Hamas’s Tehran office has issued a statement thanking Iran for its support of the group and dismissing suggestions of a split between the Islamic Republic and terror organization. The statement reiterates previous assertions of close ties from both sides, and comes as an Iranian delegation has arrived to the Gaza...

• Kindle

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded to a European Union statement blaming Jerusalem for obstructing peace by noting that the condemnation seems abstruse when lined up alongside recent Palestinian statements calling for Israel’s eradication and recent Palestinian diplomacy shattering the peace process. The MFA statement specifically called attention to...

• Kindle

Acting on a tip from Israel, Italian security officers seized a cache of Egypt-bound weapons, including rocket launchers, at the Port of Naples. The final destination of the weapons has not been identified, but the majority of weapons smuggled into the Gaza Strip for use by Hamas come through tunnels...

• Kindle

Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal reemphasized his group’s commitment to the eradication of Israel over the weekend, in a speech that The New York Times described as “defiant” and which the Israeli government noted contained genocidal pledges to use violent “resistance” to establish a “Palestine from the river to the...

• Kindle

Preparations continue in the Gaza Strip for Hamas’s 25th anniversary, which will see the Iran-backed terror group holding rallies throughout the territory in celebration of its genocidal commitment to eradicating Israel. Taking part in the festivities will be Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal, who entered the Gaza Strip for the...

• Kindle

Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that he plans to visit Gaza next week. The move comes as foreign policy analysts and journalists are pointing to the negative effect that Erdogan’s “bombast” toward Israel has had on Ankara’s prestige and influence. Erdogan’s criticism of Israel’s Operation Pillar of...

• Kindle

Residents in the Gaza Strip have posted large billboards highlighting close ties between Iran and that territory’s ruling Hamas terror group. The billboards thank Tehran for assisting Palestinian terror groups in battling Israelis, and the Associate Press​ commented that the posters’ “prominent location, at busy intersections and next to a...

• Kindle

Iran is “finding ways to resupply Hamas,” moving weapons through Sudan and Egypt and then into the Gaza Strip, according to U.S. officials. Jerusalem launched Operation Pillar of Defense after a month-long escalation in the amount and sophistication of weapons used by Hamas against Israelis, and Israeli forces proceeded to...

• Kindle

Hamas scrambled at the end of last week and into the weekend to maintain the ceasefire which ended hostilities around Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense. The Iran-backed group called on other Palestinian terror groups to maintain the ceasefire, and even dispatched its own officers to pull Palestinians away from the...

• Kindle

As an official ceasefire between Israel and Gaza-based terror groups took hold 9 p.m. Israel time, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak declared Wednesday that Operation Pillar of Defense had been completed successfully. Evaluating Israel’s progress in degrading Hamas’s ability to terrorize Israeli civilians, firstly by targeting Hamas’s military hierarchy and secondly by...

• Kindle