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WARNING: This story contains graphic details Decades before Yahya Sinwar became the political leader of Hamas in Gaza, Israeli journalist and author Ehud Yaari sat down with him over hummus in an Israeli prison in the Negev desert. He describes Sinwar, who conversed in fluent Hebrew, as a curious but cunning Islamist, bent upon the destruction of the state of Israel. "He is not somebody who's thinking about negotiations, a two-state solution — that's not Sinwar," said Yaari, who interviewed Sinwar in prison four times between 1993 and 2001. "He was very clear that the state of Israel should be...

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) continues to occupy a special place in the pantheon of Syrian terror surrogates. Of all the major Palestinian and Lebanese paramilitary groups sponsored by Damascus, the PFLP-GC exercises the least strategic and operational autonomy. While the perks of this servitude are considerable (it is the only group to have received tanks from the Syrian government), so too are the limitations (its lack of independence has precluded the growth of a strong popular following). Despite its relatively weak presence in the West Bank and Gaza, the PFLP-GC has played a vital...

Residents of the Greek island of Samos strongly opposed a proposition by the Greek Migration ministry to build a new refugee camp on their island. The residents gave a thundering “no” to the proposal. The heads of the local community in Mitilinious called an open community on the village square to discuss building a new refugee camp on the grounds of a local army camp. The local Syriza MP was invited to the gathering but he never appeared. Mr Michalis Aggelopoulos, declared their opposition on behalf of the local community, and their heads, including the mayor. Their opinion was cheered...

yrian and Russian forces have launched a large-scale attack on a Palestinian refugee camp under the control of Islamic State, as the regime closed in on the last rebel-held territory in the Syrian capital. Pro-government troops fired a barrage of air strikes and surface-to-surface missiles into Yarmouk camp in southeast Damascus on Wednesday morning, as they looked to rid the areas of holdout jihadists. Rebels with the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) agreed to an evacuation deal after the government launched its offensive on April 19, however Isil militants refused to give up their fight. Air strikes have levelled...

A Palestinian refugee camp has been under siege for more than 1,660 days. Hundreds of the camp residents have been killed, while tens of thousands have been forced to flee from their homes. Those who have remained in the camp -- mostly the elderly, women and children -- live in unspeakable sanitary conditions and drink polluted water. More than 200 Palestinians from the camp, which has been under siege since 2103, have died as a result of lack of food or medicine. The conditions in the refugee camp, by any standard, are horrific. Why have most of us not heard...

AL RUKBAN REFUGEE CAMP — Some 80,000 people are trapped in a scrub land of hopelessness in a forgotten corner of the Middle East. NBC News was given unique access to the area where Rukban straddles a rocky, arid no man's land along the border linking Syria and Jordan — an important American ally, and a key member of the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS. The sea of tattered tents, the barefoot women and begging children, along with the burn victims being treated nearby at Rukban are all proof that the desperate crisis is beyond the reach of aid workers. Last...

In what could be the first "blowback" response against German refugees following Monday's deadly Berlin terrorist attack in which a Tunisian jihadist killed 12 people after ramming a truck in a Christmas market after swearing allegiance to ISIS, Germany's Morgenpost reports that on Friday a suspicious fire erupted at a refugee center in a Hamburg suburb, destroying 28 residential units in the blaze.

A massive makeshift refugee camp has been established in Lake Como, the popular and secluded celebrity hideaway in Italy where Hollywood A-lister George Clooney keeps a home. Flimsy dwellings, clothes and trash are scattered around the Northern Italian town’s railway station, where dozens of new families and refugees have flocked. The migrant camp is, oddly enough, just steps away from the front door of immigration activists’ George and Amal Clooney’s multi-million dollar lakeside mansion in Lake Como, according to the Daily Mail.

Ten riot police squads left Athens this morning and are expected to take position at the refugees camp of Idomeni that will be evacuated from the 8.500 men, women and children living there since last February. Other police forces from Northern Greece will be deployed in the area for “as long as it takes.” According to Greek media, the evacuation of the camp is scheduled to be launched at 6 a.m. on Tuesday and conclude after a week to ten days. Spokesman of Migration Coordination Body, Giorgos Kyritsis said Monday morning that operation may start “Tuesday or Wednesday.” Buses will...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: CNN has reported that the two men supported of doing the attack in the Brussels airport have been captured alive in Brussels. One of the men, Mohamed Abrini, is thought to be the guy in the white coat and the blue hat that we've seen in that tape from the day of the attack. One of these guys arrested had come to Europe via Greece -- the Ellis Island of Europe now -- and stayed in a refugee camp. Did you hear that? He stayed in a refugee camp, and we had this big ceremony yesterday where...

