A top Hamas official warned Wednesday that if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continues pressuring the Gaza-based terrorist group to submit to the PA, “it’s going to explode in his face and in all directions,” news agencies reported. Responding to Abbas’ threatened funding cuts to Gaza, including a plan to stop subsidizing the enclave’s electricity...

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A Palestinian terrorist who participated in two bombings in Israel in 1969 pleaded guilty to lying on her immigration form to the United States on Tuesday. Rasmea Odeh agreed to a plea deal last month, under which she will be deported from the U.S. to Jordan but avoid jail time, CNN reported. Odeh...

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An 18-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank injured four people on Sunday afternoon at the promenade near Atarim Square in Tel Aviv. The attacker entered Israel on a day permit obtained via an organisation called “Natural Peace Tours,” an Israeli group that brings Palestinians to Israel for special visits to...

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Whitewashing Barghouti The New York Times was widely criticized for publishing an op-ed by Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti last Sunday without initially mentioning that he was convicted of multiple murders. Yair Lapid, leader of Israel’s Yesh Atid party, blasted the paper for its decision, writing, “Instead of saying to him –...

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A Hezbollah officer boasted on Thursday that the Iran-backed terror organization had forced Israel to switch “from an offensive to a defensive doctrine,” The Times of Israel reported. The official’s claim appears to refer to countermeasures Israel adopted across its northern border to fight possible infiltration by Hezbollah, whether by land...

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In the latest reaction to a widely criticized decision by The New York Times to publish an op-ed by Palestinian terror chief Marwan Barghouti, without initially identifying him as a convicted killer, a former Israeli general detailed Barghouti’s extensive terror connections and culpability for some of the deadliest attacks of the second...

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Two sisters from the Gaza Strip were apprehended at the Erez crossing with explosive materials hidden inside tubes designated for cancer medicine, Israeli officials said Wednesday. The sisters had obtained a permit to cross into Israel so one of them could receive cancer treatments at an Israeli hospital, The Times of...

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The State Prosecutor’s Office in Jerusalem announced on Tuesday that the Palestinian man who killed a British student on Good Friday is fit to stand trial. The announcement followed a psychiatric assessment of Jamil Tamimi, 57, who stabbed and killed Hannah Bladon, 20, on the light rail in Jerusalem. A...

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Marwan Barghouti, the convicted Palestinian terror chief who recently published a controversial op-ed denouncing Israel in The New York Times, does not have a place “among free people” and should not be given a platform to whitewash his murderous crimes, the brother of one of Barghouti’s victims said Tuesday. Jamal...

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Yemen’s government launched a military operation on Sunday to clear naval mines planted by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in and near the strategic Bab al-Mandeb strait, Al Arabiya reported. The mines are “believed to have been sourced from Iran” and “threaten fisherman and residents of island near the coasts of...

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