A Palestinian band praised bus bombings and called for the resumption of suicide attacks against Israelis in a music video published online on Sunday. The al-Wa’ed Band’s video, which was translated by the Middle East Research Institute, opens with an image of Yahya Ayyash, a chief Hamas bombmaker who was assassinated by...

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An Israeli man was stabbed in the head and shoulder near Neve Daniel in the West Bank in a suspected terror attack on Tuesday. Tomer Ditur, 28, was stabbed at around 5:00 PM local time and is in moderate condition, Ynet reported. Security forces have begun a major manhunt to track...

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Islamic State operatives are traveling to the Gaza Strip to receive medical treatment in hospitals controlled by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, the Jerusalem Post reported on Monday, citing Israeli authorities. “We have received authenticated reports that ISIS members in Sinai entered the Gaza Strip through tunnels in order to...

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The fire that engulfed a makeshift West Bank synagogue and destroyed Torah scrolls on Friday was caused by arson, likely by suspects from the nearby Palestinian town of Halhul, an Israeli investigation determined. The scrolls were housed in a tent next to Karmei Tzur that was used as a synagogue and...

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A senior official from Fatah, the party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said Europe only paid attention to the conflict in Syria when it impacted the continent directly, and asked whether Palestinians needed to “hijack your planes and destroy your airports again” to make Europeans care about the...

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The mother of one of two Israeli Arab girls who stabbed an Israeli security guard on Thursday apologized for her daughter’s actions, thanked the guard for subduing the pair without opening fire, and expressed wishes that he should have a long life, The Times of Israel reported on Friday. The...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with families of terrorists on Saturday, marking the second time he has done so this week. His office posted videos of him meeting with families of terrorists from Hebron on both his Arabic- and English-language websites and his YouTube channel. Abbas also met with...

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The global social media platform Twitter announced that it suspended 125,00 accounts that were threatening or promoting terrorism, primarily on behalf of the Islamic State, since the middle of last year, CNBC reported Friday. The announcement is the first time that Twitter indicated the scope of terror-related activity on its network. A Brookings Institution study...

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After two 13-year-old girls were arrested Thursday after stabbing a security guard at a bus station in Ramle, those who knew the girls said that they were good students who were incited to violence by videos on social media. The Al-Jawarish School in Ramle, which the girls attend school, “promotes living together,” a school source told...

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A Jerusalem court sentenced two Israeli teens for the July 2014 kidnapping and killing of a 16-year-old Palestinian, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Thursday. The defendants, whose identities were concealed because they were minors at the time they attacked Muhammed Abu-Khdeir, were convicted of the crime this past November. One of...

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