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A Hamas official however told Reuters the group would wait to hear from Cairo mediators on the outcome of their talks with Israel first. Hamas has sought to parlay any deal into an end to the fighting and withdrawal of Israeli forces. Israel has ruled this out, saying it would eventually resume efforts to dismantle the governance and military capabilities of Hamas. The Israeli military said forces operating in Al Shifa killed three armed Hamas commanders inside two buildings of the medical facility. Hamas and medical staffers deny any armed presence inside medical facilities, accusing Israel of killing and arresting civilians.
Persons: Nidal, Al, Israel, Jihad, Al Shifa, Enas Alashray, Ahmed Tolba, Dan Williams, Leslie Adler, Giles Elgood Organizations: Al Qahera News, Reuters, Israel, Hamas, Forces, AK, Islamic Locations: Enas, CAIRO, Israel, Cairo, Gaza, Qatar, Egypt, Palestinian, Gaza City, Al
Gaza Ceasefire Plan for Hostage Release Awaits Hamas Response
  + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +7 min
"We don't know and we cannot predict what Hamas' response will be," Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar's prime minister, said on Monday. Hamas told Reuters in a statement on Tuesday the proposal would involve three stages, including the release of hostages held by the group and Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. "After that, the Hamas leadership will meet to discuss the paper and express its final opinion on it," the statement said. More than 100 Israeli hostages are still held, following the release of a similar number in an earlier truce in November that involved the release of scores of Palestinian prisoners. The Hamas statement said the second phase would also involve the release of male military recruits.
Persons: Jonathan Landay, Maya Gebeily, Andrew Mills, Nidal, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, David Barnea, Sheikh Mohammed, Jordan, Ismail Haniyeh, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Islamic Jihad, Itamar Ben, Gvir, Dan Williams, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, Michael Georgy, William Maclean Organizations: Reuters, Palestinian, U.S, Paris, Islamic, Hamas, Washington's Atlantic Council, Israeli Defense Forces Locations: Mughrabi WASHINGTON, BEIRUT, DOHA, Gaza, Israel, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Paris, Qatar, Egypt, U.S, France, Cairo
By Raneen SawaftaWEST BANK/GAZA/DOHA (Reuters) -Hamas said on Tuesday it would study a new ceasefire proposal in the war with Israel in Gaza, hours after Israeli commandos killed three Palestinian militants in a raid on a hospital in the occupied West Bank. The raid underscored the risk of the Gaza war spreading to other fronts, while Israeli forces fought new battles with Hamas fighters in the Palestinian enclave. The Israeli undercover squad broke into the hospital, headed to the third floor and killed them using silenced pistols, hospital sources said. Since then, 26,751 Palestinians have been killed and 65,636 wounded by Israeli actions in Gaza, the Gaza health ministry said. TANKS IN ACTIONIsrael mounted a new push in northern Gaza after earlier reporting successes against Palestinian militants there.
Persons: Ismail Haniyeh, Haniyeh, William Burns, Qatar's, Islamic Jihad, Ibn Sina, Mohammad, Najy Nazzal, Mai Alkaila, Mohammed Jalamneh, Israel, Christian Lindmeier, Alkaila, Al Shifa, Khan Younis, Crescent, Ari Rabinovitch, Daniel Williams, Nidal Al Mughrabi, Ali Sawafta, Emma Farge, Angus MacSwan, Timothy Heritage, Gareth Jones Organizations: BANK, Reuters, West Bank, CIA, Islamic, Hamas, Basel Al, Palestinian Health, United Nations, World Health Organization, WHO, Nasser, Health, Palestinian, Residents, Deir Al, Al, Amal Locations: GAZA, DOHA, Israel, Gaza, Paris, Cairo, Ibn Sina, Jenin, Basel, Geneva, Beach, Al, Israeli, Kuwaiti, Gaza City, Deir, Jerusalem, Doha, Ramallah, Clauda, Dubai
Residents said Israeli planes and tanks also pounded areas in Gaza City to the north, where Israel has slowly been pulling out troops. The fighting could be heard in the nearby towns of Beit Lahiya and Jabalia, near to Gaza City. Israel's military said it was engaged in "intensive battles" in Khan Younis, where it said troops "eliminated terrorists and located large quantities of weapons". One strike on a house in a suburb of Gaza City killed eight people, health officials said. More families were displaced from Khan Younis on Sunday.
