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Those leading the battle are members of this wing that's close to Iran and liaises directly with it,
said Hassan Abu Haniyeh, an expert and commentator on militant Islam based in Jordan We will keep our oath to you Abu Ibrahim and your banner won't fall,
said Al-Hayya, referring to Sinwar as he was widely known Today (Friday), Mahmoud Hamdan was eliminated by the IDF (military) during an encounter with IDF troops, approximately 200 meters (yards) from the spot where Sinwar was eliminated,
the army said in a statement The next leader will almost certainly come from the movement's leadership in Doha,
wrote Ghaith Al Omari and Neomi Neumann, senior fellow and visiting fellow respectively at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy It is the responsibility of Israeli security forces to actively prevent Israeli settlers from entering Palestinian olive groves to disrupt the harvest,
The olive harvest is an economic lifeline for tens of thousands of Palestinian families in the West Bank,
What I would imagine would happen is there will be a secret dignified burial in an undisclosed place, ... When bin Laden was killed, he received a dignified Muslim funeral.”
said Jon B. Alterman, the director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, adding The issue of negotiating to implement international resolution 1701 is being undertaken by the Lebanese state,
Mr. Mikati said in response, referring to the U.N. agreement We understand that Hezbollah does operate at times from underneath civilian homes, inside civilian homes,
Hamas is alive and will stay alive,
he said, according to a social media post Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians or prevented them from gaining access to their lands and damaged trees, stole crops and harvesting tools,
What happened is clear deliberate targeting of peacekeepers because there was no one else around,
There will be a huge Israeli effort to make sure there is nothing left to be an object of veneration,
I think the role of UNIFIL at the moment is more important than ever,
This is the constant missing piece, not just during the course of this war, but historically in the US management of the peace process and their policy toward Israel and Palestine,
For the war to end, the US’s main ally in the region, the state of Israel, would have to change quite significantly what it is doing, and the US has not shown at any time in the past year a willingness to use the leverage that it does actually have to force that change in behaviour,
Sinwar was not the only obstacle to a ceasefire or indeed the main obstacle to a ceasefire. That was Netanyahu and that remains Netanyahu,
Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, told Al Jazeera What day after? What is a day after when you have destroyed more than 70 percent of Gaza and rendered most people homeless and five percent of the population has been killed?”
Zaha Hassan, a human rights lawyer and a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told Al Jazeera Never has a country so flagrantly and so bluntly violated every single rule in the book. Never has a country done exactly what it wanted regardless of various attempts to intervene by its friends and allies,
Israel is doing what it has always done: It’s bombing and it’s killing and it’s assassinating, but there’s no plan, there’s no progression, there’s no sense of anything happening except death,