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"A year after Operation Cast Lead, the IDF is continuing to update its maps and highlight international and humanitarian institutions - adding several hundred in the past year - to prevent them from being targeted in a future conflict, The Jerusalem Post has learned."  

AFP - Human Rights Watch on Saturday accused Israel and Hamas of failing to take punitive action against members of their own forces accused of atrocities during Israel's war on Gaza a year ago. The New York-based rights group also criticised the ...  

ReutersHamas rejects AL secretary general criticismXinhuaGAZA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Gaza ruling Islamic Hamas movement Saturday rejected the criticism of Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa, who said he can not find one reasonable reason why Hamas does not ink the inter-Palestinian agreement. ...One year on, Gaza war violations still unpunished: HRWAFPIsraeli Military Kills 6 PalestiniansNew York TimesHamas grip on Gaza tighter a year...  

During a demonstration staged in Gaza city, Hamas movement criticized once again the Egyptian authorities for establishing metal barricades on the Palestinian-Egyptian borders in order to halt trafficking towards Gaza through tunnels. Egyptian official sources and citizens in Rafah border city said ...  

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A senior Hamas official says the group will respond by next week to Israel's latest counteroffer on swapping Palestinian prisoners for a captured Israeli soldier. The Damascus-based official, Moussa Abu Marzouk, says the ...  

During a visit to Tehran on Wednesday, Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal promised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Hamas would strike Israel if Israel attacked Iran's nuclear facilities. During his visit to Iran, Khaled Mashaal was received with extraordinary honors. Iranian officials promised their support to the Hamas terror organization. Mashaal answered in kind and promised his  

Trend News AgencyHamas split over exiling prisoners for ShalitHa'aretzBy Haaretz Service The Hamas leadership in Damascus has rejected Israel's demand that it exile certain prisoners released in exchange for abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, the London-based Arabic daily A-Sharq al-Awsat reported on ...Damascus Hamas against, Gaza Hamas for swap dealJewish Telegraphic AgencyReport: Mashaal opposes swap dealYnetnewsGaza...  

when extremist Jewish settlers torched a mosque on the West Bak, the condemnations from Irael were almost more prevalent than those from Arab and Muslim sources: why? Local residents even denied access to a group of rabbis who came to apologize. Why do Arab and Muslim officials not protest attacks on Jewish holy sites and worshippers? Do they not see the contradiction and the consequences? He puts this in context of, e.g. attacks on Joseph's...  

The cat is out of bag. As if we didn't know. The destruction of Israel is in the first paragraph of the Hamas charter. Hamas wants it all. All of Palestine. In front of a hundred thousand people in the city center of Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh explained this week the goal of Hamas. The moderate Minister President of the moderate wing of this religious Palestinian organization announced publicly which peaceful peace solution his government was...  

The Hamas movement marked 22 years since its founding yesterday with a mass rally in the Gaza Strip. About 100,000 Palestinians attended the event, which included a speech by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh ... President Mahmoud Abbas will stay in ...  

The report on Sunday said Ahmadinejad met the Hamas delegation led by group's political leader, Khaled Mashaal. "The government and the people of Iran will always stand by the Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian people," Ahmadinejad said ...  

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt confirmed on Tuesday it is engaged in construction along its border with Gaza but said it is not building what some reports have said is a steel wall to block cross-border smuggling. Hamas and other militant groups have ...  

Risk managment expert Rick Bookstaber tackles a non-finance, game theory problem. To: Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas Prime Minister Cc: Khaled Mashal, Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau Subject: Will you ever get Shalit off your hands? I know you are frustrated with how slowly things are going with the Shalit prisoner swap negotiations. You must feel [...]  

Here's one for the learned analysts who are sure Sunnis will never work with Shi'ites, and vice versa. "Hamas says will unite with Iran if Israel attacks," from Ynet News, December 15 (thanks to Alexandre): Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal said on Tuesday that Islamist militant groups would back Iran...  

'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen has accused Iran of paying Hamas $250 million to torpedo unity talks between the 'good terrorists' from Fatah and the 'bad terrorists' from Hamas. Iran “wants to hold all the cards in its hands” in any future dialogue with the United States and for that reason it gave Hamas 250 million dollars to derail the internal Palestinian