GAZA, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- A senior Islamic Hamas official said earlier this week that his movement won't participate in the municipal elections in the Palestinian territories until the end of a decade-long internal split between Hamas and Fatah. Salah al-Bardawil, a senior Hamas official in ...
The sources declined to disclose the name of the new Hamas chief or his deputies, but said the Shoura Council in the four different areas -- Gaza, the West Bank, prisons, and the Diaspora -- has held secret elections for two weeks. The Shoura Council is the parliament of the Hamas move...
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.
Thethree-phase ceasefire dealpromises the release of dozens of hostages held by militants in Gaza and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, and it will allow hundreds of thousands of people displaced in Gaza to return to what remains of their homes. It also will flood desperately ne...
The authority governed Gaza until 2007, when Hamas forcibly took over in a coup after winning a majority in parliamentary elections. Israel’s military Thursday pressed ahead with its offensive in and around Jenin, a city known as a center of militant opposition to the Israeli occupation of the...
calls for postwar investigations that could find him at least partially responsible forthe security failures of Oct. 7— the worst in Israel’s history. His far-right governing partners, who opposed a ceasefire deal, could also bring down the coalition and push the country into early el...
Another way that Hamas thrived over the years is by getting Israel to buy-in to its sustained rule in Gaza. Israel left Gaza in 2005. Israel may have been surprised by the rise of Hamas in Palestinian politics and elections in 2006, but Israel looked on as Hamas took over Gaza in 2007...
Sinwar was elected to the post in 2017. The poll comes ahead of the May 22 Palestinian legislative elections, the first Palestinian vote in 15 years. (The New Arab, PC, Social Media)
With US elections approaching, Israel is rushing to inflict maximum damage on Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and seizing the moment to carve out de facto buffer zones in a bid to create an irreversible reality before a new president takes office in January, eight sources told Reuters...
A temporary cease-fire agreement to facilitate the release of dozens of hostages is expected to bring the first respite to Palestinians in Gaza.