Two Palestinian men have been charged with funneling funds from Turkish charities earmarked for Gaza reconstruction to the terrorist group Hamas, Israel’s internal security service announced on Tuesday. The Shin Bet said that Muhammad Murtaja, the Gaza coordinator of the Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency (TİKA), was arrested in February as he attempted to...

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Israeli security forces thwarted 16 suicide bombings and 16 kidnappings in 2016, making it the first year in three decades that no Israelis were killed by terrorists from the Gaza Strip, the head of Israel’s internal security agency told lawmakers on Monday. Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs...

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The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah is attempting to acquire game-changing weapons in anticipation of launching another war against Israel, a former Israeli security chief told reporters on Monday. Brig. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Nuriel, who served as the director of Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau from 2007 to 2012, referenced three recent Israeli strikes against...

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The kingdom of Jordan has rejected the United States’ request to extradite a Palestinian terrorist who was involved in a 2001 Jerusalem suicide bombing that killed two American citizens, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday, citing Jordanian media. The U.S. Justice Department unsealed a criminal complaint on Tuesday against Ahlam Tamimi, who currently...

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Israeli Air Force planes targeted two Hamas installations in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning in response to a rocket fired from Gaza that landed in southern Israel. The rocket struck an open space in the Sdot Negev region, near the town of Netivot. Nobody was injured and no damage was caused...

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The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has been seeking legitimacy and money in Europe by leveraging networks affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, its parent organization, Avi Issacharoff reported Tuesday in The Times of Israel. One of the goals of this campaign, which is ongoing in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Latin...

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A significant Palestinian faction has withdrawn from May’s municipal elections in the Palestinian areas of the West Bank to protest against the Palestinian Authority security services’ handling of recent protests. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is classified as a terror group by Israel, said on...

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Israel’s internal security service has in recent weeks broken up several Hamas terror cells run by West Bank college students, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. Muhammad Aazi, 20, and Noor Aldin Ghaith, 22, both West Bank residents, were arrested for plotting ambushes of vehicles. They had planned to spread nails along...

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The Islamist terrorist group Hamas is drafting a new platform that will endorse a Palestinian state based on the 1949 armistice lines in an effort “to present a more pragmatic and cooperative face to the world,” The New York Times reported Thursday. The group will also re-frame its enemies — defined in its 1988...

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The Palestine Liberation Organization is naming a new youth camp after a terrorist who led one of the deadliest terrorist attacks on Israeli soil, Palestinian Media Watch reported Sunday. The PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports will launch the “Brothers of Dalal” youth camp next month, named for Dalal Mughrabi,...

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