Tag: Gaza Strip
Khaled Mashaal elected as overseas head of Hamas
Internal Hamas elections have resulted in Khaled Mashaal being elected as head of the organization’s overseas leader, reports said on Monday. He will replace incumbent Maher Salah.
Mashaal previously served as head of Hamas’s overall...
US State Department human-rights report returns to using ‘occupied’ territories
The Biden administration returned to using the term “occupied” when referring to the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem in its annual human-rights report issued by the U.S. State Department.
Under the...
‘Hamas wants an Islamist state in the West Bank’
In November 2020, many months after cutting all ties with Israel, and with the declaration of Israeli sovereignty in parts of Judea and Samaria off the table, the Palestinian Authority agreed to renew security...
In first, Hamas names woman to powerful politburo
Hamas on Sunday named Jamila al-Shanti as the first female delegate to its powerful political bureau—the terrorist group’s highest decision-making body.
Al-Shanti, a former Palestinian legislator, is the widow of Hamas terrorist mastermind Abdel Aziz...
IDF steadily boosts and builds its readiness against Hezbollah
Despite ongoing disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Israel Defense Forces has been able to stick to an intensive and large-scale combat training program and build its readiness against adversaries, particularly against the...
Families of murdered Israeli teens slam ICC decision as ‘evil cynicism’
The families of Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach—the three Israeli teenagers whose abduction and murder at the hands of Hamas terrorists sparked “Operation Protective Edge” in July 2014—released a letter to the public on...
NGO Monitor: EU funding campaign to trigger UN sanctions against IDF
Palestinian and international NGOs, funded by European governments and working in tandem with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), have launched a campaign seeking to trigger U.N. sanctions against the Jewish state,...
Could Palestinian elections spell bad news for US and Israel?
Israel is not the only one headed to elections this spring. Palestinians made headlines across the news media recently for an unexpected reason: the announcement of new elections for the first time in 15...
Will a Palestinian election matter?
This once would have been the sort of gesture that would have inspired hope for peace in the Middle East, as well as gestures of support and friendship from the U.S. government. But no...
IDF tanks strike Hamas positions in response to continued rocket fire
Israeli tanks struck Hamas military positions in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to the firing of a rocket into Israeli territory on Tuesday night, the Israeli military said in a statement.
The rocket,...