The Israeli Navy arrested a Hamas-affiliated smuggler who took advantage of recently relaxed limits on fishing boats from the Gaza Strip to bring in weapons and materials that could be used to build rockets, Israel’s internal security service announced on Monday. Salim Jamal Hassan Naman, who was arrested last month, told interrogators that he...

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Former President Bill Clinton said that he went to great lengths to secure a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians while he was in office, but that the Palestinians rejected the offer. “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that...

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Under the administration of President Barack Obama, the Treasury Department stopped blacklisting domestic charities that collect funds for terrorist organizations, Eli Lake of Bloomberg View reported on Thursday. Lake explained that targeting charities that front for terrorist organizations was a “key tool” of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism after 9/11. During...

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A young Hamas operative has given Israel’s internal security agency valuable information about the Iran-backed terrorist group’s efforts to build tunnels into Israel after his arrest last month. The teenager provided “extensive information on Hamas activities to dig tunnels that are to be used for Hamas fighters to infiltrate Israeli areas,” the Shin Bet...

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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated on Monday that any continued aggression from terror groups like Hamas, such as the digging of tunnels and firing of mortar shells into Israeli territory, will be responded to with force. “Against this terror stands the IDF and various security agencies who are responding decisively to the...

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Palestinian kindergarten children wore military fatigues and brandished toy machine guns to simulate the capture of an Israeli soldier while performing a play in the Gaza Strip last week. In another play at the May 5 event, children were seen throwing rocks at peers dressed as Israeli border police officers and Hasidic Jews....

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Israeli authorities are continuing their search for the perpetrators who stabbed and moderately injured two elderly women in southern Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. Police say the attackers fled towards the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber. Two individuals apprehended by police earlier in the day have been released after an investigation cleared them of suspicion. The...

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Hamas fired mortars at Israeli troops seeking to uncover terror tunnels built by the Iran-backed terrorist group for the fourth consecutive day on Friday. Israel launched air raids against Hamas positions inside the Gaza Strip in response to the attacks. IDF troops have been operating near the border with Gaza and inside the enclave to find terror...

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The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, confirmed Thursday that it arrested a leading Hamas tunnel expert last month. Mahmoud Atawnah, a member of Hamas’ Izz ad-din al-Qassam Brigades, was arrested after he crossed into Israel armed with two knives. Atawnah later told interrogators that he intended to kill the first Israeli he...

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The Israeli military’s discovery of a another Hamas tunnel extending into Israel, the second one discovered in recent weeks, shows that the Iran-backed terror organization is gearing up for “the next round” of war with Israel, a former IDF general said Thursday. Yossi Kuperwasser, formerly the head of the research division of Israeli military intelligence...

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