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During an interview on the Baladna TV network from Gaza, former Mayor of Khan Yunis Dr. Fayez Abu Shamala said:  “Unless the siege is lifted through tahdiya  Gaza will go for an all-out confrontation with the Israelis, with missiles on Tel Aviv and on Ben-Gurion airport. … Settlements will be occupied, and all the settlers will be taken captive.” He said...

The Trump administration has come under pressure to deny Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas entry into the United States for next week’s annual U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), a group that tracks anti-Semitism and terrorism in Palestinian media, petitioned the White House, as well as the State and Treasury departments, to reject Abbas from...

A decision by the Israeli government to award Chinese companies contracts to manage and build key Israeli ports is drawing controversy in Israel. Haifa’s growing port, located close to a naval base, will be managed by one Chinese company, while a second port in Ashdod, also near a naval base, is being constructed by a second Chinese firm. The topic made...

The United States has convinced Volkswagen AG to comply with sanctions on Iran and cease conducting most business in the regime, a U.S. official told Bloomberg news. The Trump administration and the German automotive firm ironed out the final details on Tuesday after weeks of negotiations, according to U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, who noted that Volkswagen will still be allowed...

U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman slammed the Palestinian Authority’s practice of rewarding those who attack Israelis after a Palestinian official announced that the Palestinian teen who killed an Israeli-American earlier this week can receive a monthly stipend. “The Palestinian Prisoner Affairs Commission has confirmed that the family of the terrorist who murdered Ari Fuld is ‘eligible to receive a monthly...

The Trump administration announced on Thursday that the president will take time to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines at the U.N. General Assembly meeting next week in New York. The scheduled discussion comes in the midst of tensions between Israel and Russia over the downing of a Russian plane by Syria, an attack that was initially blamed...

With upcoming American sanctions on Iran in November, the regime has been targeting energy firms and other businesses in the Middle East, according to a U.S. cybersecurity firm on Tuesday. According to FireEye, an Iranian “spear-phishing” email initiative has involved hackers stealing material from computers, using malware similar to that which was once used to infect a program that destroyed...

Police released security footage of a man in a dark shirt walking to the New Synagogue in Gdansk, Poland, and throwing a stone into a window during Yom Kippur services. Authorities appealed to anybody who recognizes the man to contact police. The city’s mayor, Pawel Adamowicz,  said he was “appalled,” especially because it took place during the prayers of Yom Kippur....

The events that led to the tragic downing of a Russian plane in recent days over the eastern Mediterranean underline just how dangerous Iran’s activities are to regional and international security. In the hours that followed the destruction of Russia’s intelligence-gathering aircraft by Syrian regime’s anti-aircraft fire, a steady stream of accusatory and severe statements against Israel began coming out...

In response to PMW’s report that the Palestinian Authority had named two schools after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, Belgium reacted promptly by severing all financial support to the P.A. Ministry of Education. PMW exposed that Belgium had forced the P.A. to rename a school funded by the Belgian government due to it being named after a terrorist, but on the very same day, the...