At least five members of Hamas were injured after a tunnel collapsed in the southeastern section of the Gaza Strip on Saturday night, The Times of Israel reported, citing Palestinian media. Authorities in Gaza are searching for an undisclosed number of men missing in the collapse, which has yet to...

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An Israeli soldier was killed during a Palestinian stabbing attack when gunfire meant for his assailant hit him instead, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Eliav Gelman, a 30-year-old captain in the Israeli Air Force’s reserve corps, was returning home from base when he was attacked at the Etzion...

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Israelis living near the border with Gaza are growing increasingly concerned about terror tunnels being rebuilt by the Iran-backed terror group Hamas, and have reported hearing the sounds of new tunnels being dug, The Telegraph reported Monday. Residents of Israeli towns like Netiv Ha’asara, who live close enough to Gaza to see Palestinians on the other...

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Meeting with a group of mothers and their families from Israeli communities near the Gaza border, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power heard about the reality of daily life under the threat of rocket attacks from the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday....

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Hamas, the Iran-backed terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip, has prohibited a senior United Nations official from leaving Gaza, the Associated Press reported Thursday. A UN source told the AP that Mahmoud Daher, the head of the World Health Organization’s Gaza office, was barred from exiting the strip due to a newly-instituted bureaucratic rule. Hamas, which has ruled...

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A Palestinian band praised bus bombings and called for the resumption of suicide attacks against Israelis in a music video published online on Sunday. The al-Wa’ed Band’s video, which was translated by the Middle East Research Institute, opens with an image of Yahya Ayyash, a chief Hamas bombmaker who was assassinated by...

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Another member of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas was killed in a tunnel collapse, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. The man was identified as 27-year-old Marwan Maarouf of Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Palestinian reports indicate that Maarouf was the eleventh member of Hamas to die in a tunnel collapse in recent weeks. A...

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Islamic State operatives are traveling to the Gaza Strip to receive medical treatment in hospitals controlled by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, the Jerusalem Post reported on Monday, citing Israeli authorities. “We have received authenticated reports that ISIS members in Sinai entered the Gaza Strip through tunnels in order to...

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The family of a Hamas commander who was executed by members of his own group has said that his death was “treachery” and the result of “personal differences” within the Iran-backed terror organization. Relatives of Mahmud Eshtawi, the dead commander, wrote an open letter to Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in the Palestinian newspaper...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with families of terrorists on Saturday, marking the second time he has done so this week. His office posted videos of him meeting with families of terrorists from Hebron on both his Arabic- and English-language websites and his YouTube channel. Abbas also met with...

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