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Haneyya: We seek to establish political partnership

 The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, doesn’t target excluding any Palestinian faction from the political arena, rather it aims at establishing political partnership through its participation in the forthcoming legislative elections slated for 25th January , Ismail Haneyya, one of the Movement’s prominent leaders, underlined.

Hanneya, who tops Hamas’ PLC election list, said that..

Hamas wins Palestinian polls

Occupied Jerusalem - Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, ostensibly has won Wednesday’s parliamentary elections, according to latest results.

Hamas leaders in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip have indicated that the movement may have won as many as 70 seats out of the 132 contested seats, making up the Palestinian legislative council.

Hamas Gaza leader Ismael Haniyya said h..

PA cabinet resigns en mass following Hamas’s election victory

The Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Ahmed Qrei, has resigned en mass following the unexpected overwhelming victory of Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement, in Wednesday’s legislative elections.

Qrei told reporters in Ramallah that the mass resignation was intended to allow Hamas to form the new Palestinian government.

Qrei, looking somber and obvio..

Fatah leader congratulates Hanneya on Hamas’ election win

The Hamas’ well-known leader, Ismail Hanneya, said that he was reached over telephone by Hussein Al-Sheikh, a Fatah prominent West Bank leader, who congratulated him on the crushing victory Hamas scored in the Palestinian legislative elections held Wednesday in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Al-Sheikh affirmed that the ruling PA faction would honor the election results being reflecti..

Mishaal calls Abbas, stresses political partnership

The Hamas Movement’s political bureau chairman, Khaled Mishaal, on Thursday made a phone call with the PA chief, Mahmoud Abbas, during which he affirmed that the PLC polls conducted Wednesday across the PA-controlled lands represented a landmark victory for the Palestinian people, a press release, issued by Hamas’ media office, said.

According to the statement, Mishaal pointed out that ..

IOF savage practices in West Bank persist, tanks shell Gaza Strip

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday burst into the West Bank city of Tulkarm, thoroughly searching a number of Palestinian homes, and arresting ten of the city’s youths.

Local sources in the city affirmed that IOF backed by a number of military vehicles stormed the city at dawn Wednesday amidst random intensive machinegun shooting as they spread in the eastern suburb of the..

Hamas Denounces Shooting at University Professor

The Islamic resistance group, Hamas, along with other local figures and institutions on Tuesday denounced the shooting incident on Monday evening that targeted Dr. Ayub Othman, head of the university workers syndicate in the Azhar University – Gaza branch.

Dr. Othman, who was slightly wounded in his leg in the attack, said that he received telephone threats a week earlier on the pa..

Israel Demolishes Two Palestinian Homes in Occupied Jerusalem

Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday demolished two Palestinian homes in the occupied Jerusalem district at the usual pretext of lack of building permits, locals reported.

The sources in Sawahra Al-Sharkiya village, Jerusalem district, said that big numbers of Israeli troops flattened the 200-square-meter house of Farid Mohammed Abul Daba’at, which has been built a long time ago.

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Haneyya Offers Peaceful Initiative To Stop IOF Atrocities

 the PA Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya has launched Saturday an initiative that, in his view, would end the current stand off over the captured Israeli soldier, and to halt all forms of IOF atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

In a press statement issued by his office, Haneyya affirmed, "Out of the Palestinian national interest, and to protect and enhance the Palestinian national u..