Palestinian Affairs

Vice President Joe Biden harshly criticized the leadership of the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday for failing to condemn Tuesday’s wave of terror attacks across Israel. Biden, who is visiting Israel and the Palestinian Authority on a state visit, said in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in...

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Hamas is boasting of concerns that its tunnels may reach Israeli homes near the Gaza Strip, even as fear and dissent continue to grow in the terror group’s ranks following a spate of recent tunnel collapses, Israel Hayom reported on Friday. “Zionists are worried there are tunnels underneath their communities...

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Frequent collapses of terror attack tunnels in recent weeks has made Hamas fighters afraid of entering them, The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. A tunnel collapse Thursday that killed one Hamas terrorist was at least the sixth in recent weeks. Five terrorists were injured in a tunnel collapse last week, and eleven others...

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An open letter by a disgruntled ISIS fighter to the self-proclaimed caliphate’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, revealed extensive ties between the group’s affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula and the Palestinian terror organization Hamas. The letter, written by Abu Abdallah al-Muhajir, a jihadist from Gaza who now fights for ISIS in Syria,...

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Hamas’ execution of its own commander last month suggests a widening schism among leaders of the terrorist group as well as a loss of authority in the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Ishtiwi, a senior figure in the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades who commanded 1,000 men during Hamas’ 2014 war with Israel, was...

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A Palestinian human rights activist who opposes the anti-Israel BDS movement was heckled, threatened, and eventually forced to cancel one of his talks during a tour of Chicago-area universities last week. Bassam Eid, a former researcher for the Israeli NGO B’Tselem and the founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group,...

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