August 23, 2015
10:24 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 22, 2015. (AFP/Majdi Mohammed/Pool)

Despite Tehran’s reluctance, Abbas says he will visit ‘sister’ Iran

Palestinian leader says trip will strengthen ties, week after Iranian official says Tehran has rejected repeated requests

By Times of Israel staff

August 17, 2015
8:29 pm

Former Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh delivers a speech in front of portraits of late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini (left), and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right), at a rally in Tehran, February 11, 2012. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Israel denies holding truce talks with Hamas

PMO: ‘There have been no meetings with Hamas, not directly, not through another country and not through intermediaries’

By Times of Israel staff

July 31, 2015
1:39 pm

An Israeli soldier stands near a house in the Palestinian village of Duma, near Nablus, where a Palestinian infant was killed July 31, 2015, in an arson attack, apparently by Jewish extremists. (Photo by FLASH90)

After baby killed in arson, Hamas urges lone-wolf attacks on Israelis

PA foreign minister demands international travel ban on Jewish settlers in wake of ‘terrorist crime’

By Elhanan Miller

July 12, 2015
6:41 pm

Hamas official Osama Hamdan (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Hamas has ‘more bargaining chips,’ says senior official

Denying reports of negotiations with Israel, Gaza terror group’s foreign policy chief hints at additional captives

By Times of Israel staff

June 22, 2015
1:28 am

A Palestinian man walks toward the Hawara checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Nablus (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90/File)

Israel announces punitive measures for Palestinians after stabbing

Entry into country for residents of assailant’s home town annulled, as are hundreds of passes to fly abroad through Israeli airport

By Itamar Sharon

June 21, 2015
9:15 pm

Jerusalem stabber Yasser Tarwa shown wearing Hamas scarf and headband (al-Resalah Facebook page)

Hamas praises ‘heroic’ stabbing, but avoids responsibility

18-year-old assailant Yasser Tarwa shown on terror group’s website brandishing its paraphernalia

By Elhanan Miller

June 1, 2015
9:19 pm

Gaza journalist Mustafa Sawwaf at a Hamas rally in 2011 (Mustafa Sawwaf Facebook page)

Time to negotiate with Israel, says Hamas journalist

Mustafa Sawwaf claims Gaza group has left Palestinian cause at a nadir; Hamas not a partner, says incoming Israeli Foreign Ministry chief

By Elhanan Miller

December 19, 2014
8:17 am

A tunnel found in the northern Gaza Strip by the Israel Defense Forces, August 3, 2014. (IDF spokesperson/Flash90)

‘Cement for rebuilding Gaza diverted to terror tunnels’

Hamas bolstering its capabilities and coming up with new strategies in the wake of the war, reports say

By Times of Israel staff

October 19, 2014
4:13 pm

Tunnel workers taking time off to pray on the Gaza side of Rafah. (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Hamas reconstructing damaged Gaza attack tunnel

Al-Qassam Brigades used a humanitarian ceasefire during Operation Protective Edge to start digging, commander admits

By Elhanan Miller

May 28, 2014
5:40 pm

Palestinian men read the Hamas-affiliated newspaper Falastin (Palestine) in a street of the West Bank town of Hebron on May 10, 2014. (photo credit: Hazem Bader/AFP)

IDF raids Palestinian newspaper offices

Troops order Al-Ayyam headquarters in Ramallah to stop printing and distributing Hamas papers

By AFP

July 21, 2013
8:17 pm

A volley of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on November 15, 2012. (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)

Hamas nearly struck Ashkelon by mistake in June

Military intelligence source describes Gaza rulers’ efforts to increase the range and accuracy of their locally made rockets

By Mitch Ginsburg

February 3, 2013
4:24 pm

A Palestinian man works inside a smuggling tunnel which connects the Gaza Strip and Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, November 24, 2012 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gaza tunnels reopen as rain abates

Smuggling resumes amid criticism due to high civilian death-toll

By Elhanan Miller

December 19, 2012
5:03 am

A Red Cross vehicle passes through the Rafah border crossing, October 17, 2011 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas bars EU observers from border crossing with Egypt

Rafah is a ‘Palestinian-Egyptian crossing only, and there is no place for foreigners in it,’ Gaza parliamentarian says

By Elhanan Miller

Topic: Al-Resalah

Despite Tehran’s reluctance, Abbas says he will visit ‘sister’ Iran

Palestinian leader says trip will strengthen ties, week after Iranian official says Tehran has rejected repeated requests

Israel denies holding truce talks with Hamas

PMO: ‘There have been no meetings with Hamas, not directly, not through another country and not through intermediaries’

After baby killed in arson, Hamas urges lone-wolf attacks on Israelis

PA foreign minister demands international travel ban on Jewish settlers in wake of ‘terrorist crime’

Hamas has ‘more bargaining chips,’ says senior official

Denying reports of negotiations with Israel, Gaza terror group’s foreign policy chief hints at additional captives

Israel announces punitive measures for Palestinians after stabbing

Entry into country for residents of assailant’s home town annulled, as are hundreds of passes to fly abroad through Israeli airport

Hamas praises ‘heroic’ stabbing, but avoids responsibility

18-year-old assailant Yasser Tarwa shown on terror group’s website brandishing its paraphernalia

Time to negotiate with Israel, says Hamas journalist

Mustafa Sawwaf claims Gaza group has left Palestinian cause at a nadir; Hamas not a partner, says incoming Israeli Foreign Ministry chief

‘Cement for rebuilding Gaza diverted to terror tunnels’

Hamas bolstering its capabilities and coming up with new strategies in the wake of the war, reports say

Hamas reconstructing damaged Gaza attack tunnel

Al-Qassam Brigades used a humanitarian ceasefire during Operation Protective Edge to start digging, commander admits

IDF raids Palestinian newspaper offices

Troops order Al-Ayyam headquarters in Ramallah to stop printing and distributing Hamas papers

Hamas nearly struck Ashkelon by mistake in June

Military intelligence source describes Gaza rulers’ efforts to increase the range and accuracy of their locally made rockets

Gaza tunnels reopen as rain abates

Smuggling resumes amid criticism due to high civilian death-toll

Hamas bars EU observers from border crossing with Egypt

Rafah is a ‘Palestinian-Egyptian crossing only, and there is no place for foreigners in it,’ Gaza parliamentarian says

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