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3 days ago | 
jewishpress.com | Khaled Abu Toameh
The Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has reconstituted its “Executive Force” as part of an effort to control humanitarian aid and “impose law and order” in the Gaza Strip.
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1 week ago | 
gatestoneinstitute.org | Khaled Abu Toameh
The Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has reconstituted its "Executive Force" as part of an effort to control humanitarian aid and "impose law and order" in the Gaza Strip.
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1 week ago | 
jns.org | Khaled Abu Toameh |Dan Diker
(May 7, 2025 / JNS)In this episode of “Our Middle East,” Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs, and Khaled Abu Toameh, senior fellow at JCFA and the Gatestone Institute, unpack why Gaza is no longer a local conflict. It’s a global flashpoint.
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2 weeks ago | 
jns.org | Khaled Abu Toameh
(April 29, 2025 / Gatestone Institute) On April 26, a group of unelected Palestinian Authority officials approved the appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh as “Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Vice President of the [non-existent] State of Palestine.” P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas, who also serves as chairman of the PLO Executive Committee, had nominated the 64-year-old al-Sheikh for this position in accordance with a decision by the...
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2 weeks ago | 
gatestoneinstitute.org | Khaled Abu Toameh
On April 26, a group of unelected Palestinian Authority (PA) officials approved the appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh as "Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Vice President of the [non-existent] State of Palestine." PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who also serves as chairman of the PLO Executive Committee, had nominated the 64-year-old al-Sheikh for this position in accordance with a decision by the Palestinian Central Council, a body...
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3 weeks ago | 
gatestoneinstitute.org | Khaled Abu Toameh
As the war in the Gaza Strip is about to enter its 20th month, the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group has once again repeated its refusal to disarm. It says the weapons are needed to continue its fight against Israel. Those who believe that Hamas would ever agree to lay down its weapons are living in a dream world. There is, unfortunately, only one way to convince Hamas to disarm: military force.
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3 weeks ago | 
jns.org | Dan Diker |Khaled Abu Toameh
(April 23, 2025 / JNS)Is the Palestinian Authority on the verge of collapse? In this hard-hitting episode of “Our Middle East,” Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs, and Khaled Abu Toameh, senior fellow at JCFA and the Gatestone Institute, address the inner workings of the Palestinian Authority and its growing instability—an issue with direct implications for Israel, the Arab world and global security.
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3 weeks ago | 
jns.org | Khaled Abu Toameh
(April 21, 2025 / Gatestone Institute)After bringing death and destruction on the residents of the Gaza Strip, the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorist group is now trying to drag Arab Israelis and Palestinians in east Jerusalem and the West Bank into a violent confrontation with Israel. Hamas and Iran’s mullahs will not be content until they see bloodshed and violence spread to areas outside the Gaza Strip.
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1 month ago | 
gatestoneinstitute.org | Khaled Abu Toameh
While Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are facing death and destruction as a result of the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), an association of extremist Islamic theologians affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, has issued a fatwa (Islamic ruling) calling for jihad (holy war) against Israel. The IUMS, a largely Sunni group founded in 2004, consists of some 95,000 Muslim "scholars" globally and 67 Islamic organizations.
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1 month ago | 
gatestoneinstitute.org | Khaled Abu Toameh
US President Donald Trump's envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said last week that he does not rule out the possibility that the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas could be politically active in the Gaza Strip after it disarms. "They [Hamas] need to demilitarize, and then they might be politically involved in Gaza," Witkoff said in an interview with Tucker Carlson that was aired on March 21.
