The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas sought out advanced mapping software from a Turkish aid organization in order to improve the accuracy of rockets fired at Israel, the Shin Bet intelligence agency announced. While questioning Muhammad Murtaja, who was arrested last month on suspicions that he diverted Turkish aid money to Hamas, the Shin Bet discovered...

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Two Palestinian men have been charged with funneling funds from Turkish charities earmarked for Gaza reconstruction to the terrorist group Hamas, Israel’s internal security service announced on Tuesday. The Shin Bet said that Muhammad Murtaja, the Gaza coordinator of the Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency (TİKA), was arrested in February as he attempted to...

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Israeli security forces thwarted 16 suicide bombings and 16 kidnappings in 2016, making it the first year in three decades that no Israelis were killed by terrorists from the Gaza Strip, the head of Israel’s internal security agency told lawmakers on Monday. Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs...

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Jews must be driven out of all of Israel, not just the areas that the Jewish state took over in 1967, a co-founder of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas proclaimed in a televised speech last week. Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: The Quran Tells Us to Drive the Jews Out of Palestine...

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Israeli Air Force planes targeted two Hamas installations in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning in response to a rocket fired from Gaza that landed in southern Israel. The rocket struck an open space in the Sdot Negev region, near the town of Netivot. Nobody was injured and no damage was caused...

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The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has been seeking legitimacy and money in Europe by leveraging networks affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, its parent organization, Avi Issacharoff reported Tuesday in The Times of Israel. One of the goals of this campaign, which is ongoing in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Latin...

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Israel’s internal security service has in recent weeks broken up several Hamas terror cells run by West Bank college students, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. Muhammad Aazi, 20, and Noor Aldin Ghaith, 22, both West Bank residents, were arrested for plotting ambushes of vehicles. They had planned to spread nails along...

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The Islamist terrorist group Hamas is drafting a new platform that will endorse a Palestinian state based on the 1949 armistice lines in an effort “to present a more pragmatic and cooperative face to the world,” The New York Times reported Thursday. The group will also re-frame its enemies — defined in its 1988...

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An Israeli attorney filed a petition on Monday to charge former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh with war crimes at the International Criminal Court, accusing him of overseeing the use of human shields during the 2014 Gaza war. Calev Michael Myers filed the petition on behalf of the Israel-Li (Israel to Me) organization,...

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A top United Nations official in the Gaza Strip was elected last month to join Hamas’ political bureau, an Israeli think tank reported on Sunday. The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center claimed that Muhammad al-Jamassi was one of 15 new bureau members to be selected. Al-Jamassi serves as board chairman of the United Nations Relief...

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