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| January 15, 2014
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Twitter closes Hamas’s Qassam Brigades account without notice

 

Hamas’ military wing in Gaza blames closure of Twitter account on the Christians & Zionists and then opened new social media account just days later.

By Ynet

Twitter suspended the official English account of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of Hamas – without warning the group, the Palestinian news site Safa reported over the weekend.

Hamas graduation ceremony

Hamas graduation ceremony

The supervisor of the terrorist group’s account said the social media organization suspended the organization’s account on Thursday after being pressured by Zionist groups and Christians.

In a statement on the Qassam Brigades’ website, the account manager said Twitter closed the account because of an image published depicting Palestinian resistance to the West. Continue Reading »

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| January 7, 2014
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Hamas announces steps toward ending feud with Fatah

 

Hamas leader Haniyeh says, “These decisions are for the sake of implementing reconciliation and unification.”

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Gazan Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced a series of measures on Monday  aimed at bringing reconciliation between Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and its main rival, Fatah, which controls the Palestinian Authority that runs the West Bank.

Palestinians hold torches and posters of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat

Palestinians hold torches and posters of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and late Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin. – Photo: AP

Haniyeh said anyone who left the Gaza Strip for political reasons will be allowed to return, several Fatah activists currently imprisoned in Gaza will be released, and Fatah members of parliament who reside in the Fatah-controlled West Bank will now be allowed to visit Gaza. Continue Reading »

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| January 1, 2014
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Gaza Terrorists Test Fire Homemade Long-Range M-175 Rockets

Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza test fired their new long-range M-175 rocket out to sea, which can reach Tel Aviv.

By Elad Benari

 

Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza conducted a test using long-range M-175 rockets on Tuesday evening.

Rockets of this type are able to reach the central Israeli city of Tel Aviv and even beyond that when fired from Gaza.

During the test, the terrorists fired the rockets out to sea, but the explosions were heard in towns near Gaza, including Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod and Netivot.

The fact that long-range rockets are in the possession of Gaza terrorists is nothing new. Continue Reading »

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| December 31, 2013
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Hamas rejects Egypt’s demand to disassociate from Muslim Brotherhood

 

Hamas reaffirms solidarity with outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, rejects Egyptian calls to sever connections with ousted movement.

By REUTERS
 

 

GAZA – The Palestinian group Hamas condemned on Tuesday Egypt’s designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group last week, reaffirming its solidarity with the ousted movement despite a crippling blockade imposed by Cairo.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh gestures during an interview with Reuters in Gaza City May 10, 2012.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh gestures during an interview with Reuters in Gaza City May 10, 2012. – Photo: REUTERS

Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Hamas Gaza government, also snubbed calls by some rival Palestinian factions to sever its connections with the Brotherhood.

“We reject such a classification for the Muslim Brotherhood group. Continue Reading »

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| December 27, 2013
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Again, Gaza is Without Fuel, Hamas Blames Israel for Power Blackouts

Gaza’s lone power plant closes down just 12 days after having being restarted with Qatar bought fuel via the Palestinian Authority.

Israel blamed, although it was Egypt’s siege that has cut off Hamas’ lucrative fuel smuggling.

By Ari Yashar

 

Gaza’s only power plant ground to a halt again on Friday, only 12 days after being brought back online following a 7 week shutdown due to fuel shortages. The shutdown was announced by Gaza’s electricity firm, reports AFP.

An official of the company claimed “the plant stopped working on Friday morning due to a lack of fuel caused by Israel’s closure of the Kerem Shalom crossing.” Continue Reading »

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| December 26, 2013
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Egypt Military Reports They Prevented a Hamas Car-Bomb Attack

Egyptian army report claims they arrested a Hamas terrorist who admitted his planning to plant a car bomb near undisclosed security target.

Hamas denies allegations.

By Dalit Halevi, Tova Dvorin

 

The Egyptian Army announced Wednesday that it had apprehended a Hamas terrorist in the northern Sinai Desert, Al-Arabiya reports.

The terrorist was named as Jumaa Khamis Mohammed Brayha, who claimed to stem from a family powerful in Hamas’s ranks.

During interrogation, according to the Egyptian army, the young man admitted that he was intending to blow up a Mercedes parked near a crucial security target.

Hamas has denied that the detainee was among its ranks and says his name is not even included in the register of residents of the Gaza Strip. Continue Reading »

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| December 23, 2013
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In seeking deeper targets, Hamas increases homemade rockets’ range

 

 

Egypt’s closing of Hamas’ smuggling tunnels put and end to importing missiles & forces terrorist factions to invest more in making homemade weapons with better quality rockets.

By Alex Fishman

 

 

Hamas‘s military wing in the Gaza Strip is making a concerted effort to increase the range of its rockets by tens of kilometers.

The rocket fuel is poured into a plastic tube, then cut away and the fuel cylinder is inserted into the Qassam shell. A detonator is placed in the mixture. About 100 are made each night.

The extra range will let the terror organization pull off deeper attacks into Israel, even farther than the Gush Dan region achieved during Operation Pillar of Defense . Continue Reading »

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| December 18, 2013
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Former Egyptian President Morsi to stand trial for conspiring with Hamas & Hezbollah

 

Egyptian prosecutor says ousted Islamist president Morsi committed acts of violence & terrorism with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Morsi is also being charged with conspiracy in “terrorist plan” with Hamas Palestinians from Gaza and with Lebanese terror groups.

Prosecutor says charges could result in execution.

By REUTERS
 

CAIRO – Egypt’s public prosecutor ordered former President Mohamed Morsi and 35 other Islamists to stand trial on charges including conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in Egypt and divulging military secrets to a foreign state.

Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi

Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi – Photo: REUTERS

The charges leveled against Morsi and other top Muslim Brotherhood members on Wednesday could result in their execution.

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| December 12, 2013
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Hamas Minister: Israel Engineering an Earthquake to Attack Al-Aqsa

Hamas Minister of Religious Affairs warns the Muslim world that Israel is trying to collapse Al-Aqsa Mosque with ‘artificial earthquake’ as a reason to build third Temple.

By Dalit Halevi, Ari Yashar

 

Ismail Radwan, Minister of Religious Affairs in Gaza’s Hamas government, claims that Israel is trying to cause an artificial earthquake to totally collapse the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. According to Radwan, Israel is attempting to do so to establish the Third Temple.

The comments came at an event organized by female students of the College for Professional Applied Sciences. In response to the supposed “earthquake attack,” Radwan called for a general national enlistment to the military, and to support the mosque by having fixed presence at the site. Continue Reading »

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| December 10, 2013
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PLO: No ‘Deals’ With Israel, Unless All Demands are Fulfilled

The PLO hierarchy remains adamantly opposed to anything short of the effective elimination of Israel as its condition for a “peace” agreement.

By Dalit Halevy

 

John Kerry has been proposing ideas and programs aimed at encouraging Israel and the Palestinian Authority to enter into a final-status agreements, and Israeli politicians on the left and right debate whether Israel can trust PA chief Mahmoud Abbas – not to mention Hamas – in a “land for peace deal.”

But the PLO, the political body led by Abbas, remains adamantly opposed to anything less than the effective destruction of the State of Israel as its price for a “peace” agreement. Continue Reading »

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| December 9, 2013
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No longer able to smuggle stolen or cheap fuel & products from Egypt, Gaza struggles

Intended to block the smuggling of weapons, stolen goods, drugs & terrorists, Egypt’s tunnel clampdown is good for it’s security & public order, but for Hamas’ ‘gangster’ style government, many Gazans say they have never had it so tough.

By Reuters

 

Mohammed Al-Telbani, owner of one of Gaza’s biggest food factories, is the sort of businessman plucky enough to thrive despite an Israeli blockade of the Palestinian coastal enclave, but even he says he is finally running out of answers.

A Palestinian laborer in Gaza.

A Palestinian laborer works through a pile of steel reinforcement rods collected from destroyed homes in Gaza Strip on December 4, 2013.-

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| December 9, 2013
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Hamas: We Will Never Agree to Accords or Solutions That Cedes a Single Grain of Soil

Hamas celebrates 26 year anniversary of 1st Intifada, swearing it will never settle for less than a ‘Palestine from the sea to the river.’

By Dalit Halevy

 

The Secretary of the Hamas government in Gaza, Abd el-Salam Siam, said Sunday in a press release marking 26 years since the outbreak of the First Intifada that the Gaza government supports all forms of the struggle against “Israeli occupation,” including popular struggle, struggle through peaceful methods and armed struggle.

Siam said that the Palestinian people can develop new tactics in the struggle, and called on the Palestinian people to learn from the experience of the ‘rock intifada’ and unite its ranks. Continue Reading »

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| December 6, 2013
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UNRWA Deceives by Insinuating Gaza’s Fuel Shortage is Israel’s Fault

UNRWA purposefully doesn’t mention the Egyptian blockade on Gaza, with their closure of the tunnels that had provided smuggled (stolen?) fuel.

UNRWA also neglects to mention Hamas’ refusal to pay the PA fuel prices, or how Hamas is exploiting Gazans’ suffering to get a much lower price for fuel.

By: Elder of Ziyon

 

You know how UNRWA pretends to be non-political and even-handed?

Ann Dismorr, Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, with a map that shows all of Israel as "Palestine".- Photo: Palestinian Media Watch.

Ann Dismorr, Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, with a map that shows all of Israel as “Palestine”.- Photo: Palestinian Media Watch.

Yeah, right:

“Everything stops,” says Daulat. She doesn’t just mean the refrigerator, the washing machine and other devices; this Palestine refugee mother means daily life in her neighbourhood of Shajaiya.

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| December 3, 2013
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IDF’s Gaza Division Commander: Hamas Cooperates with the IDF

The head of the army’s Gaza Division, Gen. Mickey Edelstein, reveled in a Channel 10 interview that Hamas is ‘Gaza’s cop’ – for now.

By Tova Dvorin

 

Brigadier General Mickey Edelstein, head of the IDF’s Gaza Division, admitted to Channel 10 to a certain degree of cooperation between the IDF and Hamas.

“Hamas is in trouble and now it finds itself isolated,” said Edelstein, in conversation with the Gaza residents released Monday on the television network.

He stressed that “Leaders of Hamas, both the political and military branches, do everything to maintain restraint.” He also claimed that “Hamas soldiers have been prevented from shooting at or mounting charges at the IDF.” Continue Reading »

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| November 29, 2013
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Turkey to cover fuel costs for Gaza’s utilities

Because of Egypt’s crackdown on Hamas’ smuggling tunnels, UNRWA begins to distribute fuel in Gaza in attempt to alleviate crisis.

By Reuters

 

Turkey will fund a purchase of fuel to provide power for emergency services in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, including hospitals and idle sewage treatment plants, a United Nations official said on Thursday.

Palestinian youths carry empty containers standing in front of a mock petrol pump.

Palestinian youths carry empty containers standing in front of a mock petrol pump during a protest in Gaza City. — Photo: AP

Robert Turner, of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency that provides assistance to Palestinian refugees, said Turkey had pledged $850,000 that should allow emergency services to operate over the coming four months. Continue Reading »

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