The exiled leader of Hamas has warned that talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority could be a ‘fatal blow’ to the Palestinian cause, and urged the Egyptian and Jordanian leaders to boycott them. Khaled Meshaal, who lives in exile in Syria, said that Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, was too weak to stand up [...]

Hamas said Sunday that the Zionist entity naming war criminal Yoav Galant as the new military chief of staff is new evidence on the Zionist “terrorist and bloody nature”. “Appointing General Yoav Galant, who led the war on Gaza at the end of 2008, is new evidence of [Israel’s] persistence in a policy of terrorism [...]

The leaders of Fatah and Hamas are scheduled to meet in Gaza on Saturday in an attempt to end the internal conflict and achieve reconciliation. The talks are to be conducted based on trust and sincere intentions to reach reconciliation but not aimed at signing any deal or discussing the Egyptian peace document, Sakher Bseiso [...]

Hamas has rejected the US calls for the resumption of direct peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, describing it as a new attempt to deceive the Palestinians. On Friday, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called the US invitation misleading and said the new US plan is not acceptable because it does not serve the interests [...]

Palestinians have repelled an Israeli attack in which several tanks crossed into southern parts of the Gaza Strip and an Israeli soldier pierced through the bordering security fence. According to Hamas security officials, six Israeli tanks crossed into the area and one of them fired shells at a house near the town of Khan Yunis [...]

The German government has denied any involvement in the decision to release an alleged Israeli spy wanted for the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai back in January. A German prosecutor released Uri Brodsky — a suspected Mossad agent — on Friday in return for an undisclosed sum of bail. The court claimed that [...]

Palestinian groups speak out against potential talks with Tel Aviv under US and Israeli conditions, saying such negotiations would undermine the Palestinian rights. “A return to direct negotiations represents submission to American and Zionist conditions aimed at liquidating these rights,” they said on Sunday, AFP reported. In a statement, signed by the Palestinian resistance movement, [...]

Osama Hamdan, the head of international relations in Hamas, has charged that the release of the Mossad agent Uri Brodsky, a suspect in the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, constituted a political cover for the crime. Hamdan told Al-Jazeera TV network on Friday that the German court’s decision was political par excellence, [...]

The Palestinian government run by Hamas in Gaza Strip Wednesday released 100 prisoners from detention centers on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan. At a press conference held in Gaza, Fathi Hamad, Minister of the Interior said that the release of the 100 prisoners was based on “a gesture by Prime Minister Ismail [...]

Relations between Hamas and Islamic Jihad are “not tense at all,” a Hamas spokesman said Monday. Sami Abu Zuhri told journalists that the relationship between the two Islamist movements “is strategic. We believe there are stable relations with Islamic Jihad at the highest levels.” The spokesman said his movement consults Islamic Jihad on matters related [...]

Hamas insists the Israeli probe into the assault on the Gaza-bound international aid convoy cannot be trusted, describing it as a cover-up for Tel Aviv’s crimes. Israel has set up an investigation committee mainly aimed at covering its crimes and “We don’t trust this committee…Israel cannot be the murderer and the judge at the same [...]

A report issued by the Center for Information and Support to Decision Making at the Ministry of Planning showed that the Israeli occupation killed 7 people, two of them in the occupied West Bank and five in the Gaza Strip, including the commander of the Qassam Brigades militant wing of the Movement “Hamas”, while the [...]

Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, refute the Zionist accusations made by Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a military statement released late Thursday night, the spokesman of al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida, declared total non-involvement of missiles’ attacks targeted the usurped city of Um-al-Rashrash in occupied territories of Palestine [...]

Hamas has rejected allegations by Israeli and Egyptian leaders accusing the resistance movement of being behind rocket attacks on Israel and Jordan earlier this week. Egyptian security sources said on Wednesday that seven Soviet-style Grad rockets fired from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula have hit Israel’s resort town of Elit and Jordan’s port city of Aqaba, killing [...]

The Hamas Movement has strongly condemned the “vicious” Israeli aggression on south Lebanon Tuesday morning, saluting, at the same time, the Lebanese army for defending their country’s sovereignty. Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, the spokesman of Hamas in Gaza Strip, described in an interview with the PIC the Israeli incursion into south Lebanon as a reflection [...]

The US will use private security firms as a scapegoat in a case which involves US websites funding the assassination of a senior Hamas official, says a Lebanese retired general. In a January operation which led to the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a founder of the military wing of Hamas, several American companies covered up [...]

Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu said that Hamas is responsible for any attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, adding that his government will take all necessary precautions to “defend” Israel. Netanyahu, speaking prior to the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, said that the world community should also share the same view. For his part, Sylvan [...]

Hamas has lashed out at the Arab League for endorsing the resumption of direct talks with Israel, charging the body with providing a cover for Israeli violations. “Our people in Gaza are paying a toll for the huge error and political sin committed by the Arab Peace Initiative’s follow-up committee against the Palestinian people,” Ma’an [...]

Hamas has ruled out any form of negotiations with Israel, saying US-pushed support by Arab leaders cannot legitimize peace talks with Tel Aviv. “There is no legitimacy for the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations whether they were direct or indirect,” Head of Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Meshaal said on Sunday. “These negotiations took their legitimacy from the Americans [...]

Israeli warplanes have attacked two tunnels in the south of Gaza strip in its second strike during the last 48 hours, the Israeli military says. The Sunday’s attack caused damage but no casualties were reported, Reuters said. Palestinians, who have been under Israeli siege since 2007, use the tunnels to bring in goods, food and [...]