Hamas spends an annual $100 million on its military infrastructure in order to prepare for its next war against Israel, Avi Issacharoff of The Times of Israel reported on Thursday, citing estimates by Israeli and Palestinian sources. Roughly $40 million is spent on employing around 1,500 diggers to build the Iran-backed terror organization’s network...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas worked as a KGB agent in Syria during the 1980s, Israel’s Channel 1 reported, citing a newly uncovered Soviet-era archive document. The document reportedly shows that Abbas worked in 1983 for Damascus’ KGB station chief, Mikhail Bogdanov, who is currently a top Russian diplomat in the Middle East. Earlier this week, Bogdanov unsuccessfully attempted...

Germany’s Foreign Ministry has acknowledged that German aid money is likely being used to provide funds to terrorists and their families, The Times of Israel reported Monday. “There are Palestinian institutions that issue payments to the families of those who were killed or injured, which includes family members of the perpetrators,” Maria Böhmer, a...

Palestinians are growing increasingly outraged over the removal of women’s names and pictures from official lists of candidates competing in next month’s municipal elections, longtime Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh reported Monday. Rather than publishing the female candidates’ names or photographs, Abu Toameh reported, “the electoral lists are using the terms ‘the...

A Gaza journalist was arrested by Hamas on Thursday, Ynet reported, becoming the latest Palestinian media member to have been detained by the Iran-backed terror group this year.  The arrest came the day after Human Rights Watch (HRW) blasted Hamas for its abuse of the media in a wide-ranging report. Mohammed Othman, a correspondent for Al-Monitor, was...

The Palestinian Authority and the terrorist group Hamas “are arresting, abusing, and criminally charging” journalists and activists who criticize them, leading to a “chilling effect” on freedom of expression in the Palestinian territories, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a report released on Monday. “Both Palestinian governments, operating independently, have apparently arrived...