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Fast Forward Captured Hamas Fighter Gives Up Information About Gaza Tunnels
A captured Hamas fighter has provided information to Israeli security services about the location of tunnels between Gaza and Israel, planned attacks on Israel and the Hamas-Iran connection. Ibrahim Shaer, 21, from Rafah in Gaza, was captured in a joint operation of the Shin Bet security service and the Israeli army in early July, the…
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Fast Forward A Gazan Sentenced to Death for Collaborating with Israel
A Gaza court sentenced a man to death for collaborating with Israel. On Thursday, a military court ordered the 30-year-old to be hanged for cooperating with “enemy entities,” the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. A year ago, 18 accused collaborators were killed by Hamas, the terrorist group that runs Gaza, for cooperating with Israel.
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Opinion Why Israel’s Reaction to the Hamas Prisoner Has Everything to Do With Race
Did race have anything to do with the way the Israeli government dealt with the kidnapping of Ethiopian-Israeli citizen Avraham Mengitsu? That question has been reverberating through Israeli social media, but the answer doesn’t seem to be as clear cut. Two days ago, Israel de-classified information pertaining to the kidnapping of two Israeli citizens. One…
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Opinion Hamas, Under Fire from ISIS, Fractures Into Many Dangerous Pieces
ISIS, the self-styled Islamic State, released a new video on Tuesday in which it threatens to destroy Hamas, accusing it of secularism, of cooperating with Shiite Iran and Hezbollah and of fighting for land and flag rather than for divine Sharia law. The video also vows to “uproot the Jews’ state,” Israel, and hints that…
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Fast Forward Israel Rounds Up Dozens of Hamas Activists
Israeli forces have arrested dozens of Hamas members suspected of planning attacks and trying to build up the Palestinian militant group in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s Shin Bet security service said on Wednesday. The Islamist group dismissed the accusations against its members, saying Israel was just trying to sabotage its relationship with other Arab…
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Fast Forward Hamas May Seek Long-Term Truce With Israel
It’s not quite a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but shared concern over Islamic State-inspired militant groups in Gaza could help redraw complex relationships between Hamas and a hostile Egypt and Israel. Talk is rampant in the territory of 1.8 million of a prospective pullback from confrontation with Israel –…
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News Gaza Braces for Next War, But Last One Hasn’t Really Ended
GAZA CITY — The beach in Gaza City is a flat expanse, where the gray sand melds almost seamlessly into the water. I was sitting at Al-Deira Hotel’s beachside terrace in late May, watching the Mediterranean waves roll in, when there was a sharp bang. I had never heard such a noise in my life, and…
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Opinion Inside Israel’s Secret Talks With Hamas
One of the most intriguing news stories out of Jerusalem currently involves the new director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, longtime Netanyahu adviser Dore Gold. Addressing a June 1 media briefing at the think-tank he heads, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Gold let on that Hamas is “not a candidate to become a political partner.”…
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