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CIA Director William Burns testifies during a US Senate hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 11, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
May 9, 2024, 4:39 am
Visiting CIA chief said to tell Netanyahu he still sees chance for deal with Hamas
Report says Israeli leaders responded that Hamas’s hostages-for-truce proposal ‘crosses all red lines’; senior member of terror group clarifies Hamas won’t budge from its terms
By ToI Staff
Khaled Fawzi (3rd-L) head of the Egyptian Intelligence services, shares a laugh with Hamas leader Izzat al-Rishq (2nd-L) and Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad (C) following the signing of a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 12, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
August 18, 2018, 1:01 am
Hamas says ceasefire talks on hold until after Eid al-Adha holiday
Announcement of week-long pause on efforts to reach agreement with Israel on Gaza comes after top member of terror group says negotiations in ‘the final stretch’
By ToI Staff
Hamas's new leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar (2nd R) and senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh (L) sit next to the son of assassinated Hamas terrorist Mazen Faqha on March 27, 2017, in Gaza City. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
April 4, 2017, 10:43 pm
Hamas says Syria gas attack was ‘criminal slaughter‘
Gaza terror group calls for civilians to be removed from cycle of violence, also condemns Monday‘s terror attack in Saint Petersburg
By ToI Staff and AFP
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani (center) and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal (right) in Doha, Qatar, on August 21, 2014 (AFP/PPO/Thaer Ghanem)
April 3, 2016, 7:04 pm
Hamas and Fatah take tentative steps toward unity
Arch rivals meet in Qatar to iron out differences but chairmanship of Palestinian parliament remains a sticking point
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian girls sit in front of the Dome of the Rock in the Temple Mount compound on October 23, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
October 27, 2015, 10:23 pm
Losing Palestine
The terrorism of the past month is not a new surge in Palestinian opposition to Israel, but a howl against the pervasive Palestinian sense that resistance has failed
By Haviv Rettig Gur
A knife cartoon published by Palestinian web site Safa on January 21, 2015. (via Twitter)
January 21, 2015, 1:10 pm
Hamas leaders praise Tel Aviv stabbing as ‘heroic’
Cartoon depicting bloodied knife colored as the Palestinian flag zooms around the Internet
By Elhanan Miller
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Palestinian Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal seen during the congress of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012 (AP/Kayhan Ozer)
January 6, 2015, 4:46 pm
Hamas leader Mashaal said deported from Qatar
Reconciling with key Arab countries against Brotherhood, Doha boots political chief; Israel welcomes news, Hamas denies it
By Elhanan Miller
A Palestinian man employed by the PA displays the money withdrawn from an ATM at the Bank of Palestine in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, June 8, 2012 photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
September 29, 2014, 4:12 pm
As PA plans its return to Gaza, salaries hinder detente
Unpaid salaries of thousands of Hamas employees could ‘detonate’ reconciliation understandings, warns Gaza official
By Elhanan Miller
Khaled Mashaal, political leader of Hamas (left), meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo, Egypt, December 21, 2011. (photo credit: AP)
September 23, 2014, 9:48 pm
New round of Israel-Hamas talks set for end of October
Fatah-Hamas discussions to continue this week in Cairo
By AFP
The mother of Amer Abu Aysha kisses the lifeless body of her son after Israeli troops shot dead Abu Aysha and Marwan Qawasmeh in the West Bank city of Hebron, on Tuesday, September 23, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Shiyukhi)
September 23, 2014, 8:05 pm
PA helped Israel kill kidnappers, Hamas charges
Salah Bardawil calls on West Bank residents to lash out against Palestinian Authority; Cairo ceasefire talks to resume in October
By Elhanan Miller
Palestinian Fatah delegation chief Azzam al-Ahmed, center, and members of the Palestinian Fatah delegation leave the hotel where the negotiations are taking place with Egyptian intelligence mediators aimed at brokering an end to the Gaza conflict on August 12, 2014 in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. (photo credit: AFP/KHALED DESOUKI)
September 23, 2014, 12:50 pm
Palestinians to return to Cairo talks after balking over killings
Senior Hamas official says Israel must not be ‘allowed to escape from commitments’
By Spencer Ho
Smoke and fire rise following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
August 20, 2014, 5:43 am
‘Israel killed Hamas commander’s wife and daughter’
Organization claims Mohammed Deif’s family was hit, as Israel retaliates for major rocket barrage from Gaza
By Mai Yaghi
Khaled Mashaal, political leader of Hamas (left), meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo, Egypt, December 21, 2011. (photo credit: AP)
August 19, 2014, 7:49 pm
Hamas and Fatah: The rift
Before rockets again rained down on Israel, two Palestinian movements committed to each other’s destruction were scrambling to benefit from a ceasefire deal
By Elhanan Miller
Palestinian children look on from behind a banner at a pro-Hamas rally in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, August 17, 2014 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
August 18, 2014, 2:13 pm
Agreement or no, Hamas will not shoot, Palestinians say
Hamas has informed Egypt it will not resume fighting, Arab daily Al-Hayat reports, but Israel is braced for resumed hostilities
By Elhanan Miller
Palestinian militants of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, carry the body of militant Mohammed Obied during his funeral in the town of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on June 30, 2014 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
July 8, 2014, 4:02 pm
Hamas decides to go for broke
Struggling to maintain the banner of ‘resistance’, the Gazan terror group is firing at Israel in the hope Ramallah and Cairo will hear its plea for help
By Elhanan Miller
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