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Hamas: Israel tampering with prisoner lists and undermining Gaza truce

October 12th, 2025 - 07:59 GMT

Osama Ali

Hamas: Israel tampering with prisoner lists and undermining Gaza truce

ALBAWABA - Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas political leader, said that Israel changed the lists of prisoners to be exchanged and delayed the start of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, even though it had promised to uphold it in front of international mediators. He said that Israel is "even lying to the Americans who saw the deal." Hamad told Al Jazeera from Cairo that Hamas hopes the upcoming Sharm El-Sheikh summit ...

Mansour will serve as Egypt's head of state until a new president is elected. [guim]

December 3rd, 2013 - 11:24 GMT

Egypt's draft constitution expecting swift approval by President Mansour

Syrians walk past cars in central Damascus on December 3, 2013 prior to a suicide attack in the Jebbeh district of the capital causing deaths and injuries, Syrian state television reported. (AFP)

December 3rd, 2013 - 10:41 GMT

Deadly suicide bomb hits central Damascus

Douma was also arrested earlier this year for calling then-President Mohamed Morsi a liar and a criminal. (AFP/File)

December 3rd, 2013 - 10:22 GMT

Prominent Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma arrested in Cairo

A Lebanese man runs in the street at the entrance of Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh Sunni area during clashes with the Alawite, pro-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Jabal Mohsen neighbourhood in the northern Lebanese city on December 2, 2013. The clashes have wounded at least 61 people, among them 12 members of the Lebanese army, which is deployed in the city and is responding to the sources of fire, the security source said. (AFP)

December 3rd, 2013 - 09:51 GMT

Lebanese army carries out raids on Tripoli's militants after taking charge of the restive city

Amina, a Syrian woman who fled the fighting in Aleppo, is photographed inside an abandoned building with her five-month-old sick daughter, Asma, on the outskirts of Saraqib, southwest of Aleppo, on September 9, 2013. According to the Red Cross, more than one million Syrians are going hungry. (AFP)

December 3rd, 2013 - 05:49 GMT

Red Cross: More than one million Syrians going hungry as humanitarian crisis worsens

Jimmy Carter was the last U.S. president to visit Iran, back before the Islamic revolution in 1979 and the subsequent hostage crisis. [Reuters]

December 3rd, 2013 - 05:31 GMT

Iran: No visit in the works for Obama in 2014 despite rumors

Some 500 Palestinian security officers have descended on the West Bank to bring stability to Nablus and its surrounding areas. (AFP)

December 3rd, 2013 - 05:27 GMT

Palestinian security launch campaign to bring stability to Nablus

Car bombs are often made using gas containers and explosives placed inside the trunk of the car. [Ashraf Abdul-Wahab]

December 3rd, 2013 - 05:19 GMT

Cairo: Car bomb targeting convoy defused

Activists and residents claim that 50 Syrian refugees trapped along the Jordanian-Syrian border by regime bombing and shelling starved to death earlier this month. [eaworldview[

December 3rd, 2013 - 04:29 GMT

Influx of Syrian refugees enter Jordan

Maaloula's cathedral and churches empty of Christians as Syria's latest fight ensues. [Reuters]

December 3rd, 2013 - 04:19 GMT

Syrian rebels reclaim Christian town of Maaloula, monastery nuns suffer

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani [Getty Images]

December 3rd, 2013 - 04:00 GMT

British envoy to visit Tehran for first time in two years

Yemen is the home base of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which the United States views as the global militant network’s most dangerous franchise. [AFP]

December 2nd, 2013 - 06:50 GMT

9 killed in Yemen clashes