Tag: Hamas

Over 1,000 rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel since Monday: army

JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired more than 1,000 rockets towards Israel since Monday evening, when hostilities escalated dramatically following days of unrest in Jerusalem, the Israeli army said. Army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told reporters Wednesday morning that the figures related to the barrage that began at roughly 6:00 pm (1500 GMT) on Monday evening, when Hamas Islamist launched rockets towards Jerusalem, causing tensions to soar. Since then, 850 rockets launched […]

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Over 200 rockets fired at Israel in response to Gaza strikes: Hamas

  GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) — Palestinian militant group Hamas said Wednesday it had fired more than 200 rockets into Israel in retaliation for strikes on a tower block in Gaza. The armed branch of Hamas said in a statement that it was “in the process of firing 110 rockets towards the city of Tel Aviv”, and 100 rockets towards the southern town of Beersheva, “as reprisal for the restarting of strikes against civilian […]

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Israeli firm in Gaza extracts drinking water from air

by Guillaume Lavallee Agence France-Presse GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) — The densely populated Gaza Strip has long lacked sufficient drinking water, but a new project helps ease the shortage with a solar-powered process to extract potable water straight from the air. Unusually, the project operating in the Islamist-run Palestinian enclave, which has been blockaded by Israel since 2007, is the brainchild of a Russian-Israeli billionaire, Michael Mirilashvili. The company he heads, Watergen, has developed […]

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Philippines to deport Hamas ‘rocket scientist’

  MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines said Monday it would deport an elderly Iraqi man described as a scientist for Hamas and accused of helping the Palestinian militant group lob missiles at Israel. Iraq tipped off the Philippines about the presence of Taja Mohammad Al Jabori, who was arrested on Sunday, national police chief Ronald Dela Rosa told reporters. However, the arrest was due to visa problems rather than any evidence of militant activity, […]

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PNP: Iraqi bomb specialist with alleged ties to extremist movements in Middle East nabbed

(Eagle News)– A 64-year-old Iraqi explosives specialist described as having close links to extremist groups in the Middle East was taken into custody over the weekend, the police said on Monday. The Philippine National Police said Taha Mohamed Al-Jabouri was nabbed by operatives of the intelligence group on Sunday in Barangay Malabania, Angeles, Pampanga at 3 a.m. The PNP said this was after they received information through the barangay information network that a “suspicious-looking” person […]

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Israel strikes Hamas bases in Gaza after rocket: officials

GAZA CITY, Israel (AFP) — Israeli airstrikes hit a series of targets in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip overnight Monday, officials said, hours after a rocket from the Palestinian enclave landed in the Jewish state. Strikes were recorded in at least three locations in Gaza, Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said, with Hamas bases struck near the southern city of Rafah and Gaza City, as well as open land southeast of Gaza City. The Palestinian health […]

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West Bank votes in polls underlining Palestinian split

by Sarah Benhaida Agence France-Presse RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories – Palestinians in the occupied West Bank voted Saturday in municipal elections that underscored deep rifts between president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party and Islamist rival Hamas which runs the Gaza Strip. Their failure to reconcile is seen as a major obstacle to any settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The West Bank and Gaza have not participated in an election together since 2006, when Hamas swept Palestinian parliamentary […]

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Ex-Gaza chief Haniya elected leader of Hamas

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) — Hamas’s former chief in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, has been elected overall head of the Palestinian Islamist group, succeeding Khaled Meshaal, its official media announced Saturday. Haniya, seen as a pragmatist within the movement, is expected to remain in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian enclave run by Hamas since 2007, unlike Meshaal who lives in exile in Doha and has completed the maximum two terms in office. “The Hamas Shura Council […]

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Cold and angry, Gazans challenge Hamas over electricity

by Sakher Abou El Oun Agence France-Presse GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Crippling shortages of electricity in Gaza and reports of children dying of cold have stoked anger in the Palestinian enclave where there are daily protests against its Hamas leaders. The main Palestinian factions are blaming each another and Israel for the crisis, which has left the territory with just four hours a day of power at best. In one of the largest […]

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Palestinian local polls delayed for up to four months

HEBRON, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – by Samih Shahin The Palestinian government delayed municipal elections for up to four months Tuesday with Fatah and Hamas so far unable to overcome divisions to organise their first competitive polls in a decade. The postponement came a day after the Palestinian high court ruled that the elections, initially scheduled for October 8, should be held only in the West Bank and not in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. A new […]

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Israel alleges Gaza World Vision head sent millions to Hamas

Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP) – by Joe Dyke with Daphne Rousseau in Ashkelon An Israeli court on Thursday charged the Gaza director of the World Vision non-governmental organisation with passing millions of dollars to the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas and its armed wing. Mohammed al-Halabi was alleged to have diverted $7.2 million (6.5 million euros) each year since 2010, with some of it funding the Gaza Strip rulers’ military campaign against Israel, said the Shin Bet internal […]

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Israel issues its own Gaza war report, pre-empting UN inquiry

Israel was issuing a report on Sunday (June 14) arguing its 2014 Gaza offensive was lawful, a move aimed at pre-empting the release of findings of a U.N. war crimes investigation that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed as a waste of time. Launched after a surge of cross-border rocket fire by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups, Israel’s two-month offensive last year, which included heavy shelling and air strikes into the densely populated enclave, killed […]

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