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Three UN-run schools are hit, 70 Palestinians are killed. According to the Israeli army, Hamas militants used the ...  

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that Israel and the Palestinians have accepted a Egyptian-French peace plan -- but Hamas denies that a deal has been struck, reports CBS News. In Syria, a spokesman for Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal told CBS News' George Baghdadi soon after Sarkozy's...  

Reuters - A senior Iranian politician met Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus on Wednesday as the Palestinian Islamist group considered an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.  

A truce in Gaza that was supposed to last three hours on Wednesday failed after just 15 minutes. The suspension of the campaign from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. was intended to allow residents of the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory to receive food and medical supplies. Israeli forces fired at...  

Egypt's U.N. ambassador says representatives of Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have agreed to meet Thursday for talks in Cairo on the Gaza crisis.Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz says all the parties agreed to send technical delegations to discuss an Egyptian-French initiative to end the...  

As the humanitarian situation worsens in Gaza, Hamas and Israel seek a truce. Three UN schools were hit and 70 Palestinians killed.  

It was reported Wednesday that both Israel and the Palestinian Authority led by Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas are willing to accept a ceasefire proposal put forth by Egypt and France. Aside from ending the war, the ceasefire agreement as proposed by Egypt would end Israel’s blockade of Gaza while...  

Hundreds of embattled Palestinians ventured outside to shop for food on Wednesday during a three-hour Gaza truce.  

Since Israel’s latest invasion of Gaza in an attempt to stop continual cross-border rocket attacks from Hamas on Israeli towns and villages, the Israeli attack on a United Nations school has become the cause celebre of anti-Israel critics.  Well, it appears that the standard script of Israeli...  

A weight lifted from my mind this week. I had been looking at awful pictures and reports of mayhem in Gaza, and agonising over the outpouring of commentary from apologists for one side or the other. On finishing William Sieghart's cracking column in sympathy with Hamas, I blamed Israel. On...  

Hamas has rejected an Egyptian proposal to place the Rafah border crossing under forces loyal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas officials said Wednesday. The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt (illustrative). Hamas ...  

Gaza City, Jan 7 (DPA) A spokesman for Hamas Wednesday rejected the three-hour humanitarian lull in the fighting in the Gaza Strip, set up to allow residents of the salient to stock up on vital necessities.Muhammad Nazzal, a member of Hamas politburo, told al-Jazeera from Damascus that the pause...  

A Hamas official insists that a 'legacy of suffering' under Israel is what fuels Palestinian resistance... From Damascus -- While Americans may believe that the current violence in Gaza began Dec. 27, in fact Palestinians have been dying from bombardments for many weeks. On Nov. 4, when the...  

Egypt's U.N. envoy says Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have agreed to meet tomorrow in Cairo for talks on ending the bloodshed in Gaza, The Associated Press reports. Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz says all the parties agreed to send technical delegations to discuss an Egyptian-French...  

The Palestinian emergency government, led by Salam Fayyad, was sworn in on Sunday in the West Bank city of Ramallah, marking the collapse of the three-month-old Fatah-Hamas unity government. The following are some major events that had happened since the Hamas-led government took office after...