The Washington Post published an overview today of the resources that Hamas puts into building tunnels to allow its operatives to infiltrate Israel, as well as Hamas’ strategy for utilizing the tunnels. Describing this emerging “tunnel war,” a Palestinian militia document obtained by the  news Web site al-Monitor said the objective of the underground network was “to...

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The second week of Operation Protective Edge came to an end today. It was also the end of the third day of ground operations inside Gaza. Over 1,820 rockets were fired at Israel from #Gaza by Hamas since July 8. #IsraelUnderFire — Israel Foreign Min. (@IsraelMFA) July 21, 2014 In...

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The Algemeiner reported yesterday on remarks Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif) made to Al Jazeera last week criticizing Hamas (video embedded below). Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also slammed the network’s coverage of the latest round of fighting between Hamas and Israel during his...

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The Jerusalem Post cited reports Monday that the Israeli military struck a Sudanese weapons stockpile last week. Sources in Khartoum claimed on Monday that Israeli forces struck a weapons arsenal which held long range missiles for Hamas. The Arabic-language UK-based newspaper Al-Arab reported that the government in Sudan is not confirming...

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Appearing on CNN yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry strongly defended Israel’s right to defend itself. During his appearance (embedded below) Kerry told host Candy Crowley: Israel is under siege by a terrorist organization that has seen fit to dig tunnels and come through those tunnels with handcuffs and tranquilizer...

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Two groups of heavily armed Hamas terrorists were intercepted Monday morning when they emerged from tunnels on the Israeli side of the Gaza-Israel border near two kibbutzim and the town of Sderot. When the heavily armed and camouflaged terrorists were detected, residents in nearby kibbutzim were told to lock themselves...

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The cyber war between the IDF and Hamas has seen dozens of messages on Twitter feeds, via Flickr and on YouTube. Now, for the first time, Hamas hackers opted to attack the Israeli audience by launching personal threatening social media campaigns. It hasn’t turned out quite the way the hackers...

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The U.N.’s largest single agency, the massive U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), handed over rockets to Hamas that it discovered last week in one of its schools in Gaza. The revelation came after UNRWA embarrassingly was forced to admit last week that its education facilities were...

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The twelfth day of Operation Protective Edge is over. Hamas' tunnel network connects rocket launching sites with command centers. Some tunnels have openings inside Israel & enable infiltration. — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) July 18, 2014 Two soldiers were killed in Israel by terrorists who entered through a tunnel. Israel reported that...

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In a phone call Friday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a phone call that was interrupted by Israeli air warning sirens, President Barack Obama reiterated his support for Israel to defend itself. “While I was having the conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu, sirens went off in Tel Aviv,” said Obama....

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