The latest wave of terror in Israel may not be conducted by “lone wolves,” as is commonly believed, but guided by the hidden hand of Hamas, a leading terror researcher has reported. Shaul Bartal of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies wrote that obscuring the genesis and motivations of such attacks...

A tunnel near the Israeli border in eastern Gaza caved in on Monday, killing a Hamas commander who was working inside, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. Hamas officials identified the man as Al-Salam Al-Batniji, 36, and described the collapse of the underground passageway, which is located in the Shujaiyyeh neighborhood, as a “work...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hailed a Palestinian who attempted to kill an Israeli soldier with her car as a “martyr.” “We see in her a martyr who watered the pure earth of Palestine with her blood,” Abbas wrote in a letter to the parents of Amani Husni Sabatin, who...

At least six residents of Gaza are trapped after a smuggling tunnel collapsed Thursday. This is the sixth reported tunnel collapse since January. A local defense official told the AFP news agency that the tunnel, which went from Rafah under the Egyptian border, was a “trade tunnel.” Egyptian authorities have been flooding the tunnels in an...

In defiance of Vice President Joe Biden’s previous criticism for failing to condemn terror, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refused on Wednesday to condemn the terror attack that claimed the life of American student Taylor Force earlier this week. In what The New York Times referred to as an “unusually stinging...

Fatah, the party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, posted a picture on its Facebook page praising the terrorist who killed U.S. Army veteran and graduate student Taylor Force in Israel on Tuesday. Fatah uploaded a drawing of a knife-wielding arm marked with the text “the heroic martyr” positioned above...