GenevaLunch » Hamas http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Shalit and 477 others head home: Israeli-Hamas swap underway (update) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/shalit-and-477-others-head-home-israeli-hamas-swap-underway-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/shalit-and-477-others-head-home-israeli-hamas-swap-underway-update/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:16:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62544 GenevaLunch.com Palestinian envoy raises ire of Canadian gov’t Egyptian TV’s interview with Shalit shocks some as exploitation GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It is not being hailed as a gesture with implications for Middle East peace, but there is widespread relief over the release of Israeli prisoner Galid Shalit by Palestine’s Hamas after five years, and 477 Palestinians [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/shalit-and-477-others-head-home-israeli-hamas-swap-underway-update/feed/ 0 Israeli soldier Shalit promises in swap for large number of Palestinians http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/12/israeli-soldier-shalit-promises-in-swap-for-large-number-of-palestinians/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/12/israeli-soldier-shalit-promises-in-swap-for-large-number-of-palestinians/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:49:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62439 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Palestinian and Israeli authorities are saying that they have reached an agreement that will free anywhere from 450 to more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israel in exchange for the freedom of soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been held for five years. The swap will reportedly take place next week, the Israeli [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/12/israeli-soldier-shalit-promises-in-swap-for-large-number-of-palestinians/feed/ 0 Israel to ask UN for revised Goldstone report http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/04/israel-to-ask-un-for-revised-goldstone-report/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/04/israel-to-ask-un-for-revised-goldstone-report/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:11:32 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56056 GenevaLunch.com Judge and UN report author says report would have been different if he’d known what he now knows Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Israel will ask the United Nations to revise the Goldstone Report on the 2008-2009 Gaza war, following publication 1 April of an Op-Ed article by judge Richard Goldstone in the Washington Post. Goldstone [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/04/israel-to-ask-un-for-revised-goldstone-report/feed/ 1 Gaza escalation sees five wounded in new attack http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/22/gaza-escalation-sees-five-wounded-in-new-attack/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/22/gaza-escalation-sees-five-wounded-in-new-attack/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:30:56 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55575 GenevaLunch.com Israeli tank fire injured five people when a house in Gaza was hit, medics have told Reuters. The injuries were not confirmed by Israel, but if the information is accurate, its brings to 24 the number of people wounded in Gaza since Monday 21 March. Israel says it responded with air attacks after rocket and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/22/gaza-escalation-sees-five-wounded-in-new-attack/feed/ 0 UK Consulate staff held on weapons charges http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/04/uk-consulate-staff-held-on-weapons-charges/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/04/uk-consulate-staff-held-on-weapons-charges/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:49:30 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=51900 GenevaLunch.com Two local staff members of the British Consulate in Jerusalem have been charged in connection with a plot to fire rockets at a local stadium during a football match. The men, employed as maintenance personnel, were detained 2 January with three other men said to be linked to Hamas and charged with supplying them with [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/04/uk-consulate-staff-held-on-weapons-charges/feed/ 0 The Hamas murder in Dubai and the Polish connection http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/17/the-polish-connection-and-the-hamas-murder-in-dubaithe-hamas-murder-in-dubai-and-the-polish-connection/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/17/the-polish-connection-and-the-hamas-murder-in-dubaithe-hamas-murder-in-dubai-and-the-polish-connection/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:03:09 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=43752 GenevaLunch.com The unfolding drama of the thriller-style assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in Dubai in early 2010 is taking investigators to Poland. German prosecutors are confirming that a man in Poland may have fraudulently obtained a German passport used in connection with the Hamas murder and are seeking his extradition. The request is expected to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/17/the-polish-connection-and-the-hamas-murder-in-dubaithe-hamas-murder-in-dubai-and-the-polish-connection/feed/ 0 Ireland joins UK, Australia in expelling Israeli diplomat http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/15/ireland-joins-uk-australia-in-expelling-israeli-diplomat/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/15/ireland-joins-uk-australia-in-expelling-israeli-diplomat/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:51:47 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=43593 GenevaLunch.com Ireland is expelling an Israeli diplomat over the near-certain manufacture of eight fake Irish passports by an agency of the Israeli government, says Foreign Minister Micheal Martin, in a veiled reference to Massud, the Israeli secret service. The passports were used by agents who carried out the murder of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/15/ireland-joins-uk-australia-in-expelling-israeli-diplomat/feed/ 0 Interpol backs Dubai as it adds 16 warrants in Hamas death http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/10/interpol-backs-dubai-as-it-adds-16-warrants-in-hamas-death/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/10/interpol-backs-dubai-as-it-adds-16-warrants-in-hamas-death/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:54:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=38416 GenevaLunch.com Lyons, France / Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Dubai police have added 16 more international arrest warrants to the 11 already issued, linked to the 20 January death of Hamas military leader Mahmoud Al Mabhouh. Interpol has added the new warrants to its existing Red Notices for the case. Interpol, based in Lyons, insists on the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/10/interpol-backs-dubai-as-it-adds-16-warrants-in-hamas-death/feed/ 2 Dubai police say Hamas leader drugged, then suffocated http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/28/dubai-police-say-hamas-leader-drugged-then-suffocated/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/28/dubai-police-say-hamas-leader-drugged-then-suffocated/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:33:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=37915 GenevaLunch.com Dubai police are now saying that Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was first drugged with a muscle relaxant, then suffocated in a hotel room. They believe evidence is more clearly pointing to Israel’s Mossad undercover agency, but Israel has not commented on the latest details or its possible role. Police Sunday 28 February said the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/28/dubai-police-say-hamas-leader-drugged-then-suffocated/feed/ 0 Australian anger at Israel grows over Dubai passports http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/26/australian-anger-at-israel-grows-over-dubai-passports/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/26/australian-anger-at-israel-grows-over-dubai-passports/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:34:47 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=37756 GenevaLunch.com The number of suspects in the murder of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in December has now grown to 26, say Dubai police, with Australian passports reportedly used. Australia called in the Israeli ambassador and issued a sharp warning that it will not tolerate any government condoning or being behind the theft of its [...]

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