Five Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike
October 30th, 2011 - 12:32 am ICT by IANS
Gaza, Oct 29 (IANS) Five Palestinian militants were killed Saturday when an Israeli war jet struck a military training site of the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movement's armed wing al-Quds ... Read more...
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Hamas hails decision to permanently open Rafah border crossing
May 27th, 2011 - 1:45 am ICT by BNO News
GAZA (BNO NEWS) -- Hamas, one of the main Palestinian factions, on Thursday hailed the courageous decision by the Egyptian ruling military council to permanently open the Rafah border crossing.According to the ... Read more...
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UAE hails Palestinian reconciliation deal
May 5th, 2011 - 12:49 am ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, May 4 (IANS/WAM) The United Arab Emirates has welcomed the reconciliation agreement between the Palestinian groups - Fatah and Hamas - and the consensus around the deal.The consensus ... Read more...
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Hundreds of Palestinians celebrate unity deal
May 4th, 2011 - 8:34 pm ICT by BNO News
RAMALLAH (BNO NEWS) -- Hundreds of Palestinians on Wednesday took to the streets to celebrate the unity deal signed by Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas, in Cairo, Palestine News Network reported.People ... Read more...
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Israel calls Palestinian deal a ‘fatal mistake’
April 29th, 2011 - 3:20 pm ICT by ANI
Tel Aviv (Israel), Apr. 29 (ANI): The long-awaited reconciliation deal between two Palestinian factions has been described by Israeli President Shimon Peres as a "fatal mistake" that will destroy any hopes of ... Read more...
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Palestine: Fatah, Hamas reach agreement on reconciliation
April 28th, 2011 - 7:18 am ICT by IANS
Cairo, April 28 (IANS) Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas Wednesday signed a preliminary agreement on reconciliation during talks in Cairo, a step which paves the way for the formation ... Read more...
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Israeli strike kills two in Gaza, Israel deploys anti-missile system
March 27th, 2011 - 9:58 pm ICT by BNO News
GAZA (BNO NEWS) -- Israeli warplanes on Sunday raided Jabalya refugee camp, north of Gaza, killing two Palestinians and wounding a man critically, Palestine News and Info Agency WAFA reported.Medical sources announced ... Read more...
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Israel fires at two Palestinians on Gaza border
January 18th, 2011 - 11:46 pm ICT by BNO News
GAZA STRIP (BNO NEWS) -- Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday fired at two Palestinians on the Gaza border as they attempted to plant an explosive, the Haaretz newspaper reported.One suspect was ... Read more...
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Former U.S. President Carter calls for including Hamas in peace talks
October 20th, 2010 - 3:00 am ICT by BNO News
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (BNO NEWS) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday called for the inclusion of the militant group Hamas in the Middle East peace process, local media reported."We believe that ... Read more...
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Israel to blame if talks fail: Abbas
August 30th, 2010 - 6:40 am ICT by IANS
Ramallah, Aug 30 (IANS) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Sunday warned Israel would foil peace talks to be resumed Sept 2 if it continued expansion of settlements in the West Bank and East ... Read more...
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Palestine denies reports of reconciliation with Hamas
June 19th, 2010 - 6:06 pm ICT by IANS
Ramallah, June 19 (IANS) A Palestinian official denied Saturday reports that President Mahmoud Abbas had accepted a reconciliation plan proposed by Islamic Hamas movement to end the intra Palestinian division.
"I can't ... Read more...
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Arab League chief calls for breaking Gaza siege
June 13th, 2010 - 6:53 pm ICT by IANS
Gaza, June 13 (IANS) Arab League chief Amr Moussa Sunday called for an immediate lifting of Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory.
"The siege must be broken and lifted," Moussa told reporters after ... Read more...
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Carter Center condems “Israel’s attack” on Gaza-bound ships
June 3rd, 2010 - 5:14 am ICT by BNO News
ATLANTA, GEORGIA (BNO NEWS) -- The Carter Center expressed on Wednesday deep regret for the loss of life and condemned the "unprovoked and illegal Israeli assault" on the Gaza flotilla carrying pro-Palestinian ... Read more...
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Abbas slams Hamas for delaying reconciliation pact
October 12th, 2009 - 5:35 am ICT by IANS
Ramallah, Oct 12 (DPA) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas slammed Sunday the Islamic Hamas movement for delaying an inter-Palestinian reconciliation pact that was due to be signed in Cairo this month and would ... Read more...
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Senior Fatah, Hamas leaders meet in Gaza
April 9th, 2009 - 1:41 am ICT by IANS
Gaza, April 9 (DPA) Leaders of the rival Hamas and Fatah movements held a meeting in Hamas-ruled Gaza Wednesday to discuss reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and mutual reconciliation.
The meeting between the ... Read more...
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Blast kills senior Palestinian official in Lebanon
March 23rd, 2009 - 10:14 pm ICT by IANS
Beirut, March 23 (DPA) A Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) official and four of his bodyguards were killed Monday when a roadside bomb targeted their convoy near a Palestinian refugee camp in southern ... Read more...
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Hamas accuses Fatah of blocking dialogue
March 15th, 2009 - 10:58 pm ICT by IANS
Gaza, March 15 (Xinhua) The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, Sunday accused its rival Fatah movement of blocking the progress of the unity talks the factions hold in Cairo.
Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman ... Read more...
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Israel wants open ceasefire without time limit: Hamas
February 14th, 2009 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
Gaza City, Feb 14 (DPA) Israel has rejected an 18-month ceasefire with Hamas and wants an open lull without a time-limit, the Islamist Hamas movement said Saturday.Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, ... Read more...
