Terrorism

Both Fatah, the main Palestinian political party, and Hamas, the terrorist group that exercises full political and military control over the Gaza Strip, praised a West Bank terror attack that killed two soldiers and wounded two others, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. Tough pictures of the scene of the terror...

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The terrorists who wounded a pregnant woman and six others near the West Bank community of Ofra Sunday night have reportedly been captured, just hours after the woman’s baby, who was delivered by emergency C-section, died, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The main suspect in the attack, Salih Barghouti,...

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The United States House of Representatives on Tuesday passed, with strong bipartisan support, legislation which targets members of Hamas and Hezbollah responsible for the use of human shields, a war crime under international law, The Jerusalem Post reported. The legislation, titled the Sanctioning of the Use of Civilians as Defenseless...

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Two car-ramming attacks were reported in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The driver in one attack was killed and the driver in the second one was arrested. The two apparently unrelated incidents come just two days after a pregnant woman and six others were wounded in a drive-by...

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Israel still intends to fight back against Hezbollah threats and Iran’s presence in Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, despite lingering tensions between Jerusalem and Moscow over the downing of a Russian plane in Syria last September. He also said that military delegations...

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The IDF announced the discovery of a third terror tunnel built by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Israel, and fired shots at suspected infiltrators, The Jerusalem Post reported Saturday. On Tuesday of last week, Israel announced the start of Operation Northern Shield, an effort to locate the many tunnels Hezbollah, the...

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