Terrorism

The Times of Israel reported Friday on a new video appearing at the official Facebook page of Fatah, the political party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, praising female fighters and suicide bombers. The Times reports that  the narration of cites three notorious female terrorist as role models for Palestinian women....

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Palestinians in the West Bank came under rocket fire from Hamas in Gaza over the weekend. Rockets landed in or next to Hebron, Bethlehem and Ramallah. The Palestinian Bureau of Statistics puts those cities’ populations at 202,000, 30,000 and 34,000 respectively. “The notion that Palestinian militants in Gaza might fire on Palestinian...

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The Times of Israel reported Thursday that terror groups affiliated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movment have joined Hamas and other Islamist groups in firing rockets into Israel. Palestinian Affairs correspondent Elhanan Miller of the Times writes: The Nidal Al-Amody force of Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for...

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Hamas on Wednesday claimed credit for a rocket barrage targeting Israel’s nuclear reactor in the city of Dimona, issuing a statement boasting that the terror group’s fighters had attempted to hit the reactor with long-range M75 rockets: Hamas claimed responsibility for the rockets, stating that it had been attempting to hit...

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In a TV interview, a Hamas spokesman called on Gaza residents to act as human shields. The terror organization also urged Palestinians to ignore Israel Defense Forces warnings of impending aerial strikes. These are just the latest examples in a string of flagrant breaches of international law as reported by The...

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Condemnation of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge has come from the expected sources in the Middle East. Turkey was one of the first to roundly condemn Jerusalem, without expressing any sympathy for Israeli civilians forced to shelters because of Hamas rocket fire from Gaza. The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement...

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