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26 Jul 2006, 8:00 am
[JURIST] United Nations relief coordinator Jan Egeland [official profile; JURIST news archive] said Tuesday that Israel had used "disproportionate" force in its military offensive against the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip [JURIST news archive], but he added that both sides had violated international humanitarian law [JURIST report]. [read post]
22 Jul 2006, 8:13 am
Hezbollah missiles and Hamas rockets target and hit Israeli restaurants, apartment buildings and schools. [read post]
19 Jul 2006, 2:53 am
Three other Hamas ministers were held for further questioning for five to 10 days, and nine other Hamas leaders detained [read post]
6 Jul 2006, 4:15 am
[JURIST] An Israeli military tribunal Wednesday extended the detentions of five Palestinian Hamas lawmakers for an additional five days. [read post]
30 Jun 2006, 11:44 am
[JURIST] Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz [official profile] has said that a group of two dozen Hamas MPs and ministers who were detained [JURIST report] Thursday will not be held in administrative detention [B'Tselem backgrounder] under the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law [PDF text]. [read post]
29 Jun 2006, 8:01 am
[JURIST] The Israeli military arrested seven Palestinian Cabinet ministers and some 20 lawmakers Thursday as tensions mounted [NYT report] between Israel [JURIST news archive] and Palestinians sparked by the Sunday abduction of Israeli soldier Cpl. [read post]
12 Jun 2006, 3:08 am
[JURIST] The Hamas party [ICT backgrounder], which controls the Palestinian Legislative Council [official website], launched a challenge to a referendum [JURIST report] proposed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [BBC profile], calling an emergency debate Monday on whether a referendum is legal under Palestinian law. [read post]
6 Jun 2006, 1:24 am
Abbas has said that if Hamas, which controls the Palestinian Legislative Council [official website], does not [read post]
22 Apr 2006, 8:52 am
(See Jean-Marie Henckaerts/Louise Doswald-Beck, Customary International Humanitarian Law, Volume I: Rules, Cambridge 2005, p. 3 et seq.)Such attacks on civilians and statements like that given by the Hamas are unbearable, morally as well as legally. [read post]
10 Apr 2006, 5:23 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, the European Union [official website] Council of Foreign Ministers has voted to suspend economic aid to the Palestinian Authority [JURIST news archive] on the grounds that EU law forbids the funding of terrorist organizations and recently elected political organization Hamas has failed to distance itself from its terrorist roots. [read post]
6 Apr 2006, 3:47 am
[JURIST] Khaled Abu Arafa, the minister of Jerusalem affairs in the new Hamas-led Palestinian government [cabinet listing], was detained Thursday by Israeli police as he attempted to meet his predecessor, Ziad Abu Zayyad, for administrative purposes. [read post]
7 Mar 2006, 1:57 am
[JURIST] Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz [official profile] said Tuesday that Israel would consider resorting to targeted killings of Hamas leaders if the group resumes attacks in Israel. [read post]
6 Mar 2006, 7:26 am
[JURIST] The Hamas-controlled Palestinian Legislative Council [official website] on Monday voted to strip Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas [BBC profile] of powers given him last month by the lame-duck parliament dominated by Abbas' Fatah party [party website]. [read post]
27 Feb 2006, 6:11 am
Since Hamas' victory in Palestinian elections [JURIST report] in January, the EU [read post]
19 Feb 2006, 10:45 pm
Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert [official profile] told the cabinet that Hamas' [read post]
13 Feb 2006, 3:53 am
[JURIST] In its final session before dissolution, the lame-duck Palestinian Parliament [official website] Monday gave Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] the authority to appoint a constitutional court empowered to cancel any law approved by the newly-elected Hamas-led assembly considered contrary to the Palestinian Constitution [text]. [read post]
28 Jan 2006, 3:53 pm
[JURIST] A senior Hamas official speaking in Jerusalem has said that introducing Islamic sharia [Wikipedia backgrounder] as "a source of law" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be "the No. 1 thing we will do" when Hamas takes up its seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council [official website] after its shock victory [JURIST report] in Palestinian parliamentary elections earlier this week. [read post]
26 Jan 2006, 9:32 am
[JURIST] Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei [BBC profile] and members of his Fatah party Cabinet submitted their resignations Thursday after initial results from Wednesday's Palestinian parliamentary elections - the first in ten years - appeared to give the militant Hamas [MIPT backgrounder] movement a majority of seats in the 132-member Palestinian Legislative Council [official [read post]