Hamas on Tuesday accused the Palestinian Authority and Israel of refusing to grant documents to Gazans in need of permission to seek medical treatment outside the blockaded coastal enclave. The accusation came with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas allegedly seeking to pressure his rivals Hamas, the ...
Gaza's ruling Hamas movement delivered death sentences on Sunday to three Palestinians it ruled had taken part in what it said was an Israeli-directed assassination of one of the Islamist group's senior commanders. A Hamas security court said the three men had confessed to the ...
The U.S. State Department on Thursday declared a senior commander of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Abu Anas al-Ghandour, a "specially designated global terrorist," adding his name to its economic sanctions blacklist. The State Department said Ghandour is a former Hamas Shura council and political ...
A military court in the Islamist Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Sunday sentenced three Palestinian men to death for "collaborating" with Israel, the interior ministry said. The three, condemned to be hanged, can appeal the sentence, according to a statement from the ministry. The court noted that ...
Ever since the first series of "Pop Idol" screened on British TV in 2001, the televised music competition has become practically inescapable, with franchises springing up everywhere from Macedonia to the Maldives. Given how cannily stage-managed these "reality" shows really are, though, it almost ...
The Israeli military said it uncovered a new tunnel Thursday stretching from southern Gaza Strip into Israel and built by Palestinian militants seeking to stage attacks in Israel, a discovery that comes amid an escalation in violence between Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers. Gaza's ...
BHamas, the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza, said Sunday that it has executed one of its own commanders over unnamed "moral and behavioral violations." Hamas said in a short Twitter statement that Mahmoud Eshtewi was killed after he confessed. It said the decision to ...
Israeli authorities on Sunday said they have opened an investigation into the actions of a police officer who fatally shot a 16-year-old Palestinian girl during a stabbing attack in Jerusalem last month. In a statement, the Justice Ministry said it was looking into whether the ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry set off an uproar in Israel on Sunday after warning that the country, through its continued West Bank occupation, will become a "binational state." Kerry's words describe a scenario that would mark a failure of U.S. policy and end ...
The fate of a Palestinian boy seized center stage Thursday in the battle of narratives accompanying the recent burst of deadly Israeli-Palestinian violence. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ignited an uproar in Israel after falsely claiming in a televised speech that Israelis had "summarily executed" Ahmed ...
'The last war was the worst." She's 15 and has already been through four wars: 2006, 2008-09, 2012, 2014. She's qualified to make comparisons — this war worse than that one, the latest one worst of all. She's a Palestinian growing up in the Gaza Strip, ...
A U.N. investigation on Monday accused both Israel and Hamas militants of committing possible war crimes in last summer's Gaza war, finding that Israeli airstrikes on residential buildings caused many civilian deaths and suggesting Israeli leaders knowingly endangered them. The report, which Israel rejected as ...