Persons: Nidal, Abu Mustafa, Khan Younis, Ashraf Al, Qidra, Israel, Amal, Deir, Balah, Abu Raouf, Abu Tair, Nidal al, Ibraheem Abu, Ari Rabinovitch, Frances Kerry Organizations: Gaza Health Ministry, Hamas, Gaza Health, Gaza City, Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Al, Amal Locations: Abu Mustafa DOHA, GAZA, Gaza, Gaza City, Israel, Beit Lahiya, Jihad, Hamas, Khan, Nasser, Rafah, Egypt, Mughrabi, Doha, Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Jerusalem
The agreement between Israel and Hamas to release 50 hostages held by militants in Gaza is the first major diplomatic breakthrough since the war started Oct. 7. The deal: Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to free civilian hostages in return for the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails and a four-day pause in fighting. Hostages: All of those hostages to be released by militants are women and children, including at least three Americans. Gaza-based militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad said it wouldn't release Israeli hostages. Conflict: Fighting continued unabated between Israel and Hamas ahead of the pause that is expected to start Thursday morning.
Organizations: Palestinian, Washington Locations: Israel, Gaza, Jihad, Jerusalem, Qatar, Egypt, U.S
But they are now off-limits, rendered too dangerous for sheep, cows and their herders by Israeli air raids and artillery fire. Lebanese Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, has fired rockets at Israel, which has retaliated with air strikes and artillery shells. The resulting fires have burned olive trees and torched agricultural land across southern Lebanon, devastating herders and farmers already hit hard by a four-year economic meltdown. Two Lebanese shepherds were also found dead after being shot at by Israeli troops earlier this month. Lebanese herders have long learned to live with the cross-border tensions between Lebanon and Israel.
Persons: Tony al, Mays, Ali Beber, Jihad Said, Beber, AbdelAziz Boumzar, Abdelhadi Ramahi, Ahmad Kerdi, Maya Gebeily, Gareth Jones Organizations: Hezbollah, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Rmeich, Lebanon, Beirut, Fanar, SELM, Houla, Majdal, Israel, Palestinian, Gaza, Lebanese
Analysis-Israel Targets Hamas Tunnels in New Phase of Gaza War
  + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +6 min
In recent days, Israeli troops have surrounded Gaza City and battled Hamas fighters as they pushed deeper into its streets. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant approved on Monday further operational plans for military action in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military has said that many of Hamas' tunnels, command centres and rocket launchers lie adjacent to schools, hospitals and humanitarian institutions in northern Gaza, including the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, the region's largest. Hamas is estimated to have a force of between 20,000 and 30,000 fighters, according to Israeli security sources. Security sources said some intelligence was being gathered from Gaza residents fleeing south about the concentration of the tunnels.
Persons: Jonathan Saul JERUSALEM, Yoav Gallant, Daniel Hagari, Avi Melamed, Benny Gantz, Hagari, Israel, Ayman Nofal, Yaron Finkelman, Finkelman, Lior Akerman, Shin, Shalom Ben Hanan, Ben Hanan, Nidal al, Daniel Flynn Organizations: Israeli, Israel Defense Forces, Islamic, Southern Command, Institute for Policy, Israel's Reichman University, Shin Bet, Shin Locations: Gaza, Gaza City, Israel, Hamas, Washington
Israel targets Hamas tunnels in new phase of Gaza war
  + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Jonathan Saul | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +7 min
In recent days, Israeli troops have surrounded Gaza City and battled Hamas fighters as they pushed deeper into its streets. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant approved on Monday further operational plans for military action in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas is estimated to have a force of between 20,000 and 30,000 fighters, according to Israeli security sources. Hagari said that Israel was seeking to target Hamas field commanders to undermine Hamas capabilities to carry out counter attacks. Security sources said some intelligence was being gathered from Gaza residents fleeing south about the concentration of the tunnels.
