The Israel Defense Forces this week carried out its largest exercise in five years in the West Bank ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The four-day drill consisted of simulating “a variety of scenarios and emergency situations such as settlement infiltrations, abductions of Israeli citizens, bombings, vehicular or shooting attacks, and...

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The Palestinian terror group Hamas vowed revenge for the killing of terror mastermind Mazen Faqha in a new video released on Wednesday. Threatening and provocative, the video features Israel’s top defense and security officials in the crosshairs of a gun, Ynet reported. After revealing images of Israeli security leaders — Defense Minister Avigdor...

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The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has acquired new, more powerful rockets that could severely threaten Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip, Army Radio reported Tuesday. The rockets carry hundreds of kilograms of explosive material and have a short range of a few kilometers, similar to the range of mortar shells, according...

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A Hamas terrorist who was convicted of planning a suicide bombing that killed nine Israelis was killed in an apparent assassination at his Gaza home on Friday. Mazen Faqha was shot dead by unknown assailants using a gun with a silencer. He had been sentenced to nine life terms by...

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As reports of the savage terrorist attack in central London March 22 emerged, it was clear pretty quickly that British authorities were dealing with an incident straight from the Islamist terror manual. The weapons of choice in London were ordinary consumer goods that are easily refashioned for the purposes of...

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Several members of Egypt’s security forces were killed in the Sinai Peninsula on Thursday in violent clashes with an insurgent group affiliated with the Islamic State. Egypt army spokesman Tamer el-Rifai said that security forces were carrying out a raid on a suspected Sinai Province base, where they uncovered explosives,...

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A Palestinian terrorist who was convicted of killing two university students in a Jerusalem bombing accepted a plea deal that will force her to leave the United States, her legal representatives announced Thursday. Rasmea Odeh, who was also found guilty in 2014 of lying on her U.S. immigration form, will avoid jail...

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In case of a future war with the Islamist terrorist groups Hamas or Hezbollah, Israel would completely evacuate its border communities–up to 250,000 people in either case–to lower the threat level, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. These evacuations, coordinated with local municipalities to keep civilians safe, would be the biggest in...

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The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas sought out advanced mapping software from a Turkish aid organization in order to improve the accuracy of rockets fired at Israel, the Shin Bet intelligence agency announced. While questioning Muhammad Murtaja, who was arrested last month on suspicions that he diverted Turkish aid money to Hamas, the Shin Bet discovered...

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It is an open secret that the Palestinian Authority pays salaries to convicted terrorists and stipends to the families of terrorists killed in action. In response, last week Israel designated the Palestinian National Fund, the treasury of the Palestine Liberation Organization, as a terrorist group, accusing it of serving as...

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