Sami Abu Zuhri

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with IDF commanders after a security briefing in Beersheba, May 6, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

May 6, 2019, 7:48 pm

PM pushes back on Gaza ceasefire criticism, says ‘rules of game’ have changed

Netanyahu boasts that Israel has resumed assassinations, killed ‘dozens’ of Hamas, Islamic Jihad terrorists during bout of fighting

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives a mandate to form a government, April 17, 2019. (GPO screenshot)

May 6, 2019, 12:42 pm

As ceasefire goes into effect, Netanyahu says Gaza campaign not over

PM says Israel hit terror groups ‘with great force,’ is readying for next round of fighting; Hamas: Conflict ‘will not end until we regain our rights’

By TOI staff and Raoul Wootliff

Azzam al-Ahmad, a senior Palestinian official, in his office in northern Ramallah on December 4, 2018. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

January 8, 2019, 2:10 pm

Fatah official vows more extreme measures to end Hamas’s rule in Gaza

Azzam al-Ahmad says PA considering cuts to funding for water and education in Strip; Hamas official calls comments a ‘declaration of war’

By Adam Rasgon

Palestinians burn flags during a demonstration against an upcoming UN General Assembly vote on a US-drafted resolution condemning the Palestinian Hamas movement in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 6, 2018. ( SAID KHATIB / AFP)

December 7, 2018, 3:00 am

Palestinians applaud defeat of US-backed resolution condemning Hamas

Despite over 80 countries voting in favor of UN measure, Hamas official calls resolution’s failure a ‘slap’ to the American administration

By Adam Rasgon

Palestinian Authority security forces touring Israeli-controlled Hebron in uniform on July 31, 2018 (Credit: Wafa)

September 27, 2018, 12:22 pm

PA reportedly arrests dozens of Hamas members in the West Bank

Raids come a day after official PA news outlet reported that Hamas-run security forces summoned dozens of Fatah members in Gaza and arrested several others

By Adam Rasgon

Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist terror movement Hamas, take part in a rally marking three years since Operation Protective Edge, on July 20, 2017, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

February 23, 2018, 8:28 pm

Hamas tells Nikki Haley: Your peace plan is ‘worthless’

After US diplomat says proposal nearing completion, Gaza-based terror groups vow to thwart American efforts

By Khaled Abu Toameh

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

Members of the Palestinian security forces patrol in the West Bank city of Nablus on August 19, 2016, during ongoing clashes between the security forces and Palestinian gunmen. (AFP PHOTO / JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

October 17, 2017, 4:48 pm

PA to begin drafting recruits for Gaza security body, minister says

As part of Palestinian reconciliation deal, Ramallah will reportedly send an initial 3,000 guards to the Strip

By Dov Lieber

Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad, right, and Saleh al-Arouri, left, of Hamas talk to journalists 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)

October 16, 2017, 4:16 pm

Veneer of positivity fades in Palestinian unity talks as tough issues surface

Even before discussions on future of Hamas’s military, senior official in terror group says PA statements ‘don’t bode well’

By Dov Lieber

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri (AP/Hatem Moussa)

July 17, 2017, 5:42 pm

After getting boot from Qatar, Hamas looks to Algeria – report

Palestinian terror group said seeking to scatter its leaders to avoid having too large a presence in any one country

By Stuart Winer

Israeli police prevent Muslims from entering the al-Aqsa compound following a terror attack on July 14, 2017. (Screen capture: Twitter video)

July 14, 2017, 11:35 am

Hamas, Islamic Jihad lavish praise on ‘heroic’ Temple Mount shooting

Fatah calls police response ‘an attempt to exploit what happened to carry out an Israeli plan prepared in advance’

By Dov Lieber and TOI staff

Illustrative image of a Palestinian nurse tending to a newborn at the neonatal intensive care unit at the UAE hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 27, 2017. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

June 30, 2017, 1:48 pm

PA to again allow Gazan patients to be treated in Israeli hospitals

Outcry after deaths of three babies prompts Palestinian Health Ministry to issue more permits and funding for treatment

By TOI staff

May 3, 2017, 9:57 pm

Hamas rejects Abbas peace proposal outline to Trump

Spokesman for terror group says ‘no one has authorized’ PA leader to represent Palestinians at meeting with US president

By Dov Lieber and Eric Cortellessa

A Palestinian family look out from the doorway of their home in Gaza City's eastern Shujaiya neighborhood following an Israeli military strike on October 5, 2016. (AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)

October 6, 2016, 10:54 am

After airstrikes, Hamas said to appeal to Israel for calm

Gaza official reportedly claims group is working to prevent further violence following air force bombardment in reprisal for rocket attack on Sderot

By Raoul Wootliff and Judah Ari Gross

A picture taken from the Israel-Gaza border shows an Israeli military Apache helicopter flying above the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on October 5, 2016.(Jack Guez/AFP)

October 5, 2016, 6:55 pm

Hamas warns it won’t ‘sit idly by’ as IDF planes strike Gaza

Official condemns ‘Israeli escalation’ as fresh IAF raids target terror group’s sites in wake of rocket fire at Sderot

By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff