Palestinian terrorist groups have issued statements celebrating Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem, which left 21 people injured. The Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas said in a statement on its website that it “welcomes the Jerusalem operation, and considers it a natural reaction to Israeli crimes, especially field executions and the desecration of...

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Israeli authorities have confirmed that a bomb was responsible for a blast in southeast Jerusalem that injured 21 people on Monday, Haaretz reported. The explosion tore through a bus in the city’s Talpiot neighborhood at about 5:45 PM, engulfing it and a nearby bus and car in flames. “Based on a professional investigation by police demolitions...

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The Israeli military has uncovered a tunnel built by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas that breaches into Israeli territory, Haaretz reported on Monday. It is the first such tunnel discovered inside Israel since the end of the 2014 Gaza war, when the Israel Defense Forces destroyed over 30 Hamas tunnels, 14 of which extended into Israel. The tunnel was...

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Sen. Mark Kirk (R – Ill.) called for an investigation into Germany’s second largest bank over reports that it is hosting the account of an organization that promotes boycotts of Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. “I am alarmed by reports that Commerzbank, a German bank headquartered in Frankfurt...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has formed a new constitutional court that will have primacy over lower courts and further entrench his hold on power, Reuters reported on Monday. The court, which will be run by judges who are affiliated with Abbas’ political party Fatah, “risks deepening Palestinian political divisions,” according to critics. Its rulings...

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A majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza approve of attacks against Israeli civilians and believe that an armed intifada would help them on the path to statehood, a recent poll has found. The survey, carried out by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and...

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The Palestinian Authority and Hamas have come under heavy criticism over the destruction of ancient church ruins that were discovered in the Gaza Strip last week. The 1,500-year-old ruins were unearthed as workers broke ground for a new shopping mall at Palestine Square in Gaza City, Khaled Abu Toameh reported in The Jerusalem Post....

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A United Nations office has coordinated the donation of millions of dollars to NGOs that are highly critical of Israel, and has helped those groups disseminate their information, a new report by the watchdog group NGO Monitor has documented. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is responsible for “bringing...

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The latest round of reconciliation talks between Fatah, the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority, and the terrorist group Hamas ended without an accord, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. The only agreement that the two parties reached was to avoid discussing the negotiations with the media. Ziad al-Thatha, a senior Hamas...

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Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group that controls the Gaza Strip, is “exploiting the humanitarian crisis in the Strip to pad its own coffers,” Times of Israel Palestinian affairs correspondent Avi Issacharoff reported on Saturday. A new neighborhood in Gaza consisting of 1,040 housing units, called “Hamad City” in honor of the...

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