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Latest in Tag: hamas
President Morsy emerges as regional mediator on Gaza
After a weekend of meetings with Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and the EU, Morsy finds himself under pressure from competing interests
Hamas calls on Egypt to end Rafah crossing quotas
Permanently opening the border crossing and removing the quota, would allow Egypt and Palestine to benefit from a free-trade zone
Israeli strikes kill one in Gaza
An attack earlier in the day on a Hamas compound east of Gaza city left three injured
Senior Hamas member killed in Syria, Israel accused of responsibility
The senior Hamas member was the assistant to another Hamas official killed in an elaborate operation in Dubai two years ago that gained international notoriety
Palestinian Authority blames Gaza for deficit mess
By Jihan Abdalla / Reuters RAMALLAH: Paying for the upkeep of the Gaza Strip while its political rival actively blocks revenues flowing back is taking its toll on the deficit-racked Palestinian Authority. The Western-backed PA, many of whose top leaders belong to the mainstream Fatah movement, says it has poured around $7 billion into the …
EU urges Gaza’s Hamas rulers to end executions
By AFP JERUSALEM: EU officials in Jerusalem and Ramallah on Wednesday condemned Gaza’s Hamas rulers for executing three prisoners and urged the Islamist movement to give up the practice of capital punishment. The Hamas-run interior ministry on Saturday said three prisoners had been executed, one of whom was convicted of “collaborating” with Israel and two …
AN ISRAELI VIEW: Growing signs of frustration
By Yossi Alpher In recent weeks and months, we have confronted a growing number of worrisome possible precursors of a new intifada or some similar round of violence on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. While the previous two intifadas were seemingly triggered by unintended actions or events (a traffic accident in 1987, a Temple …
From Al-Azhar, Hamas PM salutes ‘heroic’ Syrians
By Samer al-Atrush / AFP CAIRO: Gaza premier Ismail Haniya on Friday hailed the “heroic” Syrian struggle for democracy during a rally in Cairo, in the first expression of support of the uprising by a Hamas leader. “I salute all the people of the Arab Spring, or rather the Islamic Winter,” Haniya told thousands of cheering …
Palestinian unity likely to be real this time
By Daoud Kuttab AMMAN: Palestinian reconciliation took a major step forward recently following an agreement that included President Mahmoud Abbas taking on the additional position of prime minister. The Doha Agreement between leader of the Hamas political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, and Abbas that was signed earlier this month has led many to ask: has Hamas capitulated …
Abbas, Meshaal delay Palestinian unity talks: Fatah
By Nasser Abu Bakr / AFP CAIRO: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and his rival Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal on Thursday postponed talks on forming a unified government, a Fatah official said, in a further delay to ending an almost five-year rift. The official with the Abbas-led party said the talks were postponed “because Hamas continues to …
Hamas comes in from the cold
By Michael Bröning GAZA CITY: In the wake of revolutionary change in the Middle East, the forces of political Islam have scored one electoral victory after another. As the West grapples with the rapid rise of moderate Islamists in Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt, the issue of Hamas’s role in the Palestinian territories looms large. The signing …
Hamas denies involvement in Egypt uprising
By AFP CAIRO: Gaza’s Hamas premier Ismail Haniya on Thursday denied the Palestinian Islamist movement was involved in Egypt’s uprising last year, as claimed by Cairo’s former interior minister Habib Al-Adly. Speaking in court on Wednesday, the final day of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak’s trial, Al-Adly blamed Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah and Hamas for sending …