Tag: Hamas

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, April 29, 2014, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with Palestinian businessmen from East Jerusalem to set up a national fund to support the Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas has accused Hamas of needlessly extending fighting in the Gaza Strip, causing a high death toll. He told Palestine TV in remarks broadcast Friday, Aug. 29, that "it was possible for us to avoid all of that, 2,000 martyrs, 10,000 injured, 50,000 houses (damaged or destroyed)." (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi, File)

Palestinian leader says Hamas caused prolonged war

MOHAMMED DARAGHMEHIAN DEITCH · August 29, 2014 6:32 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Israel's prime minister declared victory Wednesday in the recent war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, saying the military campaign had dealt a heavy blow and a cease-fire deal gave no concessions to the Islamic militant group.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Europe seeks role in postwar Gaza

Josef Federman · August 28, 2014 7:40 pm

A Palestinian militant of Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, military wing of Hamas, holds his rifle during a celebration of the victory rally at the debris of destroyed houses in Shijaiyah, neighborhood of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. An open-ended cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip was holding Wednesday. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli premier, Hamas declare victory in Gaza war

TIA GOLDENBERGIBRAHIM BARZAK · August 27, 2014 7:58 pm

Palestinians with their belongings drive a motorbike back to their house in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

A look at the Gaza war and cease-fire halting it

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 3:47 pm

A Palestinian Hamas supporter holds up a little girl wearing green flags as people gather in the streets during celebrations for the cease-fire between Palestinians and Israelis, in the West bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Israel and Hamas agreed Tuesday to an open-ended cease-fire, halting a seven-week war that killed more than 2,200 people, the vast majority Palestinians, left tens of thousands in Gaza homeless and devastated entire neighborhoods in the blockaded territory. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Gaza truce open-ended, but puts off tough issues

KARIN LAUBMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · August 26, 2014 9:43 pm

A Palestinian walks amid the rubble of a destroyed house after it was hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza City, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza attacks triggers Israeli exodus from border

Ian Deitch · August 25, 2014 9:47 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 22, 2014, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint news conference with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Tel Aviv, Israel, regarding the Israel-Hamas war. A day after the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, posted the video of American journalist James Foley's killing, Netanyahu debuted his latest catchphrase: "Hamas is ISIS. ISIS is Hamas." He has continued to repeat the slogan at news conferences, on Twitter and even at his weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday, Aug. 24. Hamas itself condemned Netanyahu's comparison, saying its battle is against Israel, not against the entire West. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

Israel leader tries to link Hamas, Iraq extremists

Daniel Estrin · August 25, 2014 5:22 am

In this combination photo composed of six frames, the Al-Zafer apartment tower block collapses following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a 12-story apartment tower in downtown Gaza City on Saturday, collapsing the building, sending a huge fireball into the sky and wounding at least 22 people, including 11 children, witnesses and Palestinian officials said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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Israeli airstrike collapses Gaza apartment tower

KARIN LAUBPETER ENAV · August 23, 2014 10:54 pm

Leader says Hamas agrees in writing to support Palestinian bid at International Criminal Court

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Leader says Hamas agrees in writing to support Palestinian bid at International Criminal Court

Washington Examiner · August 23, 2014 5:20 am

Death Cult

Geoffrey Norman · August 22, 2014 1:28 pm

Palestinian doctors treats an injured baby, following an Israeli airstrike on a building, at the treatment room of al Najar hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Israel kills 3 Hamas military commanders in Gaza

KARIN LAUBIAN DEITCH · August 21, 2014 8:57 pm

FILE - This undated file image released by the Israel Defense Forces shows a combination of three photos of Israeli teens Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, a 16-year-old with dual Israeli-American citizenship, who disappeared while hitchhiking home near the West Bank city of Hebron late at night on June 12, 2014, and were never heard from again. Their bodies were found two weeks later. Saleh Arouri, a senior Hamas leader, said on Wednesday, Aug. 20, that the group carried out the kidnapping and killing of the three Israeli teens in the West Bank in June - the first time anyone from the Islamic militant group has said it was behind the attack that helped spark the current war in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Israel Defense Forces, File)

Hamas admits kidnapping Israeli teens

Josef Federman · August 21, 2014 8:38 pm