Palestinian fighters in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip fired rockets at Israel on Tuesday night. At least once rocket fell on the Gaza side of the Israeli-Gaza border, while another struck Israel. The Times of Israel notes that Israel’s November Operation Pillar of Defense against Hamas’s military infrastructure – which Jerusalem...

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Analysts have begun to unpack the implication of reports – published in Arabic and Israeli news outlets earlier this month – to the effect that Hamas has rebuilt ties with Iran and with Tehran’s Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah. The reports detailed meetings which took place at Iran’s Beirut embassy and...

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Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system yesterday intercepted a rocket fired from the Egypt-controlled Sinai Peninsula and aimed at the southern resort city of Eilat. Islamist militants operating in the lawless desert peninsula said they fired the rocket at the city, which was packed with tourists, in retaliation for the killing of...

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Hamas authorities in Gaza are intensifying their crack down on political activity across a number of platforsm. The Palestinian terror group si reportedly driven, among other things, by fears that the territory could experience mass protests like those that overthrow the organization’s Muslim Brotherhood allies in Egypt. Gazan activists, unhappy...

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Egyptian authorities will prevent Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan from going through with a plan that would have seen the Islamist official travel to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip through Egypt, according to sources who spoke to Egyptian media outlets. The development is the result of multiple Middle East dynamics. The Egyptian...

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Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip have evaluated renewed negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), and are declaring themselves displeased: Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shallah said the PA had relinquished many of its initial preconditions to the negotiations in order to revive the way of the Oslo Accords,...

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Hamas on Thursday deepened its campaign against journalists operating in the Gaza Strip, which the Palestinian terror group controls and over which it has tried to exert increasingly authoritarian rule. Three media companies, including the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television station and the Palestinian news agency Ma’an, were shuttered. Al Arabiya and Maan...

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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have deployed one battery of the Iron Dome anti-missile system to Israel’s Red Sea port of Eilat. The decision was made by the Chief of Staff Lt.General Benny Gantz, after consultations with other commanders of the military and with an eye toward the increased threat...

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At least six Egyptians were killed on Monday in a string of attacks carried out against police station and army checkpoints in the Sinai Peninsula. The attacks, conducted by Islamists, added up to the single worst day of violence this month: At least 10 attacks were carried out by Islamist militants against...

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Egypt is preparing to launch a large-scale operation to dislodge jihadist elements in the Sinai Peninsula. The announcement comes after weeks of consistent attacks by gunmen on security checkpoints, police stations, and government buildings, and there may be as many as 30,000 Egyptian troops already deployed in the territory. The identities of the gunmen...

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