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Hamas-Islamic State ties

Yazidi woman Fawzia Amin Sido (R), who was kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq in 2014 and then transferred to Gaza, Oct. 3, 2024, seen back in Iraq after being rescued recently by Israeli security forces. Iraq made no official mention of Israel's role. (Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
October 3, 2024, 4:16 pm
Israel rescues Yazidi woman from Gaza after her kidnapping by ISIS at age 11
Fawzia Amin Sido was sold by the terror group to a Gazan man in 2014; now 21, she has been reunited with her family in Iraq
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: Palestinian members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas terrorist movement, during a patrol in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 27, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
June 19, 2020, 6:06 am
Israel moves to placate Hamas, but won’t meet pricey prisoner swap demands
Terror group, inspired by Shalit deal in 2011, seeking a similar exchange now, and transfers of Qatari money may not be enough to keep a lid on rising frustration in the Strip
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinians check a damaged police booth following an explosion targeted a Hamas police checkpoint in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
August 29, 2019, 11:42 am
Hamas says it captured cell behind Gaza suicide bombings that killed 3 cops
Official says 10 arrested following investigation into attack blamed on Islamic State sympathizers
By ToI Staff
Hamas security forces stop a vehicle at a checkpoint in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 28, 2019 (Said Khatib/AFP)
August 28, 2019, 8:20 pm
Gaza on high alert after suicide bombings kill Hamas policemen
Thousands attend funerals for 3 officers as terror group hunts for those behind the attacks; Islamic State sympathizers suspected
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinian Hamas masked gunmen stand guard around blood on the ground following an explosion targeted a Hamas police checkpoint in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
August 28, 2019, 9:38 am
Hamas makes mass arrests in Gaza following killing of 3 policemen said by IS
Terror group suspects Islamic State suicide bombers carried out deadly attacks that were initially blamed on Israel
By ToI Staff
Security forces loyal to the Hamas terror group stand by as bulldozers clear an area for a large buffer zone on the border with Egypt in the southern Gaza strip town of Rafah, on June 28, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)
November 24, 2018, 9:53 am
IS in Sinai seizes Iranian weapons shipment bound for Hamas — report
A local commander is refusing to transfer the weaponry, said to include advanced Kornet missiles, a Kuwaiti newspaper reports
By ToI Staff
In this photo released by the Hamas media office, Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas terror group's political bureau, visits Tawfiq Abu Naim at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on October 27, 2017. (Mohammad Austaz, Hamas Media Office via AP)
October 28, 2017, 11:48 pm
Hamas security chief, injured in car bombing, says unity deal still on track
Emerging from the hospital, Tawfiq Abu Naim says Hamas will meet November 1 deadline to hand over border crossing control to Palestinian Authority
By AFP and ToI Staff
Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, at a rally to mark Land Day near the Israeli border with east Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, March 30, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)
October 7, 2017, 11:57 am
Hamas claims to arrest senior Islamic State leaders in Gaza
Terror group is mending relations with Egypt, which is fighting a bitter conflict with IS in the Sinai
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative: An image taken from a video clip released by the Sinai affiliate of the Islamic State group on August 1, 2016. (MEMRI)
June 5, 2017, 1:23 pm
In Sinai, a local tribe fights to push back the Islamic State
The Tarabins, the peninsula’s largest Bedouin group, has taken up arms against the terror group; at the same time, Hamas, hoping to improve relations with Egypt, has apparenty downgraded its ties with IS
By Avi Issacharoff
Members of Hamas's military wing the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade attending a memorial in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on January 31, 2017. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)
February 12, 2017, 6:54 am
Yahya Sinwar can ignite Israel’s south — and may want to
Gaza’s Hamas rulers, increasingly led by a violent, unpredictable ex-prisoner, are boosting their ties with Islamic State in Sinai
By Avi Issacharoff
Illustrative: An image taken from a video clip released by the Sinai affiliate of the Islamic State group on August 1, 2016. (MEMRI)
February 10, 2017, 6:06 pm
Analysts: Islamic State rocket attack on Eilat was PR, not a sign of things to come
Experts say recent barrage on Israel notwithstanding, Egypt is still group’s main adversary — threatening the Jewish state simply sells
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative. Smoke rises after an explosion at a smuggling tunnel dug beneath the Gaza-Egypt border on the southern Gaza Strip on August 31, 2013 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
February 9, 2017, 2:27 pm
Egypt, Israel or accident? Mystery shrouds Gaza tunnel blast
Explosion that killed 2 came hours after IS rocket attack on Israel, but also amid an Egyptian crackdown on tunnels. And some wonder if it was just a weapons malfunction
By Dov Lieber and Judah Ari Gross
Islamic State's affiliate Sinai Province at weapons training, February 6, 2016 (illustrative image: Telegram.me/HaiAlaElJehad5 via MEMRI)
February 9, 2017, 8:49 am
Islamic State claims Eilat rocket attack, threatens more
Group’s Sinai-based affiliate says it fired rockets ‘to teach Jews, crusaders a proxy war will not avail them of anything’
By Dov Lieber
Hamas security forces patrol along the Gaza-Egypt border, April 14, 2016 in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Said Khatib/AFP)
January 15, 2017, 3:39 am
Hamas, Islamic State resume close cooperation despite pressure from Cairo
Jihadist group’s Egyptian affiliate has opened a propaganda office in Gaza, sends its wounded fighters to Gaza’s hospitals, and runs lucrative smuggling tunnels into the Strip
By Avi Issacharoff
Members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis in the Egyptian Sinai read out sentences before they behead four men accused of spying for Israel, August 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)
August 4, 2016, 10:48 pm
Egypt says head of Islamic State affiliate in Sinai killed
Airstrikes reportedly take out 45 members of Ansar al-Bayt al-Maqdis group, including commander Abu Duaa al-Ansari
By Stuart Winer
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