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As airstrikes in Gaza continue, support for 'armed resistance' grows, Hamas popularity drops - poll

Though Marwan Barghouti remains the most popular figure in Palestinian politics, support for independent figures like Bashar Masri and Mustafa Barghouti is steadily growing.

Palestinian boys and men chant and carry a Hamas flag during the funeral procession for commanders Izz al-Din al-Beik and Mohannad Abu al-Foul in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on September 29, 2026.
Palestinian workers break up concrete while working on rubble in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 19, 2026.

Palestinians use Gaza rubble to restore streets as US rebuilding plan stalls

 Palestinians gather to receive aid provided by UNRWA including food supplies, after Israel says it has ceased entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, outside a distribution center, at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip, March 2, 2025.

Israel proposes, retracts resolution on Gaza refugees at IPU assembly

 Displaced Palestinians make their way as they flee Hamad City following an Israeli evacuation order, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip August 11, 2024.

IDF examining claims of soldiers using Gazans to check dangerous areas


Beneath the surface, Gazans are in the middle of an existential crisis

Life in the Strip is for the most part superficially back to normal two years on from the 2014 war, but that isn't the full story.

Palestinians swim in the Mediterranean Sea as they enjoy the warm weather in the northern Gaza Strip, August 14, 2015

Gaza businessman: Hamas wants Israeli economic cooperation

Bouab recounts that before Hamas came to power in Gaza he owned four textile factories in the Karni industrial zone, which provided 2,000 jobs.

A young Palestinian entrepreneur displays on his mobile a game that he developed at Gaza Sky Geeks office, in Gaza City January 18, 2016.

Members of Gaza flotilla detained and issued deportation notices

The Zaytouna-Olivia, which set sail from Barcelona in September was seized by the Israeli Navy around 35 nautical miles off the coast of the Gaza Strip Wednesday evening.

Activists aboard a flotilla to Gaza [file]

'Women's flotilla' to Gaza accuses Israel of causing delays

The small fleet of 2 vessels was set to carry dozens of women with the aim of breaching Israel's naval blockade of the Strip, however police and a bad engine slowed them down.

Activists aboard a flotilla to Gaza [file]

Gaza's 'worst zoo in the world' to close

Along with the 16 other animals still residing at the Khan Younis Zoo, Laziz the tiger is set to leave his desolate home in the coming days.

Laziz the tiger at the Khan Yunis Zoo

Gazan crosses border, disappears into Israeli territory

The Gaza Division has opened an investigation into how he managed to penetrate so far into Israel.

IDF vehicle drives along Gaza border fence [file]

Palestinian charged with diverting Gaza rehabilitation materials to Hamas terrorists

Suspect circumvented UN inspectors responsible for ensuring that such materials, provided by donor nations and other bodies, are used solely for rehabilitating civilian infrastructure, Shin Bet says.

A smuggling tunnel beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah [File]

Still on the edge: Regards from Gaza - Southern exposure

A year after Operation Protective Edge, four Gaza residents and three Israelis reveal some insights about daily life.

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Blair: 'You could lock Israeli-PA negotiators in room for eternity and peace would not come'

Blair called on Hamas to clarify if they are Palestinian nationalist movement or broader Islamic one with regional designs

Quartet envoy to Middle East Tony Blair

Encountering Peace: Don’t destroy Gaza, build it!

We need to help the people of Gaza replace Hamas by providing them with hope and a better future, something Hamas has never provided.

Palestinians survey the wreckage of an IAF strike that killed two terrorists in Gaza.