Several groups - some of them backed by Israel - are ranged against Hamas in Gaza, with complex and overlapping ties.

Major counterterrorism raids across Germany, Austria, in a coordinated European intelligence operation, reveal Hamas network planning attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets.

The U.S. is pushing ahead with plans to build communities for Palestinians on the Israeli side of the line dividing Gaza.

Hamas has swiftly reestablished its hold over areas from which Israel withdrew, killing dozens of Palestinians it accused of collaborating with Israel.

Hamas has seen its popularity soar inside the Gaza Strip amid the cease-fire with Israel, with Palestinians supporting its crackdown on rampant crime — even if it results in brutal, daylight

A former Arnold resident with U.S. and Iranian citizenship has been indicted on six counts related to making Hamas-linked threats online.

Many Palestinians in Gaza want the militant group to leave power, but still welcome a crackdown on crime that followed last month’s cease-fire.

U.S. and Israeli officials are divided over whether to allow the militants, stranded inside a tunnel network in Rafah, safe passage.

The UN Security Council has now formally endorsed President Trump’s 20-point plan to end the Gaza war. The plan authorizes an International Stabilization Force, backs a technocratic transitional authority for the Gaza Strip, and nods to a future Palestinian state.

Deep underneath the wreckage of Rafah, southern Gaza, the war is not over. Scores of Hamas militants, split up into independent cells, are trapped in tunnels underground behind Israeli lines, as mediators try to find a solution that doesn’t collapse the month-old ceasefire in Gaza.

Mughrabi TEL AVIV/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for Hamas to be expelled from the region, a day after the U.N. Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump's plan to end the war that offers the Palestinian militant group amnesty.