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Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya (File photo) AFP PHOTO / Said Khatib
PoliticsRegion

Hamas invited to Non-Aligned summit

Invitation angers PLO

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Egyptian security forces stand by their Armoured Personell Carriers ahead of a military operation in the northern Sinai peninsula on 8 August AFP PHOTO / STRINGER
EgyptPolitics

Tribesmen killed in Sinai as unrest continues

The exact identity of the attackers remains unclear at this point yet

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
An Egyptian army vehicle keeps its position close to the Rafah border crossing with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on 6 August AFP PHOTO/AHMED MAHMOUD
EgyptPolitics

Rafah crossing closed following Sinai attack

Hamas calls move “collective punishment,” as Brotherhood suggests Israeli involvement

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Protester holds a sign at the funeral of the soldiers killed in the Sinai, which literally reads ‘The blood of the martyrs is on the necks of Hamas and the Brotherhood’ blaming the deaths of the soldiers on Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood organizations.(Photo by Hassan Ibrahim)
EgyptPolitics

Mourners at military funeral throw shoes at PM, President absent

In a crowded funeral, midday Tuesday, Egyptians honored the security men who…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam

Different angles to analyse Rafah’s turmoil

At midnight on Sunday, 16 Egyptian border guards were pronounced dead. One…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak (2nd L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (3rd R) speak to the press next to a burnt armoured vehicle near the Kerem Shalom border crossing after unidentified gunmen crossed into Israel from Egypt on 6 August AFP PHOTO / DAVID BUIMOVITCH
EgyptPolitics

Israel and Hamas react to Sinai attack

IDF spokesman: the militants killed were in the "advanced and final stages…

Ahmed Khalifa
Ahmed Khalifa
Palestinians unload their belongings from a taxi as the ready to cross to Egypt through the Rafah border crossing between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt (photo: AFP / Said Khatib)
EgyptPolitics

Hamas and Morsy to open Rafah

Over a weekend of meetings the Egyptian President and Hamas Prime Minister…

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Politics

President Morsy emerges as regional mediator on Gaza

After a weekend of meetings with Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and the…

Maryam Ishani
Maryam Ishani
Palestinians wave their national flag during a rally in front of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Hamas's prime minister in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniya called on Egypt on Wednesday to keep the Rafah border crossing open around the clock (AFP)
Politics

Hamas calls on Egypt to end Rafah crossing quotas

Permanently opening the border crossing and removing the quota, would allow Egypt…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Palestinian medics wheel a victim into Al-Shifa Hospital following an Israeli attack in Gaza City (Photo: AFP/MAHMUD HAMS)
Region

Israeli strikes kill one in Gaza

An attack earlier in the day on a Hamas compound east of…

Maryam Ishani
Maryam Ishani