after fruitful talks between the two parties last week produced a reunification plan. Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas' co-founder and prominent Gaza Strip political figure, lambasted the accord reached last Monday between Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas and ...
The London-based Arabic newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi reported Cmdr. Mohammed Deif of the Hamas military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, opposes the deal, Ynetnews.com said. He joins Hamas Politburo delegate Gaza Mahmoud al-Zahar in opposing the deal.
Disagreement within the Hamas leadership over a reconciliation deal signed by leaders of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in Qatar is stalling the formation of a unity government, senior Fatah member Nabil Sha'ath said Monday. Palestinian Authority ...
Fast Jihad does not want to relinquish territory to Slow Jihad. An update on this story. "Hamas strongman in Gaza rejects unity deal," by Mohammed Daragmeh for the Associated Press, February 12: RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A rare public rift broke open Sunday in the usually tightly disciplined Islamic...
“Khaled Meshaal and Ismail Haniyeh met last night in Qatar ... and the suspicions it has aroused among Hamas hard-liners. Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a senior Hamas figure in Gaza seen as a hard-liner by Fatah, described Meshaal’s agreement with ...
The Palestinian leadership on Thursday endorsed the latest agreement between the heads of Fatah and Hamas and called for preparations for elections to be speeded up.Palestinian president and Fatah head Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal inked an accord in Doha on Monday placing Abbas at the head of an interim government to supervise the run-up to elections later this year.
Caroline GlickOn Monday afternoon, the Palestinians destroyed officially whatever was left of the concept of a peace process with Israel. When PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas signed a deal with Hamas terror-master Khaled Mashaal in Doha, Qatar, the notion that there is a significant segment of Palestinian society that is not committed to the destruction of Israel was finally and truly sunk. But before the ink on the agreement had a...
Senior Hamas official Mahmud Zahar slammed a Palestinian unity deal as a “mistake” that has thrown the Islamist movement into crisis, in an interview with Egypt’s official MENA agency published on Sunday. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal signed ...
Meanwhile Hamas’s star has been rising again in the Sunni world—as evidenced by Gazan Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s recent well-received tour of Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt, and Bahrain. Israeli analyst Jonathan D. Halevi suggests Hamas is ...
Reconciliation responds "to the Palestinian aspirations for unity and we must be happy." Amazement at the criticism voiced by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. In any case, Msgr. Twal remains committed to a "peace for all, a good understanding with Israel and unity between the Palestinian brothers. ...
Hamas and Fatah plan to release their respective prisoners as a show of good faith as Hamas prepares to enter the PLO.
The move comes on the heels of reconciliation talks between the rival factions in Cairo on Thursday that resulted in an announcement that Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other terror factions would be joining the PLO.
According to al-Masri, security concerns pertaining to detainees remaining in custody included both targeted killing by Israel and attacks by competing factions...Read Full Story
Paradise Now; the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, are there Long Lasting Solutions Ahead? By Marc Chamot I usually never sit back and watch anti-Jewish or anti Israeli movies being made around these days. Mainly movies that are demonizing the Jewish state of Israel, but I did make an effort to pick up Paradise Now which was conveniently sitting around the library. This movie was filmed around 2005, and I’ve got to tell you, it was quite thought provocative indeed. The angst and anger on both...Read Full Story
by Khaled Abu Toameh Hamas and Fatah officials traded accusations over the weekend, holding each other responsible for the collapse of the reconciliation talks that were aimed at forming a new Palestinian unity government. The negotiations, which were held in Cairo under the auspices of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, were called off on Thursday after the two sides failed to solve most of their differences. BLAME is the concept. Notice I didn't say "responsibility." Think for a few...Read Full Story
aradical Islamist group hanged an Italian activist hours after kidnapping him in Gaza, Hamas said yesterday, as Rome denounced the "barbaric murder." The pro-Palestinian activist was found hanged in a house north of Gaza City, the ruling Hamas government said. "The government media office denounces the criminal kidnapping and murder of an Italian solidarity activist... who was found by security hanging in an abandoned house in northern Gaza," it said. Hamas said two suspected kidnappers were...Read Full Story
(RSD) -- The Hamas and Fatah Palestinian movements reached an agreement in the Egyptian-mediated unity talks Thursday in Heliopolis, on the outskirts of Cairo, in a bid to overcome a political-institutional stalemate. Over 1,300 Palestinians were killed between December 27 and January 18 as a result of the Israeli offensive. Nature Of The Parties Hamas is an Islamic Palestinian organization which includes a paramilitary force, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Since June 2007, Hamas has...Read Full Story
Side-by-side profiles of the two main political forces in the Palestinian territories. ... Two parties dominate Palestinian politics, Fatah which has been at the head of the Palestinian ...
... hold in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday after five days of intense fighting between the rival Hamas and Fatah ... Cease-fire starts to take hold in Gaza Palestinian factions agree to end fierce fight
CNN - (CNN) -- An Egyptian-brokered truce ended within hours early Monday when shooting resumed between rival Hamas and Fatah militias, leaving two gunmen dead and 10 others wounded, Palestinian secur