Israeli diplomats are suggesting that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, having secured non-member U.N. statehood status for the Palestinians, is committed to leveraging that status to “incite a confrontation with Israel no matter what.” The Palestinian Authority announced Thursday that, should Israeli voters choose the Likud Party to lead the next...

Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank flocked on Friday to a Hamas rally in Hebron, the first such rally that Hamas’s rival Fatah faction, which controls the West Bank, had permitted in years. Waving Hamas banners and carrying fake missiles on their shoulders, the demonstrators subsequently marched toward an...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has reiterated the Palestinian Authority’s intention to wage an international diplomatic campaign against Israel, which would leverage the Palestinians’ upgraded status at the United Nations to sue Israel in the International Criminal Court. The statements come as Abbas’s Fatah faction, which controls the West Bank, has...

Hamas’s Tehran office has issued a statement thanking Iran for its support of the group and dismissing suggestions of a split between the Islamic Republic and terror organization. The statement reiterates previous assertions of close ties from both sides, and comes as an Iranian delegation has arrived to the Gaza...

Acting on a tip from Israel, Italian security officers seized a cache of Egypt-bound weapons, including rocket launchers, at the Port of Naples. The final destination of the weapons has not been identified, but the majority of weapons smuggled into the Gaza Strip for use by Hamas come through tunnels...

Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal reemphasized his group’s commitment to the eradication of Israel over the weekend, in a speech that The New York Times described as “defiant” and which the Israeli government noted contained genocidal pledges to use violent “resistance” to establish a “Palestine from the river to the...