Israeli defense officials have warned that Hamas is planning a terrorist attack in the West Bank to avenge the killing of one of its former masterminds and convicted terrorist Mazen Faqha, who was murdered in March in what Hamas claims was a Mossad operation, the Hebrew daily Israel Hayom reported...

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The ongoing terror ties of Qatar, most recently evidenced by its hosting of Hamas’s release of the terror organization’s new political document, make it a problematic ally for the United States, Jonathan Schanzer and Kate Havard wrote Thursday in Newsweek. Schanzer, a former U.S. Treasury Department official and currently Senior...

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The Secretary General of Hezbollah has claimed that a future confrontation between the Lebanon-based terror group and Israel could take place within Israeli territory. Hassan Nasrallah said, “Israel has been threatening for ten years to open a front against Hezbollah, but it hasn’t done anything. Israel is afraid of any...

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Hamas will engage in “resistance” in order “to liberate the rest of Palestine and the territories of 1948” with “no negotiations,” a co-founder of the terrorist group Hamas asserted, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Mahmoud al-Zahar, still a top official of Hamas, made his comments at a press conference...

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Hamas has announced a new leader of its Qatar-based wing, in a significant win for the Gaza-based faction of the group. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ former leader in the Gaza Strip, will replace Hamas’ current leader Khaled Mashaal who lives in exile in Qatar, after he completed the maximum two terms...

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Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian terrorist currently serving five life terms in an Israeli prison, can be seen eating, violating a self-proclaimed hunger strike, in a video released by the Israel Prison Service, The Times of Israel reported Monday. A spokesman for the Israel Prison Service said that the video, which includes...

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Israeli security forces found a weapon hidden in a child’s bedroom while breaking up a Palestinian terror cell near Jenin last month, the military announced Thursday. In a joint operation, the IDF, Israeli Police, and Shin Bet internal security agency captured two suspects believed to be behind several shooting attacks against military and...

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A top adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday harshly rejected the United States’ “insane” demand that the Palestinian Authority stop paying salaries to convicted terrorists and their families. Nabil Shaath, a foreign policy adviser to Abbas, told Israel Radio that halting the payments to terrorists would harm prospects for peace negotiations...

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A new document outlining the principles of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas “is unlikely to represent any profound change in Hamas’s true position toward Israel,” The New York Times reported Monday, citing unnamed experts. The Times noted that in addition to recently selecting “hardliner” Yahya Sinwar to head the group...

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A Tunisian engineer who worked for Hamas before being assassinated last December was the architect of the terrorist group’s “air force,” a Hamas spokesman said in an al-Jazeera program broadcast on Sunday. Hamas engineer Mohamad Zawari was “one of the leaders of the military wing that oversaw the ‘Ababil’ unmanned drone program,” the...

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