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Does Hamas’s new course look like the old one? What Khalil al-Hayya’s election means - analysis

The election of Khalil al-Hayya as Hamas leader: Circumstances and implications

|ByKOBI MICHAEL
Despite suffering significant military losses during the war, Hamas’s new leadership has reaffirmed Gaza as the movement’s political and operational center of gravity.Premium
Palestinians flee their in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 18, 2025

Indonesia ready to shelter Palestinians impacted by war in Gaza

Indonesia will temporarily shelter up to 1,000 Palestinians affected by the Gaza war, reaffirming its support for Palestinian independence and rejecting Trump's relocation plan.

|ByREUTERS
US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken disembarks his plane after landing in Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, January 8, 2024.

Israel-Hamas War: What happened on day 94?

Netanyahu: Hezbollah got it wrong in 2006, and is getting it wrong today • Hezbollah's Radwan force field commander killed in drone strike, Israel Katz said we did it

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
HUMANITARIAN AID crosses from Egypt to Gaza, at the Rafah crossing, this week. Hamas belligerence has led to an Egyptian and Israeli attempt to control what comes into Gaza. Does that make it an open-air prison?

Is Gaza actually an open-air prison? - opinion

Any problems in Gaza are not because it is some sort of open-air prison but rather because of the hatred of the Hamas leadership for both Jews and the Arab residents of Gaza.

|ByARI ZIVOTOFSKY

Israeli envoy lodges complaint over Passover UN security council meeting

Danon accuses Kuwait of "hijacking" meeting, says Israelis "barred from taking part in the deliberations due to the observance of our religious holiday.”

APRIL 1, 2018ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon addresses the Security Council.

17 dead, over a thousand injured after Palestinians clash with IDF on Gaza border

20,000 men, women and children attended Friday's Land Day protests.

MARCH 30, 2018ByJPOST.COM STAFF
A wounded Palestinian woman is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops, during a tent city protest along the Israel border with Gaza, demanding the right to return to their homeland, the southern Gaza Strip March 30, 2018.

Gaza’s clean water project gets a half billion Euro boost

The funds pledged for the Gaza Central Desalination Plant & Associated Works Project make up 80% of the total 562.3 euros needed. The EU plans to provide 77 million Euro for the project.

MARCH 21, 2018ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
A Palestinian girl drinks from a public tap at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip

Gaza’s clean water project gets a half billion Euro boost from EU donors

Only 3 percent of the water pumped from Gaza's only aquifer complies with the World Health Organization’s drinking water standards.

MARCH 21, 2018ByJPOST.COM STAFF
A Palestinian girl drinks from a public tap at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip

Qatar says Gaza aid spares Israel war, shows Doha does not back Hamas

"If we are helping Hamas, do you think the Israelis (would) allow us to go inside and come out?"

FEBRUARY 22, 2018ByREUTERS
Palestinains take part in a protest against aid cuts, outside the United Nations’ offices in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Senior Hamas official dies after allegedly shooting himself in the head

Imad al-Alami, 62, died at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, a report said.

JANUARY 30, 2018ByADAM RASGON
Imad al-Alami, talks to journalists at a press conference held in the southern suburbs of Beirut in 1999.

Two Palestinians killed in clashes with IDF in Gaza and West Bank

Army deploys more troops in search for terrorists who killed an Israeli civilian in a shooting attack.

JANUARY 11, 2018ByANNA AHRONHEIM
A Palestinian protester uses a sling shot to hurl stones towards Israeli troops during clashes as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" in response to US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem December 8, 2017.

PA Intel Chief arrives in Gaza

The Palestinian Authority Intelligence Chief last visited Gaza in October.

NOVEMBER 17, 2017ByADAM RASGON
Hamas hands over control of the Rafa border crossing with Egypt to the Palestinian Authority

Hamas security chief released from hospital after Gaza blast

“Today we point our fingers directly at the occupation and its spies,” deputy Hamas chief in Gaza has said in the wake of what the group's officials have called an "assassination attempt."

OCTOBER 28, 2017ByADAM RASGON
Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh gestures during a news conference following his arrival at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip September 19, 2017.

Conjoined twins born in Gaza join long list of unusual births in region

This was not the first instance of conjoined twins born in Gaza.

OCTOBER 24, 2017ByYASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA, LAUREN S. MARCUS