Hamas gunmen execute 18 suspected informers
Hamas-led gunmen in Gaza execute 18 Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel a day after Israel tracked down and killed three top Hamas commanders.
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Israel and Hamas accept Egyptian proposals for a long-term ceasefire following seven weeks of war and the loss of more than 2,000 lives.
Hamas-led gunmen in Gaza execute 18 Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel a day after Israel tracked down and killed three top Hamas commanders.
Thousands attend the funeral of three senior Hamas military commanders killed in the Gaza Strip.
A day after the collapse of the latest ceasefire in Gaza, hostilities resume between Israel and Hamas – and the wife and infant son of a Hamas commander are amongst the fatalities.
Israel will keep fighting Palestinian guerrillas in the Gaza Strip after the army completes its mission of destroying cross-border tunnels, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Jon Snow talks to Hamas’ foreign affairs spokesman Osama Hamdan and asks him why his fighters do not stop their rocket attacks on Israel in order to prevent further civilian deaths in Gaza.
Gazans report one of the heaviest nights of bombardment from Israeli forces, after an address by the Israeli President Binyamin Netanyahu warning Israel to prepare for a prolonged “campaign”.
Israel has made “superhuman efforts” to minimise suffering in the Gaza Strip, says the former Israeli ambassador to the US, while Hamas is “a vicious, medieval, racist, genocidal organisation”.
The attack on Gaza’s main hospital was the work of Hamas, says Daniel Taub, the UK’s Israeli ambassador. And he says his country wants to see nobody die – “least of all children”.
Hamas spokesman Ihab al-Ghousein says firing rockets into Israel is “the only thing we have” to get Israel to “give us our rights”, and denies the organisation is using civilians as human shields.
The death toll continues to rise in Gaza, as Israel is accused of war crimes. But is Hamas responsible for some Palestinian civilian deaths?
As diplomats try to find a way out of this crisis, how Hamas is fighting Israel? What is the military strategy and what does it hope to achieve?
General Yaakov Amidror, former Israeli national security adviser, says that Hamas “is the problem of the Palestinians, not us.” “We need a few days to destroy the tunnels of Hamas,” he adds.
Hamas spokesperson Ihab Al-Ghosein tells Channel 4 News that “Iraelis are making up reasons to target everything.” ‘We don’t mean to kill anyone,” he adds.
Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner say Israel is facing an “unbearable reality” from Hamas who fire rockets into Israel from civilian areas.