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Hamas is not opposed to including the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit in a possible truce deal with Israel, Ahmad Youssef, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's top aide, said Friday. However, Youssef told Hamas newspaper Al-Rasala that this can only be done according to the...
A Grad-type Kassam rocket fired by 'Palestinian' terrorists from Gaza landed on the outskirts of Netivot Thursday morning. While this is not the first time that the 'Palestinians' have shot a rocket into the area of Netivot, it serves as a reminder that the terrorists' range is always increasing....
Text: PM Olmert admits hasn't acted seriously to defend Israelis - Joint Statements by PM Olmert and US Pres. Bush [Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: "We hope that we will not have to act against Hamas in other ways with the military power that Israel has not yet started to use in a serious manner in...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned that people in the region would wipe out Israel. In a speech he pronounced, Ahmadinejad ridiculed Israel's celebrations, saying that "throwing a birthday party for this regime is like having a birthday party for a dead person", he also called the world...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Palestinian militant groups will meet in Egypt next week to consider Israel's response to a Hamas ceasefire offer in the Gaza Strip, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said on Wednesday. Hamas has offered a six-month halt to hostilities in Gaza if Israel were to lift a crippling...
by Mark Silva JERUSALEM -- Even as President Bush meets with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem, pressing for progress in peace talks with the Palestinians, Israeli TV is consumed with images of the newest rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. This rocket landed at a shopping center in Ashkelon, about 10...
Islamic Jihad movement said Wednesday it will not stick to an Egyptian-offered ceasefire unless Israel accepts the offer. "As a pillar of resistance in Palestine, the movement will not again accept a free or unilateral lull in the occupied Palestinian territories," Khaled al-Batsh, a senior...
CAIRO: Palestinian groups in Gaza will meet with Intelligence chief Omar Suleiman in Egypt next week to make a final decision on the truce being negotiated with Israel.Representatives of Hamas and other factions in Gaza will meet Suleiman, who had presented the agreement to Israeli officials last Mo
Hamas officials said Tuesday evening that the group would not release kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit as part of a proposed temporary ceasefire with Israel. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with Egyptian intelligence head Omar Suleiman on Monday and told him they...
Gaza's Hamas rulers say a captured Israeli soldier will not be included in any truce deal with Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told an Egyptian mediator that Cpl. Gilad Schalit must be released as part of any cease-fire. Hamas-affiliated militants captured Schalit in an attack on...
