Tag: Hamas
Human Rights Watch: Palestinian Authority and Hamas crush dissidents
Despite its anti-Israel stance, the nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch accused the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday of violently stopping dissent.
“Twenty-five years after Oslo, Palestinian authorities have gained only limited power in the West Bank and...
Defense Ministry orders Gaza border crossings reopened after weaker Friday riots
Israel’s Defense Ministry ordered the Kerem Shalom goods crossing and Erez pedestrian crossing from Gaza to Israel to be reopened on Sunday morning, noting a decrease in the amount and severity of riots along...
New Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader ‘will seek to satisfy Iran’
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the second-largest armed terrorist faction in the Gaza Strip, announced at the end of last month that it had a new leader.
Ziad al-Nakhleh, formerly the deputy secretary-general of the Iranian-backed Palestinian...
Developing northern Sinai – A new diplomatic paradigm
The withdrawal of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas from the peace process, his actions against the Hamas leadership, the worsening of the economic situation in Gaza to the point of a humanitarian crisis, the escalation...
Israel has reached decision time on Gaza
Events in Gaza are moving quickly, and Israel has now reached a critical fork in the road with two main paths: a significant military escalation, which has the potential to gain momentum and turn...
Be’ersheva home destroyed by powerful Gaza rocket, family miraculously saved
A medium-range grad rocket fired by terrorists in the Gaza Strip destroyed a home in Be’ersheva, Israel’s third largest city, deep inside Israeli territory.
The Red Alert warning system was activated at 3:39am in Be’ersheva...
IDF destroys Hamas terror tunnel dug 200 meters into Israeli territory
The Israeli military uncovered and neutralized a Hamas terror tunnel breaching Israeli territory. This is the 15th cross-border tunnel discovered and destroyed this year.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said on Thursday that the tunnel, dug near the...
Iran joins global initiative to combat terrorism, loopholes for Hamas and Hezbollah
Looking to avoid further international sanctions, 143 out of 268 Iranian lawmakers voted on Sunday to join a global initiative to end terrorist funding, including loopholes for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
Known as the “Combating the...
Yahya Sinwar explains how Hamas hasn’t changed
In the weeks since footage emerged of British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn insinuating that native-born British Jews have a feeble grasp of English irony, lo and behold, I’ve been spotting ironies everywhere.
This week,...
Official says Hamas wants Palestinian state in pre-1967 borders, not two-state solution
During an interview on Turkey’s Channel 9 network, Hamas official and political analyst Talal Nassar said that while Hamas has accepted a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders, it does not accept a two-state...