Yesterday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas blasted Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization currently ruling the Gaza Strip. The New York Times reported: Mr. Abbas started a speech to Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on Sunday discussing the bitter history of his Fatah faction’s fight with Hamas, the Islamist movement that...

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Doron and Gila Tragerman, parents of four year old Daniel Tragerman who was killed August 22 by shrapnel from a mortar shell that was fired from Gaza, wrote a letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon asking him “to speak out about Hamas war crimes.” According to The Times of Israel,...

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A range of outlets and analysts are working to unpack newly revealed evidence – first released by the Israeli military during a Wednesday briefing held at its Tel Aviv headquarters – documenting Israeli and Hamas tactics during the recent 50-day hot conflict fought in the Gaza Strip. Reuters led its...

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An Israeli security official said Wednesday that “[n]one of the Palestinians summarily executed in Gaza on charges of collaboration during Operation Protective Edge were Israeli sources or assets.” The Times of Israel reports: “Not even one of the 27 was a source,” he said, adding that, during the duration of...

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Palestinian negotiators in the United States were slated to speak with Secretary of State John Kerry today about resuming negotiations with Israel and removing Israeli presence from the West Bank and east Jerusalem within three years. Veteran negotiator Saeb Erekat and intelligence chief Majid Faraj represented Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the parley....

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Shurat Hadin – Israel Law Center – filed a formal request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday to investigate possible war crime violations committed by Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal. While Meshaal resides in Qatar, he is a citizen of Jordan, which renders him subject to the jurisdiction of the...

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A poll released today by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) reveals that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians believe that Hamas defeated Israel in Operation Protective Edge, resulting in a surge of popularity. PSR observes that, “as we saw in previous instances during and immediately after Israeli wars with...

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In an interview on Israel’s Channel One television news (embedded below) the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan said that Hamas was defeated during Operation Protective Edge. The key achievement was to defeat Hamas, and that’s effectively what has happened, although Hamas, as you would expect, have had their victory celebrations...

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In an analysis published on Thursday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Arab affairs analyst Pinchas Inbari wrote that Hamas is positioned to open a new front in its war with Israel—in the north. Inbari cites a Lebanese news site that connected Qatar-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal with the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front, which...

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Gaza’s Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas, deliberately portrayed terrorists killed in fighting as non-combatants, and sometimes even as children, according to a report disclosed by the news site Israel Today. Israel Today’s reporting is based on a systematic review of casualties performed by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information...

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