Hamas, the militant organisation ruling the Gaza Strip, has warned against what it calls Israeli settlers' plan to "storm" the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem.
May 15, 2022Meanwhile, Egyptian-mediated efforts to deliver a long-term truce have struggled with the sides unable to agree on a system to renew Qatari payments to needy Gaza families
September 13, 2021Hazem Qassem, the movement's spokesman in Gaza said that "there are contacts to lift the Israeli siege that has been imposed on the Gaza Strip for 15 years"
August 15, 2021Hamas officials said they will study the situation and respond to UNRWA's demand soon
August 12, 2021Naftali Bennett said that Hamas, which controls the besieged Palestinian enclave, will "have to get used to a different Israeli approach, one of initiative, decisiveness, and suspicion".
June 21, 2021Israel Defense Forces said its fighter jets had hit military compounds operated by Hamas in Khan Yunis and Gaza City
June 16, 2021Even if we assume that Israel’s invocation of right of self-defence against non-state actors like Hamas is justified, its application in situations of occupation is still problematic.
June 11, 2021According to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), the tunnels were built over five years and allowed Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, to move ammunition, fighters and food within the coastal strip.
June 6, 2021During the past two weeks, unknown militants had fired four rockets at southern Israel.
October 23, 2020Marouf clarified that the lockdown will cover all Gaza's districts starting from Monday night, including the closure of all official and educational institutions.
August 25, 2020Two rockets were fired the next day at the Jewish state from Gaza, triggering a punitive Israeli air raid on Hamas installations in the Palestinian enclave.
July 6, 2020Jerusalem remains a final status issue. The city's future can only be resolved on the basis of international law and through negotiations between the parties, he said.
February 5, 2020The Palestinian leadership was not invited to the US talks and has rejected Trump's initiative amid tensions over his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's undivided capital.
January 27, 2020Two were alleged to have been intercepted by the Iron Dome and the third possibly fell into a field in Israel, without causing harm.
August 17, 2019Over the three days of the conflict, there was a dramatic change in strategy on either side of the “line of control”, so to speak.
May 11, 2019The cauldron bubble of the Middle East has flared up yet again this week, and the risk of war is dangerously real. The outbreak of violence is reckoned to be the worst since the 2014 conflict and the situation remains ever so fragile. The question that is now of greatest importance is whether the ceasefire …
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November 16, 2018"We are very close to another type of action which would include very strong blows. If Hamas is intelligent, it will cease fire and violence now," he added.
October 14, 2018