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Jews visit the Temple Mount, August 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
September 22, 2022, 5:01 pm
Hamas threatens violence over Jewish visits to Temple Mount during High Holidays
Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, top member of Gaza-ruling terror group warns of ‘open religious war,’ as Jewish group says it aims to double this year’s record number of visitors to site
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar in an interview with Sky News broadcast May 24, 2021. (YouTube screen capture)
August 16, 2022, 10:22 am
Hamas source denies co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar quitting group’s leadership
Purported resignation letter circulated on social media cites ‘special and personal’ reasons for leaving; source claims ‘hostile parties’ behind disinformation
By ToI Staff
People participate in a rally in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, marking the 34th anniversary of the founding of Hamas, which rules the coastal enclave, on December 10, 2021. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)
December 11, 2021, 11:04 pm
At founding anniversary rally, Hamas says won’t relinquish ‘an inch’ of sought land
Terror group co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar claims thousands showing up for event proves Palestinians won’t ‘give up their right’
By Emanuel Fabian
Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar speaks to Britain’s Sky News from his home in the Gaza Strip, on May 24, 2021. (Screenshot: Sky News/ Youtube)
May 24, 2021, 7:32 pm
Hamas co-founder to UK TV: Israel has no right to exist
Shortly after ceasefire takes effect, Sky News interviews Mahmoud al-Zahar, who hails terror group’s attacks on Israel’s crowded civilian areas
By ToI Staff
Hamas deputy Gaza chief Mahmoud al-Zahar scolds the Palestinian Authority for having "tied its fate to the Israeli occupation" in an interview with Iranian Al-Alam TV, October 27, 2020 (Screenshot: YouTube)
October 28, 2020, 2:40 pm
Senior Hamas official: PLO won’t change, reconciliation ‘nearly impossible’
Mahmoud al-Zahar tells Iranian TV that group’s rivals in Ramallah have ‘tied their fate to Israel,’ bashes security coordination between PA and Jewish state
By Aaron Boxerman
Ziad al-Nakhala, secretary-general of Islamic Jihad, delivering a televised speech on December 19, 2019. (Screenshot: YouTube)
December 19, 2019, 9:32 pm
Islamic Jihad: We agreed with Hamas to respond to future ‘aggression’ together
Ziad al-Nakhala makes remark after Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, sat out latest escalation between terror groups in Gaza and Israel
By Adam Rasgon
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (second from right), Islamic Jihad leader Khaled al-Basch (second from left), and the father of Islamic Jihad terrorist Baha Abu al-Ata (right), pictured on November 16, 2019. (Screen grab)
November 16, 2019, 10:25 pm
Hamas, Islamic Jihad put on show of reconciliation after clash at mourning tent
Day after PIJ members accost previous delegation, furious that Hamas didn’t join fighting, rival terror group leaders meet and vow ‘unity in war against Israel’
By ToI Staff
File: Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar giving a press conference in 2008. (Wissam Nassar/Flash90)
November 15, 2019, 10:23 pm
Hamas leaders booted from mourning tent for Islamic Jihad chief killed by Israel
Mahmoud al-Zahar, Ahmed Bahar accosted by PIJ members furious that Hamas didn’t join fight; no protests on Gaza border Friday for only second time since March 2018
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, being moved away from a campaign event stage while surrounded by security as rockets are shot at Ashdod on September 10, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)
September 12, 2019, 1:16 am
Hamas lauds rocket attack as spooking Netanyahu, shaking Israel’s image
Gaza’s ruling terror group boasts that pair of missiles which forced PM to take cover during campaign speech ‘made it all the way to the heart of the Israeli occupation’
By ToI Staff
Israeli Merkava tanks drive near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip as they return from the Hamas-controlled Palestinian coastal enclave on August 5, 2014, after Israel announced that all of its troops had withdrawn from the Gaza Strip. (AFP/THOMAS COEX)
September 30, 2018, 5:11 pm
Hamas says Abbas is pushing Israel to launch a new war in Gaza
Terror group sends delegation to Cairo for talks on reconciliation deal and a possible long-term truce with Israel, as PA leader vows to impose further sanctions on the Strip
By ToI Staff
Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (YouTube screenshot)
July 17, 2018, 4:33 pm
Amid technical woes, Iran security chief said to stand up Gaza crowd
Wet Gunpowder gathering goes out with a whimper after Egypt reportedly tells Hamas leaders to stay away from the event
By Adam Rasgon
Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar speaks to Al Jazeera on May 13, 2018. (Screen capture: MEMRI)
May 17, 2018, 12:37 am
Hamas co-founder admits ‘we are deceiving the public’ about peaceful protests
Mahmoud al-Zahar says Gaza border demonstrations are ‘peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force and by security agencies’
By ToI Staff
IDF soldiers on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip as thousands of Palestinians demonstrate near the border fence, April 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
May 12, 2018, 8:25 pm
Israel sends troop reinforcements to Gaza, West Bank ahead of US embassy opening
Army braces for efforts by hundreds of thousands of Gazans to breach border, and upsurge in unrest in West Bank and East Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
Hamas's new deputy leader Salah al-Arouri (seated, left) and Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad (seated, right) sign a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 12, 2017, as the two rival Palestinian movements work to end their decade-long split following negotiations overseen by Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
April 17, 2018, 6:36 am
Egypt invites Hamas leaders for talks on Gaza protests, reconciliation
Cairo pressuring terror group to stop weekly disturbances along Israeli border as part of wider efforts to help implement unity deal with Fatah
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, speaks during a protest east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)
April 6, 2018, 6:56 pm
Gaza Hamas leader vows to ‘breach the borders and pray at Al-Aqsa’
As 7 Gazans killed in violence at fence, Yahya Sinwar tells protesters Strip is ready to explode in Israel’s face, claims the ‘conspiracy of besieging Gaza has failed’
By Khaled Abu Toameh and ToI Staff
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