Terrorism

U.S. Envoy Jason Greenblatt

The United States envoy in charge of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians defended Israel’s decision to stop transferring taxes collected to the Palestinian Authority by the amount the PA was paying terrorists and their families, The New York Times reported Friday. “If your citizens were being routinely attacked by...

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Nemmouche was found guilty in deadly 2014 Brussels terror attack

Mehdi Nemmouche was convicted of the May 24, 2014 terror attack that killed four people at Belgium’s Jewish Museum, France24 reported Friday. The attack was the first carried out in Europe by a foreign fighter returning from the civil war in Syria. The jury convicted Nemmouche after a two-month trial in...

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Rockets fired from Gaza

The firing of at least one mortar shell from Gaza set off air defense systems in southern Israel, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. It is unclear if the projectile was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome anti-rocket system. A spokesman for the Eshkol region in southern Israel said, “As of...

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Hezbollah flag in London

If there is one lesson the world should have learned from Hezbollah’s 34 years of existence, it is this: Hezbollah has no distinct military and political wings. Now, that false wall has begun to crumble. On February 25, the British government announced its decision to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist...

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Netanyahu Praises May over Hezbollah Ban

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Britain on Monday for designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety and thanked his British counterpart Theresa May for her country’s leadership in the fight against anti-Semitism, JNS reported. A statement from Netanyahu’s office said the prime minister told May in a...

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Hamas praised a car-ramming attack that injured two Israeli soldiers, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. An IDF officer was seriously injured, and a border policeman received light injuries when they were rammed by a car during an arrest operation in the West Bank. The two had been conducting arrest raids in the...

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