Hamas

Israel’s full-scale closure of the Strip has lasted 28 days, with no sign of alet-up, and life inside Gaza gets grimmer by the day…

Twenty days on and the Gaza Strip is still closed…

Israel is responsible for a hell of a lot of the misery and human rights violations in the Gaza Strip: but Hamas is also harassing, interrogating and mistreating civilians…

I got back to Gaza a couple of days ago…

Ten days into the Tahdiya, or ‘Calm’ between Hamas and Israel,we haven’t seen anything change here inside Gaza…

The Arabic word tahdiya means ‘calming’ or ‘quieting.’ Hamas and theGovernment of Israel agreed to a six month tahdiya a few days ago, justafter the first anniversary of the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip.Hostilities on both sides would cease, and the Israeli siege of Gazawould gradually ease…

During the six months I’ve been in Gaza, there have been threeseparate threats to kidnap foreigners who work here…

This week marks a year since Hamas bludgeoned their way to power inGaza…

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