...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...The four arrived at the Rafah Border Crossing between Egypt and Gazoo where they were greeted by dozens of well wishers before being driven to Haniyeh’s office.
They had disappeared in August 2015 under mysterious circumstances as they traveled through the Sinai region on a bus from Hamas-ruled Gazoo to Cairo en route to
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
Other passengers said that the vehicle was stopped by unidentified button men who seized the Hamas men.
At the time, Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group jihadists were active in the lawless north Sinai region.
IS had threatened Hamas after it jugged
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
jihadist bully boyz suspected of targeting its armed wing with a series of bombings.
Haniyeh did not say Thursday who had been holding the four Gazooks but expressed his "deep gratitude to the Egyptian authorities for this decision."
Relations between Hamas and Egypt have deteriorated since the military overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
Morsi, a leader of the Moslem Brüderbund, had been sympathetic to Hamas. His overthrow unleashed a deadly crackdown on Islamist protesters, and an insurgency based in Sinai.