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War In Context
| 7 months ago
But Tuesday's visit to Gaza by Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani to the delight of the territory's Hamas rulers and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, while Israel and Fatah fumed was a reminder that U.S. allies in the region often pursue goals...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya delivers a speech during a mass prayer on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, at al-Nusairat, in the central Gaza Strip, on October 26, 2012. One of 70-odd rockets fired from Gaza into Israel this week hit a...
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Asia Times Online
| 7 months ago
If the Egyptian-mediated truce continues to hold, this will attest, among other things, both to the increased regional influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Gulf Arab allies and to Hamas's desire to shore up its diplomatic and political...
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| 7 months ago
Thani was greeted by a Palestinian honor guard as he entered Gaza from Egypt on Oct. 23. He is heading a humanitarian mission to launch reconstruction projects totaling $250 million, according to Reuters; he pledged another $150 million in projects...
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The Economist
| 7 months ago
Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of Gaza who is a leading light in Hamas, the Palestinians' main Islamist movement, personally drove his first-ever visiting head of state, the emir of Qatar, through lavishly decorated streets on October 23rd. Such...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The Qatari emir's visit to Gaza may have been a political coup for the Palestinian enclave's Hamas rulers, but it was not aimed at supporting a separate entity there, analysts say. And many commentators believe that in receiving Sheikh Hamad bin...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
A surge in violence Wednesday across the Israel-Gaza border prompted strong warnings from Israeli leaders that if pushed, Israel would act more forcefully against militants in Gaza, the Palestinian coastal enclave. Palestinian militants fired more...
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Qatar English Daily
| 7 months ago
Tensions were high around Gaza yesterday as Israel vowed to punish Hamas after launching raids that killed four militants in response to rocket fire that wounded two foreign workers. The escalation flared when militants fired six rockets at Israel on...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
It also came in wake of reports that Hamas and other terror groups have formed a joint operations room to coordinate their anti-Israel attacks. "We condemn the Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip, which has escalated in the last hours, and warn...
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The Age
| 7 months ago
The IDF targeted two militant squads in the northern Gaza Strip as they were preparing to fire rockets towards Israel, as well as smuggling tunnels and five other "terror sites", its spokeswoman, Lieutenant-Colonel Avital Leibovich, said. Since the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
Reuters Hamas's involvement in the recent rocket and mortar attacks on Israel is a sign of the Islamic movement's growing sense of confidence, especially in wake of the visit to the Gaza Strip of the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad al-Thani. The high-...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
At least four Palestinians were killed in renewed violence when Israeli fighter jets pounded the Hamas ruled Gaza Strip amid unabated rocket and mortar fire by Palestinian militants. The attacks came at a time when Qatar's Emir is visiting the...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images More than 70 rockets have been fired into southern Israel from Gaza since the departure on Tuesday of the emir of Qatar , whose visit to the Gaza Strip was seen as a boost for its ruling faction, Hamas . Three foreign...
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Sky News
| 7 months ago
Three militants from the armed wing of Hamas, which rules in Gaza, were killed in an Israeli counter-attack. Hamas has been trying to suppress attacks against Israel by al Qaeda-related Jihadist groups in recent weeks. Israel moved military personnel...
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The Independent
| 7 months ago
Suggested Topics Palestinians fired dozens of rockets into Israel from Gaza today and an Israeli air strike killed a militant in a surge of violence after the Emir of Qatar embraced the enclave's Hamas leadership with a visit. Hamas claimed...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
The surge in cross-border violence came hours after a landmark visit to Gaza by the emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who pledged $400 million for projects there. It also came as a major American-Israeli joint military exercise was...
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The Hindu
| 7 months ago
October 23, 2012 AP The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani waves to crowds as he sits next to Gaza's Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh following a welcome ceremony in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Secular Palestinian groups have...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Rockets and mortars from the Gaza Strip pummeled southern Israel early Wednesday and an Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian militant, in a sharp escalation of violence following a landmark visit to Gaza by Qatar's leader. Several foreign workers...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 7 months ago
Breaking News Hamas Spokesperson in Gaza Fawzi Barhoum responded Wednesday to the IDF air strikes in Gaza, saying that "Israel is embarrassed by the visit of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, in Gaza and his successful "breaking...
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Al Jazeera
| 7 months ago
05 The emir of of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, has called for unity between Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah. Sheikh Hamad also denounced Israel's policies and praised people of the Gaza Strip for standing up to it with "bare chests"...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
A Palestinian died in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, a medic said, bringing to three the number of militants killed in overnight raids on the territory. The latest air strike, on Rafah in the south, targeted members of the...
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The Australian Jewish News
| 7 months ago
The Hamas regime in Gaza was buoyant this week after it hosted a foreign head of state for the first time since it seized control of the coastal strip in 2007. The visit of the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on Tuesday came just five days...
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Taiwan News
| 7 months ago
Taiwan News, Website Editorial Staff 2012-10-24 12:00 PM Qatar's emir was warmly welcomed on a landmark tour of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in the first such visit by a head of state since the Islamist Hamas movement took over in 2007. Thousands of...
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Qatar English Daily
| 7 months ago
The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani received a hero's welcome during a historic visit to Gaza yesterday, becoming the first head of state to visit the Palestinian territory since the Islamist movement Hamas seized control of the coastal...
