Palestinian sources are reporting that two Egyptian tanks crossed the border that separates the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The tanks reportedly stopped short of Palestinian territory but – if confirmed – the reports would be read as a signal that an ongoing Egyptian campaign to root out jihadist...

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Earlier this week Hamas’s external leadership ordered its political echelon to stop antagonizing the Egyptian army. The Iran-backed terror group is an off-shoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and has been in a tailspin since the Brotherhood-linked government of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi lost power. Hamas figures had begun...

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Hamas has lost international backers and seen its domestic popularity slide. It is facing the prospect of economic suffocation, as the Egyptians move to shut down the lucrative smuggling tunnels between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsua down by Egypt. Its rival Palestinian Fatah faction has taken to...

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Egypt has expanded an ongoing anti-terrorism campaign in the Sinai Peninsula targeting jihadist networks that have in recent months deepened and consolidated efforts to foment instability and violence in the territory and beyond: The Egyptian army is continuing its crackdown on terror in northern Sinai. The Maan news agency reported that military forces moved...

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Hamas has seen its internal and regional position slip to such an extent that U.S. analysts are now calling on policymakers to deliver a death blow to the Iran-backed terror group. It is unpopular at home and is being stymied abroad. The fear now is that Hamas will try to...

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The Associated Press yesterday declared that the Egyptian-controlled Sinai Peninsula had become “a new front for jihad.” IDF intelligence records some 300 terror attacks which have been launched against Egyptian security forces in the area in recent weeks. A single attack saw 25 Egyptian police officers reportedly slain in “execution-style”...

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Egyptian officials have increased their efforts to clamp down on goods flowing in and out of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The Iran-backed terror organization is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, and per The New York Times has been struggling since the Brotherhood-linked government of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi lost power...

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Nine months ago the New York Times reported that Hamas was gaining popularity. Some of that popularity was the result of Hamas boasting that it had emerged victorious from Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense, which Jerusalem launched after several weeks in which Hamas had steadily escalated the amount and sophistication...

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Analysts are continuing to unpack Israeli and Egyptian military cooperation, amid confusing regarding a strike this month against jihadists in the northern Sinai Peninsula and after – according to foreign sources – a meeting took place last Tuesday in Cairo between a top Israeli security official and Egyptian counterparts. The...

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Palestinian media sources are printing quotes leaks from both sides, after a weekend meeting between Hamas and Fatah aimed at achieving reconciliation between the two Palestinian factions fell short: A meeting held late Sunday to discuss political reconciliation failed to make progress as the Hamas movement rejected the idea of...

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