Hamas has amassed an army of 27,000 men in preparation for its next war with Israel, including a unit dedicated to attacking civilians inside Israeli territory, Avi Issacharoff reported Monday in The Times of Israel. “Hamas is built like an army in every way,” Issacharoff reported, with fighters broken up into six regional...

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Saudi Arabia and three other Arab states have severed diplomatic and transport links with Qatar as a result of its support for Islamist groups, deepening the split between Gulf nations. Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined Saudi Arabia in the announcement that involves withdrawing all diplomatic staff...

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Iran has agreed to resume its financial support for the terrorist organization Hamas, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported Tuesday. The deal to restore Hamas’s funding came after top Hamas officials recently met in Lebanon with senior members of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. Ismail...

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Israeli trauma experts have landed in Manchester in the wake of the attack on the Ariana Grande concert to treat victims and train medical staff on the ground, Breaking Israel News reported Monday. The terrorist organization Islamic State has officially claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that left 22 people...

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Hamas executed three men it had accused of killing a terror mastermind by hanging and firing squad drawing international criticism, The New York Times reported Thursday. Ashraf Abu Leila, the alleged triggerman in the killing of Mazen Faqha, a Hamas commander, in March, was hanged as well as Hisham al-Aloul, who was...

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The Palestinian Authority issued payments to terrorists and their families totaling more than $1 billion over a four year period, according to a recent study by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The sum accounts for seven percent of the PA’s budget and is equivalent to 20 percent of the foreign aid the PA receives...

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A powerful Iranian general congratulated Ismail Haniyeh on his recent appointment as the new leader of Hamas, and encouraged him to “raise the issue of Palestine” as part of the Muslims’ “global fight against Arrogance,” the Mehr News Agency reported Wednesday. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps(IRGC)-Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani praised...

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The terrorist organization Islamic State has officially claimed responsibility for the vicious attack on the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester on Monday that left 22 people killed — many of them children — and injured at least 59. It was not immediately clear whether the attack was ordered or inspired...

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Israel’s public security minister called for the formation of “a counter-terror alliance that includes Israel, Arab states, the West and all like-minded countries” in an essay published Monday in Newsweek. The main motivation of terror right now, Gilad Erdan wrote, is “a radical ideology that uses an extremist view of...

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The Shin Bet has announced the arrest of an Islamic Movement terror cell suspected of planning shooting attacks against IDF soldiers. Three Israeli-Arab men had allegedly began plotting to carry out shooting attacks against soldiers in the Negev desert region, in November 2015, in response to Israel’s decision to outlaw...

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