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Hamas rape denial at a UC Berkeley lecture creates a hostile environment for Jews and women.

Witnessed and recorded by an NBC News crew in Gaza, the fighters' presence at a crossing deemed vital for keeping Hamas from ...

Even in war, branding applies. Israel and Hamas are engaged in a parallel battle of optics despite a ceasefire that took ...

Elusive commander led Hamas' armed wing for over two decades, surviving seven assassination attempts and masterminding 7 ...

Resignation ties in with right-wing narrative that it was the army and the intelligence community that was solely responsible for the October 7th disaster and not the political echelon ...

Hamas freed three hostages in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday and Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fourth round of exchanges during the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and ...

Since Israel and Hamas went to war, reporters and editors at The New York Times have closely covered the conflict. Our coverage includes the Hamas-led attack on Israel, the plight of hostages ...

How, by God, could Mohammed Deif be mentioned in history without the title of martyr and the honor of martyrdom in the path of God,” Obeida remarked. Obeida shared a similar sentiment for the years ...

For Auschwitz was the Holocaust. As was every other camp, ghetto, piece of woodland or mobile gas chamber where, collectively ...

Once the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel got underway ... one of the greatest intelligence failures in Israel’s history and the shattering of its image as an impenetrable military power.

More than 15 months after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel that triggered the war in Gaza, a ceasefire agreement has come into effect, paving the way for a hostage release. Hamas seized 251 people ...