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Palestinians demonstrating against the expropriation of land by Israel, clash with Israeli security forces in the village of Kfar Qaddum near the Jewish settlement of Kedumim in the occupied West Bank on 1 April 2022.

Hamas

Israeli forces kill Palestinian in West Bank as violence heats up

By AFP

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian during clashes in the flashpoint occupied West Bank city of Hebron, the latest in a surge of violence, the Palestinian...

  • FILE: A Palestinian bakery worker holds bags of bread past the ruins of a building destroyed during the recent Israeli bombings, in Gaza City on 27 May 2021. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP

    Israel further eases Gaza restrictions despite unrest

    Israel has maintained a tight blockade on the territory since 2007, the year Hamas took power.

    341 days ago
  • Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul on 16 August 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule. Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP

    Hamas congratulates Taliban on 'courageous leadership'

    Hamas said in a statement that it 'congratulates the Taliban movement and its courageous leadership on this victory, which was the culmination of its long struggle over the past 20 years'.

    357 days ago
  • A ball of fire erupts from a building in Gaza City's Rimal residential district on 16 May 2021, during massive Israeli bombardment on the Hamas-controlled enclave. Picture: Bashar TALEB/AFP

    HRW accuses Israel, Hamas of 'apparent war crimes' in Gaza conflict

    In a report released Tuesday, HRW said it had investigated three Israeli attacks that 'killed 62 Palestinian civilians where there were no evident military targets in the vicinity,' interviewing Palestinians in Gaza and analysing data from the sites and digital imagery.

    377 days ago
  • Palestinian firefighters rush to extinguish a huge fire at the Foamco mattress factory east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on 17 May 2021, after Israeli airstrikes. Picture: MAHMUD HAMS/AFP

    Israel's attacks on Gaza may constitute 'war crimes': UN rights chief

    Michelle Bachelet voiced deep concern about the surge in deadly violence between Israelis and Palestinians earlier this month.

    438 days ago
  • Palestinian firefighters rush to extinguish a huge fire at the Foamco mattress factory east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on 17 May 2021, after Israeli airstrikes. Picture: MAHMUD HAMS/AFP

    Hamas says won't touch 'cent' of aid to rebuild Gaza

    Diplomatic efforts are underway to solidify a fragile Egypt-brokered truce that halted the fighting, with plans to rebuild the Gaza Strip where Israeli air strikes damaged infrastructure and levelled buildings.

    439 days ago
  • Smoke billows from Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, on 11 May 2021. Israel and Hamas exchanged heavy fire, in a dramatic escalation between the bitter foes sparked by unrest at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP

    Hamas claims victory in conflict with Israel after ceasefire

    Israeli strikes on Gaza, since 10 May, have killed 232 Palestinians, including 65 children, as well as fighters, and have wounded another 1,900, according to the Gaza health ministry.

    444 days ago
  • A ball of fire erupts from a building in Gaza City's Rimal residential district on 16 May 2021, during massive Israeli bombardment on the Hamas-controlled enclave. Picture: Bashar TALEB/AFP

    Diplomatic push for Gaza truce as Israel, Hamas trade heavy fire

    Talks aiming to end the bloodshed continued after US President Joe Biden urged a "significant de-escalation" while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to push on until the military campaign reaches its objective, "to restore quiet and security" for Israelis.

    445 days ago
  • FILE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference in Jerusalem on 13 August 2020. Picture: AFP

    Netanyahu says Israel aims to deter but could 'conquer' Hamas

    While an international diplomatic push aims to end the worst bloodshed in years, Netanyahu issued another tough threat against the armed group that has fired thousands of rockets at Israel since 10 May.

    446 days ago
  • The Israeli Iron Dome missile defence system (L) intercepts rockets (R) fired by the Hamas movement towards southern Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip as seen in the sky above the Gaza Strip overnight on May 14, 2021. Israel bombarded Gaza with artillery and air strikes on Friday, May 14, in response to a new barrage of rocket fire from the Hamas-run enclave. Picture: ANAS BABA/AFP

    Israel assessing if conditions right for ceasefire: military source

    The source added that Israel was evaluating whether its objective of degrading the fighting capacity of Gaza's Hamas rulers had been achieved.

