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☆ Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is dead. Here’s who could head the group next
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

But while Sinwar’s death is a huge blow for Hamas, it does not signal the immediate demise of the group. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy chief of Hamas’ political bureau who helped found Hamas, could also be a contender to become Sinwar’s replacement. Israel has killed Hamas’ previous leaders: In 2004 they killed Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Sinwar had consolidated power during the war, becoming Hamas’ sole decision maker in Gaza following the killing of the other two top Hamas officials there. Sinwar became Hamas’ most senior leader after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital Tehran in July.

Persons: Tel Aviv CNN — Israel, Yahya Sinwar, Sinwar –, Sinwar’s, Khalil al, Khaled Mashal, Sinwar, Mohammed Sinwar, Mohammed, Mohammed Sinwar’s, ”, Mousa Abu Marzouk, Khaled Meshaal, Meshaal, Jimmy Carter, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Bashar al Assad, Khalil Al Hayya, Hazem Bader, Al Hayya, Israel, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Mohammed al, Masri, Mohammed Deif –, Al, Deif’s, Marwan Issa, Ismail Haniyeh Organizations: Tel, Tel Aviv CNN, Hamas, Anadolu, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli, CNN, FBI, United, Iran’s, West Bank, Getty, Brigades Locations: Tel Aviv, Palestine, United States, Iran, Cairo, Qatar, Hebron, Jordan, Gaza, Tehran, Israel

☆ Ismail Haniyeh: Hamas political leader killed in Iran, group says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Kareem El Damanhoury | Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in the Iranian capital Tehran, according to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps and Hamas on Wednesday. The new Iranian president was sworn in on Tuesday and Hamas released pictures the same day of Haniyeh meeting Iranian officials in Tehran. Haniyeh would be the second Hamas senior leader to be killed since the beginning of Israel’s war in Gaza. As Hamas grew in power, Haniyeh rose through the ranks – being appointed part of a secret “collective leadership” in 2004. In April, Israeli airstrikes killed three of Haniyeh’s sons and four of his grandchildren, according to Hamas.

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The two main rival Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, signed a joint statement in Beijing on Tuesday that endorsed, in concept, a temporary government for the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in a grand show of unity brokered by China’s foreign ministry. Smaller Palestinian groups also signed the statement. For China, the agreement represents an opportunity to promote an image of Beijing as a peace broker and an important player in the Middle East. Mahmoud al-Aloul, the deputy leader of Fatah, showered praise on China for standing beside the Palestinian people. Both men posed for photos with Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, in an ornate hall in Beijing.

Persons: Fatah, Mousa Abu Marzouk, Mahmoud al, Wang Yi Organizations: Gaza, West Bank, Hamas Locations: Beijing, China

☆ Middle East Crisis Israeli Military Warns Thousands in Rafah to Evacuate
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Vivek Shankar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

“We were very close, but Netanyahu’s narrow-mindedness aborted an agreement,” Mousa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official, said in a phone interview. The Israeli official said that Israel had sought a written response to its latest proposal from Hamas before dispatching a delegation, but that the group never conveyed one. Mr. Abu Marzouk was the only one of the officials who spoke about the talks to allow the use of his name. Hamas, Mr. Abu Marzouk said, thought that Mr. Netanyahu wanted an agreement that would permit Israel to invade Rafah after its hostages are released. A report in Al-Qahera News, an Egyptian state-owned television channel, said that a Hamas delegation would return to Cairo on Tuesday, but the senior Hamas official said that the group hadn’t made a decision yet.

Persons: Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Mousa Abu Marzouk, Biden, won’t, ”, Abu Marzouk, Mr, Bill Burns, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, Peter Baker, Michael Crowley Organizations: Hamas, Sunday, Central Intelligence Agency, Qatari, Qahera Locations: Gaza, Israel, Cairo, Rafah, Kerem, United States, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Doha, Al

☆ Hamas is seeking eight Gaza hostages at Russia's request - RIA
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Senior Hamas officials Bassem Naim and Moussa Abu Marzouk, and Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov meet for talks on the release of foreign hostages, at a location given as Moscow, Russia in this handout image released on October 26, 2023. Hamas Handout/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsOct 28 (Reuters) - Hamas is looking for eight people identified by Russia as possibly being among the hostages in Gaza and is ready to free them, Hamas Politburo member Abu Marzouk told Russian state news agency RIA on Saturday. RIA cited Marzouk, who has been visiting Moscow, as saying that the Russian foreign ministry had handed over a list of eight names, all of whom had dual citizenship. "We are very attentive to this list and we will handle it carefully because we look at Russia as our closest friend," Marzouk was cited as saying. Russia on Friday defended its decision to invite a Hamas delegation to Moscow against strong Israeli criticism, saying it was necessary to maintain contacts with all sides in the conflict.

