The Israeli Defense Forces has found a Hamas tunnel extending into Israeli territory for the second time in three weeks, the IDF announced Thursday. The concrete-fortified tunnel is 90 feet below ground and is only a few kilometers away from the tunnel that was discovered in April, the IDF said. That was the first...

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Infighting at the top of Fatah, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority—including alleged assassination attempts—are eroding the credibility of PA President Mahmoud Abbas and preventing Palestinian aspirations from being realized, longtime Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh reported Tuesday for the Gatestone Institute. Palestinian sources reported that Mohammad Dahlan, Abbas’ former national...

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Terror groups opened fire at Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border on Wednesday, the sixth time in two days that Israelis have been targeted by gunfire or mortar rounds. Both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attacks on the soldiers, who were originally engaged in operations aimed at finding...

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Four tons of a chemical used to manufacture long-range rockets were stopped from being smuggled into Gaza, Israeli security announced Tuesday. Security forces seized the ammonium chloride before Passover at the Nitzana border crossing between Israel and Egypt. The crossing is also used to facilitate the shipment of goods into Gaza. The Shin...

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In a series of rebuffs to the United States’ outreach, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated on Sunday that America is Iran’s “main enemy,” and went on to mock President Barack Obama’s hopeful Nowruz holiday message from earlier this year. Khamenei asserted in a meeting with leaders of the terrorist...

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The links between Hamas financiers and the leadership of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign have continued to draw scrutiny since they were first exposed during a congressional testimony last week. Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, testified at a joint hearing before two House Foreign Affairs subcommittees last...

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Several members of a Hamas cell behind Monday’s suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus have been arrested, Israeli security services disclosed Thursday. The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, said that several cell members from Bethlehem have been arrested following a manhunt that also included the IDF and police. After...

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The Iran-backed terror organization Hamas said Wednesday that the person behind the Monday bombing of a Jerusalem bus, which injured 21 people, was a Hamas operative, seeming to claim credit for the attack without declaring outright responsibility. The terrorist who conducted the bombing, 19-year-old Abad al-Hamid Abu Srour, was publicly identified by Hamas after he died from wounds he sustained in the...

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A “significant contingent” of the former leadership of “three organizations that were designated or shut down, or held civilly liable for providing material support for the terrorist organization Hamas … appears to have pivoted to leadership positions within the American [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] campaign,” according to testimony provided to...

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Arab and Muslim countries have only delivered a small fraction of what they pledged to give for the reconstruction of Gaza after the 2014 conflict between Hamas and Israel, the World Bank stated Monday. Countries pledged to donate a combined $3.5 billion over three years at a conference in Cairo in October 2014. But as of...

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