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CNN Blog
| 7 months ago
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed two militants from Al-Qassam group, the military wing of Hamas, and wounded two other militants, medical and security sources in Gaza told CNN late Tuesday. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said its...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Gaza Strip (AP) The emir of Qatar on Tuesday became the first head of state to visit the Gaza Strip since Hamas militants seized the territory five years ago, showering almost half a billion dollars and unprecedented political recognition on the...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Israel killed two Hamas gunmen in a Gaza Strip air strike on Tuesday which the military said targeted a squad preparing to launch rockets into the Jewish state. The air force operation followed other Palestinian attacks, including a bomb blast that...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, Emir Hamad of Qatar and their wives arrive at a cornerstone-laying ceremony in Khan Younis Tuesday. It was a Hollywood scene in the most unlikely of places: Gaza, the isolated strip of Palestinian territory along...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The United States reacted cautiously Tuesday to a visit to Gaza by the emir of Qatar, calling it a humanitarian mission and denouncing the destabilizing role of Hamas in the Palestinian territory. "We have seen the reports that Sheik Hamad bin...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Abed Rahim Khatib/Demotix/Corbis Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani is used to basking in the limelight. But when the emir of Qatar arrived in Gaza on Tuesday the first Arab leader in years to visit the impoverished coastal strip he was hailed for...
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GMA News
| 7 months ago
The Emir of Qatar embraced the Hamas leadership of Gaza on Tuesday with an official visit that broke the isolation of the Palestinian Islamist movement, to the dismay of Israel and rival, Western-backed Palestinian leaders. Israel said it was "...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
The emir of Qatar on Tuesday became the first head of state to visit the Gaza Strip since Hamas wrested control of it in 2007, the latest step in an ambitious campaign by the tiny Persian Gulf nation to leverage its outsize pocketbook in support of...
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
It is the first time a head of state visited the Hamas-controlled territory since Egypt and Israel instituted a blockade in 2007. Hamas, remember, is considered a terrorist organization by the United States. Reuters reports : "Israel said it was '...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Gaza Strip (AP) The emir of Qatar received a hero's welcome during a landmark visit to Gaza on Tuesday, becoming the first head of state to visit the Palestinian territory since the Islamist militant Hamas seized control of the coastal strip five...
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The Independent
| 7 months ago
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, arrived in Gaza today, in the first visit by a foreign head of state since Hamas seized power five years ago. The emir arrived from Egypt via the Rafah border crossing to be greeted by cheering...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Support Israel/Defeat Jihad" in the Times Square subway station in New York Reuters video video The Gaza Strip on the Mediterranean coast, is all but cut off from the world, under blockade by Israel and Egypt by land and sea to obstruct the import of...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
Associated Press A Palestinian worker walks behind posters of the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, left, and Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, in preparation for the upcoming visit to Gaza at Palestine stadium in Gaza...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 7 months ago
With this visit, Qatar has thrown the chances for peace under the bus." (Attila Somfalvi)
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Arab News
| 7 months ago
The Emir of Qatar entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday for a visit that broke the isolation of it Islamist rulers, Hamas, but disappointed Israel and mainstream Palestinian leaders in the West Bank. Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani crossed into Gaza...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Gaza Strip (AP) The emir of Qatar received a hero's welcome in Gaza on Tuesday, becoming the first head of state to visit the Palestinian territory since the Islamist militant Hamas seized control of the coastal strip five years ago. Sheik Hamad bin...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Doha is increasing its investment in rebuilding Gaza to $400 million, up from $254 million, Gaza's Hamas premier said on Tuesday during a landmark visit by Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani. "The emir agreed to increase Qatari investment...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 7 months ago
The Palestinian government in Gaza installed a large tent at the yard of the Border Terminal and decorated it with Palestinian and Qatari flags, and signs welcoming the prince and thanking him for the projects Qatar will be conducting in Gaza to...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images The Emir of Qatar has become the first head of state to visit Gaza since the Islamist movement Hamas took control of the tiny enclave more than five years ago. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani entered the Gaza Strip from...
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Qatar English Daily
| 7 months ago
HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani crossed into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in the first visit by a head of state since the Islamist Hamas movement took over in 2007. Live images broadcast on Al-Jazeera satellite television showed the...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
39 Zeenews Bureau Gaza strip: In what is being billed as a landmark visit by a head of state, Qatari ruler Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani arrived in Gaza on Tuesday amid tight security. The Emir of Qatar is the first head of state to visit Gaza...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
The Emir of Qatar entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday at the head of a large delegation on what is billed as a humanitarian visit to inaugurate $250 million worth of reconstruction projects. Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani was given a red-carpet...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
The Emir of Qatar will on Tuesday be the first head of state to visit Gaza since Egypt and Israel launched a blockade of the Palestinian enclave in 2007, breaking the isolation of its Iran-backed rulers Hamas. The official Qatar News Agency (QNA)...
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Al Jazeera
| 7 months ago
59 Hamas officers await the arrival of Qatar's emir (poster, right) in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip [Reuters] Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, is set to arrive in the Gaza Strip to inaugurate a $254-million Qatari...
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Qatar English Daily
| 7 months ago
HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani left Doha Tuesday morning for a short visit to the Gaza Strip. HH the Emir is accompanied during the visit by HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. HH the Emir is also accompanied by HE Prime Minister and...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
Gaza Strip When the ruler of Qatar arrives in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, he will hand the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers their biggest diplomatic victory since taking power five years ago. The first head of state to visit Hamas-controlled...
