Breaking the Silence, an NGO that has recently been in the news for its criticism of Israel’s actions during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge, was explicitly directed by European charities to prove that Israel acted improperly, the watchdog group NGO Monitor showed in a report released Monday. NGO Monitor’s staff...

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An increasing number of violent incidents against members of the terror organization Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, have been carried out by an organization affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In the past week, a bomb exploded in the car of an official in the Hamas Interior...

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Steven Cook, an expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, published a blog post today questioning the criticism Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, leveled at Israel for sending aid to earthquake-stricken Nepal. Roth had tweeted last week, “Easier to address a far-away humanitarian disaster than the nearby one...

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Police forces controlled by the terrorist organization Hamas violently dispersed several hundred protesting Gaza youth on Wednesday, arresting many demonstrators who were peacefully protesting against the dismal economic situation in Gaza under the iron-fisted rule of the Islamic militant fundamentalist movement. Hundreds of young people attended the protest that called for improving...

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In April 2014, Fatah, the dominant faction in the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the terrorist organization Hamas announced the end of the longstanding and violent rift between them, which began in 2007 when Hamas staged a bloody coup to take over Gaza. Both movements announced a series of reconciliation measures. But the...

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A United Nations inquiry into incidents that occurred at UN facilities during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge confirmed Israel’s charges that Hamas used those facilities to store weapons and launch attacks against Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon charged that Palestinian militants had stored weapons in three UN...

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A group of 500 academics, calling themselves “Concerned Academics for Editorial Ethics,” have published an open letter to the editor and publisher of the medical journal The Lancet, asking them to retract a controversial anti-Israel letter published last year, according to a report Sunday by the media watchdog HonestReporting. A group of 500...

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The terrorist organization Hamas won the student elections in Birzeit University in the West Bank on Wednesday, defeating Fatah, the main constituent party of the Palestinian Authority which rules the West Bank. In an analysis published Thursday, Grant Rumley of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies explained that though Fatah won...

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Terrorists based in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets at Israel’s southern district late on Thursday as the state was celebrating its 67th Independence Day. One rocket exploded in an open, uninhabited area near Sderot while another fell short and landed within the Strip. While no casualties were reported, and...

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Hamas has accelerated the rebuilding of its terror tunnels, which were destroyed last summer during Operation Protective Edge, even as it neglects rebuilding homes that were damaged during its war against Israel, The Times of Israel reported today. Hamas has begun using heavy machinery and engineering tools to accelerate the excavation of...

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