Terrorism

One Israeli border policewoman was killed and another seriously injured during a shooting and stabbing attack carried out by three Palestinians outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Officials said that a quick response by security forces prevented a potentially much larger attack. The three assailants were killed. According to authorities, policewoman Hadar Cohen, 19,...

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The terrorist organization Hamas confirmed that at least two of its members were killed and eight others were missing after a tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. The group’s al-Quds TV channel identified one of the dead operatives as 23-year-old Haider a-Zaher. Hamas announced last week that seven of its members died when an attack...

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s recent New York Times op-ed, which was critical of Israeli policy, is “unprecedented” in its focus on a single country, a Jerusalem Post analysis showed. Post diplomatic correspondent Herb Keinon noted in an analysis on Monday that of the 85 op-eds Ban has written since becoming secretary-general in 2007, “not one of...

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Thousands of mourners marching at the funeral of a Palestinian Authority police officer who wounded three IDF soldiers during a shooting attack on Sunday chanted “death to Israel” and called for killing hundreds of Israelis, the Times of Israel reported on Monday. “It is time for the machine gun, to...

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last week that Palestinian terror was “human nature,” a natural reaction to Israeli occupation. This led to a series of condemnations from Israeli officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the remarks gave a “tailwind to terror,” while former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren,...

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An ongoing investigation into a “massive” international drug trafficking and money laundering operation run by the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah has resulted in several arrests, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced in a statement released on Monday. The DEA, a division of the United States Department of Justice, announced the arrests...

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