Tag: Hamas

Tens of thousands Palestinians rally at Israel-Gaza border

--some 40,000 people gathered for mass rally --Israeli military uses live rounds, rubber bullets and tear gas on protesters GAZA: Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied...

Israel, Hamas clash over Gaza, then truce reached

GAZA CITY: Israeli air strikes hit sites across the Gaza Strip on Monday in retaliation for a rare long-distance rocket attack that struck a...

Hamas announces ceasefire with Israel after worst escalation in years

GAZA: Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip announced an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel on Tuesday after a severe escalation of violence threatened to descend...

Qatari-bought fuel enters Gaza to ease humanitarian crisis: Hamas

GAZA CITY: Qatari-bought fuel arrived at the Gaza Strip's only power station after entering through Israel on Tuesday in a bid to alleviate conditions...

Hamas hoping, again, to ease Gaza blockade

  GAZA CITY: Officials from the Islamic Hamas group are travelling to Egypt in another attempt to negotiate the easing of the blockade on the...

Israeli farmers to file war crimes complaint against Hamas

  JERUSALEM: A group of Israeli farmers is filing a war crimes complaint at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Monday against Hamas...

Israeli strike kills two Hamas militants in Gaza

GAZA (Reuters): Israeli tank fire killed two Hamas militants in Gaza on Tuesday in a strike the Israeli military said was launched against a...

Hamas vows revenge after Israeli raid kills 3 militants

GAZA CITY: The military wing of Gaza's rulers Hamas on Thursday vowed revenge after Israeli strikes killed three militants in the latest flare-up of...

Israel, Hamas agree to restore calm in Gaza

GAZA: Hamas said on Saturday it had agreed a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip, a day after clashes killed an Israeli soldier...

3 Hamas fighters killed by Israeli fire in Gaza

GAZA City: Israel targeted militant sites in Gaza, after Palestinians shot at its forces near the border, the military said Friday, using airstrikes and...

Israel and Gaza militants agree to end fierce flare-up of fighting

GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER: Israel and Gaza militant groups agreed a ceasefire on Saturday, a Palestinian official said, after Israel launched dozens of air strikes against...

Israeli jets hit Gaza Hamas positions after militants fire rockets

JERUSALEM: Israeli jets struck 25 Islamist Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Wednesday after militants launched rockets and mortar...

Gaza militants launch barrages across border, Israel hits back with air...

GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER: Palestinian militants launched their heaviest barrages against Israel since the 2014 Gaza war on Tuesday and Israeli aircraft struck back, in a...

Israel says Hamas curbed Gaza protests after Egyptian warning

GAZA: Palestinian protests on the Gaza-Israel border have dropped off dramatically, with Israel on Wednesday pointing to what it said were Egyptian efforts to...

Hamas leader says next demo will be peaceful

GAZA CITY: The Hamas militant group's Gaza leader says protesters in a mass demonstration along the Israeli border next week will be unarmed and...

Hamas blames Palestinian Authority men for PM assassination attempt

GAZA: Gaza’s ruling Hamas group blamed Palestinian Authority officials on Saturday for the attempted assassination in the enclave of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah...

Israeli Iron Dome system activated in response to machine gun fire,...

JERUSALEM: Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile shield was launched on Sunday against Palestinian machine gun fire originating in the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip, and not against...