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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)
August 23, 2015, 10:24 pm
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 TOI staff
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)
August 17, 2015, 8:29 pm
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 TOI staff
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)
July 31, 2015, 1:39 pm
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
Hamas official Osama Hamdan (AP/Bilal Hussein)
July 12, 2015, 6:41 pm
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 TOI staff
A Palestinian man walks toward the Hawara checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Nablus (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90/File)
June 22, 2015, 1:28 am
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
Jerusalem stabber Yasser Tarwa shown wearing Hamas scarf and headband (al-Resalah Facebook page)
June 21, 2015, 9:15 pm
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
Gaza journalist Mustafa Sawwaf at a Hamas rally in 2011 (Mustafa Sawwaf Facebook page)
June 1, 2015, 9:19 pm
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
A tunnel found in the northern Gaza Strip by the Israel Defense Forces, August 3, 2014. (IDF spokesperson/Flash90)
December 19, 2014, 8:17 am
‘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 TOI staff
Tunnel workers taking time off to pray on the Gaza side of Rafah (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)
October 19, 2014, 4:13 pm
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
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)
May 28, 2014, 5:40 pm
IDF raids Palestinian newspaper offices
Troops order Al-Ayyam headquarters in Ramallah to stop printing and distributing Hamas papers
By AFP
A volley of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on November 15, 2012. (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)
July 21, 2013, 8:17 pm
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
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)
February 3, 2013, 4:24 pm
Gaza tunnels reopen as rain abates
Smuggling resumes amid criticism due to high civilian death-toll
By Elhanan Miller
A Red Cross vehicle passes through the Rafah border crossing, October 17, 2011 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
December 19, 2012, 5:03 am
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
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