Israel will not rule out any military action until there is an end to rocket fire, one of the masterminds behind Israel’s Operation Protective Edge told a conference call organized by The Israel Project on July 8. “(Hamas is) attacking civilians as usual and we are determined to defend ourselves,”...

State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf on Tuesday linked Hamas to the murders of three Israeli teenagers whose bodies were discovered Monday. Hamas’s involvement in the murders promises to problematize relations between the terror group and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, which formed a unity government just weeks before...

The latest Hamas kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers included another American citizen, Naftali Fraenkel, 16, one of many foreign citizens murdered by the terrorist organization that rules Gaza with an iron Islamic fist and is increasingly imposing its influence on the West Bank. Since its founding in 1987,...

Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, Yuval Steinitz, is heading to Washington with a delegation of top Israeli nuclear and defense experts in advance of the July 20 deadline in talks with Iran. Israel fears the Americans will back down from demands that Iran comply with multiple United Nations sanctions. The...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized on Monday the Palestinian Authority’s continued granting of substantial monthly salaries and grants upon the release of incarcerated terrorists. These monthly salaries range from $3,500 to $25,000. The terrorists’ salaries and grants are determined by the number of years that they spent in an Israeli prison for their...

Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Baghdad Monday to meet with Prime Minister Nour al-Maliki, with the intent of urging the Iraqi leader to accelerate the formation of an inclusive, unified government amid reports of further Sunni extremist gains and unrest across the country. The visit comes following reports...