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What Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh Did Hours Before His Assassination

July 31, 2024 admin

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh visited a theme park exhibition featuring ‘Axis of Resistance’ landmarks just hours before his assassination in Iran. He was seen alongside Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakhaleh. The ‘Axis of Resistance’ is an Iran-led coalition of groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis and allied forces in Syria and Iraq. This coalition aims…

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How Ismail Haniyeh Rose From Being Activist To Chief Of Hamas

July 31, 2024 admin

Haniyeh was appointed to the Hamas top job in 2017 Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader who was killed in Iran, was the tough-talking face of the Palestinian group’s international diplomacy as war raged back in Gaza, where three of his sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike. But despite the rhetoric, he was seen by…

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‘I will not be silent’: Kamala Harris presses Netanyahu over humanitarian situation in Gaza

July 25, 2024 admin

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive before a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, on July 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Kamala Harris sharply pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday about the humanitarian situation in Gaza in “frank”…

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Watch: Israel-Palestine conflict: What’s the two-state solution?

July 13, 2024 admin

Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack in Israel and Israel’s continuing war on Gaza have brought the Palestine question back to the fore of West Asia’s geopolitics. As the war has destroyed much of Gaza and killed 37,000 of its people, the world has also seen more and more countries voicing strong support for a future…

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Hamas calls for independent Palestinian government in post-war Gaza

July 12, 2024 admin

Palestinian children inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Hamas is suggesting during ceasefire negotiations that an independent government of non-partisan figures run post-war Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a member of the Palestinian Islamist movement’s political bureau said Friday. “We proposed that a…

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Israel Used Protocol Hannibal Directive That Put Civilians At Risk On October 7: Report

July 8, 2024 admin

New Delhi: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) used the ‘Hannibal directive’ during the Hamas attack on October 7, Haaretz, a leading daily, has reported. This directive allows soldiers to use force to prevent kidnappings, even if it puts the lives of hostages at risk, it said. What is the Hannibal directive? The Hannibal Directive is a…

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Hamas Accepts US Proposal On Talks Over Releasing Israeli Hostages: Report

July 6, 2024 admin

Efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza have intensified over the past few days (File) Hamas has accepted a US proposal to begin talks on releasing Israeli hostages, including soldiers and men, 16 days after the first phase of an agreement aimed at ending the Gaza war, a senior Hamas source told Reuters on Saturday….

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Ex Spy Handler Of Hamas Co-Founder’s Son

June 25, 2024 admin

Ben Itzhak now protests on the streets against Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition government. Modiin, Israel: On a Tel Aviv overpass, former spy Gonen Ben Itzhak addresses a small gathering of flag-waving protesters worried about the future of Israel under longest-serving premier Benjamin Netanyahu. Motorists honk enthusiastically to the group from the road as they…

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45 Palestinians Killed In Israeli Attacks In Rafah Amid Truce Talks

June 22, 2024 admin

Palestinian health officials said at least 45 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza. Cairo: Israeli forces pounded Rafah in southern Gaza on Friday, as well as other areas across the enclave, killing at least 45 Palestinians as troops engaged in close-quarter combat with Hamas group operatives, residents and Israel’s military said. Residents said…

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Israeli strikes on tent camps near Rafah kill at least 25 and wound 50, Gaza health officials say

June 21, 2024 admin

Mourners gather next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike that hit a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Al-Mawasi area in western Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians north of…

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