RUTH EGLASH
Sinwar was first arrested by Israel in 1982, aged 19, for "Islamic activities" and then arrested again in 1985. It was around this time that he won the confidence of Hamas's founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. The two became "very, very close", says Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the...
Who Is Israel? Who Are the Jews? by Kraig and Anne Elliott Many people think of “Israel” and the “Jews” as being the same group of people, but in reality, the Jews are just a small segment of the larger group of people God called Israel. Who is Israel? Jacob was the son of...
“His mother is a resident of Gaza who came to Israel to marry an Israeli citizen,” she said. “Now we need to revoke her identity card and expel her and the entire family of the murderer back to Gaza.” Mahmoud a-Zahar, a senior Hamas figure in the Gaza Strip, praised t...
This is the first known research team in Asia that has succeeded in isolating the Omicron variant."The HKU team succeeded in isolating the variant late Monday, four days after the first two Omicron cases were confirmed in Hong Kong on November 25, and five days after the variant was first ...
Haniyeh wasborn in a refugee campnear Gaza City, and joined Hamas in the late 1980s during the First Intifada, or uprising against Israel’s occupation in Gaza and the West Bank. His parents were refugees expelled from Askalan, which later became known as the Israeli city Ashkelon. ...
leader, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, have become deeply unpopular among many Palestinians. There's deep-rooted distrust in Gaza and the West Bank of Fatah and of the PA, which, when it was created, agreed to help find members of the "Palestinian Resistance" and hand them over to Israel....
We're gonna begin with growing concerns about a new variant of the coronavirus first discovered earlier this month in South Africa and since turning up in Belgium, Israel, even Hong Kong. The World Health Organizatio...
While Biden was preparing to head to the Capitol, a large group of protesters gathered near the White House for a “People’s State of the Union” to protest the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Protesters chanted, “free, free Palestine,” while others held large banner...
Stanton, was acquitted after the first successful plea of temporary insanity in U.S. legal history. Received the Medal of Honor in 1897 for action at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; lost a leg in that battle; his amputated leg was displayed at the Army Medical Museum, where he...