Two fires ignited by incendiary balloons broke out in southern Israel, as 12,000 Gazans participated in violent Hamas-led riots at the border with Israel, The Times of Israel reported Friday. According to the army, the rioters burned tires and threw rocks at Israeli soldiers. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry claimed...
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Six Hamas terrorists were killed in a large blast in the center of the Gaza Strip, The Times of Israel reported Saturday. The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, claimed that six of its members were killed in the explosion and blamed the blast on Israel. A statement from the group said that...
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An investigation into the Associated Press’s news coverage of last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas found that an AP report published last month analyzing the death toll in Gaza was “botched in just about every imaginable way.” In an article for The New York Observer published Tuesday, journalists Richard Behar and Gary Weiss found that the news organization...
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A public opinion poll (Arabic link) conducted recently found that nearly half of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip believe that Hamas movement is the main party responsible for the endless split between Gaza and the West Bank. The poll was conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre in the...
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The terrorist organization Hamas misused international law during Operation Protective Edge last summer “to undermine Israel’s perceived moral standing and international support,” according to a report commissioned by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and released this week. The report (.pdf), which was written by a task force headed by five retired American generals,...
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Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Egypt’s most active militant organization, and Ansar al-Sharia Bayt al-Maqdis, a Salafi jihadist group in the Gaza Strip, have both sworn allegiance to the Islamic State, statements from the two groups said on Monday. In a video broadcast on the Internet, the Gazan Ansar al-Sharia Bayt al-Maqdis...
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Today was the thirty-seventh day of Operation Protective Edge. I love how all they're saying on the news right now is essentially: "We have no idea what's going on." — Sharon Udasin (@sharonudasin) August 13, 2014 Earlier today, The Tower reported on the violation of the ceasefire by Hamas, when at...
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The Egypt-sponsored peace talks between Israel and Hamas have fallen apart, with the current 72-hour ceasefire set to expire at midnight local time. Shortly after Hamas announced that the talks failed, but before the ceasefire itself ended, red alert sirens were heard throughout southern Israel. Hamas official Ali Barake states negotiations...
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Fox News reported yesterday that an internal United Nations audit of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Gaza found that UNDP “allowed at least five non-staff contract employees to handle ‘core’ procurement processes that only staffers are supposed to handle, including those for ordering up ‘significant’ civil construction activities.” The...
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Today was the thirty fifth day of Operation Protective Edge. The Tower today carried a news report originating from a Hebrew-language news site, citing sources in Gaza, that Hamas has executed many of its tunnel diggers in recent weeks to hinder Israel’s efforts to find the tunnels. The report gives insight...
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