Ibrahim Barzak

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Hamas arrests top member over financial suspicions

Hamas arrests top member over financial suspicions

Ibrahim Barzak · February 17, 2014 11:44 am

Growing herbs a remedy for some Gaza economic woes

Ibrahim Barzak · February 4, 2014 3:22 pm

In this Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 photo, director Majed Jundiyeh holds a mobile phone to compare the image of Gilad Schalit to the likeness of actor Mahmoud Karira, who will play the character of Shalit in a movie being made in Gaza called, ''Losing Shalit," in Gaza City. "Losing Schalit," currently being filmed in the blockaded territory, is the first of a planned three-part series about the 2006 capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit by gunmen allied with the Islamic militant Hamas movement. Parts two and three will depict Schalit's time in captivity and his 2011 swap for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Gaza’s 2nd feature film revisits resistance theme

Ibrahim Barzak · January 30, 2014 7:12 am

Palestinian ends hunger strike in deal

Palestinian ends hunger strike in deal

Ibrahim Barzak · March 17, 2013 10:37 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, July 12, 2012 file photo, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal arrives at the Islamist Ennahda party congress in Tunis. The leader of Gaza's ruling Hamas group will visit the Palestinian territory for the first time, an official said Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, a sign of increasing boldness of the Islamic militant movement after it held its own against an Israeli military offensive. Khaled Mashaal was set to arrive in the Gaza Strip next week by crossing the border from Egypt to mark Hamas' 25th anniversary and congratulate its leaders and fighters for battling Israel during the recent eight-day offensive, according to a senior Hamas official in Gaza. (AP Photo/Amine Landoulsi, File)

Official: Hamas leader Mashaal set to visit Gaza

Ibrahim Barzak · December 1, 2012 5:00 am

Gaza cleric calls violation of Israel truce sinful

Gaza cleric calls violation of Israel truce sinful

Ibrahim Barzak · November 25, 2012 1:25 pm

Israeli airstrikes kill 3 Palestinian journalists

Israeli airstrikes kill 3 Palestinian journalists

Ibrahim Barzak · November 20, 2012 11:01 pm

An Israeli soldier stands on a tank at a staging area near the Israel Gaza Strip Border, southern Israel, early Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging Israeli forces and Gaza militants to hold their fire, warning that a further escalation of the seven-day-old conflict would endanger the entire region. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel-Hamas cease-fire remains elusive

Ibrahim Barzak, Josef Federman · November 20, 2012 5:00 am

Smoke rises following an Israeli attack on smuggling tunnels on the border between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

Israel, Hamas trade fire and tough truce proposals

Karin Laub, Ibrahim Barzak · November 19, 2012 5:00 am

Palestinian Yoused Abu Khoussa, carries the body of his one and a half year-old son Iyad, during his funeral in Bureij Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. The baby boy was one of five Palestinian children killed in Israeli strikes on Sunday, according to a Gaza health official.(AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel strike kills 11 in Gaza, including children

Ibrahim Barzak, Josef Federman · November 18, 2012 5:00 am

Israelis take cover as an air raid siren warns of incoming rockets from Gaza, next to an Iron Dome defense system in Tel Aviv, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with nearly 200 airstrikes early Saturday, the military said, widening a blistering assault on Gaza rocket operations to include the prime minister's headquarters, a police compound and a vast network of smuggling tunnels. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel bombards Gaza Strip, shoots down rocket

Ian Deitch, Ibrahim Barzak · November 17, 2012 5:00 am

Palestinian mourners carry the body of Hamas' top military commander Ahmed Jabari, killed in an Israeli strike on Wednesday, during his funeral in Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Israel barraged the Gaza Strip with airstrikes and shelling Wednesday and killed the Hamas military chief in a targeted strike, launching a campaign aimed at stopping rocket attacks from Islamic militants. The assault killed 10 other Palestinians, including two children and seven militants. On Thursday, militant rockets fired into Israel killed three Israelis, raising the likelihood of a further escalation. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas targets Tel Aviv as part of rocket barrage

Karin Laub, Ibrahim Barzak · November 15, 2012 5:00 am