Tag: Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Biden’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy regarding terror
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has announced that it was responsible for two recent attempts to murder Israeli Jews, including one in which an American citizen was severely wounded.
Does it...
‘PIJ is firing rockets at Israel with Hamas’s approval’
Israel’s deterrence is eroding, and Hamas is allowing Palestinian Islamic Jihad to fire rockets from Gaza as part of a “controlled escalation,” a former Israeli defense official has warned. In the past three weeks, Gazan...
Palestinian envoy to UK refuses to condemn terrorist killing of seven Israelis
The PLO’s envoy to the United Kingdom, Husam Zomlot, refused to condemn the attack that killed seven Israelis on Shabbat, and described Islamic Jihad terrorists as “refugees” who were “ethnically cleansed.”
In an interview on Sky News, host...
UN envoy to Hamas: ‘You have the right to fight Israel’
Italian lawyer Francesca Albanese, the United Nations’ special rapporteur for the Palestinians, spoke at a Hamas-organized conference in Gaza on Monday.
She plans to continue on to Israel, which is considering refusing her entry.
Senior members...
Actress Gal Gadot visits children in Gaza border town
Israeli actress Gal Gadot paid a visit to the southern Israeli town of Netiv HaAsara on Wednesday, surprising a group of youngsters there.
Netiv HaAsara is one of the closest Israeli towns to the border...
Israel indicts leader of Islamic Jihad, whose capture sparked Gaza violence
Israel indicted a senior commander of the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on Thursday, whose detention earlier this month sparked a brief conflict in the Gaza Strip earlier this month and whose detention is...
Shin Bet chief meets Egyptian spymaster amid row over Israeli raid
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) director Ronen Bar traveled to Egypt on Sunday amid an apparent row with Cairo over an Israeli counter-terrorism raid in Judea and Samaria that came less than 48 hours...
PA security forces arrest two Islamic Jihad recruits in possession of 17 kg of...
Palestinian Authority security forces last week arrested two Nablus residents who had been recruited by Palestinian Islamic Jihad and were in posession of 17 kilograms of explosives, Channel 2 reported Tuesday night.
The report said that while...
Islamic Jihad receives tens of millions of dollars a year from Iran, says Israeli...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Thursday accused Iran of providing tens of millions of dollars a year to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Cypriot Defense Minister...
What Iranian officials told the Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief in Tehran
Even before Israel’s “Operation Breaking Dawn” in Gaza was launched on Aug. 5, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ziyad al-Nakhalah was in Tehran to meet with top regime officials and military commanders.
Nakhalah traveled to Iran...