In 1997 he was appointed head of the office of Hamas's spiritual leader, strengthening his position. Haniyeh was appointed Palestinian prime minister in 2006 by President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas ...

Romi Gonen, 24; Doron Steinbrecher, 31; and Emily Damari, 28, were the first three Israel hostages, all women, released by the militant group Hamas on ... was Mahmoud Aliowat, who is 15.

“Mahmoud Abbas [the current PA president] doesn’t want any kind of cooperation with Hamas,” Mr Tzoreff said. Despite an agreement between Fatah and Hamas to create a committee to rule post ...

While senior Hamas officials have expressed support for a unity government, Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority and a longtime adversary of Hamas, has not given his assent.

After winning the 2006 legislative elections, Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007, ousting the Palestinian Authority led by Fatah and President Mahmoud Abbas. Since the war began, Netanyahu's ...