A Lebanese military court has handed down a six-month prison sentence to a journalist for comments critical of the Lebanese army, highlighting the close ties the army has with Hezbollah, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Hanin Ghaddar, a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy known for her...

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Hamas, the terrorist group that exercises complete military and political control over the Gaza Strip, has claimed the suspect in last week’s murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevach is a member of the organization, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. In a shootout that ensued overnight Wednesday in Jenin after Israeli security forces surrounded the terror cell...

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It is difficult to expose the truth and seek justice when there is no trust in the legal system and there’s a lack of judicial independence facilitating impunity. Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman fought against all odds and was murdered in his quest for justice. In 1997, Nisman became involved in...

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The Israeli military said Sunday it destroyed a border-crossing attack tunnel built by the Gaza-based terrorist organization Hamas, the third in recent months, that stretched from the Gaza Strip through Israel and into Egypt, the AP reported Sunday. IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said the tunnel ran underneath the...

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In the wake of a Politico report last month that the Obama administration dismantled an investigation into Hezbollah’s drug smuggling in order to secure the nuclear deal with Iran, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the formation of a team to investigate the terror group’s involvement in the drug trade, Politico reported...

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday told a meeting of Ambassadors representing NATO member states that Israel has prevented many terror attacks within European countries. He was speaking at a lunch event chaired by Greek Ambassador Bikas Konstantinos, which British Ambassador to Israel David Quarrey also attended. Netanyahu told the...

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United States Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, said in a post on social media on Wednesday that those wondering why no peace can be achieved between Israelis and Palestinians should look no further than Tuesday night’s murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevach and the Palestinian reaction to it, The Jerusalem Post...

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In an apparent attempt to convince the Israeli government to make a deal for the return of the body of Hadar Goldin, who was killed in an ambush in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Hamas mocked his mother on social media, telling her to pressure the government for...

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For the second time this month, a Shiite militia leader has posed on the Lebanese border with Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. Al-Hajj Hamza, a commander of Liwa al-Baqir, a Hezbollah-allied Syrian militia trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was seen in pictures posted on social media showing him on the...

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Israeli planes and tanks struck two Hamas facilities in the northern Gaza Strip following the firing of three rockets into Israel on Friday. Israel’s Iron Dome intercepted two of the rockets, but a third fell and damaged a building in Israel’s Shaar Hanegev region, on the border with with Gaza, The...

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