Posts Tagged: Hamas Gaza
Ahead of Obama Visit, Significant Obstacles Keep Peace Process on Back Burner
WASHINGTON, DC - Leading up to President Barack Obama's visit to Israel next week, speculation abounds about what the trip will mean for the currently dormant...
Hamas: Obama Visit to Temple Mount Would Be Declaration of War
CBS - Hamas is warning that if President Obama visits the Temple Mount it would be a "declaration of war" against the Islamic world. Israel National...
Report: Obama Details Israel Plan in Meeting With Arab Leaders
Al Arabiya - In a meeting with a group of Arab Americans this week, U.S. President Barack Obama revealed that he will not push the...
Freedom House Ranks Hamas, PA “Not Free” For Political Rights, Civil Liberties
In Freedom House's annual report ranking the freedom of various countries and territories, both Palestinian-ruled territories ranked as "Not Free." The PA-ruled West Bank scored...
Knesset Speaker Slams Foreign Lawmakers Over Visit to Hamas-Ruled Gaza
Reuven Rivlin, speaker of the Israeli Knesset, said he would boycott an Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) delegation set to arrive in Israel next month after IPU...
Converging Toward Hamas
There are many points of disagreement between Fatah and Hamas; so many that they fought an ugly civil war in 2007, leaving Hamas in control...
Hamas and Egypt Extend Ties With New Cairo Office for Palestinian Group
Egypt has agreed to allow Hamas to open an office in Cairo, according to Yedioth Ahronoth, which cited a report in Al-Hayat. The latest understanding between...
Angela Robson and the Guardian Whitewash Domestic Violence in Gaza
Angela Robson's July 30th article entitled 'Women in Gaza: how life has changed' , which appeared in the Guardian's World News section, was - for...
Israel’s Farming Communities Bear Brunt of Gaza’s Rockets and Snipers (PHOTOS)
Over 100 rockets fired from Gaza struck southern Israel this past week, with 65 of those rockets clobbering Israeli communities in the northwestern Negev in...
NY Times Article Accuses Israel of Often Killing ‘Tunnel Workers’
Journalist Ruqaya Izzidien spent time in the smuggling tunnels running between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, and recently published an article about the experience in...
Terrorists Released in Shalit Deal Elected to Office in Gaza
In the wake of the release of hundreds of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons in exchange for the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit last...
Recent Headlines from the Gaza Strip
Support & Finances: The Hamas government in Gaza approved a budget of $869 million for government operations, $174 million of which was described as...
Gaza Restaurant Employs a Waitress for First Time Since Hamas Takeover
For the first time in Gaza, since Hamas seized control in 2007, a woman has been allowed to work as a waitress in a restaurant,...
Senior Hamas Official: Palestinians Don’t Come from Palestine
Hamas Minister of Interior and National Security, Fathi Hammad recently said that Palestinians actually came from Egypt, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. In an interview he...
