A Hamas militant issued a thinly-veiled threat against Americans after the State Department officially designated a Hamas leader as being an international terrorist, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. The State Department’s designated Fathi Hammad as an international terrorist on Friday, saying that he used his position as a former interior minister “to coordinate...
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The international charity World Vision has suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip after the director of its branch in the Palestinian territory was charged with funneling millions of dollars in aid to Hamas, Reuters reported on Friday. Israel froze World Vision’s accounts in Jerusalem following last month’s arrest of Mohammad el-Halabi, who is accused of diverting 60 percent...
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Israel has started constructing an underground barrier along its border with the Gaza Strip to block the Islamist terrorist group Hamas from tunneling into its territory, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Israel’s Defense Ministry in July approved a budget of NIS 2 billion or $530 million to build the concrete barrier...
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Hamas spends an annual $100 million on its military infrastructure in order to prepare for its next war against Israel, Avi Issacharoff of The Times of Israel reported on Thursday, citing estimates by Israeli and Palestinian sources. Roughly $40 million is spent on employing around 1,500 diggers to build the Iran-backed terror organization’s network...
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A Palestinian court on Thursday postponed next month’s local elections, the first large-scale elections in a decade, due to “procedural problems,” especially over questions of candidate eligibility and the participation of Jerusalem residents in the vote. “The administrative decision [i.e., the elections] must deal with the homeland as one unit, and with...
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Palestinians are growing increasingly outraged over the removal of women’s names and pictures from official lists of candidates competing in next month’s municipal elections, longtime Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh reported Monday. Rather than publishing the female candidates’ names or photographs, Abu Toameh reported, “the electoral lists are using the terms ‘the...
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After representatives from Hamas and the Iranian government met in Beirut on Friday, the two parties promised to work together to unite the Muslim world to face the “Zionist danger” together, Ma’an News reported. Ali Baraka, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, was received at the Iranian embassy in Beirut by the embassy’s head consul,...
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A Gaza journalist was arrested by Hamas on Thursday, Ynet reported, becoming the latest Palestinian media member to have been detained by the Iran-backed terror group this year. The arrest came the day after Human Rights Watch (HRW) blasted Hamas for its abuse of the media in a wide-ranging report. Mohammed Othman, a correspondent for Al-Monitor, was...
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The Palestinian Authority and the terrorist group Hamas “are arresting, abusing, and criminally charging” journalists and activists who criticize them, leading to a “chilling effect” on freedom of expression in the Palestinian territories, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a report released on Monday. “Both Palestinian governments, operating independently, have apparently arrived...
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Hamas has opened an official office in Tunisia, a spokesman said Sunday. Moussa Abu Marzouk, one of the Iran-backed terror group’s top officials, publicly announced the opening to a Tunisian news agency on Sunday. Abu Marzouk said that the office was opened with full approval of the Tunisian government. Tunisia is...
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