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Israeli planes hit suspected Gaza tunnel building

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft bombed a building in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday which the military said had been used by Palestinians to access a tunnel intended for cross-border attacks in Israel. The air strike, in which no one was hurt, ...

From NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, Boston Globe,  30 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Al-Qaeda,  Mahmoud Abbas

Makeshift repairs not enough for battered Gaza

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza (Reuters) - Frustrated by the lack of outside help, the Islamist group Hamas has begun repairing roads in Gaza using cement and tar smuggled through a network of tunnels under the border with Egypt. But Gazans and international ...

From NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, Boston Globe,  21 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Mahmoud Abbas,  United Nations

Gaza Strip calm after pro-al Qaeda group quashed

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Palestinian families held funerals in the dead of night on Sunday for at least a dozen gunmen from a pro-al Qaeda group killed in fighting with the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers. Hamas security forces, asserting their control ...

From NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, Boston Globe,  16 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Al-Qaeda,  Mahmoud Abbas

Radical Islamist leader killed in Gaza clashes

GAZA (Reuters) - The Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers said Saturday the leader of an Islamist pan-Arab group was among 22 people killed in clashes with police. A spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said Abdel-Latif Moussa was killed in the clashes ...

From NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, Boston Globe,  15 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Al-Qaeda,  Ismail Haniyeh

Eight killed in Hamas, pro-al Qaeda group clashes

GAZA (Reuters) - Islamist radicals from a pan-Arab group defied the Hamas rulers of Gaza Friday by declaring an "Islamic emirate," leading to clashes which killed eight gunmen. Although Jund Ansar Allah ("Warriors of God") rallied only a few hundred ...

From NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, Boston Globe,  14 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Al-Qaeda,  Ismail Haniyeh

Gazans debate Hamas "Islamization" signals

GAZA (Reuters) - Men cannot go topless on Gaza beaches, owners of clothes shops are told to remove mannequins displaying lingerie and some couples complain of being asked for marriage papers as they walk in the streets. Human Rights groups and critics ...

From NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, Boston Globe,  3 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Mahmoud Abbas,  United Nations

Gazans debate Hamas "Islamisation" signals

GAZA (Reuters) - Men cannot go topless on Gaza beaches, owners of clothes shops are told to remove mannequins displaying lingerie and some couples complain of being asked for marriage papers as they walk in the streets. Human Rights groups and critics ...

From NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, Boston Globe,  3 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Mahmoud Abbas,  United Nations

Pills that are Gazans' little helpers

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians struggling to cope with the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the trauma of war are turning to painkillers and tranquillizers at a rate that risks triggering a wave of addiction. There is also evidence of mounting ...

From NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI AND IVAN KARAKASHIAN, Boston Globe,  7 May 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  United Nations

Israeli air strikes kill 2 in Gaza tunnel

GAZA CITY - Israeli warplanes bombed tunnels beneath the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt yesterday, killing two Palestinians, after militants fired several mortars at Israel from the coastal territory, medical workers said. Medical workers who ...

From NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, Boston Globe,  3 May 2009
Related Topics: Hamas

Egypt offers Palestinian rivals new unity ideas

GAZA (Reuters) - Egyptian mediators trying to break the deadlock in talks on a Palestinian government of national unity have told rival groups Fatah and Hamas to cooperate on reconstructing Gaza as a first step, officials said. Palestinian groups have ...

From NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, Boston Globe,  10 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Mahmoud Abbas,  Nabil Shaath

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