Hamas

Hamas set to elect new leader within weeks

Pro-Iran candidate Khalil al-Hayya is understood to be the frontrunner, while rival contender Khaled Mashaal reportedly favours closer ties with more ‘moderate’ Arab states

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad official Abdulaziz al-Minawi (L), Hamas' Arab relations chief Khalil al-Hayya (C) and Secretary General of the PFLP-GC Talal Naji (R) hold a press conference during a visit to the Syrian capital Damascus on October 19, 2022 (Getty Images)

US President Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago club on December 29, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida (Getty Images)

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Trump calls on Hamas to disarm or face ‘hell’ during Mar-a-Lago summit with Netanyahu

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

People raise a placard bearing a picture of Israeli hostage Romi Gonen while she was in captivity (Photo by OREN ZIV/AFP via Getty Images)

Hamas

Former hostage details sexual assault by four men in Gaza

By Adi Nirman

4 min read

Italian police van outside the Stadio Friuli on October 14, 2025 in Udine (Getty Images)

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Gaza charity leaders arrested in Italy over alleged Hamas fundraising

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Palestinians walk in the courtyard of the UNRWA Health Centre in Khan Yunis on the southern Gaza Strip on October 29, 2024 (Image: Getty)

By Gary Cohen

The Hamas files: how terrorists captured Western NGOs in Gaza

4 min read

Family members of victims react as they stand with other mourners near tributes in memory of those killed in the Bondi Beach terror attack. (Image: Getty)

By Bernard-Henri Lévy

The intifada has been globalised

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Gazan journalist Anas al-Sharif (C), who was killed in an Israeli strike in August, embraces the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (IDF)

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Most Gazan journalists killed by IDF had links to terror, new report claims

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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Secret dossiers alleged to reveal how Hamas influenced Gaza aid groups

Declassified files name international NGOs including Oxfam and the Norwegian Refugee Council

By Mark Wood

3 min read

December 11, 2025 17:21

A view of tents along Gaza's coastline in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on November 10, 2025 (Photo by SAEED JARAS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Hamas leader rules out ‘unacceptable’ disarmament as part of Gaza ceasefire

‘Disarmament for a Palestinian means stripping away his very soul,’ said Khaled Mashal

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

December 11, 2025 10:19

Hamas leader Khaled Mashal in an interview with Al Jazeera on December 10, 2025 (Al Jazeera)

By Hans-Jakob Schindler

Hamas is a terror threat to Europe – it’s high time to act

We need to disrupt more effectively its financial structures, both those across the continent as well as those located in the territory of our NATO ally Turkey

3 min read

December 10, 2025 14:45

By Maureen Lipman

As I walked past the Kibbutz Be’eri blast holes, I wished Dawn French had been alongside me

I wish all the sneering, B-list deniers had seen the bomb damage first hand

4 min read

December 9, 2025 11:27

A home in Kibbutz Beeri damaged during the October 7, 2023 attack (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

‘High likelihood’ Hamas will attack Europe in the next six months, intelligence report warns

Key targets in Europe include Israeli diplomatic missions and religious sites related to the Jewish state

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

December 8, 2025 14:08

Hamas now poses a threat in Eueope (Image: Getty)

By Mattie Heaven

The extremism I saw destroy Iran is taking root in Britain

I know what happens when intimidation smothers democracy and antisemitism rises. If we want our children to inherit the UK we love, we must act before the radicals rewrite it in their image

4 min read

December 4, 2025 16:26

Anti-Israel demonstrators protest in Parliament Square in London on February 21, 2024 (Image: Getty)

‘I choose life’: Ex hostage Alon Ohel reveals brutal treatment at the hands of Hamas captors

Alon, who almost lost sight in one of his eyes due to a shrapnel injury, recounted his experiences of starvation and sexual assault at the hands of terrorists

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

December 3, 2025 11:13

Freed hostage Alon Ohel arrives home in Moshav Lavon, Israel, on October 24, 2025 (Flash90)

British pro-Palestine protesters ‘more at risk of radicalisation than I was,’ claims former jihadi

Noor Dahri, a former member of the Lashkar e Tayyaba (LT) terror group, told the JC he sees the same ‘grievances’ being encouraged in British society by Hamas

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

December 2, 2025 13:06

More than 100 lawyers sign letter in support of solicitor trying to force Hamas deproscription

The signatories called on the Justice Secretary and Law Society to publicly defend Fahad Ansari

By Ben Conway

2 min read

November 28, 2025 14:17

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Hamas

Hamas set to elect new leader within weeks

Trump calls on Hamas to disarm or face ‘hell’ during Mar-a-Lago summit with Netanyahu

Former hostage details sexual assault by four men in Gaza

Gaza charity leaders arrested in Italy over alleged Hamas fundraising

The Hamas files: how terrorists captured Western NGOs in Gaza

The intifada has been globalised

Most Gazan journalists killed by IDF had links to terror, new report claims

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