GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Hamas security forces were tightening their grip on Gaza’s ruined cities Tuesday even as global support mounted for a US-backed deal that would see them disarmed. When bus loads of prisoners freed from Israeli jails arrived in Gaza on Monday, fighters from Hamas’s Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades provided crowd control. In the north of the territory, as Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza City, the Hamas government’s black-masked armed police resumed street patrols.

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians returned to a devastated Gaza City on Saturday, as Hamas warned the next stage in US President Donald…

GAZA CITY: Hamas has sought to reassert itself in Gaza since a ceasefire took hold, killing dozens of people in a crackdown on groups that have tested its grip and appearing to…