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A handout picture released by the Hamas Press Office shows Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (C-L) shaking hands with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (C-R), Cairo, May 4, 2011, during a reconciliation ceremony that ended a nearly four-year feud but has angered Israel.
Egypt still mediating Fatah-Hamas reconciliation, assures official
Al-Masry Al-Youm 22 Apr 2013
Fatah and Hamas reaffirmed their partnership with Egypt in negotiating a Palestinian reconciliation, and denied asking...
An Egyptian army vehicle keeps its position close to the Rafah border crossing with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip
Hamas accuses Israel of killing soldiers in Rafah
Al-Masry Al-Youm 11 Apr 2013
Hamas has accused Israel of responsbility for the killing of 16 Egyptian soldiers last August, and denied it gave the...
Cairo promises to ease travel at Rafah border
MENA 09 Apr 2013
Cairo has promised to make crossing at the Rafah border easier during a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail...
Children are on their way to school, to start new academic year, Luxor, 15 September 2012.
Rights activists criticize law separating sexes at Gaza schools
Egypt Independent 03 Apr 2013
Palestinian rights organisations operating in Gaza criticised a law issued by the Hamas-led government that would...
Hamas re-elects Meshaal as leader: official
AFP 01 Apr 2013
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Hamas re-elected its veteran exiled leader Khaled Meshaal in Cairo on Monday...
Exiled Palestinian Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal speaks during an
Meshaal may keep office as Hamas elections begin in Cairo
DPA 01 Apr 2013
  Sources at the Palestinian faction Hamas told DPA news agency that the group’s advisory council will...
Exiled Palestinian Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal speaks during an
Hamas to hold presidential elections in Cairo
Egypt Independent 31 Mar 2013
Hamas will conduct presidential elections for its political bureau in Cairo on Monday, with most of its leadership in...
Hamas appeals to Egypt after Israel halves Gaza fishing zone
Reuters 22 Mar 2013
Hamas complained to Egypt on Friday after Israel suspended part of a Cairo-brokered truce agreement by halving...
Women bewailing and weeping during a funeral for soldiers, who were killed during an attack at a checkpoint along the Sinai border with Israel by unknown gunmen, near the tomb of the late former President Anwar al-Sadat and the Unknown Soldier monument, Cairo, 7 August 2012. Egypt began work to seal off smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a security source said, two days after gunmen shot dead 16 Egyptian border guards in an attack blamed partly on Palestinian jihadi militants.
Security sources claim Rafah attackers to be revealed in April
Al-Masry Al-Youm 20 Mar 2013
  High-ranking security sources said Wednesday that they would reveal the perpetrators behind the deadly Rafah...
Hamas militants take part in a news conference in Gaza City March 26, 2010. Hamas said its gunmen fired on Israeli soldiers who crossed into the Gaza Strip on Friday during a clash which Palestinian witnesses said inflicted at least one military casualty.
Brotherhood promises Gaza aid convoy to ‘appease Hamas’
Al-Masry Al-Youm 20 Mar 2013
  A Muslim Brotherhood member said Wednesday that the group is planning to send a delegation to Gaza in the near...