Terror groups in the Sinai Peninsula launched rockets into Israel Friday night, another worrying sign that the territory may be in the midst of a percipitous slide into anarchy and violence. The rockets caused some damage but no injuries. The Morsi government has overseen a dramatic deterioration in the security situation in...

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Responding to months of rocket barrages by Hamas-led terror groups targeting more than a million Israeli civilians, the IDF today launched a widespread campaign targeting military infrastructure and operatives in the Gaza Strip. The campaign has been identified by Israeli military officials as “Operation Pillar Of Defense,” and began with a pin-point strike targeting...

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Gaza: Over 160 rockets and mortars have been fired at Israeli civilians since Saturday by Hamas-led Palestinian terrorist groups. The rocket escalation, which comes in parallel to other tactics and raises concerns that Hamas is trying to drag Israel into a diplomatically costly group war, drew condemnation from UN Secretary-General...

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The security situation on Israel’s southern border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip deteriorated sharply over the weekend, with Palestinian terror groups led by Hamas launching more than one hundred rockets and mortars at Israeli civilians Saturday and into Monday. The attacks, which target more than one millions Israelis, are part of an...

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Palestinian terror groups led by Hamas launched a barrage of rockets at Israeli civilians Saturday and Sunday, part of an escalation that began when Palestinians fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli jeep traveling along Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The subsequent Hamas-led rocket barrage against Israeli civilians, which is...

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The Iran-backed Palestinian group Hamas, a designated terrorist entity that controls the Gaza Strip and remains publicly committed to Israel’s destruction, is being criticized by rights groups for abuses against protesters, journalists, and supporters of rival Palestinian factions. Last week Hamas security officials arrested and interrogated two journalists who were...

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In what diplomats and officials are deriding as a “kangaroo court” and a “show trial,” Turkey has opened proceedings in absentia against four Israeli officials that Ankara blames for Israel’s 2010 interception of the terrorist-linked Turkish vessel which was trying to breach Israel’s legal blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip....

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Gaza-based terror groups launched another round of attacks against Israeli troops and civilians this morning. Three IDF soldiers were injured by a likely roadside bomb along the border between Gaza and Israel, and terrorists also launched a rocket into southern Israeli towns. Palestinian terror groups in Gaza have fired 766...

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again rejected overtures from Israel to rehabilitate relations, which Turkey froze in 2010 after Israel intercepted a terrorist-linked Turkish vessel trying to breach Israel’s legal blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Passengers aboard the MV Mavi Maramara attacked Israeli commandos who were boarding...

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Israeli security forces are stepping up a campaign to uproot Hamas from the West Bank, where the Iranian-backed Palestinian terror group has re-established its presence and now threatens the integrity of the Palestinian Authority, controlled by its rival Fatah party. The Israel Security Agency, Shin Bet, has arrested 30 Hamas-linked...

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