Palestinian media outlet Ma’an reported yesterday that Hamas is close to creating a single Palestinian government with its rival Fatah faction, laying the groundwork for upcoming West Bank and Gaza Strip elections that would see a unified leadership elected to govern both territories. Hamas has officially notified Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of the...

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Hamas officials yesterday linked much of the devastation from this weekend’s historic storm to a lack of fuel in the Gaza Strip, a scarcity that the Palestinian outlet Ma’an pointedly noted Hamas has for months been blaming on Egypt and the Palestinian Authority (PA). The storm generated flooding that reportedly displaced at...

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Reuters yesterday reported on declarations from a top Hamas figure asserting that the Palestinian terror group had “resumed” its relations with Iran, after several months in which the organization was estranged from its long-time sponsor in Tehran due to sectarian tensions generated by the almost three-year Syrian conflict. “Relations between Hamas and...

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The Associated Press reported this weekend that Hamas had cancelled the terror group’s previously scheduled 26th anniversary rally, with the terror group citing what the outlet described as ‘deep economic woes’ in the Gaza Strip territory that it rules: The decision illustrated just how hard the Gaza economy has been hit since...

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It’s been almost a month since European Union foreign policy head Catherine Ashton called on the rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to reconcile. The two groups have been openly at odds since at least 2007, when Hamas seized the Gaza Strip from Fatah in a bloody five day battle,...

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A 19-year-old Israeli soldier was stabbed to death this morning on an Israeli bus by a 16-year-old Palestinian terrorist, sustaining several wounds to his neck and chest and eventually succumbing to his injuries after being admitted to to a hospital. Israel Defense Forces soldier Eden Atias, 19, from Nazareth Illit,...

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The Associated Press reported over the weekend that widespread power outages throughout the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip were the result of “political infighting” between rival Palestinian groups, which had in turn led to a fuel shortage, which had in turn negatively impacted the territory’s only power plant. A Hamas spokesman echoed...

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Hamas’s varied efforts to radicalize children in the Gaza Strip have traditionally run the gamut from television shows with Jew-eating rabbits to summer camps training child soldiers to social media posts glorifying child martyrs. The terror group has now found a more direct way to pass on its ideology of...

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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned over the weekend that Hamas was arming itself and seeking to conduct what the Israeli official called “a renewal of violence”: “Hamas sees it as a way to lay infrastructure for terror attacks. We consider Hamas, which is engaged in digging and controls Gaza,...

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New details are emerging about the extent of violent Islamist activity in the Egyptian-controlled Sinai Peninsula, which reports citing German intelligence last June had already identified as the world’s main jihadist training ground. Pitched battles in the territory – including preemptive strikes described by Arabic language media – have expanded...

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