Persons: Bassem Naim, Moussa Abu Marzouk, Mikhail Bogdanov, Abu Marzouk, Marzouk, Andrew Osborn, Giles Elgood Organizations: Hamas, REUTERS Acquire, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Russia, Handout, Gaza, Russian

☆ Hamas delegation visits Moscow, discusses release of hostages in Gaza - agencies
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Families and supporters of hostages that are being held in Gaza after they were kidnapped from Israel by Hamas gunmen, attend a protest calling for their immediate release in Tel Aviv, Israel October 26, 2023. REUTERS/Tomer Appelbaum Acquire Licensing RightsMOSCOW, Oct 26 (Reuters) - A delegation from Hamas visited Moscow on Thursday for talks on the release of foreign hostages including Russian citizens that the militant group is currently holding in Gaza, Russian news agencies reported, citing the foreign ministry. Senior Hamas member Abu Marzouk was among those attending the talks, TASS reported. "Contacts were held with him in continuation of the Russian line on the immediate release of foreign hostages in the Gaza Strip. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a weekly briefing earlier on Thursday that Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Baghiri Kani was also currently visiting Moscow.

Persons: Tomer, Abu Marzouk, Vladimir Putin, Maria Zakharova, Ali Baghiri Kani, Zakharova, Baghiri Kani, Gareth Jones Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Russian Foreign Ministry, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, Tel Aviv, Moscow, Russian, Russia, Iran

☆ Hamas seeks Palestinian prisoners' release, says will free non-Israeli captives
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal gestures as he announces a new policy document in Doha, Qatar, May 1, 2017. Gunmen from Hamas took scores of hostages after rampaging through southern Israeli communities and military bases, killing over 1,300 people. In 2011, Israel swapped hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to win the release of one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who was held for five years. Israel, which has bombarded Gaza with strikes that have killed hundreds of Palestinians, has said it would act to free the hostages while eliminating Hamas. Another senior Hamas official, Moussa Abu Marzouk, said on Monday that "foreign prisoners cannot be released due to the continued Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip."

Persons: Khaled Meshaal, Naseem Zeitoon, AlAraby, Gilad Shalit, Abu Obeida, Moussa Abu Marzouk, Rami Ayyub, Moaz Abd, Alaziz, Hatem Maher, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: REUTERS, Hamas, Thomson Locations: Doha, Qatar, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Thailand, Germany

☆ Hamas official says group is open to discussions over truce with Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Oct 9 (Reuters) - A senior Hamas official said the group is open to discussions over a possible truce with Israel, having "achieved its targets." Moussa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera in a phone interview that Hamas was open to "something of that sort" and "all political dialogues" when asked whether the Islamist group is willing to discuss a possible ceasefire. Reporting by Hatem Maher Editing by Chris ReeseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Moussa Abu Marzouk, Al Jazeera, Hatem Maher, Chris Reese Organizations: Hamas, Thomson Locations: Israel

“We are still hunting down the last terrorist inside Israeli territory,” IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told CNN. Israeli fighters continued to clash with Hamas militants on Israeli soil early Monday morning in up to eight locations. Israel’s Ambassador to the US Michael Herzog told CNN Hamas fired more than 4,000 rockets at Israel and sent hundreds of militants into Israeli territory. The IDF said Monday that Be’eri was “very badly hit,” and although most Hamas militants in the kibbutz have been killed, Israeli troops were still fighting there. Palestinians search for casualties under the rubble of a house destroyed in Israeli strikes in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

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☆ Oficiali ai grupării Hamas: O încetare a focului între Gaza și Israel este posibilă în următoarele 24 de ore
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-20 | by ( Buzdugan Loredana | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +3 min

Oficiali ai grupării Hamas, care controlează Fâșia Gaza, au declarat miercuri noaptea, pentru CNN, că o încetare a focului cu Israelul este „iminentă și ar putea avea loc în următoarele 24 de ore”. Totuși, Israelul nu a comentat posibilitatea unui acord de încetare a focului, scrie CNN. Un înalt oficial al Hamas a declarat că se așteaptă ca militanții din Israel și Gaza să ajungă la încetarea focului „într-o zi sau două”, pe măsură ce continuă atacurile transfrontaliere, scrie BBC. „Cred că eforturile în desfăşurare privind un acord de încetare a focului vor avea succes”, a declarat Moussa Abu Marzouk, oficial al Hamas, pentru postul libanez al-Mayadeen TV. „Mă aştept să se ajungă la un acord de încetare a focului într-o zi sau două şi încetarea focului va fi bazată pe o înţelegere mutuală”.

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Deasemenea a fost discutat progresul Israelului în degradarea capacităților Hamas, a altor elemente teroriste, eforturile diplomatice în curs ale guvernelor regionale și ale Statelor Unite. „Mă aștept să se ajungă la o încetare a focului într-o zi sau două, iar încetarea focului se va face pe baza unui acord reciproc”, a adăugat Moussa Abu Marzouk în timpul interviului. Întrebat la radio-ul public Kan din Israel dacă va începe încetarea focului vineri, ministrul serviciilor de informații Eli Cohen a spus: „Nu. Agravarea conflictului dintre Palestina și Israel a început cu ciocniri în Ierusalimul de Est. Ca răspuns, armata israeliană a chemat 5.000 de rezerviști și lansează atacuri aeriene împotriva țintelor din Fâșia Gaza.

Persons: Abu, Președintele Joe Biden, Beniamin Netaniahu, Președintele, Eli Cohen, Președintele SUA, Joe Biden, Jean, Pierre . Organizations: Hamas, Israelul, Casei Albe Locations: Fâșia Gaza, Israelului, Statelor Unite, Israel, Palestina, Est

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