Persons: Ammar Awad, Yoav Gallant, Daniel Hagari, Avi Melamed, Benny Gantz, Hagari, Israel, Ayman Nofal, Yaron Finkelman, Finkelman, Lior Akerman, Shin, Shalom Ben Hanan, Ben Hanan, Nidal al, Daniel Flynn Organizations: Hamas, REUTERS, Rights, Israeli, Israel Defense Forces, Islamic, Southern Command, Institute for Policy, Israel's Reichman University, Shin Bet, Shin, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, Palestinian, Sderot, Gaza City, Hamas, Washington
Israeli tanks were deployed in the far northern border town of Metulla as rain came down near the heavily fortified border. Six people were killed on Monday - three Hezbollah members, an Israeli officer, and two Palestinian militants who touched off the violence by infiltrating Israel from Lebanon. A storm put many people in Lebanon on edge as thunder was mistaken for Israeli bombardment. Lebanon took years to rebuild from the 2006 war, during which Israeli bombardment pounded Hezbollah-controlled south Lebanon and destroyed wide areas of its stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Lebanon can ill-afford another big war with Israel, four years into a financial meltdown that has spread impoverishment and paralysed state institutions.
Persons: Charbel Alam, Alam, Nazimiya, I'm, Jihad, Orel Sigon, we've, Bassam, Dan Williams, Ayhan, Maya Gebeily, Tom Perry, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Hezbollah, Palestinian, Hamas, Lebanese, Islamic, Iran's, Guards, Sunday, Thomson Locations: Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Lebanese, Metulla, Rmeish, Gaza, Kiryat Shmona, Beirut, Syria
How the Hamas attack on Israel unfolded
  + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Videos issued by Hamas showed fighters breaching the security fences, with the dim light and low sun suggesting it was at around the time of the rocket barrage. A photograph released by Hamas showed a bulldozer tearing down a section of security fence. [1/3]A view of a junction shows the aftermath of a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in the Sderot area, southern Israel October 7, 2023. Hamas videos and unverified images circulating on social media showed dead civilians, Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters. Israel's Foreign Ministry said Hamas gunmen had gone house-to-house killing civilians.
Persons: Erez, Zikim, Ammar Awad, Yaacov Shabtai, Jihad, Dan Williams, Nidal, Angus McDowall, Ros Russell Organizations: Palestinian, Hamas, REUTERS, Fighters, Reuters, Israel's, Ministry, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza, Yom Kippur, Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Zikim, Israeli, Reim, Sderot, Ofakim, Jerusalem
[1/5] A Palestinian protestor kicks a tear-gas canister during clashes with the Israeli forces, near Tulkarm, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 5, 2023. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta Acquire Licensing RightsTULKARM, West Bank, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Two Palestinian gunmen were killed and five Israeli soldiers were wounded in occupied West Bank clashes on Thursday and Israeli troops killed the suspect in a later shooting attack on Israeli motorists. It said a pursuit and gunfight ensued, and soldiers killed the two men before recovering an assault rifle from their car. Hours later, a suspected Palestinian gunman shot at an Israeli vehicle driving through the village of Huwara, emergency services said. The West Bank, among the territories where Palestinians seek statehood, has experienced a surge of violence in recent months amid an almost decade-old impasse in U.S.-sponsored peacemaking.
Persons: Raneen, Jihad, Ali Sawafta, Nidal, Bernadette Baum, Howard Goller Organizations: West Bank, REUTERS, Hamas, Reuters, Palestinian Health Ministry, Thomson Locations: Palestinian, Tulkarm, TULKARM, West, Huwara
[1/4] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a briefing near the Salem military post between Israel and the West Bank, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. Marshoud was named by the militant Islamic Jihad group as one of four of its members killed on Monday during Israel's assault in Jenin refugee camp. At least 11 Palestinians have been killed during Israel's operation that began on Monday, one of its biggest in the West Bank in years. The Israeli military has said it had confirmation of nine Palestinians killed by its forces, saying all were combatants. U.N. aid agencies voiced alarm at the scale of the Israeli operation.
Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Shir, Marshoud, Marshoud's, Hussam, Israel, Jamal Hamdan, Jihad Hassan, Hassan, Ali Sawafta, Nidal, Mustafa Abu Ganeyeh, James Mackenzie, Tom Perry, Gareth Jones Organizations: West Bank, Islamic, Palestinian, Residents, Thomson Locations: Israel, JENIN, West, Jenin, Iran, Gaza, Palestinian, Jerusalem
CNN —Israeli forces launched a large military operation in Jenin in the northern West Bank overnight Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring 13 others, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Footage shared with journalists appeared to show operations ongoing in parts of the Jenin refugee camp and Israeli military vehicles on the streets of Jenin on Monday morning. The IDF said it struck a joint operational command center for the Jenin Camp and operatives of the Jenin Brigade, a Palestinian militant group associated with Islamic Jihad. “The aggression on Jenin will not achieve its targets, Jenin will not surrender. The raid comes less than two weeks after an Israeli military raid on Jenin erupted into a massive firefight, leaving at least five Palestinians dead and dozens wounded.
Persons: Mahmoud al, Saadi, , Yoav Gallant, Organizations: CNN, West Bank, Palestinian Health Ministry, Israeli Defense Forces, Jenin Government Hospital, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Palestinian, Jenin Brigade, Islamic, IDF, Israel Securities Authority, Israeli Locations: Jenin, Crescent, Palestinian, Israel, Jihad
JENIN, West Bank, June 19 (Reuters) - Israeli commandos killed three Palestinians, including a teenager, during an unusually fierce clash in the occupied West Bank on Monday in which a troop transport was disabled by a bomb and a military helicopter carried out a rare strike. Video obtained by Reuters showed an explosion enveloping an armoured troop transport as shots ring out. Other clips showed a military helicopter launching a missile and releasing flares. [1/2] Smoke is seen rising into the air during an Israeli raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank June 19, 2023. REUTERS/Raneen SawaftaA military spokesperson said an Apache helicopter fired on an open area in order to drive back gunmen as casualties were extricated from the troop transport.
Persons: peacemaking, Jihad, Dan Williams, Nidal, Gareth Jones, Ed Osmond Organizations: West Bank, Seven, U.S, Reuters, REUTERS, Apache, Palestinian, Thomson Locations: JENIN, West, Jenin, Israel
An Israeli airstrike killed a top leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). PIJ targeted the Jerusalem area with rocket attacks on Friday. Recent fighting has seen hundreds of strikes and rocket exchanges between Israel and Gaza militants. Iyad al-Hassani is the sixth PIJ leader to be killed by Israel this week. Since Tuesday, there have been large-scale missile and rocket exchanges between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants.
In 2014, during a previous round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, the Bashir's home was also hit. "They destroyed our homes before and we rebuilt it, and this time we will rebuild it too," she added. According to officials from Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, the latest round of Israeli air strikes, which began on Tuesday, have destroyed 15 residential blocks, containing more than 50 apartments. "Prior to these strikes, the Israeli Defence Forces took every feasible measure to mitigate harm to civilians as much as possible," the Israeli military said. "We stress that the residential blocks destroyed by the occupation were inhabited by civilians.
The al Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad said in a statement shortly after the rocket fire: “The launching towards Jerusalem is a message, and everyone should understand its purpose. Talks to bring about a ceasefire between Israel and Islamic Jihad in Gaza are “on ice right now,” a diplomatic source familiar with the negotiations told CNN Friday. One command center was used by senior Islamic Jihad operative Muhammad Abu Al Ata for “the planning and command of terrorist activity against Israel,” the IDF said. The Israel Defense Forces said that IDF fighter jets also struck four military posts belonging to Islamic Jihad. ‘Shield and Arrow’The IDF began unleashing waves of airstrikes on Tuesday on what it says are Islamic Jihad operatives and infrastructure along the strip.
