An umbrella group representing journalists in Israel and the Palestinian territories slammed Hamas for its “thuggish behavior” towards reporters on Thursday night. The Foreign Press Association (FPA) said a photographer for SIPA Press, Heidi Levine, was detained for over three hours by Hamas earlier on Thursday before being permitted to leave the Gaza Strip....

Iran’s continued arming of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah means a large-scale conflict with Israel remains “a genuine possibility,” former State Department official Aaron David Miller wrote in an analysis for CNN on Thursday. Miller, now a vice president and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, prefaced...

Search and rescue operations are ongoing after an EgyptAir jetliner disappeared from radar and plunged into the Mediterranean sea while carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo early Thursday morning. The plane was in Egyptian airspace at the time, and the country’s officials have indicated that terrorism may have been...

As long as Palestinian leaders encourage children to hate Israel and glorify terrorists, “more violence is inevitable,” the son of terror victim Richard Lakin, who was killed in a terrorist attack last October, warned in a Wall Street Journal op-ed (Google link) Wednesday. Micah Lakin Avni recalled that his father was motivated by a commitment...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s recent push for new peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is “promising,” former Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid said Wednesday during a public Q&A at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Lapid, who for years has been promoting a regional peace summit involving Egypt and...

Mustafa Badreddine, the Hezbollah commander who was killed in an explosion in Syria last week, will be replaced by his nephew, who is also the son of another killed Hezbollah commander, the London-based Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Tuesday. Mustafa Mughniyeh, the son of the late Imad Mughniyeh, has been appointed as the...