Who is hamas palestine

Those efforts appear to have come to a standstill in recent weeks. The Israeli military reported three separate rocket launches late Sunday and early Monday, saying at least two of them were intercepted by its rocket defenses.

It said it attacked a number of Hamas targets in retaliation. There were no reports of casualties on either side. In other violence, the Israeli army said an assailant attempted to stab a soldier at a busy intersection in the occupied West Bank. It said that soldiers shot the attacker, who was taken to a hospital.

Israel-Gaza violence: First flare-up since ceasefire is a reminder of its fragility. Israel-Gaza conflict: Williamson reminds headteachers over impartiality after rise in antisemitic incidents in schools. Israel and Hamas to face investigation for possible war crimes following 11 days of fighting. In recent days, senior Hamas leadership has been in neighbouring Egypt, negotiating a longer ceasefire with Israel.

The talks have stalled over the details of a prisoner exchange - Hamas is demanding hundreds of Palestinians be released, in return for two living Israelis and the bodies of two dead soldiers. Israel and Gaza have fought four wars since Both sides are regrouping after the most recent eleven-day conflict in May which killed at least people in Gaza and 12 in Israel. Israel should understand that sooner or later we will win, because we are the owners of this land.

In , Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip, uprooting all settlements and military installations, allowing the PA full control of the area and the Rafah land crossing to Egypt. In January , Hamas won the Palestinian Parliamentary election although it did not win the presidential election in Following the election, the International Quartet United States, Russia, the United Nations, and the European Union declared that in order for the then Hamas-run Palestinian government to continue to receive foreign aid, it must recognize the State of Israel, end terrorist activities, and adhere to all previous agreements.

Hamas rejected these terms, and international aid was halted. After a brief attempt at a unity government under Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, the conflict between the Hamas and Fatah the secular nationalist Palestinian movement headed by President Mahmud Abbas and Hamas' political rival escalated and violence erupted throughout Gaza and the West Bank.

But those votes have also fallen casualty to the long-running rift between Fatah and Hamas. The Islamist group has boycotted every local election since the rift between the two Palestinian movements. As a result, only West Bank municipalities have seen elections in recent years. Hamas has not allowed local elections to take place in Gaza. Should Hamas continue to boycott this round of elections, it would again be unlikely that Gazans would participate.

In Streetwise Hebrew for the Times of Israel Community, each month we learn several colloquial Hebrew phrases around a common theme.