The surprise attack on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7 has brought the militant group back into the spotlight. In the attack, Hamas fighters flew paragliders from Gaza and used bulldozers to poke gaping ...

FILE - Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the State Department, Dec. 7, 2023, in Washington.Blinken is heading to the Middle East for the fourth time since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October as once-abated fears about a regional conflagration are surging with attacks and assassinations in the Red Sea, Lebanon, Iran …

Hamas has acquired some from abroad, including Fajr-3 and Fajr-5 rockets from Iran and M302 rockets from Syria, according to Hinz, but the group is now capable of producing rockets domestically ...

michael barbaro. From New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily. Today: The 11-day war over the skies of Israel and Gaza was the latest in a decades-long pattern of Hamas engaging ...

Hamas "wants to confront Israel, but not in Gaza," said Hugh Lovatt, an expert on Palestinian affairs at the European Council on Foreign Relations, a Berlin-based research group. "The recent ...

Mohammed Deif, the leader of Hamas' military wing, said "Operation Al-Aqsa Storm," was a response to activity at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem that is the third holiest site in Islam.

The Council is seeking to avert a U.S. veto on a resolution calling for a pause in fighting to deliver significant amounts of aid. The United States and Israel object to handing over aid ...

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Israel is at war, and has ordered a complete siege of Gaza after Hamas's surprise attack on Saturday. Hamas is holding at least 150 hostages, and more than 900 Israelis and more than 600 ...

The Israel Defense Forces says it's targeting Hamas leaders and operatives, as well as weapons caches. But Israeli airstrikes have also hit several residential buildings that Israel says are used ...

FILE - A Palestinian Hamas supporter attends a protest against Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, on March 3, 2008. In the three and a half …

Hamas did not immediately respond to Israel's claims. One map indicated a site where the Israeli military said rockets were fired from within what it said was the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, a ...

As pressure grows on Israel to scale back the war in Gaza, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III met with Israeli officials in Tel Aviv to discuss how Israel's campaign could shift after 10 ...

FILE - A Palestinian Hamas supporter attends a protest against Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, on March 3, 2008. In the three and a half decades since it began as an underground militant group, Hamas has pursued a consistently violent strategy aimed at rolling back Israeli rule.

Hamas and Israel have clashed in the years since, including during a two-month war in 2014. Meanwhile, Israel has eased some restrictions, allowing thousands of Gazans to enter Israel for work.

The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to demand an immediate Gaza ceasefire in a rebuke to the United States, which last week blocked a similar Security Council resolution. Follow ...

The brutal rampage by Islamist militant group Hamas on Israel last weekend involved thousands of rockets and missiles, drones dropping explosives, and untold numbers of small arms and ammunition ...

Hamas, militant Palestinian nationalist and Islamist movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that is dedicated to the establishment of an independent Islamic …

Iran, Hizbullah, and Hamas have enlisted expert engineers and the necessary materiel to bring GPS-guided missiles, suicide drones, and cyber threats into the Gaza …

Hamas and Israel have clashed in the years since, including during a two-month war in 2014. Meanwhile, Israel has eased some restrictions, allowing thousands of …

There are around 20,000 to 25,000 militants in Hamas' Qassam militant wing, according to Gaza experts Samir Ghattas of the Cairo-based Middle East Forum for …

From the first days after the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, Israel has accused Hamas terrorists of committing widespread sexual violence. The Israeli authorities say they are investigating reports of ...

Iran, Hizbullah, and Hamas have enlisted expert engineers and the necessary materiel to bring GPS-guided missiles, suicide drones, and cyber threats into the Gaza terrorist arsenals. "[Hamas and the Islamic Jihad] are very serious rivals in Gaza," warned an expert involved in rocketry and guidance. "This is not an enemy to be underestimated.

Israel killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in a drone strike in Lebanon's capital Beirut on Tuesday, Lebanese and Palestinian security sources said, as its tanks and warplanes pummelled ...

At that moment, the authorities said, they were intent on repelling Hamas and identifying the dead. Image Ms. Abdush's sister showing one of the last messages Ms. Abdush sent on Oct. 7.

3. What are Hamas' aims? What Hamas plainly seeks is the establishment of a Palestinian state. Where there is doubt is over the territory in which it envisages the establishment of the state ...

What is Hamas? Hamas is a militant group that carried out the worst terrorist attack in Israel in decades on Saturday, killing 900 people and taking captive dozens of soldiers and civilians.

The brutal rampage by Islamist militant group Hamas on Israel last weekend involved thousands of rockets and missiles, drones dropping explosives, and untold …

Hamas has been the de facto authority in Gaza since shortly after Israel withdrew from the territory in 2005. The following year, Hamas won a majority of seats in the PA's legislature and … See more

Hamas's Oct. 7 attack from Gaza into southern Israel killed around 1,200 people, and some 240 others were taken hostage. ISRAEL SEEKS A 'CLEAR VICTORY' IN GAZA The focus of the war remains on Gaza, where Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel is seeking a "clear victory" over Hamas, which has ruled the territory since 2007.

What we know. Israel is intensifying its military campaign in southern Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, told a group of soldiers that Hamas was falling apart ...

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry updated casualties since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on 7 October, stating that 18,205 Palestinians have been killed, and 49,645 injured.

Bodies of Israeli residents and Hamas attackers lay outside burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after the Palestinian militant group launched a large-scale surprise ...

Hamas in 2021 claimed to have built 500 kilometers (about 311 miles) worth of tunnels under Gaza, though it is unclear if that figure was accurate or posturing.

Hamas is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, and a recognition of the group's roots and early ties to one of the Sunni world's most prominent …

Hamas controls the Gaza Strip and carried out attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 in which 1,200 people were killed, igniting a war with Israel. Prosecutors gave few details of the alleged plot.

In 2007, when Hamas fighters pushed the Palestinian Authority out of Gaza and took over governing the coastal strip, Israel and Egypt imposed their tight blockade. According to the Israeli military, the smuggling continued, gaining steam after Mohammed Morsi, an Islamist leader and Hamas ally, was elected president of Egypt in 2012 before …

Israel suffered its most devastating attack in decades Saturday when Hamas militants launched thousands of rockets from Gaza and infiltrated several Israeli towns, killing hundreds of people and ...

Soldiers were fighting above ground in the region's largest city, Khan Younis, Israel's military said. The Gazan health ministry said dozens of people were killed in airstrikes in central Gaza.