Belgium has called for vast refugee camps holding up to 300,000 refugees to be built in Greece in a desperate attempt to stem the flow of migrants from Syria and other nations outside Europe. At an emergency summit of European leaders yesterday, Belgian migration minister Theo Francken raised the spectre of setting up 'closed facilities' in Greece to be operated by the EU. He said that the Greeks 'now need to bear the consequences' of being too weak to guard their own borders and called for Athens to face an EU 'sanction mechanism' under which the rising number of refugees...

The Kenyan government has given the UN three months to relocate the world's largest refugee camp over the border to Somalia. Nairobi has vowed a tough response following the recent massacre by Somali jihadists. The United Nations Dadaab camp in northeast Kenya houses hundreds of thousands of refugees from war-torn Somalia, and authorities have in the past accused Islamists of hiding within the camp. "We have asked the UNHCR to relocate the refugees in three months, failure to which we shall relocate them ourselves," Deputy President William Ruto said in a statement on Saturday, adding that the government will secure...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State has taken control of 90 percent of a Palestinian refugee camp on the Damascus outskirts where 18,000 civilians have suffered years of bombing, army siege and militia control, a monitoring group said on Saturday. The hardline group's offensive in Yarmouk gives it a major presence in the capital. Islamic State, the most powerful insurgent group in Syria, is now only a few kilometers from President Bashar al-Assad's seat of power. The United Nations has said it is extremely concerned about the safety and protection of Syrians and Palestinians in the camp. Civilians trapped there have...

ISLAMABAD (BNO NEWS) -- Two back to back explosions occurred at the Internally Displaced Persons's (IDP) camp in northwest Pakistan's Kohat on Saturday, killing up to 50 people and injuring numerous others. The blasts happened at the IDP camp in Kacha Pakha, about 15 kilometers from Kohat, where some 150,000 people are being housed by the government. The first blast was quickly followed by a second blast when people gathered for relief activities.

Posted 3 hours 11 minutes ago The families of Islamist fighters besieged in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon have been evacuated by the army, opening the way for a possible final military assault on the militants. An army statement said the evacuees numbered 38 children and 25 women. It said two children were transported to hospital and it appealed to the militants still inside the battered camp to surrender and face a fair trial. A spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said among the group were two children and three women injured on...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - At least 150 Palestinians fled a northern refugee camp Wednesday in anticipation of an assault by the Lebanese army battling Islamic militants holed up inside. Most of the refugees left with the help of the Palestinian Red Crescent, said Samar Kadi, an International Committee of the Red Cross communications officer. Those fleeing arrived on foot at the southern entrance of the Nahr el-Bared camp. They were searched by soldiers at a Lebanese army checkpoint and then climbed into vehicles sent by the Palestinian Red Crescent. The Lebanese army held many of them for interrogation, Kadi said. Witnesses...

NABLUS, West Bank - Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian militant during a fierce gunbattle Sunday in a West Bank refugee camp, a Palestinian militant group said. Osama Talad, 21, participated in an ambush on Israeli troops operating in the Balata refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus, said Nasser Abu Ali, a leader of the militant Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. The army confirmed a gunbattle erupted between soldiers and militants in the refugee camp. Talad was killed and six other militants were wounded, Abu Ali said.

Three people killed during armed clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon. At least seven others were wounded. Palestinian sources in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp said among those killed was Abul Haijah, an officer in the camp's security committee of Fatah movement. They said two attackers, recently dismissed from Fatah, entered Abul Haijah's office and opened fire with automatic machine guns, killing him instantly and injuring five other people inside the office. Other reports said the two were members of the islamist Usbat al-Ansar group. The sources said one assailant fled and the other was seized. After the...

Mar. 6, 2003 IDF forces approach Jabaliyah (UPDATE) By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH In response to the Kassam rocket attacks on Sderot and the surrounding area, IDF tanks moved towards the Jabaliyah refugee camp in the north Gaza Strip late Thursday night. IDF officials told the Jerusalem Post that the forces do not plan to enter the camp but will set up positions around it in order to prevent further rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli communities. A Kassam rocket landed in Sderot a short while ago, making it the third such missile to hit the town today. There were no injuries...

Mar. 6, 2003 IDF says Gaza casualties caused by Palestinian bomb blast, not tank fire (UPDATE) By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH Eleven Palestinians were killed and over 100 wounded during an IDF incursion into the Jebaliya refugee camp in the north Gaza Strip aimed at destroying the Hamas infrastructure, seeking out weapons and arresting fugitives. The operation is part of ongoing plans to destroy the Hamas infrastructure officials said. Two IDF soldiers were lightly wounded in the operation. The IDF flatly rejected Palestinian claims that eight of the dead were civilians who were killed when an IDF tank fired a shell at...