Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal speaks during a news conference after a meeting with the other Palestinian factions, for the follow-up committee of the conference of Palestinian organisations opposed to peace talks with Israel, in Damascus October 11, 2009. Sitting next to Meshaal are Ramadan Shallah (C), head of the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, and Ahmed Jibril (R), head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). Reuters Pictures 1 month ago

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal speaks during a news conference after a meeting with the other Palestinian factions, for the follow-up committee of the conference of Palestinian organisations opposed to peace talks with Israel, in Damascus October 11, 2009. Sitting next to Meshaal are Ramadan Shallah (C), head of the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, and Ahmed Jibril (R), head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC).

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  2. Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, the prime minister of the Hamas-run government in Gaza, speaks at the parliament in Gaza city on October 5, 2009 against the Palestinian Authority's support for delaying the endorsement of a UN report on possible war crimes committed during Israel's Gaza offensive. Haniya accused Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas of the 'absurd and criminal' decision to delay endorsement of the report, a move he said endangered Egyptian-brokered national unity talks.
  3. A Hamas movement supporter holds a poster showing Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine, with Hamas protesters superimposed in the background, during a demonstration in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on October 4, 2009 against a UN decision to delay a vote on a report accusing Israel of war crimes in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority is under fire for giving in to what critics said was US and Israeli pressure to defer a vote by the UN Human Rights Council on the report by the former international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone.
  4. Hamas leader Ismail Haniya (R) gives a speech on October 4, 2009 during a reception at his office in Gaza City for Roudah Habib (L), the final Palestinian woman prisoner set free by Israel as part of a breakthrough swap with the Hamas movement for a video of its soldier held in Gaza for more than three years. Habib was released into Gaza via the Erez crossing, where she was greeted by relatives and friends before being escorted to Haniya's office, Habib's sister told.
  5. Hamas leader Ismail Haniya offers flowers to Roudah Habib (C), the final Palestinian woman prisoner set free by Israel as part of a breakthrough swap with the Hamas movement for a video of its soldier held in Gaza for more than three years, as he welcomes her at his office in Gaza city following her release on October 4, 2009. Habib was released into Gaza via the Erez crossing, where she was greeted by relatives and friends before being escorted to Haniya's office, Habib's sister told.
  6. Hamas leader Ismail Haniya waves to the crowd near house in Gaza City of the the final Palestinian woman prisoner released by Israel on October 4, 2009 as part of a breakthrough swap with the Hamas movement for a video of its soldier held in Gaza for more than three years. Roudah Habib was released into Gaza via the Erez crossing, where she was greeted by relatives and friends before being escorted to Haniya's office, Habib's sister told.
  7. Hamas leader Ismail Haniya waves to the crowd near house in Gaza City of the the final Palestinian woman prisoner released by Israel on October 4, 2009 as part of a breakthrough swap with the Hamas movement for a video of its soldier held in Gaza for more than three years. Roudah Habib was released into Gaza via the Erez crossing, where she was greeted by relatives and friends before being escorted to Haniya's office, Habib's sister told.
  8. Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (3rd R) waves after his visit to the house of newly released Palestinian prisoner Rawda Saed (not pictured) in Gaza City October 4, 2009. Israel freed the Palestinian woman prisoner to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the last of 20 it has swapped for a videotape that provided the first visible evidence that a soldier captured in 2006 was still alive.
  9. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (C) makes a speech during a rally in Damascus October 25, 2009. Ahmed Jibril (R), head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), and Ramadan Shallah, head of the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, are seen with Meshaal.
  10. A Muslim clergyman (front) reads the Quran before Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (C) makes a speech during a rally in Damascus October 25, 2009. Ahmed Jibril (R), head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), and Ramadan Shallah, head of the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, are seen with Meshaal.
  11. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (R) speaks during a news conference after a meeting with the other Palestinian factions in Damascus October 24, 2009. Ramadan Shallah (L), head of the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, and Ahmed Jibril, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), sit with Meshaal.
  12. Ahmed Jibril (C), head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), speaks during a news conference after a meeting with the other Palestinian factions in Damascus October 24, 2009. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (R) and Ramadan Shallah, head of the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, sit on either side of Jibril.
  13. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (R) speaks during a news conference after a meeting with the other Palestinian factions in Damascus October 24, 2009. Ahmed Jibril, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), sits on left.
  14. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal speaks during a news conference after a meeting with the other Palestinian factions, for the follow-up committee of the conference of Palestinian organisations opposed to peace talks with Israel, in Damascus October 11, 2009. Sitting next to Meshaal are Ramadan Shallah (C), head of the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, and Ahmed Jibril (R), head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC).

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