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Ibrahim Barzak
Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk in Gaza, December 7, 2012 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
August 23, 2014, 11:12 am
Hamas backs International Criminal Court bid
Group's support for Palestinian appeal to The Hague could subject Israel, and Hamas itself, to a war crimes probe
By Ibrahim Barzak and Mohammed Daraghmeh
Israeli soldiers take part in a briefing at an army deployment area on the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip Friday, August 1, 2014. (photo credit: Jack Guez/AFP)
August 1, 2014, 9:31 pm
Dozens said killed in Gaza after 2 soldiers killed, 3rd seized during truce
Israeli forces move deeper into Rafah area, where Hadar Goldin was captured Friday morning
By Ibrahim Barzak and Daniel Estrin
Smoke rises after an Israeli strike on Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Majed Hamdan)
August 1, 2014, 1:49 am
Israel, Hamas agree to 72-hour ceasefire
Humanitarian truce to begin at 8 a.m. Friday; IDF will still tackle tunnels; Israeli and Palestinian teams will go to Cairo for talks
By Ian Deitch and Ibrahim Barzak
Heavy smoke billows following an Israeli military strike on Gaza City, on July 29, 2014. (AFP/Ashraf Amra)
July 30, 2014, 4:17 am
Israel hits symbols of Hamas rule as 128 killed
IDF carries out heaviest strikes to date in northern Gaza. Territory plunged into darkness after power plant hit
By Ibrahim Barzak and Yousur Alhlou
In this June 3, 2014, photo, Imad and Rawda Zanoun and their grandchildren Rawda and Farah visit the grave of the girls' father, Alaa Eldin, who was killed in a 2007 battle between Hamas and Fatah, days before the Hamas takeover in Gaza City. (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)
June 6, 2014, 10:49 am
Despite unity, Palestinians wary of burying hatchet over deaths
Sides slated to agree to compensation for 375 killed in factional fighting in Gaza last decade, but some prefer revenge over payouts
By Ibrahim Barzak
In this Tuesday, May 13, 2014 photo, Palestinian refugees Fathiyeh Sattari, 62, and her son Hassan, 40, look at their photograph that was taken at the Rafah UN Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, clinic in 1975. (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)
May 15, 2014, 5:47 am
UN photo archive tells story of Palestinian refugees
On the 66th anniversary of the 'Nakba,' a million-dollar project aims to digitize, preserve hundreds of thousands of images
By Karin Laub and Ibrahim Barzak
Palestinian security officers Ahed Abu Shabban, 23, foreground, and Muhmmad Debo, 22, aim electronically-modified AK-47 rifles at the headquarters of the security training department of the Hamas interior ministry in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, April 10, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Adel Hana)
April 11, 2014, 11:54 am
Cash-strapped Hamas turns to lasers for training
Gunmen take target practice in indoor simulator, as bullets are scarce and Israel is always watching
By Ibrahim Barzak
Illustrative: Palestinian Hamas employees waiting in line to pick up their salaries at a post office in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 12, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)
March 14, 2014, 2:43 am
Hamas in worst financial crisis since seizing Gaza
Egypt's return last year to a government hostile to the Islamic movement has had deep economic repercussions
By Ibrahim Barzak and Karin Laub
A Palestinian worker collects mint at a farm in al-Qarara, Gaza Strip, on February 2, 2014 photo. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
February 4, 2014, 8:22 pm
Gazans turn to herb agriculture to ease economic woes
Some hope Palestinian mint and basil will be a hit in Europe if corporate boycott of Israeli West Bank produce grows
By Ibrahim Barzak
Director Majed Jundiyeh holds a mobile phone to compare the image of Gilad Shalit to the likeness of actor Mahmoud Karira, who will play the character of Shalit in a movie being made in Gaza called 'Losing Shalit,' Jan. 26, 2014 (photo credit: Hatem Moussa/AP)
January 30, 2014, 11:37 am
Gaza film to dramatize Shalit abduction
Local movie employs amateur actors in mostly Hebrew-speaking roles; director wants 'to establish a movie industry of resistance'
By Ibrahim Barzak
Gaza psychiatrist and prominent Palestinian human rights campaigner Dr. Eyad Sarraj, left, listens to Jewish-American scholar and activist Noam Chomsky, right, during a meeting with Palestinian youth activists at Almathaf hotel in Gaza City, October 19, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)
December 18, 2013, 3:05 pm
Prominent Palestinian human rights campaigner dies
Dr. Eyad Sarraj protested against the actions of both Israeli and Palestinian governments
By Ibrahim Barzak
Palestinian rescue members evacuate residents using a fishing boat following heavy rains in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)
December 15, 2013, 1:32 am
Gaza flooding drives 40,000 from their homes
Rescue efforts hampered by fuel shortages and rolling power cuts
By Ibrahim Barzak and Karin Laub
Isra Almodallal, 23, the first woman to be appointed as a spokesperson for Hamas, the conservative Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, speaks during an interview at Hamas information ministry in Gaza City (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)
November 10, 2013, 4:53 pm
Hamas’s first spokeswoman to promote ‘more human’ image
With their influence waning, Gaza rulers appoint 23-year-old Isra Almodallal in a bid to appeal to broader audiences
By Ibrahim Barzak
This photograph released by the Gaza Strip Interior Ministry purports to show a gallows prepared for the execution of Hani Abu Aliyan, a 28-year-old convicted of killing two people, in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP/Gaza Interior Ministry)
October 2, 2013, 11:04 pm
Hamas executes Gaza man convicted of murder
Hani Abu Aliyan, 28, hanged by the neck until dead in presence of victim's family
By Ibrahim Barzak
In this Monday, July 22, 2013 photo, a man walks through remains of St. Hilarion’s monastery in the Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip. St. Hilarion’s monastery, a reminder of the time in late antiquity when Christianity was the dominant faith in what is now the Gaza Strip, is one of many archaeological treasures scattered across this coastal territory. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
August 20, 2013, 11:32 am
Gaza’s ancient ruins endangered by modern sprawl
Construction in one of the most crowded places on earth imperils sites spanning 4,500 years, from Bronze Age ramparts to Byzantine mosaics
By Daniela Berretta and Ibrahim Barzak
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