Hamas

Initial Hamas Reactions to the Long-Term Lull Proposal in Return for Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and Lifting the Siege

In March 2015 the Hamas media reported that Hamas had recently received a proposal for a long-term lull in the hostilities with Israel (as long as five years) in return for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and lifting the siege (on several occasions Hamas figures referred to a ceasefire, hudna).
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Who Is a Terrorist and Who Is a Journalist? Hamas Operative Abdallah Mortaja, Killed in Operation Protective Edge, as a Case Study.

About a week after the end of Operation Protective Edge the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate issued a list of 17 names, allegedly of journalists who had been killed in the operation. The list was published by the PA’s Wafa News Agency, which received it from the Hamas-controlled Gaza office of the ministry of information.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (March 25 – 31, 2015)

This past week In Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip Palestinians marked Land Day without exceptional events. Israel agreed to thaw tax revenues collected for the Palestinians, frozen for the past four months. Riyadh al-Maliki, foreign minister of the Palestinian national consensus government, said that on April 1, 2015 he would attend the ICC ceremony
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (March 17 – 24, 2015)

A Hamas cell was exposed in Qalqiliya, handled by terrorist operatives in the Gaza Strip. It planned to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel. Official spokesmen for the Palestinian Authority (PA) claimed the election in Israel was an internal matter. They claimed the Palestinians would negotiate with any new Israeli government for a two-state.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (March 11 – 16, 2015)

This past week Israel’s south remained quiet. In Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem violence continued. This past week in the Gaza Strip the Hamas-controlled internal security forces held a number of displays exhibiting their military capabilities as well as their ability to impose internal security. The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for erecting military
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Senior Hamas figures publicly call for the opening of new fronts in the next campaign against Israel, with an emphasis on carrying out attacks from Lebanese territory

Senior Hamas officials recently emphasized the need to open new fronts against Israel in the next round of fighting, from all the Arab countries bordering on it, including from those that are far from its borders.
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