The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Gaza City - Hamas leader Ismail Haniya on Wednesday hailed the exchange of prisoners between Israel and Hezbollah as a victory for the militant Lebanese Shiite movement and armed resistance against Israel. Haniya also hailed freed Lebanese prisoner...
Alarabiya.net (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Israel kept commercial goods crossings into the Gaza Strip closed after a Palestinian rocket attack the day before tested a week-old truce and was slammed by the territory's Hamas rulers. Sacked Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya told reporters after Friday prayers that the Islamist movement
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Ismail Haniya: Hamas says smuggling to Gaza will continue...
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
That didn't last long: Ceasefire? What ceasefire? Hamas says smuggling into Gaza will continue : Smuggling into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip will not stop, the head of the territory's government, Ismail Haniya, said on Friday, threatening an already tenuous two-day-old truce with Israel. During Egyptian-mediated negotiations, Israel "wanted to force Hamas to stop what they call the smuggling of...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
A senior Hamas official says he regrets the violence between his group and the rival Fatah faction, saying the bloodshed has set back the Palestinian cause.Ahmad Youssef, an adviser to Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, told the BBC that, a year after Hamas took control of Gaza, the fighting there has only made the polarization among Palestinian Arabs stronger.(Most) people are actually taking sides, and...
Egypt News (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Hamas has accepted an offer from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to hold reconciliation talks, the Islamist movement’s political head in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, said on Thursday. “We welcome the call by president Abbas to hold a national dialogue and the new positive spirit in his speech, and we state that our hand reaches out for [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Gaza - Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said Thursday he wants to have talks with the rival Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas under the supervision of the Arab League. The League of Arab Nations would host talks between the two sides un...
Alarabiya.net (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya accepted, on Thursday, an offer from Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to hold reconciliation talks. "We welcome the call by president Abbas to hold a national dialogue and the new positive spirit in his speech, and we state that our hand reaches out for
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Gaza City - Hamas leader Ismail Haniya has expanded his dismissed cabinet by appointing five new ministers in another move consolidating his de-facto administration in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman announced Monday. Among the five new cabinet members w...
Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Peace? What is this “peace”? Ahmad Yousef, advisor to Ismail Haniya, has said that Hamas accepts Egypt's proposal to implement a tahdiya (calm) with Israel in Gaza, and then in the West Bank. However, he added, if Israel kills any member of the resistance in the West Bank or carries out any aggressive action, there will [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Gaza - Any ceasefire between Hamas and Israel would have to extend to the West Bank, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said Wednesday. The lull, if accepted by the Israeli occupation, must be mutual, comprehensive and applied in West Bank and Gaza Strip un...
Israelated - English Israel blogs (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Gaza City - An aide to Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said Thursday that his movement had smuggled the Iranian-made Grad rockets which it fired at Israel early this and late last month into the Gaza Strip via the Mediterranean Sea. Ahmed Yousef denied th...
Egypt News (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Palestinian group Hamas has set out for the first time conditions for a truce with Israel to end violence that has cost 125 lives in a week. Former PM Ismail Haniya called for an end to Israeli military operations in Gaza and the re-opening of its borders in return for halting rocket attacks. He said the [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
Tel Aviv - The Israeli Air Force late Saturday attacked the headquarters of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, according to the Israeli online news agency Y-Net quoting an army spokesman. The building was seriously damaged, according to Palestinian sour...
