Palestinian Authority & Gaza Strip

"Hamas will not abandon Jerusalem, nor will we abandon the resistance," Ismail Haniyeh asserts as international mediators urge de-escalation.

Palestinian correspondent Rewaa Mershid was filming near the Gaza border on April 25 when she says members of Hamas border control beat her with a branch of a lemon tree for not wearing a headscarf. Hamas has promised to punish the offender. Mershid: I'm looking for opportunities outside Gaza.

Mohammed Deif sends “clear, final warning” that if Israel goes through with threatened eviction of dozens of Palestinians in east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah Hamas “will not stand by helplessly and the enemy will pay a heavy price.”

"I want to revive this sport and to encourage youth to practice it because it helps release bad energy," says Mohammad Abu Musaed, who is training the team.

State media quotes an unnamed military official as saying a plastic factory and other points were struck in Syria’s coastal region.

Those who normalize relations with the Jewish state are no longer considered members of the Islamic nation, says Khaled Mashaal, Hamas' international director.

Hamas – the Gaza Strip-based terrorist group that would have faced off against Abbas's Fatah party – accused Abbas of perpetrating a "coup" against their partnership.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh slams decision, says delaying the elections means cancelling them.

In televised speech, Palestinian Authority president insinuates elections in the Palestinian territories to be called off. Lack of coalition government preventing Jerusalem from allowing Palestinian elections in east of city, he says.

Palestinian leaders in both Fatah and Hamas appear to be in agreement that PA President Mahmoud Abbas will postpone the elections and officially pin the blame on Israel for not allowing the Arab residents of east Jerusalem to participate.