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Zahar denied reports that there was progress in talks with Israel to bring about a long-term truce between Hamas in Gaza and the Jewish State.

Ahmed Yousef, another senior Hamas official from Gaza, also told Xinhua that Hamas Shura Council has not convened to debate a truce agreement with Israel.

To enhance its survivability, once the truce is established, the US and the EU should remove Hamas from their terrorist lists and allow it to have greater freedom of movement, as long as it fully adheres to the terms of the truce.

The reports of the meeting between Blair and Meshaal come after a top-level delegation led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s special envoy, Isaac Molho, held talks in Cairo on Tuesday with Egyptian military representatives.

Earlier this week, a flurry of reports that Israel and Hamas were on the verge of signing a long-term deal led to official denials from Jerusalem and to deep concern among Fatah officials in the West Bank. Israel’s Shin Bet (internal security) announced that in July...

Not to be outdone, in 2007, an Iranian state news agency reported the supposed “arrest” of 14 squirrels on espionage charges.

It claimed that Hamas suspects the dolphin was used to film the training of naval commandos, and said the dolphin was fitted with a type of dart gun.

The Ethiopian immigrant, Avraham Mengistu, 29, crossed into Gaza last September through a broken fence on the Mediterranean coast marking the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Today Israel claimed two Israeli citizens are being held in the Gaza Strip, at least one of them by the Hamas militant group. Thousands are homeless. Two-thirds of Gaza’s 1.8m people are recipients of United Nations aid in one form or another. Officials refused to say how...

But it is hardly at odds with the general directional change in the outlook of Prime Minister Narendra Modi towards Israel – a solicitous turn which appears to go beyond India’s weapons purchase relationship with Tel Aviv.

On Wednesday, during a rally in Gaza, Hamas leader Khaled Meshal alluded to Mengistu’s capture when speaking about Israelis now being held by the terror group, including the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed during last summer’s war.

India has, however, maintained that there’s no change in its long-standing policy on support to the Palestinian cause. “The issue in this particular Resolution was the reference to the worldwide Criminal Court (ICC)”.

Michael Ratner, President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told IPS that once again, as it was true in the 2008-2009 Israeli assault on Gaza, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry report on last year’ s Gaza war was devastating regarding Israel’s...

“That India’s representative in Geneva abstained on Friday is a significant shift testament to the strong ties that have developed between Israel and India over the last 20 years, and which are taking off now under Prime Minister Narendra Modi”, a columnist wrote.

“There are another 14 who have begun the expulsion process”, a spokeswoman for Israel’s immigration authority told AFP.