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The Islamist Hamas movement ruling the Palestinian strip of Gaza has named Anas abu Koussa as main suspect in the assassination attempt on Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah early last week in the enclave. Hamas Wednesday finger-pointed 25-year Read more
Hamas movement, ruler of Gaza, has closed down the office of Palestinian-Qatari cell phone service provider Wataniya Mobile over claims that the company, which is a subsidiary of Qatar’s Ooredoo, failed to cooperate in the investigation on the assassination attempt Read more
Populations in the Gaza Strip fear for the worst as rivalries between the enclave ruler Hamas and Fatah in the West Bank have resumed, the two sides trading blames following the assassination attempt on Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah last Read more
Gaza ruling movement Hamas has denied any involvement in the Tuesday bomb attack against the motorcade of Palestinian Prime Minister in the enclaved strip. Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah escaped Tuesday an apparent bomb attack when he was entering the enclave. Read more
Turkey Friday rejected placement of Hamas Chief on the US blacklist of terrorists, calling the Islamist movement an ‘important reality of the Palestinian political life’. “It is obvious that this decision, which overlooks the fact that Hamas is an important Read more
The Israeli army said Friday it hit a Hamas position in Gaza Strip after the Islamist movement allegedly launched a missile late on Thursday towards the Jewish state. An Israeli aircraft hit a position of Hamas in the enclave in Read more
The US State Department Wednesday announced the inscription on the US list of terror groups and individuals of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Gaza-based Hamas movement that it accuses of the killing of 17 American citizens. The State department claimed Haniyeh Read more
The Israeli intelligence and defense ministries have rejected Hamas accusations that Israel was behind the bomb attack against one of its figures in Lebanon, who had been wounded in a car-bomb blast in the Lebanese city of Sidon. Mohamed Hamdan, Read more
The Islamic State group (IS) in Egypt’s Sinai has in a 22-minute video called on its fighters to attack the Islamist movement ruling Gaza over its combat against members of terror group in the enclave strip. “[Hamas] uses its smuggled Read more
The Palestinian Prime Minister based in the West Bank announced Wednesday resumption of payment of Israel-supplied electricity in Gaza enclave nearly six month after refusing to foot the bill and leaving the strip in nearly complete darkness. Last June, Mahmoud Read more