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May 28, 2013
8:55 am

Gazan singer Mohammad Assaf appearing on Arab Idol in April, 2013 (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Singer from Gaza wants to be ‘Arab Idol’

From the web Washington Post: Mohammed Assaf, 23, is a front-runner in the popular singing competition despite previous arrests by Hamas over his ‘Western’ look

May 23, 2013
10:57 am

Palestinians walk among the rubble after Israeli air strikes on Gaza during operation Pillar of Defense in November 2012. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Amnesty accuses Israel, Palestinians of war crimes

Watchdog’s annual review says IDF bombed residential areas in Operation Pillar of Defense, while Hamas intentionally targeted civilians

By Stuart Winer

May 22, 2013
3:28 pm

IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz tours the Israeli-Syrian border on May 21 (photo credit: Tal Manor/IDF Spokesman/Flash90)

Northern frights

Rising tension with Syria and a mine disaster have the Golan starring in Wednesday’s papers

May 22, 2013
2:07 am

Palestinian gunmen ride motorcycles as they drag the body of a man who was killed as a suspected collaborator with Israel, in Gaza City, November 20, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian group: Abuses by ruling groups increasing

Report says Hamas carries out extrajudicial killings, Fatah also using violence

May 22, 2013
1:04 am

Time will tell if this is manly enough behavior. A Palestinian youth with skates on his feet stands on his hands in the southern Gaza town of Rafah during a rally for solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in April 2013. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90).

Gazan cops told to man up

Islamists’ minister of interior tells new security officers to ‘keep an eye’ on those who fall short of machismo levels

By Asher Zeiger

May 21, 2013
4:46 pm

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers patrolling the southern Hebron Hills (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Palestinians busted for planning to kidnap Israelis

Indictment filed against Hamas, Islamic Jihad members near Hebron

By Aaron Kalman

May 21, 2013
7:50 am

The scene of the November 21 bus bombing in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Tel Aviv bus bomber claims confession was forced

Muhammad Mafarji, who originally bragged to investigators about his desire to kill Israelis, says he was tortured by interrogators

By Lazar Berman

May 20, 2013
6:24 pm

The College Saint-Michel hosted an event organized by the Palestinian Return Centre (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Ben2, Wikimedia Commons)

Hamas-affiliated group hosts hundreds in Brussels

Appeal by European Jewish Parliament fails to prevent meet by Palestinian Return Centre, a British NGO that denies being a ‘front’ for Hamas

May 20, 2013
11:31 am

An Egyptian border policeman shouts at the closed Rafah, Sinai border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip to protest the abduction of his colleagues last Thursday in northern Sinai, in Rafah, Egypt, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Rafah, the main crossing point into the Gaza Strip, was closed by policemen Friday, barring people from going in or out of the Palestinian territory. Scores of protesting Egyptian police have also shut down the Awja commercial border crossing with Israel Sunday. (Photo credit: AP/Roger Anis)

‘Save us like Shalit’

Abducted Egyptian soldiers beg Morsi to accept a prisoner swap as he persuaded Israel to do for Gilad Shalit; Jordan acquits students of devil worship

By Michael Bassin

May 19, 2013
2:51 am

Hamas security forces stand guard at the closed gate of the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Enraged by kidnapping, Egypt police block Gaza border

From the web Reuters: Cops kept the crossing into Sinai shuttered for a second day Saturday in protest over the abduction of their colleagues

May 18, 2013
7:46 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 smuggling tunnel collapses, kills Palestinian

According to the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, 232 people have died in subterranean smuggling routes since 2007

By Times of Israel staff

May 17, 2013
9:28 pm

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (photo credit: AP)

Erdogan: Fatah must cooperate with Hamas for Mideast peace

Visiting Washington, Turkish prime minister slams Netanyahu government for oppposing Palestinian state, calls on Israel to ‘retreat to 1967 lines’

By Ron Friedman

May 17, 2013
1:21 am

Hamas terrorists in Gaza pose on anniversary of prisoner exchange deal for Gilad Shalit. (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

NY officials: Smuggling ring has terrorist links

Authorities say some suspects charged in a Virginia-to-New York illegal cigarette import have ties to top Hamas officials

May 16, 2013
7:19 pm

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi meets Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Cairo, July 26, 2012 (photo credit: Mohammed al-Ostaz/Flash 90)

Morsi may join Erdogan for Gaza Strip visit

Turkish and Egyptian representatives reportedly discuss possibility of both leaders making trip to Hamas-controlled territory

By Adiv Sterman

May 14, 2013
8:55 pm

The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, center, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, right, arrive to sign an agreement in Doha, Qatar. A rare public rift broke open Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 in the usually tightly disciplined Islamic movement Hamas over a reconciliation deal that would require it to relinquish key areas of control in the Gaza Strip. (photo credit: AP/Osama Faisal, File)

Fatah, Hamas agree to form unity government within 3 months

Islamist party leader Abu Marzouk says rival Palestinian factions yet to discuss government’s composition

By Ilan Ben Zion and Times of Israel staff

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