Israeli forces kill 2 Islamic Jihad gunmen in West Bank
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
JERUSALEM, May 10 (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed two Palestinians who opened fire on them in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the army said, and the Islamic Jihad militant group claimed the slain men as members. The shooting in Qabatiya, near the flashpoint town of Jenin, came as both sides braced for a flare-up after Israel carried out surprise air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday that killed three Islamic Jihad leaders and 10 civilians. The army said the two Palestinians fired on troops from a car and were shot dead. An assault rifle was recovered from the vehicle, it said, adding that there were no Israeli casualties. More than 100 Palestinians, most of them gunmen but some of them civilians including children, have been killed by Israeli forces this year.
CNN —Three Islamic Jihad commanders were among at least a dozen people killed in airstrikes by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Gaza early Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said three of its commanders were killed along with their wives and children. The militant group said commanders were Jihad Shaker Al-Ghannam, secretary of the Military Council in the al Quds Brigades; Khalil Salah al Bahtini, commander of the Northern Region in the al Quds Brigades; and Tariq Muhammad Ezzedine, one of the leaders of the military wing of the al Quds Brigades in the West Bank. The Islamic Jihad statement did not say how many other people had been killed. Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht said the strikes were targeted: “Our focus is Islamic Jihad only.”This is a developing story.
Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan dies in Israeli prison
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/5] Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan gestures as he speaks during a rally honoring him following his release, near the West Bank city of Jenin July 12, 2015. REUTERS/Abed Omar QusiniJERUSALEM, May 2 (Reuters) - Khader Adnan, a member of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad who was accused by Israel of terror charges, died in an Israeli prison on Tuesday after an 87-day hunger strike, prison authorities said. Israeli prison authorities said Adnan was evacuated to hospital after failed attempts to revive him and was pronounced dead. Unfortunately, such a demand was met by intransigence and rejection by the Israeli prison authorities,” lawyer Jamil Al-Khatib told Reuters by phone. Resistance will continue by all might and determination,” Palestinian Islamic Jihad said in a statement.
CNN —Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan, an Islamic Jihad commander who became a symbol of Palestinian resistance to Israeli detention policies, died Tuesday after 87 days of hunger strike, authorities said. He was found dead in his cell early Tuesday following his almost 3-month hunger strike, the prison service added. According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, he has been arrested at least 11 times since 2004 and held five hunger strikes. In 2015, he went on hunger strike for 55 days before Israeli authorities released him. Israel has 4,900 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, with 1,000 of them being held in administrative detention without charge – the highest number since 2003, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society.
Iraq's Oil Minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani, who took office in October, plans to update Iraq's oil production strategies to meet local needs while complying with the OPEC+ agreement, oil ministry spokesman Asim Jihad told Reuters. It is too early for the new government to talk about any significant increases in Iraq's oil production outside the OPEC+ agreement, Jihad said. 'HARD, IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE'For the oil sector, the country has repeatedly delayed a target to reach 7-8 million bpd capacity, from the current 5 million bpd. The beneficiaries were not the international oil companies, but UAE firm Crescent Petroleum and two Chinese companies. Iraq's oil minister this month revived seven investment opportunities in Iraq's refining sector.
The cross-border attacks followed an Israeli operation in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday. The Islamic Jihad said Israeli troops had surrounded two of its Nablus commanders in a house, triggering a clash that drew in other gunmen. Palestinian sources said the two Islamic Jihad commanders had been killed along with another gunman. Palestinian groups in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza went on strike on Thursday. Abdel-Latif Abdu, a vegetable seller in Gaza, kept his shop closed in support of residents of Nablus and the rest of the West Bank.
GAZA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza on Thursday in response to Palestinian rocket fire, days after the United States called for calm, but there was no immediate sign of a wider escalation in violence following days of tension. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) said it had fired some of the rockets in response to the air strikes and the "systematic aggression" against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. In Gaza, activists rallied in support of women prisoners held by Israel after far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees prisons, said he would push ahead with plans to toughen conditions for Palestinian prisoners. Ben-Gvir has vowed a crackdown on "benefits and indulgences" offered to Palestinian prisoners and ordered amenities including prisoner-operated bread ovens in some prisons to be curtailed. Cairo has also invited Hamas chief, Ismail Haniyeh, who currently resides between Qatar and Turkey, for separate talks next week, said a Palestinian official familiar with Egyptian mediation.
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