Palestinian militant group Hamas assured Thursday that it will release three Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip this weekend as planned, after accusing Israel of violating the frail ceasefire ...

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 ...

Al-Nunu claimed that P.A. chief Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah rejected both proposals. According to a senior Hamas official, the group will continue to govern the Gaza Strip until an agreement with the ...