An Israeli squadron is conducting dress rehearsals in the Negev desert, for a strike on Iran's nuclear infrastructure The Sunday Times reported. According to the Sunday report, the secret mission could lead to Israel's third and 'easily most dangerous'...
Tags: israel, hamas, Rival Hamas and Fatah, Interim Israeli, Iran, Mahmoud Abbas, Mahmud Abbas, Ehud Olmert, Barack Obama, peace talks
The leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas has denounced Hebrew-language newspaper ads published by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Israeli papers. Khaled Mashaal says Palestinian rights can only be regained through resistance, not advertisements....
Tags: elections, hamas, israel, gaza, Islamist Palestinian Hamas, Islamic Hamas, palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli, Gaza Strip
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Saturday said it was ready for joining inter-Palestinian dialogue whenever obstacles are removed. Ismail Radwan, a Hamas spokesman, said his movement boycotted the Egyptian-hosted dialogue, which was due...
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Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman Peter Lerner said the decision to maintain the blockade was taken following 'continued' Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel. A rocket fired from Gaza landed outside the port city of Ashkelon early on Friday without...
Tags: israel, hamas, Israeli, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, armed factions
IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority political analysts expect Hamas to appoint a PA Chairman in Gaza, according to Al-Quds al-Arabi ...Behar will probably be appointed in January, when Hamas believes Abbas's term is over, the analysts said.
Tags: hamas, Hamas Expected, Hevron, israel, Noam Shalit, Binyamin Netanyahu
Israeli police say Palestinian militants have fired a rocket at an Israeli town near the Gaza Strip, causing no casualties. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says the rocket launched from Gaza early Friday landed in an industrial zone in the town of Ashkelon.
Tags: israel, Tzipi Livni, HaNegev Regional Council, western negev, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, gaza, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israeli, call, war, Ehud Olmert, Jordanian, rockets
Palestinian police surround the house of suspected militants and knock, demanding to be let in. Normally, they'd kick in the door if it didn't open immediately, but today they have the thing that every home is said to need: a woman's touch. As part of...
Tags: hamas, israel, Islamist Hamas, Mahmud Abbas, al hindy, Fatah and Hamas, Hamas and Fatah, palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, gaza, Israeli, Gaza Strip
Israeli police have pulled down a protest tent set up by a Palestinian family evicted from their home of 52 years in East Jerusalem. They also arrested three international activists and one Palestinian. Fawzia al-Kurd, 57, had been sleeping in the tent...
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On Tuesday, Israeli tanks rumbled about half a kilometer (a quarter mile) deep into the tiny coastal strip and leveled lands along the border east of the city of Rafah. More than a dozen of the Palestinians have been killed in Israeli aerial and ground...
Tags: rockets, israel, gaza, Israeli, Gaza Strip, Mr Olmert, Olmert Visited Jordan, Ehud Olmert, Gaza Belt, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Jordanian King Abdullah II, Israel Radio, Hamas, hamas, Israel PM, Islamist Hamas, Gaza City, Gaza-Israel, Jordanian-Israeli, tanks shell
Hamas said the man was a member of the organization's lookout unit and had been "killed in action." The IDF denied the report, saying that there had been no shooting incidents in the area and that the man had probably been killed by an errant Palestinian...
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