Hamas is manufacturing and testing rockets capable of striking Israel’s densely packed population centers. The missiles include a Gaza-built version of the advanced Iranian Fajr-5. Israel substantially degraded the Gaza-based terror group’s storehouses of advanced missiles during November’s Operation Pillar of Defense, which Jerusalem launched to stem months of increased...

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On Tuesday an attack on a northern Sinai checkpoint killed two and injured six. Later that evening and overnight assailants launched attacks on an airport checkpoint and near an army base. On Wednesday gunmen opened fire on the car of a senior military commander. On Thursday a soldier was killed, reportedly trying to...

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A “Dear Colleague” letter currently collecting signatures in Congress – and due to be delivered to Qatari Ambassador to the U.S. Mohammed Bin Abdullah al-Rumaihi – expresses concern over Doha’s assistance to Hamas: The draft letter, addressed directly to Rumaihi, acknowledges that “longstanding, strategic bilateral relations between the United States and Qatar,...

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A combination of political ideology and entrenched anti-Semitism within Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AKP) Party threatens to derail efforts to reconcile with Israel – at significant cost to Ankara’s interests – according to an array of recently published analyses and reporting. Relations between the two countries were frozen by...

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Middle East analysts have traditionally outlined at least four broad categories of internal structural problems plaguing efforts to establish and stabilize a viable Palestinian state. The Western-backed Palestinian Authority government (PA) which controls the West Bank lacks sovereignty over even the Palestinian-controlled territories that they explicitly reserve for a future...

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A scandal that shook Qatari news channel Al Jazeera this afternoon – in which 22 of the the station’s staffers in Egypt resigned over what they allege is editorial control from Doha enforcing pro-Muslim Brotherhood coverage – is the latest in a series of controversies that have battered the station’s...

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A Gaza Strip businessman was forced to shutter his gas canister factory – which he had run for 30 years, and which employed 45 workers – after Hamas authorities discovered that he was painting his gas canisters silver. Gas canisters painted silver, it turns out, are too Israeli to be...

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Hamas is struggling to set a line – and remain silent in the meantime – as the crisis in Egypt plays out. The Iran-backed terror group is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, which until yesterday was in control of the Egyptian government, and the links have created tension between...

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Yousef Rizqa, a key adviser to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, evaluated last week ongoing efforts by U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry to bring the Palestinians back to the negotiating table with Israel. He’s not pleased: Dr. Yousef Rizqa, political adviser to Gaza prime minister, warned against “a new...

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An Arabic-language story published this week in a pan-Arab newspaper blasted the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood for financially supporting the group despite the fragile Egyptian economy. Hamas officials responded, again lashing out against what the Iran-backed terror group describes as a smear campaign being conducted against it by Egyptian media outlets: Hamas movement strongly condemned...

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