency MENA reported.
The two sides held consultations late Saturday in the presence of Egyptian intelligence officials, the agency said, adding Fatah’s delegation is led…
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Israel raids Gaza, no victims: Palestinians
JERUSALEM: Israel’s air force carried out three raids on the Gaza Strip on Thursday without causing any casualties, witnesses said. Two attacks early in the day targeted bases of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the military branch of Hamas that controls the tiny Palestinian coastal enclave, to the east and west of Gaza City. They followed [...]
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