After a ceasefire with Israel, Hamas has claimed “victory” but the Palestinian Islamist group’s success lies more in marginalising its political rival Fatah than in battle, analysts say. The return…
IT has not been a good century for the Palestinians. The trouble, some historians would say, began as long as 103 years ago with the Balfour Declaration that gave Israeli…
It didn’t seem like a revolution. A botanical green smoothie and a snapper fish burger, it was. In a Bahamas health-food cafe. But future generations might look back at this…
As peace offerings go, prefabricated metal huts on a sand dune may seem unimpressive, but they are what the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has chosen.…
Hamas is feeling the squeeze of an Egyptian army crackdown on border tunnels that once served as a financial lifeline for the Palestinian Islamist group ruling the Gaza Strip. The…
Seeking a path out of the Gaza Strip’s grinding poverty, Islam Abu Taima combs market alleyways for scraps of cardboard, hoping to transform the castoffs into sellable toys. Poverty in…
Younis al-Shaer left Gaza dreaming of a better life in Europe, only to return to the Palestinian enclave in a coffin. The 21-year-old was one of scores of Palestinians risking…
Who could have imagined that a year which saw unprecedented global criticism of Israel’s repressive policies in Palestine would end with the return of the controversial Benjamin Netanyahu, already Israel’s…
It should be obvious to pretty much everyone at this point that anything crypto is an old-fashioned grift, a scam, a Ponzi scheme. Those who got in on the ground…
“Beneficial owner refers to the natural person(s) who ultimately owns or controls a customer and/or the natural person on whose behalf a transaction is being conducted. It also includes those…
