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NEWS ABOUT: Hamas

Hamas stories: 272 news summaries

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Israeli Air Strike Hits Near Palestinian
PM's home

Increases tension between factions

May 25, 07 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Israeli air strike hit near the Gaza home of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh  today. The Israeli military said that Haniyeh was not the target, though an official said earlier this week that any Hamas leader—including Haniyeh—rmight be attacked if rocket strikes on Israel continue. More »

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Israel • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • Ismail Haniyeh • airstrike

Israel Detains
Senior Hamas Officials

Education Minister and two mayors among those arrested

May 24, 07 12:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israeli troops arrested 33 Hamas leaders—including several moderate politicians—in the West Bank overnight, as part of a continuing crackdown on the group following a deadly barrage of rocket attacks. The move suggests Israel is stepping up pressure on Hamas' political arm as it seeks to prevent the group's... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • rocket attacks • West Bank • arrest

Israel Targets Palestinian PM

All Hamas leaders fair game if rocket attacks don't cease, declares defense official

May 22, 07 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Israeli government today threatened to assassinate the Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, if rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip are not halted, reports the Guardian. Deputy defense minister Ephraim Sneh declared on the radio, "There is no one who is in the circle of commanders and leaders in... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • rocket attacks

Israel Steps
Up Attack
on Hamas

Gaza assault continues; at least 5 dead, thousands without power

May 21, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel is escalating both its shooting war and its war of words with Hamas over the Gaza Strip. An Israeli air assault today killed at least five people and came on the heels of a massive attack targeting a Hamas leader over the weekend. That strike missed Khalil al-Hayya but... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • aerial attacks • Khalil al Hayya

Palestinian Factions Call Another Truce

Ceasefire is fifth in a week; Israel suffers, launches rocket strikes

May 19, 07 8:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fatah and Hamas agreed on a ceasefire today for the fifth time in a week, hitting the pause button on a situation that threatens the Palestinian Authority's coalition government. Meanwhile, air strikes in and out of Israel continued, and a source told the Sunday Times of London that Israel was... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah

Israeli Strikes Kill 5 in Gaza

Hamas and Fatah continue to clash

May 18, 07 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel has launched air strikes at Gaza for a second day in response to continued Hamas rocket attacks. Helicopter gunships and fighter jets targeted militants, and at least five Hamas fighters were killed in the strikes. Hamas has fired about a hundred makeshift missiles into Israel in the past several... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • rocket attacks

(Newser) - Violence between the Hamas and Fatah factions has brought the Palestinian territories to the brink of civil war, a situation that now directly involves Israel, which launched air strikes on Gaza today. Earlier, Hamas gunmen killed at least five guards as they attacked the home of a Fatah security chief.... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • Hosni Mubarak • Palestinian civil war • civil war • violence

Palestinian Factions Call Ceasefire

Hamas and Fatah agree to shaky truce after brutal fighting in Gaza

May 15, 07 6:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hamas and Fatah have brokered a truce after two days of intense factional fighting that left 9 dead and 30 wounded. The Palestinian government has deployed its entire security force to the Gaza strip in an effort to maintain peace, but, the BBC observes, sporadic fighting continued Monday. More »

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Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • Ismail Haniya • Hani Qawasmi

Hamas Warns of New Intifada

Apr 30, 07 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - The political leader of Hamas is putting Israel on notice: Prepare for another Palestinian uprising if economic and military conditions do not improve. "I warn and under 'warn' I put many red lines," Khaled Meshaal told a Palestinian newspaper. Citing recent Israeli incursions and a year-old Western aid... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Middle East • Mahmoud Abbas • Hamas • Fatah • Khaled Meshaal • al Aqsa • intifida

Hamas Calls Off Ceasefire

Israeli Independence Day marked by rocket blasts; Hamas claims responsibility

Apr 24, 07 10:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hamas launched dozens of rockets and mortar shells at Israel this morning, ending a five-month cease fire. The blasts rocked the country as it celebrated its 59th Independence Day. The Hamas-led government blames Israel for the breakdown, citing the deaths of nine Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank killed... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • ismail Haniyeh • West Bank

Klein: War on Terror Has Hurt Israel

Hawks in the Bush administration were pro-Israel, but the results weren't

Mar 26, 07 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - "As a Jew, I am embarrassed by the role that so many prominent Jews have had in empowering the enemy," Joe Klein writes in a blog from Jerusalem, noting the number of neoconservatives in the Bush  war machine who had close ties to the Israeli government. Klein says... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Lebanon • Gaza • Hamas • Jews • Hezbollah • Jerusalem • West Bank • Islamic extremists • neocon

Aid Grows Despite Embargo

Mar 21, 07 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Palestinians are actually receiving more foreign aid, not less,  than they were before the US and the European Union slapped an aid embargo against the Hamas led Palestinian Authority last year, reports Steven Erlanger. The United Nations and the International Monetary Fund say $1.2 billion was given to... More »

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Palestinian Authority • United Nations • World Bank • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • European Union • International Monetary Fund • United States • foreign aid • aid • embargo • World Food

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