Bloomberg News reported this afternoon that the Arab Bank, the biggest lender in Jordan and one of the largest in the Middle East, has been found liable for helping “Hamas militants carry out a wave of violence in Israel that killed and wounded hundreds of Americans.” The Amman-based lender did business...

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The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani used the occasion of a state visit to Berlin to assure German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Doha “has never and will never support terror organizations” after months of growing international consternation regarding Doha’s alleged role in diplomatically and...

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Hamas scrambled Tuesday to arrest a terror cell responsible for launching a rocket into Israel, the latest in what has become a string of incidents indicating that the terror group may be struggling to maintain control over the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of this summer’s war with Jerusalem.The group...

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The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday that Israeli intelligence believes that “Hamas cooperated with global jihadi elements who used the Sinai Peninsula to fire rockets on Eilat.” Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, the chief al-Qaida-linked group in Sinai, maintains strong links with the Gaza Strip, partnering up with groups such as the Popular...

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Gaza-based Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh publicly stated that he will refuse to discuss demilitarization as a condition for allowing the reconstruction of Gaza, The Times of Israel reported Saturday: “Israel is attempting to tie the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip with various things, such as the weapons of Hamas or impairing...

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The Associated Press reported on Friday that evidence disclosed since the end of this summer’s war between Israel and Hamas indicated that the Palestinian terror group had deliberately used civilians as human shields while launching rockets at Israeli civilians, and that even Hamas officials now admitted they had embraced the...

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Avi Issacharoff reported yesterday that, despite Israel’s strikes against top military leaders of Hamas during Operation Protective Edge, the terrorist organization has not yet appointed replacements. While Hamas has claimed that military chief Mohammad Deif was injured, not killed, the group has apparently appointed a replacement for Deif. The sources said that...

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Avi Issacharoff reported Wednesday that Palestinian security forces identified the member of  Hamas’ Gaza leadership who coordinated the kidnapping of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Fraenkel. The three teens were killed soon after they were abducted in June. Issacharoff further reported that “the terror organization’s military and political wings knew about the...

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News outlets conveyed reports – beginning Saturday and extending through Monday – of increased tensions between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction and the Hamas terror organization, with Abbas slamming Hamas for, per Agence France Presse, ‘effectively running a parallel administration in Gaza’: “We will not accept the situation with Hamas...

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Al Monitor’s insidery Congress Pulse on Tuesday conveyed details from the day’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on “Hamas’ benefactors” noting that lawmakers emerged from the panel echoing witnesses who blasted Qatar and Turkey for supporting the Palestinian terror group: Congress delivered its staunchest warning to date on Sept. 9 that Turkey...

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