Israeli forces apprehended an unarmed Gazan man who broke through the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip and crossed through into Israel, near the community of Zikim, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. It was third infiltration attempt this week. The man was turned over to the Shin Bet...

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In a further demonstration that it exercises complete political and military control over the Gaza Strip, Hamas, the terrorist organization that governs there, says it mobilized 30,000 of its members for military drills on Sunday and Monday, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The members of  Hamas’s Izaddin al Qassam...

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On Monday, Hamas security forces intervened when students protested a raise in tuition at the Al-Azhar University in the Gaza Strip. At least five Palestinian students were beaten and injured by the Hamas police during the demonstration, The Times of Israel reported Monday. The students were opposing the university administration’s...

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In response to continued attempts by Hamas to plant improvised explosive devices (IEDs) the Gaza border fence with Israel, Israel attacked numerous sites inside the Gaza Strip and destroyed two terror tunnels, one of which had crossed the border into Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. According to the IDF,...

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Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, announced that one of nine people it had arrested from a ring that smuggled guns from Hamas in Gaza to the West Bank was an employee of the French consulate in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Romain Franck, a French citizen...

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The recent escalation along Israel’s border with Gaza, including an Israeli attack on the Hamas-ruled enclave over the weekend that destroyed two terror tunnels, is fueled in part by Hamas’s attempt to prepare for its planned “great march of the return,” a leading analyst of Palestinian politics explained to a press...

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Adiel Kolman, a 32-year-old father of four from Kochav Hashachar, died of his wounds last night after being stabbed near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City earlier in the day. The attacker, named by security officials as Abd el-Rahman Bani, walked up to Kolman and stabbed him repeatedly in...

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Two news events this week underscored that the biggest impediment to Israeli-Palestinian peace is the inability or the refusal of the Palestinian Authority to govern effectively. In the first case, a convoy carrying PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah through Gaza was struck by an explosion damaging three cars and reportedly injuring...

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Israeli tanks fired on a number of Hamas targets inside the Gaza Strip, following a series of explosions caused by improvised explosive devices (IED) at Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled enclave, The Times of  Israel reported Thursday. “IDF troops retaliated by firing from a tank at positions belonging to the...

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A White House official told reporters that the Trump administration was committed to helping residents of Gaza with or without help from the Palestinian Authority, which boycotted an international summit held at the White House this week geared toward helping the coastal enclave, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. “Our...

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