Hezbollah Leader Says They Are Ready To Support Hamas
 
July 21, 2014
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been heard in conversation with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shalah stating that Hezbollah is prepared to assist Hamas against Israel

Israel Strikes Weapons Cache is Sudan

July 21, 2014

There are reports that Israeli forces have destroyed a cache of weapons in Sudan that was headed for Hamas in Gaza. It appears that Israel's air force carried out the attack on a warehouse in Sudan.

Hamas unveils new UAV

Mohammed Najib, Ramallah and Jeremy Binnie, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

15 July 2014

 

 

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced on 14 July that it has a self-produced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called the Ababil 1.
It said it had developed three different models: the A1A for reconnaissance missions; A1B for offensive missions; and A1C for attacking suicide missions, in which the UAV is used as a loitering munition.
The announcement was accompanied by the release of a video showing what the al-Qassam Brigades said was an A1B in flight.
The aircraft has a boxy fuselage with a high-wing, twin-boom, pusher configuration and fixed, wheeled under-carriage. It carried what appeared to be two improvised rockets under each wing. While it did not appear to be fitted with an electro-optical turret, it had a camera fixed under each boom to film what is in front of the UAV.

Full Story

 

Wanted Hamas member killed

Jerusalem (CNN) -- A wanted Hamas operative was killed overnight in an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank, the military said Friday.
A spokeswoman for the Israeli military told CNN that Israeli soldiers were on a mission to apprehend Palestinian Iyad Shilbayeh for suspicions of involvement in recent "terror activity" in a town near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem.
Shilbayeh ran toward the Israeli soldiers with his hands behind his back in a suspicious manner and continued to advance despite calls for him to stop, according to the spokeswoman. It was at this point that Israeli soldiers opened fired the spokeswoman told CNN.

Full Story

Aid Ship Mariam to Sail on Sunday 

August 20, 2010
By Ali Yenidunya

Will Mariam Sail to Gaza?: As Palestine Today reported Thursday that an aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip had departed from Algeria, the organizers of the Lebanese ship Mariam said that they plan to set sail from Lebanon on Sunday.

Full Story