Gaza: Over 160 rockets and mortars have been fired at Israeli civilians since Saturday by Hamas-led Palestinian terrorist groups. The rocket escalation, which comes in parallel to other tactics and raises concerns that Hamas is trying to drag Israel into a diplomatically costly group war, drew condemnation from UN Secretary-General...
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The security situation on Israel’s southern border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip deteriorated sharply over the weekend, with Palestinian terror groups led by Hamas launching more than one hundred rockets and mortars at Israeli civilians Saturday and into Monday. The attacks, which target more than one millions Israelis, are part of an...
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Palestinian terror groups led by Hamas launched a barrage of rockets at Israeli civilians Saturday and Sunday, part of an escalation that began when Palestinians fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli jeep traveling along Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The subsequent Hamas-led rocket barrage against Israeli civilians, which is...
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The Iran-backed Palestinian group Hamas, a designated terrorist entity that controls the Gaza Strip and remains publicly committed to Israel’s destruction, is being criticized by rights groups for abuses against protesters, journalists, and supporters of rival Palestinian factions. Last week Hamas security officials arrested and interrogated two journalists who were...
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In what diplomats and officials are deriding as a “kangaroo court” and a “show trial,” Turkey has opened proceedings in absentia against four Israeli officials that Ankara blames for Israel’s 2010 interception of the terrorist-linked Turkish vessel which was trying to breach Israel’s legal blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip....
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The Turkish military over the weekend dispatched F-16s across the border into Iraq, bombing bases of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and killing five. The PKK – which is identified as a terrorist organization by the U.S., EU, and others – is locked in a decades-old war with Turkey, the...
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Controversy erupted in Tunisia this week when A-Sahbi Atiq, head of the parliamentary faction of the country’s ruling Islamist Ennahda party, suggested that Hamas leaders opposed inserting a clause in the Tunisian constitution that would criminalize relations with Israel. Iran-backed Hamas quickly issued statements insisting that its leaders do in...
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again rejected overtures from Israel to rehabilitate relations, which Turkey froze in 2010 after Israel intercepted a terrorist-linked Turkish vessel trying to breach Israel’s legal blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Passengers aboard the MV Mavi Maramara attacked Israeli commandos who were boarding...
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Israeli security forces are stepping up a campaign to uproot Hamas from the West Bank, where the Iranian-backed Palestinian terror group has re-established its presence and now threatens the integrity of the Palestinian Authority, controlled by its rival Fatah party. The Israel Security Agency, Shin Bet, has arrested 30 Hamas-linked...
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Hamas claimed credit for some of the scores of rockets fired towards Israeli civilians over the last week and weekend. A series of barrages over the weekend saw 20 rockets hitting Israel on Sunday night and early Monday. Schools were canceled and over one million Israeli residents, including around 40,000...
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