UN investigators arrive in the Gaza
UN investigator Richard Goldstone (R), former chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, is met by Ghazi Hamad (L), a representative of the Islamist Hamas movement, at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza, June 1, 2009. UN investigators have arrived in the Gaza to probe alleged violations of international law during Israel's massive offensive against Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. (UPI Photo/Ismael Mohamad)
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The week-long conflict between Israel and Hamas was a "military game-changer," says a senior Hamas official viewed as a moderate voice of the organization.
The international Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip will reopen Tuesday, a Palestinian official said.
The Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip will open three days each month to allow travelers and aid to cross, a Gaza official says.
Thousands of Palestinians were waiting Saturday to take advantage of a rare opening of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, officials said.
The spokesman for Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has quit due to Hamas’s failure to initiate a deal with Fatah, the Jerusalem Post said.
BBC reporter Alan Johnston is alive and could be released soon, a Palestinian government spokesman said in Cardiff, Wales.
Palestinian Authority officials have determined that the parties responsible for the recent kidnapping of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston were criminal gangs. PA Cabinet spokesman Ghazi Hamad said that Monday's abduction of the 43-year-old journalist in G
Palestinian officials said after a meeting between leaders of the Fatah and Hamas movements that a unity government will be announced by the end of the week. Nabil Abu Rudeina, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, spoke after a Tu
The United States, rather than Hamas, must change its policies if it hopes for Mideast peace, a Hamas Palestinian cabinet spokesman said in Gaza Saturday. Hamas should not be required to recognize Israel, renounce violence and abide by past agreements, Th
A spokesman for the Hamas party denounced Palestinian infighting as a "frightening nightmare" and a "fatal disease." Ghazi Hamad, made an appeal for calm and for the removal of weapons from the streets to the Palestinian Authority journal Al-Iyam, Israel
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