Palestinian officials over the weekend denied a report, published late last week in the New York Times and elsewhere, saying that Palestinian peace negotiators had tendered their resignations due to the construction of Israeli homes in territory beyond Israel’s 1948 armistice lines. The New York Times report had cited “an...

Hamas has for the better part of a decade been regularly blasted for manufacturing humanitarian crises by shutting down the single power plant in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. In 2008 the terror group plunged Gaza into darkness and claimed that Israel was preventing sufficient fuel from reaching the territory. Israeli...

Analysts have been issuing increasingly pointed warning that Hamas is seeking to stage large-scale attacks in an effort to restore the terror group’s crumbling credibility, the result of a series of failed diplomatic gambles that saw the Palestinian faction align itself with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey. Cairo’s post-Brotherhood government...

Hamas spent weeks in fall 2012 deliberately escalating the amount and sophistication of rockets and missiles it launched against Israelis. The result was an eight-day bombing campaign by Israel that severely degraded the group’s command and control infrastructure and highlighted Hamas’s ability to penetrate Israel’s Iron Dome-based missile shield. To...

Egypt has for months moved to degrade Hamas’s infrastructure and weaponry. Cairo blamed Hamas for facilitating the movement of personnel and materials used by jihadist groups operating in the Sinai – groups which target both Egyptian and Israeli targets – and has sought to close off both the Palestinian terror...

The government of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced overnight Sunday that it was proceeding with the second of four goodwill releases of Palestinian terrorism convicts, part of a package of concessions that Jerusalem is offering the Palestinian Authority (PA) in order to entice PA officials to continue engaging in...