The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Gaza City - Ismail Haniya, the de-facto prime minister of Hamas in Gaza, expressed indifference at the predicted election victory for Tzipi Livni as the new leader of Israel's ruling party, saying both she and her rivals deny legitimate Palestinian ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Gaza City - Hamas leader Ismail Haniya on Wednesday hailed the exchange of prisoners between Israel and Hezbollah as a victory for the militant Lebanese Shiite movement and armed resistance against Israel. Haniya also hailed freed Lebanese prisoner...
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Ismail Haniya: Hamas says smuggling to Gaza will continue...
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
That didn't last long: Ceasefire? What ceasefire? Hamas says smuggling into Gaza will continue : Smuggling into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip will not stop, the head of the territory's government, Ismail Haniya, said on Friday, threatening an already tenuous two-day-old truce with Israel. During Egyptian-mediated negotiations, Israel "wanted to force Hamas to stop what they call the smuggling of...
Egypt News (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Hamas has accepted an offer from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to hold reconciliation talks, the Islamist movement’s political head in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, said on Thursday. “We welcome the call by president Abbas to hold a national dialogue and the new positive spirit in his speech, and we state that our hand reaches out for [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
Gaza City - Hamas leader Ismail Haniya has expanded his dismissed cabinet by appointing five new ministers in another move consolidating his de-facto administration in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman announced Monday. Among the five new cabinet members w...
Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
Peace? What is this “peace”? Ahmad Yousef, advisor to Ismail Haniya, has said that Hamas accepts Egypt's proposal to implement a tahdiya (calm) with Israel in Gaza, and then in the West Bank. However, he added, if Israel kills any member of the resistance in the West Bank or carries out any aggressive action, there will [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
Gaza - Any ceasefire between Hamas and Israel would have to extend to the West Bank, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said Wednesday. The lull, if accepted by the Israeli occupation, must be mutual, comprehensive and applied in West Bank and Gaza Strip un...
Israelated (Free subscription) | 18/03/2008
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 13/03/2008
Gaza City - An aide to Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said Thursday that his movement had smuggled the Iranian-made Grad rockets which it fired at Israel early this and late last month into the Gaza Strip via the Mediterranean Sea. Ahmed Yousef denied th...
Egypt News (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Palestinian group Hamas has set out for the first time conditions for a truce with Israel to end violence that has cost 125 lives in a week. Former PM Ismail Haniya called for an end to Israeli military operations in Gaza and the re-opening of its borders in return for halting rocket attacks. He said the [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/03/2008
Tel Aviv - The Israeli Air Force late Saturday attacked the headquarters of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, according to the Israeli online news agency Y-Net quoting an army spokesman. The building was seriously damaged, according to Palestinian sour...
Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 14/02/2008
Palestinians are watching with interest, and perhaps some confusion, as their leaders exchange contradictory messages about prospects of national reconciliation and peace with Israel. Overnight, Ismail Haniya told the media Hamas’ control over Gaza was temporary, suggesting his movement would be willing to give up its 4-month-old control of Gaza in exchange for renewed dialogue [...]
NoisyRoom.net (Free subscription) | 24/01/2008
From the DEBKAfile: Hamas PM Ismail Haniya’s adviser Ahdmad Yousef announced Thursday, Jan. 24, that the terrorist organization's next step after overrunning Egyptian northern Sinai was a march by half a million Palestinians from Gaza through the blocked Erez crossing to Israel to “recover their towns,” like Ashkelon.
Don Singleton (Free subscription) | 19/01/2008
Yahoo! News reported A senior Hamas leader on Saturday said the Islamist group had foiled a plot by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party to assassinate dismissed Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya. I thought they only used those on Jews. Hamas-run police had arrested a would-be suicide bomber, who was a member of Fatah, former interior minister Said Siam told a press conference in Gaza...
