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The Grand Turk

US slaps fresh sanctions on six senior Hamas officials

2024-11-20

[IsraelTimes] Targets include terror group’s representatives abroad, operative who aided deadly 1997 bombing at Tel Aviv café, and financiers funneling money into Gaza, West Bank

Washington imposed sanctions on six senior Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
officials, the US Treasury Department said Tuesday, in further action against the Paleostinian terror group as Washington has sought to achieve a ceasefire and the release of hostages in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
The Treasury Department said in a statement the sanctions targeted the terror group’s representatives abroad, a senior member of its military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, and those involved in supporting fundraising efforts and weapons smuggling into Gaza.

"Hamas continues to rely on key officials who seemingly maintain legitimate, public-facing roles within the group, yet who facilitate their terrorist activities, represent their interests abroad, and coordinate the transfer of money and goods into Gaza," Treasury’s Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Bradley Smith, said in the statement.

"Treasury remains committed to disrupting Hamas’s efforts to secure additional revenue and holding those who facilitate the group’s terrorist activities to account."

Among those targeted was Abd al-Rahman Ismail abd al-Rahman Ghanimat, a longtime member of Hamas’s military wing who is now based in ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
, the Treasury said. It accused him of being involved in "multiple attempted and successful terrorist attacks," including the 1997 Café Apropo bombing in Tel Aviv.

Ghanimat was previously sentenced to five life sentences in prison but was one of 1,027 Paleostinian security prisoners released in 2011 in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held at the time by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Two other Hamas officials based in Turkey were also among those targeted by the sanctions, the Treasury said, charging that Musa Daud Muhammad Akari and had been involved in facilitating the transfer of funds from Turkey "into Gaza and the West Bank for Hamas."

Akari was previously convicted by Israel for taking part in the 1992 murder of Israeli police officer Nissim Toledano. He was released from prison as part of the Shalit deal in 2011.

Ankara has denied that it has become the new base of Hamas’s politburo operations although Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
said Tuesday that the Hamas leaders involved in negotiations for a hostage release-ceasefire deal with Israel were "not in Doha" anymore.

In addition to the three Turkey-based Hamas officials, the US Treasury Department said that it was imposing sanctions on Gaza-based officials Basem Naim and Ghazi Hamad.

It charged that Naim has "participated in Hamas’s engagements with Russia and been a part of Hamas delegations to other countries," while Hamad has "served as the editor of Hamas propaganda outlets and is authorized to speak publicly on behalf of Hamas."

Hamad was also involved in the past with overseeing Gaza’s border crossings, which the Treasury said were "one of the primary ways Hamas smuggled weapons into Gaza," and were also used by the terror group to smuggle in the equipment it used to build its "extensive tunnel network they intentionally interspersed among Paleostinian civilians."

The final Hamas official included in Tuesday’s sanctions list was Mohammed Nazzal, whom the Treasury said has "provided support to the terrorist group for over 30 years. Nazzal, who has previously lived in both Jordan and Syria, is a big shot on Hamas’s Council on International Relations, the Treasury said.

The sanctions freeze any US-based assets owned or controlled by the named individuals. They also block financial transactions with those designated and prohibit the contribution of funds, goods and services to them.

Tuesday’s action marked the ninth time that the Treasury has imposed sanctions on Hamas entities and backers since the October 7, 2023 terror onslaught enacted by the group in southern Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were seized as hostages.

Most recently, on October 7, 2024, the Treasury imposed sanctions on a "sham charity" in Italia that it said had been fundraising for the Paleostinian terror group, and on two senior Hamas representatives in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
— one in Germany and the other in Austria.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas now accepts Israel killed Muhammad Deif, has arrested 2 people, sources tell paper

2024-11-03

[IsraelTimes] Tests of mangled remains produced inconclusive results, but after months without word from military chief, terror group now acknowledges he did not survive, Asharq al-Awsat reports

Finally acknowledging terror leader Muhammad Deif was killed in a July ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
has interrogated two people on suspicion that they led Israel to him, Asharq al-Awsat reported Saturday.

Hamas sources cited by the London-based, Saudi-owned newspaper said Hamas’s leadership had taken time to confirm the matter as communication with the shadowy terror chief had been limited prior to the July 13 strike. But it concluded that Deif was dead after not hearing from him for some time.

Parts of a disfigured body found at the site days after the strike had been tested and found to likely belong to Deif, but their state had made it impossible to reach a definitive result, the report said. Due to the disfigurement, Deif’s "family and associates" had remained unconvinced that it was his body, according to Asharq al-Awsat.
"I think I found an ear. Our perhaps a lip"
Israel had targeted Deif and Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade chief Rafa’a Salameh in the airstrike on a Hamas compound that killed dozens in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. The IDF confirmed Salameh’s death a day later, and Deif’s on August 1. Hamas has so far officially denied the killing of Deif, who led the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the terror group’s military wing.

