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600 articles tagged "Palestinians"
DEBKAfile
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April 8, 2007, 3:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas has handed Egyptian mediators a list of Palestinian prisoners demanded in exchange for Gilead Shalit, who was seized on the Israeli side of the Gaza border by Palestinian gunmen ten months ago.
The Palestinian unity government leaders Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniyeh need to save face after repeatedly falling ...
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April 8, 2007, 9:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
At the secular Bir Zeit university of Ramallah, Hamas gained 22 seats in student union elections, edging past Fatah's 21, leaving 6 places for the left-wing bloc and two for Jihad Islami.
DEBKAfile
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April 1, 2007, 7:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Islam provides the only solution to the conflict and until it is achieved, armed resistance will continue. Engagement with Israel is a means not an end. There can be no compromise on the refugee question. The PLO, the Hamas leader declared, has no authority to represent the Palestinian people.
DEBKAfile
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March 29, 2007, 9:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
These words were spoken 24 hours before the Saudi peace plan was presented to the Arab League summit in Riyadh and Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh takes his seat alongside Mahmoud Abbas at the head of the Palestinian delegation.
DEBKAfile
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March 25, 2007, 7:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ten days ago, BBC correspondent Alan Johnston was seized by armed men in Gaza (March 12), nine months after Hamas-led Palestinian raiders snatched Israeli corporal Gilead Shalit.
Our counter-terror sources disclose that Montaz Durmush, leader of the Army of Islam (Al Qaeda-Palestine), which is holding both hostages, is using the British ...
DEBKAfile
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March 24, 2007, 1:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli soldiers and Palestinians exchanged fire after the attack and the border crossing was shut down. The injured man was an electricity company worker who was carrying out repairs on the fuel depot, which supplies the Palestinians population of the Gaza Strip.
debkafile adds: Regardless of the fuel ...
Israel farmers stop aerial crop-spraying near Gaza because of smuggled Palestinian anti-air missiles
DEBKAfile
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March 20, 2007, 1:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
The transport ministry in Jerusalem warned the farmers Sunday, March 18, that the Palestinians had recently smuggled shoulder-borne SA-7 anti-air missiles into the Gaza strip. They ordered an immediate halt to aerial crop-spraying near the territory following an Israeli army caution.
DEBKAfile
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March 19, 2007, 10:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Mahmoud Abbas urged an end of the world boycott against the Palestinian government although Middle East Quartet conditions are ignored in its platform.
The unity government he has launched with Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh won a vote of confidence at the Palestinian legislative council Saturday, March 17. The US and ...
DEBKAfile
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March 19, 2007, 12:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
No one was injured. John Ging, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza had just crossed the border from Israel when his convoy was blocked by some 50 armed gunmen. They failed to open the door of his armored car. As it escaped, they riddled the vehicle ...
DEBKAfile
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March 18, 2007, 10:10 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Hamas-Fatah government taking office Sunday, March 18, is more than a policy failure by prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni; it is another milestone on the road to the collapse of Israel's Middle East positions at large, on a scale comparable to the setback to its ...
DEBKAfile
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March 17, 2007, 12:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile notes: One putative "independent," the designated foreign minister Ziyad Amar, is a known Hamas adherent. Pro-American Salam Fayed is retained as finance minister as bait to draw US recognition and international assistance.
Israel has announced it will boycott all the new ministers, including the new Fatah office-holders. ... 
DEBKAfile
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March 17, 2007, 12:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
He also confirms that the Palestinians continue wholesale weapons smuggling into the Gaza Strip.
DEBKAfile
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March 15, 2007, 8:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
Beneath the Rafah-Philadelphi border region between Gaza and Egyptian Sinai, the Palestinian Hamas has built a vast underground stronghold. A separate series of secret tunnels snakes under another Gaza border into western Israel.
"They should never have been allowed to build this fortress. We should have stopped it long ago," ... 
DEBKAfile
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March 4, 2007, 5:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sergey Lavrov claimed Tuesday, Feb. 27, that Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal had personally given him this promise at their meeting in Moscow.
Lavrov said Russia favors the power-sharing agreement between Hamas and Fatah and supports efforts to lift the international blockade. At a separate news conference, Meshaal did not repeat ...
DEBKAfile
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February 28, 2007, 9:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
Two Israeli soldiers were slightly injured in the exchange of fire. The Jenin cell dispatched the suicide bomber who was captured in Bat Yam a week ago before he could do any harm. Next day, an Israeli unit shot his controller Mahmoud Abu Abid dead.
Israeli troops rounded up 20 suspected ...
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February 27, 2007, 10:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
One Palestinian was killed, one injured MOnday. Several Israeli units conducted house to house searches for suspects and bomb-making laboratories in Palestinian terrorist strongholds in the Nablus Casbah, whose 50,000 inhabitants remained under curfew for three days.
DEBKAfile
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February 22, 2007, 11:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hundreds of Egyptian security and counter-terror troops were scouring northern Sinai Thursday for a group of Palestinians armed with bomb vests known to be preparing suicide attacks on Israeli tourists. Special security measures are in force to seal the Israeli-Egyptian border against their infiltration of southern Israel.
DEBKAfile
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February 22, 2007, 11:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
Captured in Egyptian Rafah, he told interrogators he was joining a larger Palestinian group heading for a suicide attack on Israel tourists at a Sinai resort. Feb. 19, debkafile exclusively disclosed an Egyptian security buildup following an intelligence report that a large group of armed Palestinians had crossed ...
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February 13, 2007, 11:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Saudis notified the Bush administration ahead of the Mecca reconciliation summit Tuesday, Feb. 6, that the Palestinian accord for a coalition government sponsored by Riyadh will not meet a key Middle East Quartet condition for its recognition.
DEBKAfile
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February 11, 2007, 4:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
It is no wonder that Israeli policy-makers have had little to say to the Palestinian reconciliation accord which Saudi king Abdullah brokered in Mecca last week. Israel was shouldered off the stage as a player in Palestinian politics, as was any hope of moderating the Palestinian anti-Israel war, a breakthrough ...
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