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Salah Bardawil

Senior Hamas official Salah al-Bardawil. (Courtesy)
March 23, 2025, 11:09 am
IDF strike in south Gaza kills senior Hamas official; ground ops restart in Beit Hanoun
Military says troops in northern Strip’s Beit Hanoun to destroy Hamas infrastructure, expanding buffer zone along border; IDF issues ‘urgent’ evacuation warning for Rafah’s Tel Sultan
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, attends by video conference a meeting with deputy Hamas chief Saleh Arouri (on screen from Beirut) vowing joint resistance to Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, on July 2, 2020. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
July 2, 2020, 3:03 pm
Abbas’s Fatah party, terror group Hamas unite to ‘topple’ Trump deal, annexation
‘We want to speak in a single voice,’ says Fatah’s Jibril Rajoub at joint event with Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri, who has $5m US bounty on his head. Arouri vows ‘all forms of struggle’
By Aaron Boxerman and AFP
Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, speaks to foreign correspondents in his office in Gaza City, May 10, 2018. (Khalil Hamra/AP)
May 18, 2018, 1:23 pm
Why Hamas beat a tactical retreat after near-descent into full war with Israel
Yahya Sinwar, the Israel-loathing terror group’s Gaza leader, has a reputation as a particularly notorious killer. But after Monday’s deadly clashes, he clamped down
By Avi Issacharoff
A protestor holds torn representations of American and Israeli flags during a protest at the Unknown Soldier Square in Gaza City, December 6, 2017. (Adel Hana/AP)
December 6, 2017, 5:24 pm
Gazans burn US, Israeli flags ahead of Trump recognition of Jerusalem
Protesters say holy city is their ‘eternal capital’ and a ‘red line’; Hamas terror group calls for more demonstrations in coming days
By AP
Palestinians argue with Hamas officials and security forces in a makeshift station in a basketball court in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip on November 18, 2017 as they await clearance to take a bus to travel through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, after it opened for three days for the first time since the Palestinian reconciliation deal. (AFP PHOTO / Mahmud Hams)
November 26, 2017, 3:46 pm
PA controls just 5% of Gaza, senior Abbas minister says
Hussein al-Sheikh: Hamas dragging its feet in handover of enclave to Palestinian Authority
By Dov Lieber
Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad, right, and Saleh al-Arouri of Hamas shake hands after signing a reconciliation deal in Cairo, on October 12, 2017, as the two rival Palestinian movements ended their decade-long split following negotiations overseen by Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
November 23, 2017, 1:40 pm
Hamas official claims reconciliation failing due to US pressure
Salah Bardawil calls Wednesday night’s declaration out of Cairo meeting ‘lackluster’; adds no one dared to discuss terror group’s weapons
By Dov Lieber
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)
March 21, 2017, 6:40 pm
Hamas aims to improve its image with new ideological document, but won’t revoke charter
Updated program doesn’t rescind terror group’s founding commitment to holy war against Israel, Judaism and Jews; may accept temporary state in 1967 lines, without recognizing Israel
By AP and ToI Staff
Arab Israeli parliament member MK Basel Ghattas of the Joint (Arab) List in the Knesset, February 12, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 14, 2016, 2:35 pm
MK sparks outcry by calling Peres a ‘blood-covered war criminal’
Basel Ghattas says ex-president a despicable pillar of colonialism, leading to calls for his ouster; Hamas official says Peres ‘wore cloak of peace, but hid dagger of treachery’
By Dov Lieber
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh gestures to the crowd as he takes part in a rally marking the 28th anniversary of Hamas's founding, in Gaza City on December 14, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)
July 6, 2016, 1:53 pm
Hamas leader: No swap talks until ‘Shalit prisoners’ freed
During Eid al-Fitr speech, Haniyeh also says his group is prepared for a new war with Israel but doesn’t expect one soon
By Dov Lieber
Left to right: Oron Shaul, Hadar Goldin and Avraham Mengistu. (Flash90/The Times of Israel)
July 4, 2016, 4:46 pm
Hamas said seeking ‘Shalit 2’ prisoner swap deal
Terror group is demanding release of hundreds of Palestinians in return for bodies of IDF soldiers, Hebrew newspaper says
By Stuart Winer
Egyptian Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar speaks during a press conference in Cairo on March 6, 2016. (AFP)
March 12, 2016, 3:38 pm
Hamas leaders head to hostile Cairo for high-level talks
Group says delegation will meet with intelligence officials, discuss accusations it played role in 2015 murder of top Egyptian prosecutor
By ToI Staff
Photo shared by the IDF shows what the army says is an explosives device that Palestinian operatives attempted to place at the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. (IDF spokesperson)
January 13, 2016, 1:40 pm
Hamas threatens retaliation for strike on bomb-planting cell
Group says one man killed, three injured in IAF attack; army tells Israeli farmers to keep distance from border
By Judah Ari Gross
A picture taken from the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip shows an Egyptian soldier manning a watch tower on the Egyptian side, on October 26, 2014. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
June 10, 2015, 11:19 am
Egypt said working to reconcile divided Fatah, Hamas
Cairo official says Saudi-backed pressure on Palestinian factions is meant to foster a united front vis-a-vis Israel
By Stuart Winer
Palestinian fighters from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine during a military graduation ceremony in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 29, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
June 9, 2015, 10:29 pm
As rockets raise tensions, Hamas says all Gazans want ceasefire
Official says Palestinian factions united in desire to keep calm with Israel, and missile-lobbing Salafists just want attention
By Elhanan Miller
A file picture taken on January 29, 2015, shows Palestinian youth showing their skills during a graduation ceremony as part of a training camp run by the Hamas movement in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP photo/Said Khatib)
February 21, 2015, 2:15 pm
Egyptian paper accuses Hamas of plotting Cairo coup
State-run al-Ahram claims terror group conspiring with Muslim Brotherhood to topple government within 3-5 years
By Itamar Sharon
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