Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Mohammed Deif has returned as Hamas’ military chief amid the war with Israel. Israel’s intelligence community has determined that Deif ended nearly a decade in the underground to resume his role as Hamas’ military chief. Officials said the community assessed that Deif returned to leadership months after the Israeli […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GAZA CITY — The Hamas regime has assigned its counter-intelligence crackdown to the Interior Ministry. Officials said Israel was the leading element in recruiting and handling spies in the Gaza Strip. The Internal Security Force has over the last two years became the lead agency for the Hamas Interior Ministry in countering […]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — Hamas’ interior minister has been identified as the new leader of insurgency operations in Israel and the West Bank. The Israel Security Agency said Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hamad was relaying orders for attacks in the West Bank in wake of the mini-war with the Islamist regime in November 2012. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel, despite the destruction of missile arsenals, would not be able to stop another war without an invasion of the Gaza Strip, a report said. The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies asserted that Hamas and its Palestinian militia allies would soon recover from the latest missile war with Israel. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Hamas has suspended elections for a new leadership in November amid the missile war with Israel and has been examining a proposal to postpone elections for at least another year. Several Arab countries are also said to have hampered Hamas election efforts. The sources cited Saudi Arabia, a former supporter […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Hamas’ military is said to have been divided over a reconciliation agreement with the rival Fatah movement. Hamas sources said an agreement brokered by Qatar and signed by political bureau chief Khaled Masha’al and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has fueled a dispute within the Islamic movement’s Izzedin Kassam military […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GAZA CITY — The Hamas regime has pressed Khaled Masha’al to resign his leadership post. Hamas sources said the regime in the Gaza Strip succeeded in a campaign for Masha’al to resign as head of the movement’s political bureau. They said the 56-year-old Masha’al had already told the political bureau in late […]