Hamas appears to be stopping short of employing its full force to stop Gaza-based jihadists from launching rockets at Israel, though it has the power to do so. The Iran-backed group knows that clamping down too hard would provoke anger from the Gazan public. Hamas security forces detained a number...
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The Israeli military last week published video of Palestinian children as young as elementary school-age being used to hurl rocks at Israeli soldiers. The dramatic footage sparked a debate that deepened this weekend with the publication of legal analysis identifying the tactic as a war crime: As stone-throwing Palestinian children have been...
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One needn’t romanticize this week’s West Bank unrest. It wasn’t exactly a spontaneous outburst of rage – rather, the three funerals held recently were a pre-planned set piece for the stone-throwing that followed. Near Tulkarem, and in Hebron, two teenagers were laid to rest, having been hit by IDF fire while throwing...
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Israeli soldiers yesterday shot and killed two Palestinians who were hurling firebombs at them, amid the outbreak of riots across the West Bank. Palestinians burned tires and threw rocks at IDF soldiers in outrage over the death of then-imprisoned Hamas terrorist Maysara Abuhamdia, who was serving a life sentence for his...
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The United Nations agency responsible for distributing aid in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip has suspended much of its activity after its headquarters was stormed by Palestinian protesters. Robert Turner, who heads Gaza operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) blasted the “apparently pre-planned” incident, calling it “completely unacceptable… unwarranted and unprecedented.”...
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A document leaked to an Israeli newspaper outlines a series of temporary moves being made by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in anticipation of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s upcoming trip to the Middle East: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to suspend all unilateral measures vis-à-vis the United Nations agencies to...
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