Asharq al-Awsat said one of the men arrested over Deif’s killing was one of Deif’s couriers, as was previously reported by Al Arabiya, which said the terror group suspected he had tipped off Israeli security forces. The paper said that the results of the investigation have not been disclosed.

Deif, who was 58, had commanded the Brigades for over two decades, and had long been one of the terror figures most wanted by Israel.

It was Israel’s eighth attempt to eliminate Deif, who was key to Hamas’s transformation from a small terror group into a paramilitary force. Deif managed to evade and survive multiple attempts on his life between 2001 and 2021, though he was maimed in two of them, and his ability to frustrate Israel’s formidable security apparatuses for so long had made him something of a mythical figure for Paleostinians as well as Israelis.

Deif, along with Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, was an architect of Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel, when thousands of bully boyz broke through the border and killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, while taking 251 people hostage to Gaza. He had topped Israel’s most-wanted list since 1995 for his involvement in the planning and execution of a large number of terror attacks, including many bus bombings in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Qassam Brigades predict 'major repercussions' across region after Haniyeh's killing

2024-08-01

[GEO.TV] Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
's military wing, the Qassam Brigades, has issued a statement, calling the killing of Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
a "dangerous event" that will have "major repercussions across the entire region", Al Jazeera reported.

The statement said: "With the highest expressions of pride and honour, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades announce to our struggling Paleostinian people, our Arab and Islamic nations, and the free people of the world, the martyrdom of the leader Ismail Abdul Salam Haniyeh, commander of the Islamic Resistance® Movement Hamas.

"He was martyred following a cowardly Zionist liquidation operation targeting his residence in Tehran. In response to this Nazi crime, we affirm the following points:

"Firstly, the leader and fighter 'Abu al-Abd' ascended after a life filled with dedication, struggle, and sacrifices. Throughout his journey, he accompanied the various stages of the movement’s development and struggle, leaving clear contributions and marks at different points.

"He gave much to the Paleostinian cause and played a significant role in strengthening the resistance, unifying the efforts of the nation, and directing the compass towards Jerusalem. His life culminated in martyrdom during the noblest battle, 'Al-Aqsa Flood,' fought by our people and the free ones of our nation in defence of al-Aqsa and the sanctities.

"Secondly, the criminal liquidation of the leader Haniyeh in the heart of the Iranian capital is a significant and dangerous event that shifts the battle to new dimensions and will have major repercussions across the entire region. The enemy miscalculated by expanding the scope of aggression, assassinating resistance leaders in various arenas, and violating the illusory sovereignty of regional states. The criminal Netanyahu, blinded by delusions of grandeur, is driving the occupation entity toward the abyss, accelerating its collapse and permanent removal from Paleostinian land.

"Thirdly, this Zionist recklessness must end, and the rampant enemy must be curbed, with its meddling hand restrained to prevent further aggression. The continuous crimes of the enemy across various fronts sound an alarm for all nations and peoples of the region, compelling everyone to support and back the resistance in Paleostine. This resistance serves as the front-line defence for the entire nation, which is why the enemy strives to crush and subdue it to focus on larger aggression against the nations and peoples of the region.

"Fourthly, the blood of our leader Ismail Haniyeh, mingling today with the blood of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
's children, women, youth, and elders, and with the blood of our people and fighters, underscores that the resistance and its leaders are at the heart of the battle alongside their people. This precious blood will not be shed in vain but will illuminate the path to liberation. The enemy will pay for its aggression with its own blood in Gaza, the West Bank, and within its borders, wherever our fighters reach by God's will."

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Video footage shows Al-Qassam Brigades targeting Zionist enemy vehicles in Khan Younis

2024-07-27

[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, released on Thursday video footage showing their fighters targeting Zionist enemy vehicles on the axes of incursion in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Names of three Israeli prisoners killed by Zionist bombings revealed

2024-03-11

[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The military front man for the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida, said on Saturday "We previously announced the killing of seven Zionist prisoners as a result of the barbaric Zionist raids on the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, and we revealed the names of three of them."

He added in a statement published on his channel on the "Telegram", "After examining the identities of the rest of the dead, we confirmed that Itzik al-Jarat,

…is that a Moslem name? We know at least one Bedouin is among the captives…

Alex Densig, Ronen Tommy Angel, and Eliyahu Margalit were killed."

Abu Obeida had published a post about the course of the ongoing battles in the Gaza Strip and the resistance’s response to the Israeli occupation’s aggression.

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Down Under

Australia to List Hamas and U.S. Far-Right Group as Terrorists

2022-02-19

[AnNahar] Australia on Thursday said it had added the U.S.-based far-right holy warrior group National Socialist Order and planned to add the entirety of the Paleostinian group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to its list of outlawed terrorist organizations as concerns rise about radicalized children.

