JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel urged Palestinians to outlaw Hamas as a political and social movement, according to the latest batch of leaked documents published on Wednesday.
Al-Jazeera television reported what it said was a conversation between an Israeli security official, Yoav Mordechai, and the Palestinian Authority's Hassan Attalah.
It quoted Mordechai as asking what the Palestinians wer [...]
JABALIYA, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - A senior Hamas leader on Thursday accused Israel of carrying out "countless holocausts" against the Palestinians while saying the Nazi genocide was a "lie."
Mahmud Zahar made the remarks during a memorial ceremony for 43 Palestinians who were killed at a UN school in the Jabaliya refugee camp during Israel's 22-day war on Gaza that began in Decemb [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's defence ministry accused a London-based Palestinian centre on Tuesday of "terror-affiliated activities" and being the organisational arm of the militant Islamic Hamas movement in Europe.
Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip and advocates violent opposition to the Jewish state, is designated by the European Union as a terrorist organisation.
An Israeli defence minis [...]
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GAZA CITY (AFP) - Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said on Wednesday the Islamist group would accept a peace deal with Israel if the Palestinian people approved it in a referendum.
His statement appeared to signal a shift in the group's long-standing policy of refusing to accept either Israel's legitimacy or any peace treaty negotiated by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
Hamas "will [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Senior members of Fatah, the party of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, met on Wednesday to discuss issues ranging from peace talks with Israel to reconciliation with Hamas.
The representatives from Fatah's Revolutionary Council gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah from early morning for a day of talks on domestic and international politic [...]
NABLUS, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - The Fatah party of Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas accused its Islamist rival Hamas on Wednesday of plotting to kill one of its governors in the West Bank.
Hamas, which has effectively limited Abbas's authority to the Israeli-occupied territory since it seized control of Gaza in 2007, denied it had made any attempt to assassinate [...]
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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Hamas on Monday freed 80 prisoners on the eve of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, a police spokesman said.
In a statement, Ayman al-Batniji said the 80 prisoners, all convicted of petty crimes or participating in violent family feuds, were freed at midday, [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - A senior Hamas official admitted on Monday that up to 300 fighters were killed in the 2008-2009 Gaza war after the Islamist group initially put the toll at 48.
Hamas interior minister Fathi Hammad told the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat that between 200 and 300 Hamas fighters were killed during the 22-day onslaught in addition to hundreds of ci [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Gaza's Hamas rulers are "very eager" to resume talks with Israel over a prisoner exchange which could see captured soldier Gilad Shalit being freed, former US president Jimmy Carter said on Thursday.
"They let us know... they are very eager to proceed," Carter told reporters in Jerusalem several days after a delegation of former world statesmen, known as The Elders, me [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that talks aimed at releasing a captured soldier held by Hamas in its Gaza enclave have resumed after nearly a year-long hiatus.
"The contacts for the release of Gilad Shalit have resumed... There are many discrete efforts," Netanyahu told army radio, without elaborating.
An Israeli official confirmed on condition of [...]
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