Senior Palestinian Authority officials blamed a group of British parliamentarians for the entire conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The incident occurred at a Ramallah lunch meeting between a delegation from Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), a group that brings British lawmakers from...

Germany will not fully normalize ties with Iran until it recognizes Israel, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Berlin Tuesday. Although German government and business leaders have been making overtures to Iran in recent months after the Islamic Republic’s economy was freed up...

When Israel’s detractors openly promote anti-Israel messages, many often fall into the trap of focusing solely on the particular antics and claims used in the attacks. While the false and discriminatory rhetoric of anti-peace BDS (boycotts, divestment, sanctions) groups should be forcefully refuted, there is often significant funding that enables...

Hamas, the Iran-backed terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip, has prohibited a senior United Nations official from leaving Gaza, the Associated Press reported Thursday. A UN source told the AP that Mahmoud Daher, the head of the World Health Organization’s Gaza office, was barred from exiting the strip due to a newly-instituted bureaucratic rule. Hamas, which has ruled...

A Palestinian band praised bus bombings and called for the resumption of suicide attacks against Israelis in a music video published online on Sunday. The al-Wa’ed Band’s video, which was translated by the Middle East Research Institute, opens with an image of Yahya Ayyash, a chief Hamas bombmaker who was assassinated by...

Another member of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas was killed in a tunnel collapse, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. The man was identified as 27-year-old Marwan Maarouf of Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Palestinian reports indicate that Maarouf was the eleventh member of Hamas to die in a tunnel collapse in recent weeks. A...