Hamas, which was freely elected in 2006, said that the humanitarian catastrophe facing residents of the Gaza Strip is caused by the Israeli occupation and the US-backed siege it imposes on them. “If Blinken and the US administration were serious about achieving stability and prosperity in the ...
Once back in Gaza, in 1997 he was put in charge of the office of Ahmed Yassin - one of the Hamas founders and its spiritual leader - who was killed in an Israeli helicopter attack in 2004. This increased his influence, and he was eventually elected Palestinian prime minister by its pr...
GAZA, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Islamic Hamas movement announced Thursday that it is ready to join general and comprehensive elections in the Palestinian territories. Hamas' remarks were made after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's speech before the United Nations General Assembly, where he announced...
Hamas has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007. Here's what you need to know about the militant group, what its mission is and why it attacked Israel now.
This chapter argues that the parameters under which the Hamas authority has been operating in Gaza all interplayed to preclude a conducive environment for the rise of good governance in Gaza, while leaving the Hamas authority to an extent obliged to take certain action that has the effect of in...
GAZA, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Ismail Haniya, known as Abu el-Abed, the Islamic Hamas movement's newly elected chief, was a former soccer player and an Arabic language teacher at the Islamic University of Gaza. He was born in the Shatti refugee camp in western Gaza City in 1963. ...
In an interview with "60 Minutes," President Biden said "Israel has to respond. They have to go after Hamas," but warned that an Israeli occupation of Gaza would be "a big mistake." The U.N. said almost a million Gaza residents have been displaced since the war started, with many fo...
Ibrahim, Nur. ‘People Claim a Majority of Palestinians in Gaza Elected Hamas — Here’s Why It Isn’t That Simple’.Snopes, 1 Nov. 2023, https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/11/01/majority-palestinians-gaza-elect-hamas/. Israel: Discriminatory Land Policies Hem in Palestinians | Human Rights...
The last parliamentary elections were held in the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, in January 2006, when Hamas won an overwhelming majority. Mahmoud Abbas was elected as the Palestinian president in January 2005 to succeed late leader Yasser Arafat, who died in November 2004. ...
More than a million people have fled their homes in the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected Israel invasion that seeks to eliminate Hamas’ leadership after its deadly incursion.