A Tunisian engineer who worked for Hamas before being assassinated last December was the architect of the terrorist group’s “air force,” a Hamas spokesman said in an al-Jazeera program broadcast on Sunday. Hamas engineer Mohamad Zawari was “one of the leaders of the military wing that oversaw the ‘Ababil’ unmanned drone program,” the...

Who Cares About History? Three news items this week were rooted in efforts to rewrite history at Israel’s expense. On Monday, the Hamas-linked Palestinian Information Center mocked Israelis participating in “so-called ‘Holocaust remembrance’” and called Tel Aviv a “settlement.” In less than 140 Arabic characters, the tweet denied the past of a city...

A top Hamas official warned Wednesday that if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continues pressuring the Gaza-based terrorist group to submit to the PA, “it’s going to explode in his face and in all directions,” news agencies reported. Responding to Abbas’ threatened funding cuts to Gaza, including a plan to stop subsidizing the enclave’s electricity...

The Gaza Strip’s only power station has run out of fuel, sparking a fresh energy crisis and likely blackouts in the immediate future. Turkey and Qatar donated three months worth of fuel in January but that supply has now been used up. The fuel shortage has reignited a longstanding disagreement...

In the latest reaction to a widely criticized decision by The New York Times to publish an op-ed by Palestinian terror chief Marwan Barghouti, without initially identifying him as a convicted killer, a former Israeli general detailed Barghouti’s extensive terror connections and culpability for some of the deadliest attacks of the second...

Two sisters from the Gaza Strip were apprehended at the Erez crossing with explosive materials hidden inside tubes designated for cancer medicine, Israeli officials said Wednesday. The sisters had obtained a permit to cross into Israel so one of them could receive cancer treatments at an Israeli hospital, The Times of...