Hamas has accelerated the rebuilding of its terror tunnels, which were destroyed last summer during Operation Protective Edge, even as it neglects rebuilding homes that were damaged during its war against Israel, The Times of Israel reported today. Hamas has begun using heavy machinery and engineering tools to accelerate the excavation of...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi approved (Arabic link) a new law that could impose a maximum penalty of life in jail for anyone convicted of digging smuggling tunnels under the Egyptian border with Gaza. The sentence also targets anybody who uses the tunnels, has contact with foreign parties connected to the...

Palestinian police will expand their patrols to three towns near Jerusalem for the first time after an agreement was reached with Israel, Reuters reported Wednesday. Louy Izriqat, spokesman for Palestinian police, said 90 officers had deployed in Abu Dis, A-Ram and Biddu, towns that had been largely under Israeli security control since a 1993 interim...

The Palestinian Authority has denied that an Israeli move to unfreeze the PA’s tax revenues was part of a deal to get the Palestinians to halt their bid to have Israel prosecuted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) Ha’aretz reported yesterday. The report cited an anonymous senior Palestinian official. “We continue to...

The Palestinian Authority this week will reconsider its relationship with Israel, including its security cooperation with the Jewish state. The Times of Israel reports today: Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, said she supports a comprehensive reappraisal of Palestinian relations with Israel due to what she called the...

In answer to a question today about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, President Barack Obama suggested that progress was not likely to happen as long as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in office. Notably, the president failed to acknowledge that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has twice blocked his administration’s...