For more recent analysis of Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), see this August 2023 post from the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program's Examining Extremism series. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS or ...

People in Gaza are shocked Israel still hasn’t agreed to the ceasefire DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Displaced ... who heads Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist group leading the new authority ...

Finally, the nightmare is over. True, our home is gone, but we’ll rebuild it, brick by brick.” In a dilapidated tent west of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip, Umm Ammar al-Aidi sat sipping ...

“We ask our brothers in Hamas to communicate with mediators to end the war,” said Omar Jendiya, in Deir al-Balah. “Enough with the destruction and killing.” A phased withdrawal and hostage ...

“No one can feel the feeling that we are experiencing now, an indescribable, indescribable feeling,” said Mahmoud Wadi in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah before joining a chanting crow ...

"We are being reborn, with every hour of delay Israel conducted a new massacre, I hope it is all getting over now," she told Reuters via a chat app from a shelter in Deir Al-Balah town in central ...

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that an Israeli drone struck the tents of displaced people in the western area of the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, causing several injuries ...

DEIR EL-BALAH, Palestinian Territories — Crowds of ... Omar Assaf, a Ramallah resident, told Agence France-Presse from Al-Manara Square that he saw the deal as a victory for Palestinians.

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip ... s de facto leadership under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which did not comment on the attack.

“The bloodshed is not stopping since the announcement,” reports journalist Shrouq Aila, on the ground in Deir al-Balah. “Nobody knows what the future holds.” This is viewer supported new ...