Citing ideological and financial issues, both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have rejected U.N. requests to take in approximately 150,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria. Hamas’s Gaza head, Ismail Haniyeh, reportedly told UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, that taking in refugees would be used by Israel against Palestinians’...

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The Palestinian faction Fatah staged celebrations marking the 48th anniversary of its founding on Tuesday, with masked men marching on the outskirts of Bethlehem wielding guns, axes, knives and mock rockets. Fatah politically controls the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority, and is locked in a battle for Palestinian prestige...

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An Israeli anti-terrorism think tank has issued an update in its ongoing project chronicling Hamas fighters who were publicly classified as civilians killed in Israel’s recent Operation Pillar of Defense. The report, from the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, outlines how the Iran-backed terror group lists its fighters as civilian...

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Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank flocked on Friday to a Hamas rally in Hebron, the first such rally that Hamas’s rival Fatah faction, which controls the West Bank, had permitted in years. Waving Hamas banners and carrying fake missiles on their shoulders, the demonstrators subsequently marched toward an...

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Hamas’s Tehran office has issued a statement thanking Iran for its support of the group and dismissing suggestions of a split between the Islamic Republic and terror organization. The statement reiterates previous assertions of close ties from both sides, and comes as an Iranian delegation has arrived to the Gaza...

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Pentagon officials are pressing Congress to enhance military sales to Israel in the form of an additional $647 million package which would include 6,900 tail kits used to transform free-fall bombs into precise satellite-guided weapons and thousands of 900kg bunker buster bombs. The tail kits would supplement an Israeli arsenal...

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Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded to a European Union statement blaming Jerusalem for obstructing peace by noting that the condemnation seems abstruse when lined up alongside recent Palestinian statements calling for Israel’s eradication and recent Palestinian diplomacy shattering the peace process. The MFA statement specifically called attention to...

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Acting on a tip from Israel, Italian security officers seized a cache of Egypt-bound weapons, including rocket launchers, at the Port of Naples. The final destination of the weapons has not been identified, but the majority of weapons smuggled into the Gaza Strip for use by Hamas come through tunnels...

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Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal reemphasized his group’s commitment to the eradication of Israel over the weekend, in a speech that The New York Times described as “defiant” and which the Israeli government noted contained genocidal pledges to use violent “resistance” to establish a “Palestine from the river to the...

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Israel will be forced to take military action if the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attempts to transfer portions of its non-conventional arsenal to Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border, according to warnings issued on Sunday by Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren. Using language that echoed Israeli...

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