But he was also deeply feared for his iron grip in Gaza, where public dissent is suppressed. In contrast to the media-friendly personas cultivated by some of Hamas’ political leadership, Sinwar never sought to build a public image. He was known as the “Butcher of Khan Younis” fo...
Hamas rejects outside force for GazaAbbas proposal was hoped to provide stability for electionsIsabel KershnerTaghreed ElKhodary
He studied Arabic at the Islamic University of Gaza, which was founded in 1978 by the two men who went on to set up Hamas almost a decade later. There he became particularly close to one of them, the cleric Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Yassin and Mahmoud al Zahar ...
The Israeli military claimed, without immediately offering evidence, that Hamas and the Islamic Jihad used the school as a shelter to plan attacks.
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International journalists cannot independently enter Gaza without an Israeli Defence Forces escort. Sky's Alistair Bunkall visited what remains of Rafah - a city once home to hundreds of thousands of people.
Details of Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip that led to the death of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar are emerging. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has the latest confirmed reporting. Also, CBS News foreign correspondent Ramy Inocencio has more on reactions in Tel Aviv an...
Progressives at the convention said that they think Harris would approach the war in Gaza differently if elected, even as she has remained a loyal member of the Biden administration and declined to support an arms embargo on Israel. While the “Abandon Harris” campaign ...
Northern Gaza has been destroyed by the Israel-Hamas war NORTHERN GAZA is destroyed. Not just a war zone, not just worn down – utterly destroyed. The cat may not live long enough to see the “day after.” Probably some number of Palestinian civilians will also not make it despite humanit...
Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who was killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, was the mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the war.