Palestinian Affairs

An American citizen was stabbed and injured in Jerusalem by a Palestinian assailant on Friday afternoon, while a second individual was wounded by stray gunfire from security forces who were trying to subdue the attacker, Haaretz reported on Friday. The 23-year-old attacker, an East Jerusalem resident, stabbed the man, 22,...

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Micah Lakin Avni, the son of Richard Lakin, an American-Israeli teacher and peace activist who died earlier this week due to injuries sustained in a Palestinian terror attack two weeks ago, said that his father was the victim of “incitement and hate,” The New York Times reported Thursday. My father...

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The spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the scandal-ridden UN body that works with Palestinian refugees, spoke Monday at an event sponsored by the UK-based charity Interpal, which was designated a terrorist entity by the U.S. Treasury Department for financing the Palestinian terror group Hamas. UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness spoke at an event for...

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A Hamas official went on the terrorist organization’s TV station to inform Palestinians that Allah had created man “to plunge their knives in the chests and bellies of the enemies,” The Times of Israel reported today. In an address broadcast on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV on October 19, former Gaza interior minister Fathi...

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Jordan is sharply criticizing the Palestinian Authority’s rejection of an initiative to install security cameras on the Temple Mount, veteran Palestinian affairs reporter Khaled Abu Toameh wrote Tuesday in The Jerusalem Post. The proposal was first introduced by Jordan’s King Abdullah II and accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

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A Gaza imam held up a suicide vest during his Friday sermon and said that “We will use it to turn [Israelis] into body parts,” The Times of Israel reported today. In a sermon on Friday posted by watchdog group MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute), the cleric identified as Abu...

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