Ismail Haniyeh

Billboards of Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif with the words 'Eliminated" in Tel Aviv, August 02, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli leaders celebrate assassinations — and make the living pay the price

Has the genocide in Gaza increased the security of a single person in Israel? Are we safer while we wait for Iran’s response to Haniyeh’s killing?

By Orly Noy August 2, 2024

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh gestures to the crowd as he takes part in a rally marking the 28th anniversary of Hamas' founding, in Gaza City, December 14, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)

From Gaza to Ramallah, Haniyeh remembered as advocate of national unity

The assassinated leader was a proponent of Hamas’ political engagement and pursued Palestinian reconciliation at home and in exile, admirers say.

By Fatima AbdulKarim and Mohammed R. Mhawish August 1, 2024

A billboard put up by the far-right Israel Victory Project in Tel Aviv shows blindfolded Palestinian leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud Abbas. The caption reads: 'Peace is made with defeated enemies.' (Oren Ziv)

Yes, Israel wants peace — after it gets rid of the Palestinians

Billboards posted across Tel Aviv showing Palestinian leaders blindfolded and on their knees reveals what many Israelis think.

By Orly Noy February 17, 2020

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Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh speaks to the press upon his arrival at the Rafah border crossing, after reconciliation talks in Egypt with the Fatah movement mediated by Egyptian intelligence, in the southern Gaza Strip, September 19, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

If Trump talks with North Korea, why should the U.S. boycott Hamas?

If the U.S. is willing to negotiate with the North Korean regime to advance its interests, then it should apply the same logic to Gaza and negotiate with Hamas. By Aaron Magid North Korean Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol met with President Donald Trump at the White House this week. As part of its efforts to…

By +972 Magazine June 8, 2018

Palestinian mourners carry the body of 30-year-old Mahmoud al-Masri who died yesterday during clashes with Israeli security forces on the Israeli-Gaza border, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 9, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

The limits of the Palestinian struggle in Gaza

Gaza-based journalist Saud Abu Ramadan talks to +972 about the limits that Palestinian protesters face in Gaza and asks, how, under the existing conditions, the residents of Gaza are supposed to resist. Saud Abu Ramadan is a Palestinian journalist based in Gaza. On July 30, 2014, his office on the eighth floor of the Al Basha…

By Samer Badawi December 10, 2017

Fadi al Najjar, 24, in his destroyed home in the village of Khuza'a, eastern Gaza Strip, November 7, 2014. Six family members stay in the living room, which is the only room which was not destroyed. Fadi lost all his money and his animals, during the last Israeli assault. He is now contemplating on getting married and lives in the caravan which has been allocated to his father Adnan. Big holes in the walls have been barely covered by pieces of wood and plastic sheet. Many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip face hard living conditions following the seven-week Israeli offensive during which 2,131 Palestinians were killed, and an estimate of 18,000 housing units have been either destroyed or severely damaged, leaving more than 108,000 people homeless. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Liberman’s first task: End Gaza’s suffering

If Liberman truly wants to keep Israelis safe, he will to do whatever he can to ensure that Gaza’s residents can lead normal lives. By Noam Rabinovich What will Avigdor Liberman’s first week as defense minister look like? One might imagine he would begin by introducing himself to the staff, getting acquainted with the office,…

By +972 Magazine June 2, 2016

Ismail Hanniyeh, Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas

10 years after Arafat: Where did the Palestinian leadership go?

In both Gaza and Ramallah the Palestinian leadership hasn’t gotten involved in the latest wave of violence. They’re not condemning it, they’re not supporting it, and they’re certainly not offering Palestinians any vision. But Israelis shouldn’t take comfort. One of the hottest topics in the media recently is the question of whether we can call…

By Haggai Matar November 11, 2014

Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus demonstrate their support for Hamas resistance in Gaza Strip three days after a deal signed by Israel and Hamas ended a 50-day Israeli attack, August 29, 2014. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

Post-Gaza war poll: Hamas, Haniyeh and rockets popularity at all-time high

More than two-thirds of Palestinians favor bringing Hamas’ armed resistance model to the West Bank, although majorities in Gaza prefer that the PA take over key aspects of security and governance of Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli military leaders may have boasted of victory over Hamas last week following 50 days of warfare…

By Mairav Zonszein September 2, 2014

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon survey a military exercise. (Photo by GPO/Kobi Gideon)

After indicting Hamas, Netanyahu declares war on all Palestinians

From arrests to home invasions to airstrikes, the repercussions of Bibi’s finger pointing are being felt throughout the West Bank and Gaza. Reports surfaced yesterday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering “expelling” Hamas leaders from the West Bank, ostensibly as punishment for the alleged kidnapping of three Jewish teenagers. The scheme harkens to December…

By Samer Badawi June 17, 2014

Mahmoud Abbas. (Olivier Pacteau)

Abbas just shot the Palestinian cause in the foot

He needs the world to win independence for his nation, and in the eyes of the world, Hamas, with whom he just joined forces, is anathema. I’m truly hoping that there’s some deep strategic genius on Mahmoud Abbas’ part that I’m missing here, because I keep turning it around and I can’t escape the impression…

By Larry Derfner April 24, 2014