A battle broke out, killing hundreds, and Hamas seized power in Gaza. Fatah retained control in the West Bank. The takeover caused Egypt and Israel to close their land borders and begin a blockade. Hamas's retaliation led to the first Gaza-Israel war in 2008. Ha...
a claim we havepreviously reported on. While is it true that Hamas won the majority oflegislative seatsusingplurality voting, the first and only election ever held in Gaza took place in 2006. Given that approximately 44% of the current Gazan ...
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Officials in Gaza say Israel's bombardment since Hamas attacked Israeli civilians and soldiers on Oct. 7 has killed almost 3,500 people and wounded more than 12,000 others, a majority of them women and children. Dan Raviv, Middle East news analyst a
The final way in which retaliation could, in theory, work is to turn the people of the Gaza strip against Hamas which has brought them only suffering. This makes sense to me but it clearly does not make sense to them. If it could work, they would have overthrown the Hamas regime years...
mobilization of troops in its history, has now entered into the "second phase" of its war againstHamasin theGaza Strip. The IDF is supplementing heavy aerial bombardment of the besieged territory with what's been described as aground incursion, the details of which have been kept closely...
The Israeli army claims it has found a Hamas tunnel inside Gaza's biggest hospital, al Shifa. The latest footage posted by the IDF shows the view inside an underground tunnel in the eastern edge of the hospital. A professor specialising in underground warfare say...
Hamas is a Palestinian militant group which rules the Gaza Strip. It is sworn to Israel's destruction and wants to replace it with an Islamic state. Hamas has fought several wars with Israel since it took power in Gaza in 2007. In between those wars, it has fired or allowed other groups...
“day after,” when the war is over (probably another month or so from now), and the other “day after,” when an expected Hamas insurgency might be put down andsomeone else will need to run Gaza, probably six months or years down the line beyond the end of the war. What will ...