In an op-ed appearing in The New York Times today, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor observed that even as most of Hamas’ Arab sponsors, “which historically have included Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia,” have “abandoned the terrorist group,” the country of Qatar has emerged as one of the terrorist...

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Ynet reported yesterday on an Al Jazeera interview with Cairo-based Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk, in which he defended the terror group’s widely criticized mass executions late last week. (The interview is embedded below.) During the interview, Abu Marzouk was asked whether “the information regarding the 18 informers (was) based...

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Today was the forty eighth day of Operation Protective Edge. islamic supremacists’ explicit intent is to kill civilians. Israel specifically tries to avoid. Guess who's condemned http://t.co/h2laAxmyxL — Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) August 24, 2014 The Tower today covered a profile of Hamas commander Raed al-Attar who was killed last week...

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The mass public executions by Hamas in the past week have caused even Palestinian officials in the West Bank to compare the Iran-backed terror group in Gaza to the brutal ISIS terrorists. Tayyib Abd al-Rahim, Secretary-General of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ office, said  the public executions without trial of the...

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Ynet, Friday, profiled Raed al-Attar, one of the Hamas commanders killed by Israel Wednesday night. Al-Attar, who had been considered a favorite to succeed Mohammed Deif head of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, had a twenty year career in terror. In 1994 he took part in an ambush that killed...

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Today was the forty seventh day of Operation Protective Edge. An estimated 200 rockets were fired by Hamas and other terrorist groups into Israel on Saturday largely targeting southern Israel. Hamas shoots missiles at Israel for years and Israel finally retaliates and the media says Israel is "Targeting innocent bystanders"...

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Today was the forty sixth day of Operation Protective Edge. On average, since Hamas broke the latest ceasefire there has been a rocket fired at Israel from Gaza every 10 minutes. — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) August 22, 2014 The Tower today covered the appeal of Shurat Hadin – Israel Law Center...

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UPDATE: Since this report was published, it has emerged that the civilian shelter or school from next to which the mortar was fired was most likely run by Hamas, rather than UNRWA. The original version, which appears below, had at time of publication been confirmed by multiple and independent sources. The...

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A second consecutive night of Israeli air strikes against top Gaza Strip terrorists eliminated what the Jerusalem Post described as “three of Hamas’s most important military commanders.” The assassination of three of Hamas’s most important military commanders in an Israeli air strike is the worst and most painful blow dealt to...

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A four-year-old boy in Nahal Oz, a town on the Gaza border, was killed by Hamas mortar fire today. Since morning hours, 30 rockets fired at southern Israel http://t.co/SUnURIIxhe #IsraelUnderAttack #IsraelUnderFire — QassamCount (@QassamCount) August 22, 2014 The Jerusalem Post reports: Medical officials in southern Israel announced the death of...

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