In the late hours of Monday night the IDF launched “Operation Protective Edge” in an effort to stop the rockets from that continued to strike at Israel from the Gaza Strip. #IDF has commenced Operation Protective Edge in #Gaza against #Hamas, in order to stop the terror #Israel's citizens face...

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A statement made Saturday by Hamas official Osama Hamdan said that the terrorist group would accept no ceasefire in its attacks on Israeli civilians unless Israel ended its blockade of Gaza. Hamdan’s remarks were reported on the Hamas website Al Qassam: Head of Hamas’s foreign relations Osama Hamdan said that...

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Some half a million Israelis spent much of their weekend running to bomb shelters, with school camps remaining closed in one city July 6 because of rocket fire from Gaza. “The Ashdod municipality had said on Saturday night that no classes or other planned activities would be allowed to open,...

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Rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel continued Thursday. Israel Hayom reports: At around 8:30 in the morning, the early warning alarm sounded in Sderot followed by a salvo of three rockets. One of the rockets penetrated the wall of the second story of a building. On the first floor...

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The Daily Beast on Tuesday conveyed assessments from a range of Israeli officials and U.S.-based experts linking the recent kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers to Saleh al-Arouri – a top Hamas official who sits atop the group’s terror infrastructure in the West Bank – who has reportedly been allowed to operate...

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A July 1 poll from Pew Research suggests that worries about the spread of violent Islamist extremism are increasing throughout the Middle East: …from civil war to suicide bombings, plague the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, concern about Islamic extremism is high among countries with substantial Muslim populations… in the Middle East,...

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An analysis published Tuesday by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy identifies last month’s Fatah-Hamas unity agreement as a factor that enabled the abductions and murders of Gil-ad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrach. After noting that  Hamas publicly took credit for the kidnappings despite doubts expressed in some quarters...

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State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf on Tuesday linked Hamas to the murders of three Israeli teenagers whose bodies were discovered Monday. Hamas’s involvement in the murders promises to problematize relations between the terror group and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, which formed a unity government just weeks before...

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Tens of thousands of people of every religious and political orientation came together yesterday to bury Gil-ad Shaar (age 16), Naftali Fraenkel (16), and Eyal Yifrach (19), who were murdered by Hamas terrorists. Buses lined the roads to the Modi’in municipal cemetery hours before the funeral ceremony began. After separate ceremonies...

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The murder of three Israeli teenagers—Gil-Ad Shaar,  Naftali Fraenkel (both 16) and Eyal Yifrah (19)—by Hamas terrorists was just the latest in some three thousand attacks during the past two years comprising of rockets, bombings, shootings, knifings, firebombs and rock attacks. Analysts believe these figures will only rise as Hamas continues to...

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