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 ...
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...
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
SheikhIslamicAhmedIslamicYassinIslamicIsmailIslamicAbuIslamicShanabIslamicMahmoudIslamicEBSCO_AspMiddle East PolicySee Special Issue, `Interviews from Gaza. What Hamas wants', Middle East Policy, 9, 2002. Available at http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal_vol9/0212_gaess.aspInterviews from Gaza: ...
Hamas Israel This is a modal window. Video Unavailable Technical details : This video is currently unavailable The IDF has confirmed the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Sky's Dominic Waghorn looks at what this could mean for the war in Gaza. ...
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...
Since the onset of the latest escalation in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Israel has been urging civilians in the Strip to evacuate to safe areas in southern Gaza, as its military operation began in the northern part of the Strip. As a result, more than one million people, or mo...
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...
Image:The Israeli military is expected to carry out a ground invasion of Gaza Whilst some might question why Qatar, a western ally, allows Hamas to remain there, they would argue this is an example of how it is better to have Hamas close-by rather than sent into exile to an unfriendly ...
Israel does not yet have diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia. It also needs to maintain security and military restraint over the Gaza Strip to avoid any possibility of a Hamas revival. Above all, regional relationships would need to be agreed upon. Also, while gas is less polluting than coa...