Terrorism

Three Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously, when a Palestinian Authority police officer opened fire on a security checkpoint near Ramallah in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported Monday. The policeman, identified as 26-year-old Muhammad Turkman, opened fire at the Focus checkpoint with an AK-47 rifle before being fatally shot...

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Lebanon’s newest president, a retired general who is firmly allied with the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah, threatened Israel in his inaugural address in Beirut on Monday, The Times of Israel reported. Michel Aoun secured 83 votes in parliament, comfortably exceeding the majority required to win the presidency in the 128-seat chamber....

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Saeb Erekat 

The chief Palestinian peace negotiator praised Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, most of whom have been convicted of terrorist crimes, “for their acts of heroism, and for their ongoing battle with the occupation,” Palestinian Media Watch reported on Thursday, citing the Palestinian Authority’s official newspaper. “Our brave prisoners, who gave...

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Two eight-year-old Palestinian children who were apprehended with knives near Migdal Oz in the West Bank on Wednesday told authorities that they were sent to carry out a terrorist attack, The Times of Israel reported. “A short while ago forces identified and apprehended two Palestinian children under the age of ten near the community...

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If ISIS or other terror groups expand their operations against Western nations, Europe should look to Israel as “a welcome guide in navigating the difficult moral, legal and tactical terrain ahead,” a Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote Thursday in The Telegraph. Lord David Trimble, the Nobel laureate and former First Minister of...

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The Palestinian Authority has dedicated a new school to the mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported Tuesday. A school in the West Bank city of Tulkarem has been named “the Martyr Salah Khalaf School” in memory of the leader of the Black September terrorist group. Khalaf,...

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