Hamas has amassed an army of 27,000 men in preparation for its next war with Israel, including a unit dedicated to attacking civilians inside Israeli territory, Avi Issacharoff reported Monday in The Times of Israel. “Hamas is built like an army in every way,” Issacharoff reported, with fighters broken up into six regional...

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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who hopes to become the United Kingdom’s next prime minister after Thursday’s vote, has previously argued that the militant Islamist group Hamas should be removed from the Britain’s list of terrorist organizations, The Telegraph reported Sunday. In a statement to Qatari-owned Al Jazeera on April 16,...

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Iran has agreed to resume its financial support for the terrorist organization Hamas, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported Tuesday. The deal to restore Hamas’s funding came after top Hamas officials recently met in Lebanon with senior members of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. Ismail...

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Hamas executed three men it had accused of killing a terror mastermind by hanging and firing squad drawing international criticism, The New York Times reported Thursday. Ashraf Abu Leila, the alleged triggerman in the killing of Mazen Faqha, a Hamas commander, in March, was hanged as well as Hisham al-Aloul, who was...

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A powerful Iranian general congratulated Ismail Haniyeh on his recent appointment as the new leader of Hamas, and encouraged him to “raise the issue of Palestine” as part of the Muslims’ “global fight against Arrogance,” the Mehr News Agency reported Wednesday. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps(IRGC)-Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani praised...

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Palestinian municipal elections have taken place over the weekend for the first time since 2012, with ballots cast to elect 145 local councils. The elections went ahead in the West Bank after disagreement between Fatah and Hamas, the ruling administrative body in the Gaza Strip, resulting in Fatah running virtually...

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Israeli defense officials have warned that Hamas is planning a terrorist attack in the West Bank to avenge the killing of one of its former masterminds and convicted terrorist Mazen Faqha, who was murdered in March in what Hamas claims was a Mossad operation, the Hebrew daily Israel Hayom reported...

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The ongoing terror ties of Qatar, most recently evidenced by its hosting of Hamas’s release of the terror organization’s new political document, make it a problematic ally for the United States, Jonathan Schanzer and Kate Havard wrote Thursday in Newsweek. Schanzer, a former U.S. Treasury Department official and currently Senior...

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Hamas will engage in “resistance” in order “to liberate the rest of Palestine and the territories of 1948” with “no negotiations,” a co-founder of the terrorist group Hamas asserted, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Mahmoud al-Zahar, still a top official of Hamas, made his comments at a press conference...

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Hamas has announced a new leader of its Qatar-based wing, in a significant win for the Gaza-based faction of the group. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ former leader in the Gaza Strip, will replace Hamas’ current leader Khaled Mashaal who lives in exile in Qatar, after he completed the maximum two terms...

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