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Fast Forward Hamas Confirms ‘Positive’ Truce Talks With Israel
Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal confirmed that his organization is negotiating with Israel over a long-term truce and described the talks as “very positive.” In an interview with a London-based Qatari newspaper published Friday, Meshaal said former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is one of the mediators and that talks have not yet produced an…
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Fast Forward Israel in Talks With Hamas for Longterm Gaza Truce
Israel and Hamas are reportedly negotiating a long-term deal that would end Israel’s blockade of Gaza in exchange for an end to Hamas attacks on Israel. Based on Arabic-language news sources, Israeli papers are reporting that negotiations on the agreement are in their final stages, and that the agreement has been approved by the Shura…
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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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