The terrorist group Hamas is facing ridicule on social media for displaying what it claimed to be a reconstructed Israeli tank that turned out be a wooden replica placed on top of a regular vehicle, Al-Bawaba, an independent news website featuring stories from around the Middle East, reported on Tuesday. The “tank” was showcased during a parade...

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The expense and effort that the terrorist organization Hamas is putting into building attack tunnels while the Gaza Strip, which it rules, is mired in poverty shows that “the last thing Hamas cares about is the welfare of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” veteran Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh wrote in...

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The terrorist organization Hamas confirmed that at least two of its members were killed and eight others were missing after a tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. The group’s al-Quds TV channel identified one of the dead operatives as 23-year-old Haider a-Zaher. Hamas announced last week that seven of its members died when an attack...

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Iran announced that it now has access to more than $100 billion in previously frozen assets due to sanctions relief granted by the nuclear deal, The Washington Post reported on Monday. The sum claimed by Tehran is nearly twice the estimate given last month by Secretary of State John Kerry, who said that...

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last week that Palestinian terror was “human nature,” a natural reaction to Israeli occupation. This led to a series of condemnations from Israeli officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the remarks gave a “tailwind to terror,” while former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren,...

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The Palestinian Authority’s police force praised an officer who carried out a shooting attack that wounded three Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint near Beit El on Sunday. “With great pride, the members of the Palestinian police eulogize the brave martyrdom of their colleague, Master Sergeant Amjad Sukkari, ‘Abu Omar’,...

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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh proclaimed in his weekly sermon on Friday that his terror organization was preparing for future conflicts with Israel, as analysts continue to note the group’s buildup of infrastructure in anticipation of a possible war. In his speech, which eulogized seven terrorists who died when a tunnel...

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The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas announced that seven of its members died when an attack tunnel they were working on near the Gaza Strip’s eastern border collapsed due to flooding, Reuters reported Thursday. “The Mujahedin martyrs were repairing an old tunnel, from which a number of operations were executed in the [2014] war,” said Izz...

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Israeli opposition politician and Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid said that the nuclear deal with Iran will fund the next war that the Islamic Republic’s proxies will wage against Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. “Secretary of State [John] Kerry said himself last week that some of the sanctions...

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After investing significant resources in the construction of attack tunnels that extend from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas has successfully rebuilt an underground network that may rival the one Israel discovered and destroyed in 2014, a prominent Israeli defense analyst has said. Amos Harel wrote in Haaretz...

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