Militants from the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas are fighting alongside the Islamic State in the Sinai Peninsula, while ISIS fighters are continuing to receive treatment in Gaza hospitals, a senior IDF official told Palestinian media. Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the coordinator of government activities in the territories, specifically cited a Salafi militant named Mahmoud...

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The latest wave of terror in Israel may not be conducted by “lone wolves,” as is commonly believed, but guided by the hidden hand of Hamas, a leading terror researcher has reported. Shaul Bartal of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies wrote that obscuring the genesis and motivations of such attacks...

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A tunnel near the Israeli border in eastern Gaza caved in on Monday, killing a Hamas commander who was working inside, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. Hamas officials identified the man as Al-Salam Al-Batniji, 36, and described the collapse of the underground passageway, which is located in the Shujaiyyeh neighborhood, as a “work...

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At least six residents of Gaza are trapped after a smuggling tunnel collapsed Thursday. This is the sixth reported tunnel collapse since January. A local defense official told the AFP news agency that the tunnel, which went from Rafah under the Egyptian border, was a “trade tunnel.” Egyptian authorities have been flooding the tunnels in an...

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Fatah, the party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, posted a picture on its Facebook page praising the terrorist who killed U.S. Army veteran and graduate student Taylor Force in Israel on Tuesday. Fatah uploaded a drawing of a knife-wielding arm marked with the text “the heroic martyr” positioned above...

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At least one person was killed and 13 others injured in a series of terror attacks across Israel on Tuesday. One person was killed and 10 others were wounded in Jaffa when a knife-wielding man, reported to be a 22-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank city of Qalqilya, started stabbing pedestrians. He also...

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Hamas is boasting of concerns that its tunnels may reach Israeli homes near the Gaza Strip, even as fear and dissent continue to grow in the terror group’s ranks following a spate of recent tunnel collapses, Israel Hayom reported on Friday. “Zionists are worried there are tunnels underneath their communities...

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Frequent collapses of terror attack tunnels in recent weeks has made Hamas fighters afraid of entering them, The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. A tunnel collapse Thursday that killed one Hamas terrorist was at least the sixth in recent weeks. Five terrorists were injured in a tunnel collapse last week, and eleven others...

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An open letter by a disgruntled ISIS fighter to the self-proclaimed caliphate’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, revealed extensive ties between the group’s affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula and the Palestinian terror organization Hamas. The letter, written by Abu Abdallah al-Muhajir, a jihadist from Gaza who now fights for ISIS in Syria,...

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Hamas’ execution of its own commander last month suggests a widening schism among leaders of the terrorist group as well as a loss of authority in the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Ishtiwi, a senior figure in the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades who commanded 1,000 men during Hamas’ 2014 war with Israel, was...

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