The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has cancelled a public holiday to celebrate International Women’s Day, which takes place on Wednesday. The Palestinian Authority issued the holiday declaration, which included a day off from school, from its capital in Ramallah. But Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since conquering it in a coup nearly ten years ago,...

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The Palestinian Authority announced Tuesday that municipal elections, scheduled for May, will only take place in the PA-controlled West Bank and not in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. The Ma’an news agency said the decision was taken during the PA’s weekly cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon. A PA statement said that Hanna...

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Hamas is “fully capable of initiating an attack” inside Israel through one of its tunnels, veteran Haaretz military correspondent Amos Harel told reporters in a conference call on Tuesday. The call, which was arranged by The Israel Project (which publishes The Tower), took place shortly after Israel’s State Comptroller released a report criticizing the...

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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict took center stage once again when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington to meet with President Donald Trump. Amidst speculation over the policy they would adopt regarding the stalled peace process and the wider idea of a regional peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, one...

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The terror group Hamas has built at least 15 tunnels that extend into Israel, the country’s Channel 2 reported Sunday, citing members of the government’s security cabinet. Although the Israel Defense Forces discovered and destroyed at least 34 tunnels during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Hamas has been pouring resources into rebuilding its terror infrastructure,...

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UNRWA, the United Nations agency providing aid to Palestinian refugees, announced Sunday that it had suspended an employee who was accused of being named to a leadership post in the terrorist organization Hamas. Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) charged that Suhail al-Hindi a principal at a UNRWA-run school, was...

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An Israel fighter plane on Thursday shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as it flew from the Gaza Strip to the Mediterranean Sea. The drone was intercepted before it entered Israeli airspace and landed harmlessly in the sea. “The IDF will not allow any violation of [Israel’s] airspace and...

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Washington’s envoy to the United Nations met on Wednesday with the parents of a fallen Israeli soldier whose body is being held by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, The Times of Israel reported. Leah and Simha Goldin asked Ambassador Nikki Haley to help pressure Hamas to return the body of their son, Hadar, and that of another Israeli...

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Hamas on Friday rejected an offer by Israel’s defense minister to turn the Gaza Strip “into the Singapore of the Middle East” by creating jobs and building infrastructure. Mahmoud al-Zahar, a spokesperson for the terrorist group, said that if Gaza sought to be like Singapore, it would have already been done, Israeli media reported. Israeli...

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A member of Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades was killed on Monday when a tunnel he was digging caved in, The Times of Israel reported. Ahmad Asa’ad Shahada, 22, “met his lord as a martyr, God willing, after a tunnel of the resistance collapsed,” according to an announcement on the brigades’ website. Gaza’s...

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