    446 days ago
  • The father of 12-year-old Rahaf al-Dayer holds her covered body at al-Shifa hospital, after she was killed in an Israeli airstrike that destroyed the upper floors of a commercial building and caused damage to the nearby health ministry and prime health care clinic, in Gaza City, on 17 May 2021. Picture: ANAS BABA/AFP

    Death toll climbs in Israel-Gaza conflict amid frantic diplomacy

    Israel's intense bombing campaign has killed 213 Palestinians, including 61 children, and wounded more than 1,400 people in Gaza. The death toll on the Israeli side rose to 12 when a volley of rockets Hamas fired at the southern Eshkol region killed two Thai nationals working in a factory and wounded several others.

    447 days ago
  • Palestinian protesters rush away amid clashes with Israeli security forces at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, on 7 May 2021. Picture: Ahmad GHARABLI/AFP

    ANALYSIS: Many questions as conflict deepens between Israelis and Palestinians

    Are we witnessing the early stages of a third intifada, in which casualties mount on both sides until the participants exhaust themselves?

    447 days ago
  • The Israeli Iron Dome missile defence system (L) intercepts rockets (R) fired by the Hamas movement towards southern Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip as seen in the sky above the Gaza Strip overnight on May 14, 2021. Israel bombarded Gaza with artillery and air strikes on Friday, May 14, in response to a new barrage of rocket fire from the Hamas-run enclave. Picture: ANAS BABA/AFP

    Israel battles on three fronts in Gaza, West Bank and at home

    The Gaza death toll includes 31 children, and 900 were injured, authorities said, while the Israeli fatalities count one child and one soldier.

    451 days ago
  • Smoke billows from Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, on May 11, 2021. Israel and Hamas exchanged heavy fire, in a dramatic escalation between the bitter foes sparked by unrest at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Picture: AFP

    Israeli strikes target top Hamas figures: military

    Warplanes 'completed a series of raids, hitting homes that belonged to high-ranking members' of Hamas, the Israeli military said, with Hamas saying a key police building had also been destroyed.

    453 days ago
  • Palestinian medics walk near the Dome of the Rock as they evacuate on a stretcher a wounded protester from the Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City on 10 May 2021, amidst clashes with Israeli security forces.Picture: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP

    Nine killed as Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas rocket barrage

    At least nine people - including three children, and a senior Hamas commander - were killed in Gaza, local authorities said. It was not immediately clear whether they all died in Israeli strikes or from a misfired Hamas rocket.

    455 days ago
  • Authorities in the Gaza Strip have reported more than 53,000 COVID-19 infections and at least 537 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Picture: Said Khatib / AFP

    OPINION: Israel violates international law by blocking vaccines to Gaza

    The withholding of essential healthcare is war crime and a violation of all international laws and humanitarian standards, writes Mike Shingane.

    522 days ago
  • Around 20,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine arrived in Gaza through the Rafah crossing with Egypt. Picture: 123rf

    Hamas launches COVID-19 vaccinations in Gaza

    "Priority is being given to medical staff working on the front line in the pandemic, then to sick elderly people."

    532 days ago
  • In this handout picture released by the Austrian interior ministry, Austrian policemen stand guard a street near a mosque in Vienna on 6 November 2020, after the Austrian government ordered its closure in the wake of the deadly jihadist shooting four days earlier. Picture: AFP

    Austria police raid dozens of 'Islamist-linked' targets

    Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said the raids were aimed at "cutting off the roots of political Islam".

    637 days ago
  • FILE: A view of the remains of structures hit by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip. Picture: United Nations Photo.

    Israel reopens Gaza crossings as calm restored

    Both the Erez crossing for people and Kerem Shalom crossing for goods had been closed on 4 May, when Gaza rulers Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.

    1184 days ago
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