The terrorist organization Hamas has called on Hezbollah, another terrorist organization, to assist them in Hamas’ fight against Israel. Mousa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas’ poitical bureau, made this request via the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, saying, “We hope the Lebanese front will open and together we will fight against this formation...

A prerecorded message published Tuesday by top Hamas figure Mohammed Deif committed the terror group to continuing the current hot conflict against Israel until a range of demands – long considered non-starters by Israel, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority – were met: The head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif,...

An Italian reporter who fled from Gaza yesterday confirmed an IDF account that it was an errant Hamas rocket rather than an Israeli strike that killed ten Gazans, mostly children, on Monday. After leaving Gaza, Gabriele Barbati tweeted. Out of #Gaza far from #Hamas retaliation: misfired rocket killed children yday...

Turkey and Qatar, which have taken the lead in giving political and financial support to Hamas, have made a concerted effort over the last week to undercut the Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire efforts between Israel and the Palestinians. Al Monitor reported yesterday: Having been largely isolated so far, Turkey and Qatar are trying to gain...

Today was the twenty-second day of Operation Protective Edge and the eleventh day of ground operations in Gaza. #Hamas released footage of an attack yesterday from one of its tunnels. This is the terror #Israel is battling. http://t.co/Iz3YsLCisn — UK Media Watch (@UKMediaWatch) July 29, 2014 An infiltration yesterday in southern...

Some of the soldiers wounded in Operation Protective Edge are benefiting from a brand-new Israeli technology to close open wounds quickly and temporarily prior to further evaluation and treatment. Just on the cusp of the market, the TopClosure 3S Trauma Management System is approved by regulatory agencies in Israel, the...

According to Reuters, a cache of weapons have been found on the campus of a United Nations Relief Works Agency school for the third time since the beginning of the ground operations of Operation Protective Edge. The first cache of weapons was found two weeks ago amid simultaneous reports that Hamas...

Veteran Arab affairs journalist Avi Issacharoff late Monday assessed that the ongoing Israeli-Hamas hot conflict seemed set to escalate following the misfire of a rocket from Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ): The incident, apparently born of a misfire of an Islamic Jihad rocket, prompted Hamas to embark on a series of...

In a profile in The New York Times today, French rabbi Saloman Malka said that the recent violent demonstrations in Paris and attacks on Jewish interests show that “Anti-Semitism today is hiding behind anti-Zionism.” In the suburb of Sarcelles, known as “little Jerusalem” because it is home to 15,000 Jews, a kosher grocery and...

Addressing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s outlandish charge that Israel’s efforts to defend itself against Hamas rockets and tunnels “surpassed even Hitler,” an op-ed by Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen today concluded that much criticism of Israel in effect “blame[s] the victim.” After pointing out the extraordinary efforts Israel...