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Kidnapped Italian Activist Found Dead in Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- The body of an Italian activist was found hanged in a Gaza apartment just hours after he was abducted by an al-Qaida-inspired group, Hamas said early Friday, in the first kidnapping of a foreigner since the militant Hamas overran the coastal strip nearly four years ago. Hamas officials said police...

Hamas, Israel Negotiating Cease-Fire [VIDEO]

Hamas Gov't Official Appeals to Israeli Public for Cease-Fire

JERUSALEM -- A senior Hamas government official in Gaza has gone on Israel Radio to make a rare direct appeal to the Israeli public for a halt in the current round of fighting. Hamas' deputy foreign minister, Ghazi Hamad, told the radio station Sunday that the group would cease its attacks on southern Israel if Israel...

Israel Pounds Hamas Targets in Gaza for Third Day

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israel pounded Hamas targets in Gaza with air strikes and tank shells Saturday, killing four militants, Palestinian officials said, as Palestinian missiles reached deeper into Israel in the most intense round of fighting since the Gaza war. In all, 18 Gazans have been killed and more than 65...

Israel Strikes Hard in Gaza After School Bus Hit

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli aircraft and tanks pounded Gaza on Friday, killing seven Hamas militants and five civilians in a surge of fighting sparked by a Palestinian rocket attack on an Israeli school bus the day before. Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers seemed on the brink of another round of intense violence, just a...

Background on Hamas

Hamas ( ', "enthusiasm", an acronym of ', "Islamic Resistance Movement") is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip.

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