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Hamas accepts 18-month Gaza truce
February 13th, 2009 - 12:14 pm ICT by IANS
Cairo, Feb 13 (Xinhua) Hamas has accepted an 18-month truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian MENA news agency reported Friday.
"We agreed to the truce with the Israeli side for ... Read more...
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Hamas says will respond Saturday to truce proposal
February 6th, 2009 - 2:56 am ICT by IANS
Gaza, Feb 6 (DPA) An official in the Islamist movement Hamas said Thursday that the movement would give its final answer on Saturday to a possible Egyptian-brokered truce with Israel, but said ... Read more...
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Hamas says full-proof cease-fire agreement with Israel still some time away
February 5th, 2009 - 3:13 pm ICT by ANI
Jerusalem, Feb.5 (ANI): A Hamas official, Ahmed Yousef, has said that certain issues still needed clarification, such as whether a cease-fire agreement would last one year or 18 months and how ... Read more...
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Hamas delegation in Cairo for talks on Gaza ceasefire
January 25th, 2009 - 6:23 pm ICT by IANS
Cairo, Jan 25 (DPA) Egyptian officials were Sunday meeting with representatives of Hamas and other Palestinian factions in talks aimed at turning a one-week ceasefire into a durable truce, Egypt's official Middle ... Read more...
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Egypt, Hamas agree on truce plan, await Israeli approval
January 16th, 2009 - 7:32 pm ICT by IANS
Cairo, Jan 16 (DPA) Egypt and the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas have agreed to a five-step plan that calls for a ceasefire as of Saturday, an Arab newspaper reported Friday as a ... Read more...
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Iran warns Hamas not to accept Egyptian truce proposal
January 12th, 2009 - 8:05 pm ICT by ANI
Cairo/Jerusalem, Jan.12 (ANI): Iran has warned Hamas not to accept the Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel.
An Egyptian government official told The Jerusalem Post by phone that two senior Iranian ... Read more...
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Hamas fighting Israel with weapons provided by US, European countries to PA
January 5th, 2009 - 4:26 pm ICT by ANI
Jerusalem, Jan 5 (ANI): Hamas representatives have claimed that their militiamen were fighting against Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip with weapons snatched from the Palestinian Authority in the summer of ... Read more...
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Hamas calls for emergency meeting of Palestinian factions
January 4th, 2009 - 10:50 pm ICT by IANS
Cairo, Jan 4 (DPA) A spokesman for the militant Islamist Hamas movement Sunday called for an emergency meeting to present a united Palestinian front in the face of the Israeli ground offensive ... Read more...
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Arab League chief calls on UN to halt Israel’s Gaza attack
December 31st, 2008 - 8:01 pm ICT by IANS
Cairo, Dec 31 (DPA) The head of the Arab League urged the United Nations Security Council Wednesday to take immediate action to stop Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip."We urge the Security ... Read more...
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Hamas, four factions agree to resume dialogue
August 17th, 2008 - 6:32 am ICT by IANS
DPA
Gaza, Aug 17 (DPA) The Islamic Hamas movement and four Palestinian factions agreed Saturday to resume an internal dialogue aimed at reconciliation, for which they welcomed Egyptian and Arab support. Representatives of ... Read more...
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Egypt to coordinate renewed Hamas-Fatah talks: Abbas
July 27th, 2008 - 11:02 pm ICT by IANS
DPA
Cairo, July 27 (DPA) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that Egypt would immediately begin coordinating talks between his Fatah party and the rival Hamas movement, for the first time since they ... Read more...
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Islamic Jihad vows to respond to Israeli ceasefire violations
June 21st, 2008 - 7:05 pm ICT by IANS
Xinhua
Gaza, June 21 (Xinhua) The Islamic Jihad movement Saturday vowed to respond to any Israeli violation of an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. Abu Ahmad, spokesman for the movement's armed wing, said the Islamic Jihad ... Read more...
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EU welcomes Israel-Hamas ceasefire
June 18th, 2008 - 10:43 pm ICT by IANS
DPA
Brussels, June 18 (DPA) The European Commission Wednesday welcomed the announcement of a truce between Israel and Hamas, the radical Islamic movement that rules the Palestinian Gaza Strip. "I welcome the news ... Read more...
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Uncertainties over Gaza truce proposals
May 21st, 2008 - 3:21 pm ICT by admin
DPA
Cairo/Tel Aviv, May 21 (DPA) Uncertainties remain over a proposed truce between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas after the Israeli government refused Wednesday to confirm or deny Egyptian statements that ... Read more...
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Iran two years from nuclear bomb: Israel
May 2nd, 2008 - 5:57 pm ICT by admin
DPA
Tel Aviv, May 2 (DPA) Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Friday he believes Iran is two years from developing a nuclear bomb. "It's possible that it may take another two years, ... Read more...
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Palestinian factions agree to defuse tensions in Gaza Strip
April 30th, 2008 - 8:09 pm ICT by admin
DPA
Cairo, April 30 (DPA) Palestinian factions have agreed to de-escalate the situation in the Gaza Strip during a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo, the Egyptian government said in a statement Wednesday. ... Read more...
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Palestinians not opposed to Syria-Israel deal
April 27th, 2008 - 9:43 pm ICT by admin
DPA
Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), April 27 (DPA) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said after talks in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh he was not opposed to any separate peace deal between ... Read more...
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