Palestinian Affairs

In a speech before supporters yesterday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas blamed Hamas for a series of blasts in Gaza last Friday targeting Fatah officials. An explosion also destroyed a stage set up for a ceremony to honor Yasser Arafat on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death. Reuters reports:...

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Monday marked one of the bloodiest days in Israel in recent months, with the stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, the car attack and stabbing at Alon Shvut, and more violent incidents in Kafr Kana and other Arab communities in Israel. Sergeant Almog Shiloni, 20, from Modi’in, killed in Tel Aviv,...

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The Palestinian propaganda machine continues to exploit the growing tensions in Jerusalem and the series of vehicle terror attacks that have shocked the city in recent weeks. In the last example of direct incitement to violence against Jews and Israel, Palestinian activists created an “event” (Arabic link) on Facebook in which they call...

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Bloomberg News reported on the ongoing tension in and around Jerusalem marked by two terror attacks yesterday involving cars driving into pedestrians. Palestinian rage has erupted after Israel temporarily closed the Temple Mount, a sacred site to both Jews and Muslims, in response to Arab youths throwing stones at visitors. …...

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Since the beginning of 2014, at least four terror attacks have been carried out in Israel using motor vehicles as a weapon. The attacks left four people dead and 30 wounded, many of them seriously. Two of these attacks took place yesterday, when two Palestinian drivers drove their cars into groups...

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Egyptian security reports (Arabic link) revealed that Hamas is spending $140 million a year to dig terror tunnels. According to the reports, no less than 12,000 Palestinians, many of them children, take part in the process of building the tunnels. These tunnels are used to smuggle weapons and materials used...

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