At a press conference in Paris with Jordanian foreign minister Nasser Judeh, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned today’s terror attack in Jerusalem. I condemn today’s terrorist act of somebody driving in another car into innocent people standing on the roadside. That is not just a terrorist act and an...

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Egyptian security reports (Arabic link) revealed that Hamas is spending $140 million a year to dig terror tunnels. According to the reports, no less than 12,000 Palestinians, many of them children, take part in the process of building the tunnels. These tunnels are used to smuggle weapons and materials used...

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One person was killed and at least 13 wounded in the latest terror attack in Jerusalem today, when a man drove a pick-up truck into a crowd of people on Shimon Hatzadik Street, Haaretz reported. The Times of Israel reported that Hamas is claiming responsibility for the attack. The driver was Ibrahim al-Akari, from Shuafat, an...

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In a televised speech yesterday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that “there is no place extending on the land of occupied Palestine that the resistance’s rockets cannot reach.” The Times of Israel reports that Nasrallah made specific threats: Hezbollah’s secretary-general also pledged that the Shiite organization’s rockets would force Israel...

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On Friday, Lebanon’s NOW media outlet reported that a Lebanese national, Mohammad Amadar, was arrested in Lima, Peru last week. NOW reported that explosives and a detonator were found in Amadar’s apartment and cited an Israeli news report that he had “planned to ‘execute a major attack’ against Jewish targets....

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Palestinians expressed satisfaction over a condolence letter sent by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the family of Mu’taz Hijazi, the Palestinian suspected in the attempted assassination of Jerusalem right-wing activist Yehuda Glick. “I salute the President,” wrote one user in a Hamas forum on Facebook. In the condolence letter,...

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Photos published in Hamas-affiliated media in the Gaza Strip showed activists from the organization’s paramilitary group, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, teaching dozens of Palestinian children how to use weapons. These images sparked criticism among many Palestinians who argued that the children are too young to take part in such...

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The Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas called on Palestinians to stage a “day of rage” in Jerusalem on Friday. Though the day largely passed without incident, observers feared that Abbas’ statement would inflame mass unrest in the Jewish state’s capital, after a Wednesday assassination attempt on prominent...

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A prominent American-born Jewish activist was the victim of an assassination attempt in Jerusalem late on Wednesday, the latest in a string of terror attacks that Israeli leaders have linked to heightened incitement by top Palestinian Authority (PA) figures. The Times of Israel described the victim, Yehuda Glick, as having “worked tirelessly...

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Egypt’s leaders should declare Hamas, Qatar and Turkey “hostile entities” and cut off all political and diplomatic relations with them, according to a senior military expert. The comments were made by Maj.-Gen. Ahmed Rajai, founder of the Egyptian Armed Forces 777 Division for combating terrorism, in the wake of coordinated...

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