Terrorism

At least 17 Jewish community centers across the United States received bomb threats on Tuesday, the third time this month that a wave of JCCs has received such threats on the same day. Among the JCCs targeted were those in Boulder, Colo.; Albany and Syracuse, N.Y.; West Orange, N.J.; Milwaukee,...

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The Palestinian Authority’s ruling party paid tribute to a Palestinian terrorist on the 15th anniversary of her deadly attack on Friday, celebrating that she became a suicide bomber so “that her pure body would explode into pieces in the Zionists’ faces,” Palestinian Media Watch reported Sunday. PMW Bulletin: #Fatah proud of suicide bomber: "Her pure...

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A Hamas-run court in the Gaza Strip has sentenced eight members of Fatah’s security forces to jail terms ranging from seven years to life in prison for “undermining revolutionary unity,” The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. Hamas’s Interior Ministry stated that the men, who have been unemployed since Hamas’s 2007 takeover of...

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Palestinian leaders’ endorsement of violence and “martyrdom” was on full display during at least three events in recent weeks, including a parade in which members of Fatah — the party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — wore mock suicide bombing belts and brandished knives. Footage from a parade in...

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Dozens of Palestinians graduated from Hamas’ military training program in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, “displaying weapons, marching in military formation and burning an Israeli flag in front of crowds of cheering supporters,” The Times of Israel reported. Graduates ranged in age from middle-aged adults to young children, one of...

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A successful conviction in the ongoing trial of a suspected Hezbollah operative in Peru could help authorities “unravel the network of operatives and supporters that Hezbollah has erected throughout the country,” an expert on international terrorism wrote in Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. Mohammad Hamdar was detained in Lima in the fall of 2014 and tested positive...

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