Here’s hoping the FBI remembers to give them the names of their moles, agents provocateur, and informants.

The National Socialist Order, formerly known as Atomwaffen Division, joins Islamist groups Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
and Hurras al-Din in being added to the list, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said.

Hamas' military wing, Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has been listed as a terrorist organization since 2003.

The National Socialist Order, which advocates a global "race war" and the collapse of democratic societies, joined the list on Thursday, bringing the number of outlawed groups to 28.

The two Islamist groups, both active in the Syrian civil war, will be listed in April.

Andrews has written to state governments to finalize the listing of Hamas as soon as possible.

"The views of Hamas and the ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful holy warrior groups listed today are deeply disturbing, and there is no place in Australia for such views," Andrews said.

"It's vital that our laws target not only terrorist acts and terrorists, but also the organizations that plan, finance and carry out these acts," she added.

The Australia Paleostine Advocacy Network, a national coalition of Australians who support Paleostinian rights, disagreed with Hamas' political wing being designated a terrorist organization.

The National Socialist Order is only the third far-right group to be designated by Australia as a terrorist organization.

The Base, a neo-Nazi
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
white supremacist group formed in the United States in 2018, was listed in December

...doesn’t Al Qaeda mean The Base? How odd that they picked the same name...

and the British-based Sonnenkrieg Division was listed in August.

Mike Burgess, director general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the nation's main domestic spy agency, said last week that pandemic restrictions in Australia had sent online radicalization "into overdrive" in recent years as isolated people spent more time online.

The proportion of new counter-terrorism investigations involving minors had increased from to less than 3% to 15% in only a few years, Burgess said in his annual threat assessment.

At the end of 2021, minors represented more than half of the spy agency's priority counter-terrorism investigations, he said.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas Terrorist Dies In Gaza Attack Tunnel Collapse

2021-12-07

[LI] It was just reported that a Hamas terrorist died when a tunnel collapsed on him in Gaza. This is one of a long line of so-called Palestinian Work Accidents, where a terrorist is killed through his or his group’s error while preparing to attack Israel.

The Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades posted at their website about the death of Hani Sami Salah in a tunnel collapse (translation via Google Translate)

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, announced today, Monday, December 6, 2021, the death of Hani Sami Salah during the preparation and preparation.

The brigades said in a statement to Quds Network: "The Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, wedded to Al-Ula one of its knights, the faithful Mujahid al-Qassam: Hani Sami Salah (28 years), from the "Ard al-Rabat" mosque in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza."

She added: "Salah rose after the collapse of a tunnel of resistance, to go to his Lord after a blessed life full of giving, jihad, sacrifice and bonding for the sake of God.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinian shot by IDF Saturday at Gaza security fence died from his wounds today, was member of Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades

2021-08-26

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

A Palestinian who was shot by the IDF Saturday at the #Gaza security fence and died from his wounds today was a member of Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades. pic.twitter.com/iY5KsPXKCe
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) August 25, 2021

Yea that could be a factor https://t.co/x8lDAhMZ8m
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) August 25, 2021

The Times of Israel adds:

According to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
health officials, the dear departed was Osama Khalid Adaeej, 32, a resident of Jabaliya Refugee Camp in the northern Gaza Strip. It was not clear how and where Adaeej was maimed during last Saturday’s festivities.

Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, claimed Adaeej as a member in a statement published on its Telegram channel. Adaeej’s body, wrapped in a Hamas flag, was borne through Jabaliya on Wednesday morning, surrounded by armed Paleostinians wearing military fatigues.

Palestinian factions in Gaza — including the enclave’s Hamas rulers — held a protest Saturday near the Israeli border in which thousands participated. Senior officials in the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups attended, including Hamas’s deputy Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya.

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Africa North

Al Jizz releases documentary into death of Hamas drone engineer in Tunisia

2017-05-02

[Ynet] The Arabic-language news network releases an investigative documentary on the liquidation of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' chief drone engineer who was bumped off in Tunisia by unknown parties.

Al Jazeera has broadcast a new documentary Sunday detailing new revelations about the liquidation of Hamas' drone engineer, Mohammad al-Zawahri, last December in Tunisia.

The documentary featured interviews with officials from the drone unit of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, where al-Zawahri had been a key member since his recruitment to the organization in 2006.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas Terrorist Killed in Tunnel Collapse During ‘Mission’

2016-10-25

[JEWISHPRESS] A member of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", military wing, was killed in Gazoo on Monday after an underground tunnel collapsed on him, Ma’an reported. The al-Qassam Brigades released a statement saying one of their fighters, Amir Jaber Abu Tuima from the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gazoo Strip, died during a "mission" when the tunnel collapsed.

