Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent Reuters Funerals were held at Gaza City for Palestinians reportedly killed in a Israeli air strikes A senior Hamas official has told the BBC that mediators have intensified their efforts to broker a new ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza, but that negotiations with Israel remain stalled. The comments came...
Israel says it has killed a senior Iranian commander who helped plan Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on southern Israel, in a strike on Saturday on the city of Qom. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the killing of Saeed Izadi marked a key point in the conflict. He was “one of the orchestrators” of...
Let’s put it this way: this may be the only statement Hamas has issued with which the Israelis will agree 100%. In fact, it’s the main reason Iran has seen its strategic position crumble so badly over the last two years, and perhaps especially the past eight months. They chose their cause — or really...
Wowsahs. What a difference ten days and the promise of rent freezes make when you’ve got a cute face, huh? Zohran Mamdani, the Socialist and Hamas-supporting New York Assembly member running in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor (I introduced you to him here), has pulled into the lead. Over former Governor Andrew...
Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent IDF/Reuters/EPA Clockwise from top left: Late Hamas leaders Mohammed Sinwar, Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Marwan Issa With the confirmed killing of Hamas’s top military commander Mohammad Sinwar in an Israeli strike, a chapter has closed on the elite leadership group in Gaza that orchestrated the events of 7 October, 2023....
The new group backed by Israel and the US for aid distribution in Gaza says Hamas attacked a bus transporting some of its Palestinian workers, killing at least five people. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said the attack happened on Wednesday night as the bus carrying more than two-dozen workers travelled to a distribution centre...
The IDF have released new footage that they say shows the underground tunnel network underneath the European hospital in southern Gaza. The Israeli army say they’ve found the body of Mohammed Sinwar – the Hamas leader in Gaza – who they said was the target of Israeli airstrikes on 13 May. Following BBC Verify’s previous...
IDF The Israeli military released a video in December 2023 that it said showed Mohammed Sinwar being driven through a Hamas underground tunnel The Israeli military has said it has located and identified the body of Mohammed Sinwar, the military leader of Palestinian armed group Hamas in Gaza. His body was discovered in a tunnel...
Barbara Plett Usher BBC correspondent Dearbail Jordan BBC correspondent Getty Images Six Palestinians have been killed and several others wounded by Israeli gunfire in the latest deadly incident close to an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency says. People had gathered to collect food supplies on Saturday morning when the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that Israel is arming clans in Gaza that he says are opposed to Hamas. His comments came after Israeli media reports quoted defence sources as saying Netanyahu had authorised giving weapons to one particular group in the south of Gaza. Several Israeli politicians have accused Netanyahu of endangering...
Last month a man named Tarek Bazrouk was charged with federal hate crimes after he was involved in 3 separate attacks on Jewish protesters in New York. A press release from the DOJ described the details of all three attacks. According to court documents, other public filings, and statements previously made on the record in...
Hamas responded to a US ceasefire proposal by saying it is prepared to release 10 living Israeli hostages and 18 dead hostages in exchange for a number of Palestinian prisoners, while requesting some amendments to the plan. The group repeated its demands for a permanent truce, a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and guarantees for...
Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent Reuters Israel resumed its military offensive against Hamas in Gaza in mid-March following the collapse of a two-month ceasefire A senior Hamas official has told the BBC the Palestinian armed group will reject the latest US proposal for a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. The White House said on...
Seems like such a nice guy, this Osama Hamdan, the Hamas representative, telling Palestinians how to suffer some more for the cause from the relative safety of Beirut. Dedicated dude, this Hamdan. As for starving bit, I’d say old Hambone’s pretty much a food expert judging by his glamour shots. Morbidly obese Hamas leader, Osama...
Doesn’t this sound liike a rerun of the last round of Hamas Hokey Pokey? Announce agreement to terms not offered, claim to have made concessions, and then blame the Israelis when the deal doesn’t exist? That’s what it’s all about: The agreement includes the release of “ten Israeli captives and a number of bodies, in...