Terrorism

A United States district court ruled Tuesday that Iran and Syria must pay $178 million in damages to the family of a three-month-old baby who was killed in an October 2014 terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Chaya Zissel Braun, who held both American and Israeli citizenship, was killed when Abd al-Rahman al-Shaloudi,...

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A comedian from the Gaza Strip was arrested by Hamas on Wednesday after he made a viral video lamenting daily power outages in the area, the Associated Press reported. Adel al-Mashwakhi was arrested hours after sharing a one-minute clip about the hardships of living under the Islamist terror group, according to the Palestinian Center for...

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The Palestinian Authority has hailed a terrorist who killed four Israeli soldiers on Sunday as a “martyr,” signalling not only its approval of the fatal attack but that his widow will be eligible to receive a monthly stipend, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported on Tuesday. The official PA daily reported that the attack was...

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Israeli defense officials say that violent attacks, mostly stonings, have increased sharply since the United Nations Security Council passed an anti-Israel resolution late last month, Avi Issacharoff reported in The Times of Israel on Tuesday. The increase was recorded during the last week of December 2016 — immediately following the passage...

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In one of his final acts in office on December 30, outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon submitted a confidential report to the UN Security Council alleging that Iran may have violated an international arms embargo by smuggling weapons to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, Reuters reported Sunday. The report also contains...

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At least seven Egyptian policemen were killed in the northern Sinai Peninsula on Monday after a complex attack which targeted a checkpoint in El-Arish. According to Reuters, the attack began when a bomb, which had been planted in a stolen vehicle several days earlier, exploded. The explosion was followed by gun...

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