The announcement did not specify the nature of the mission, which was most likely digging a terror tunnel.

On Saturday another al-Qassam terrorist was killed in a tunnel collapse. Ma’an acknowledged that a considerable number of Gazoo Arabs have been killed in the "vast tunnel networks that lie below the besieged enclave," which is dedicated to commercial and military smuggling in the south and future terrorist kidnapping in the north.

Last Saturday morning, the head of the Egyptian army’s Ninth Armored Division was assassinated for his role in destroying tunnels between Egypt and the Gazoo Strip by filling them with water.

The smuggling tunnels are used by Hamas as a source of tax revenue and flow of weapons and commercial goods from the Sinai, including food, medicine, and infrastructure materials. The latter are being used mostly for digging military tunnels into Israeli territory.

The Institute for Paleostine Studies reported in 2012 that Hamas suffered 160 deaths under collapsing tunnels since 2007. In August 2014, al-Jazeera cited 400 as the updated figure for tunnel collapse casualties.

Rocket fire at Sha'ar Hanegev, IDF retaliates

[Ynet] Following the sounding of a Code Red siren early Monday morning in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, the IDF retaliated against Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", targets in the northern Gazoo Strip; Rocket apparently landed in Hamas territory.

This is the fourth rocket to fall in Sderot and the 42nd to be fired since the end of Operation Protective Edge two years ago. In most cases, rogue elements within in the Gazoo Strip, some of whom identify with ISIS, were responsible for the rocket fire. This is in contradiction to Hamas, which largely attempts to maintain quiet in order to prepare for the next confrontation against the IDF.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas Expresses Concern over Ties with Iran

2016-08-18

And so they should. They're selling their Arab souls to the Iranian Shiite devil for a mere 30 pieces of silver. It's a betrayal of all the truly awful things the Muslim Brotherhood stands for.

[Asharq al-Aswat] Commander of Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,’ West Bank Department Saleh al-Arouri has expressed deep concern over the high cost that the movement might pay to Iran in return for the military and financial support received by Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, sources affiliated with Islamic movement in ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
said.

Arouri, who resides in Turkey, accused Commander of Iran’s Quds Force Qassem Soleimani of attempting to "lure Hamas by blurring the identity of the Qassam Brigades and integrate it with Quds Force to become an Iranian executive tool."

Arouri said in a closed session that Soleimani wants Hamas’ full loyalty similar to the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
movement, which announced its allegiance to Iran during a visit to Tehran by a delegation headed by its Secretary General Ramadan Shalah.

Arouri expressed fear that Hamas would be blacklisted by Arabs and the West due to its armed wing’s loyalty to Iran. He also feared that relations between al-Qassam and Iranian Revolutionary Guards might be similar to ties that exist between the Lebanese so-called Hezbollah and Iran.

His statements came amid disputes inside Hamas movement on relations with different axes in the region.

One faction in Hamas supports restoring relations with Iran at the expense of other Arab countries, while another faction rejects repairing ties.

Among those supporting the restoration of relations with Iran is Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar, who has very close ties to al-Qassam Brigades.

In the closed session, Arouri talked about Hamas’ participation in municipal elections, and expressed support to Zahar’s statements regarding not letting the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
return to the Gazoo Strip.

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
Arouri criticized Zahar’s announcements, especially that the latter expressed his stance during interviews with Iranian media, such as Fares News Agency.

Arouri said Zahar’s remarks won’t benefit Hamas, which will appear to be disregarding the Cairo and Doha agreement.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas fighter killed in week's 2nd deadly tunnel collapse

2016-02-10

It is because Allah wills it. He must really be displeased with Hamas these days.

[MaanNews] A Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, fighter was killed Tuesday when a tunnel collapsed in the southern Gazoo Strip, Hamas' military wing, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, said in a statement.

The military wing identified the fighter as 27-year-old Marwan Barham Marouf from Khan Younis in southern Gazoo.

During the past two weeks, the group has reported at least ten other deaths in three separate tunnel collapses.

More sea water!

Gazoo's tunnel networks, which are largely used for smuggling in the coastal enclave's south and military purposes in the north, are notoriously dangerous. The Institute for Paleostine Studies reported in 2012 that Hamas authorities had counted 160 deaths inside the tunnels since the Israeli blockade began in 2007, and in August 2014, al-Jazeera reported that figure to be as high as 400.

While the tunnels are used by Hamas as a source of tax revenue and inflow of weapons, they also supply highly-demanded necessities for Gazoo's 1.8 million residents under the blockade, including food, medicine, as well as infrastructure materials like concrete and fuel.

Hamas claims to have rebuilt many of the tunnels that were destroyed during 2014's devastating war with Israel. Last week, the Israeli authorities threatened to seal crossings between Israel and the Gazoo Strip due to recent Hamas activity.

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