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Conflict between Fatah and Hamas began simmering when Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections in January 2006. Israel and the Quartet—comprising the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations—demanded that the new Hamas government accept all previous agreements, recognize Israel's right to exist, and renounce violence; when Hamas refused, they cut off aid to ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 2006 Palestinian legislative election ← 1996 25 January 2006 Next → All 132 seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council 67 seats needed for a majority Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Hamas Ismail Haniyeh 44.45 74 New Fatah Farouk Kaddoumi 41.43 45 −5 PFLP Ahmad Sa'adat 4.25 3 New The ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to make Hamas "pay the full price" for failing to return the body but he held back from walking away from the ceasefire agreement, which took ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to make Hamas pay "the full price" for what he called a "cruel and wicked violation" of the tenuous Gaza ceasefire agreement after the Israeli and U.S ...
Israel will resume “intense” fighting in Gaza if all hostages are not released by Saturday noon, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. "The military will return to intense fighting until ...
Following the Fatah–Hamas conflict that started in 2006, Hamas formed a government ruling the Gaza Strip without elections. Gazan Prime Minister Haniyye announced in September 2012 the formation of a second Hamas government, also without elections.
Israel launched its campaign in Gaza after Hamas-led gunmen burst into Israeli border-area communities on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 soldiers and civilians and abducting over 250 hostages ...
On 14 December 2006, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, carrying tens of millions in donations, was denied by Israel entry into Gaza via the Rafah Border Crossing. [60] Angry Hamas militants stormed the post, which was staffed by European monitors and defended by Abbas' Presidential Guard, responsible for security there.