Hamas has for the better part of a decade been regularly blasted for manufacturing humanitarian crises by shutting down the single power plant in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. In 2008 the terror group plunged Gaza into darkness and claimed that Israel was preventing sufficient fuel from reaching the territory. Israeli...

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Analysts have been issuing increasingly pointed warning that Hamas is seeking to stage large-scale attacks in an effort to restore the terror group’s crumbling credibility, the result of a series of failed diplomatic gambles that saw the Palestinian faction align itself with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey. Cairo’s post-Brotherhood government...

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Hamas spent weeks in fall 2012 deliberately escalating the amount and sophistication of rockets and missiles it launched against Israelis. The result was an eight-day bombing campaign by Israel that severely degraded the group’s command and control infrastructure and highlighted Hamas’s ability to penetrate Israel’s Iron Dome-based missile shield. To...

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Egypt has for months moved to degrade Hamas’s infrastructure and weaponry. Cairo blamed Hamas for facilitating the movement of personnel and materials used by jihadist groups operating in the Sinai – groups which target both Egyptian and Israeli targets – and has sought to close off both the Palestinian terror...

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A Hamas terror cell was in the advanced stages of a plot to explosives-laden unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at Israel before Palestinian Authority (PA) officials uncovered and broke up the cell, according to PA officials who spoke to The Times of Israel. During intensive activities near Hebron, in which PA...

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UPDATE (7:58pm ET): The media outlet linked below is a Kuwaiti outlet citing Egyptian sources originally quoted by an Egyptian outlet, not the original Egyptian outlet itself. It also appears to be a partial reprint of a similar English-language article published in the World Tribune. Thanks to David Kenner, Foreign...

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The Egyptian army moved this week against jihadist elements in the northern Sinai Peninsula, near the border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, in the aftermath of an ambush on an Egyptian military convoy. At least 72 terror suspects were detained in the ensuing raids. The anti-terror campaign comes amid ongoing...

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The West amid a spike in terrorism in the West Bank that has seen five attacks leaving three Israelis killed and a young girl shot in front of her parents’ home. The upsurge is in part the result of concentrated efforts by Hamas to rebuild its West Bank terror infrastructure, a campaign reportedly...

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Over the weekend Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called on Palestinians to launch another war against Israel, triggering speculation by analysts that the terror group was desperate to restore its flagging popularity by orchestrating spectacular violence against Israel. A website affiliated with Hamas’s Al Qassam Brigades is now conveying comments...

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Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are both claiming a terrorist linked to a major 2012 bus bombing as one of their own after Mohammed Asi was killed today in a firefight with Israeli troops. Here are two of the posters created for Mohammed Asi. PIJ poster on left, Hamas...

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