A member of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas was indicted on Tuesday for plotting to carry out a suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus, Israel’s internal security agency said. Muhammad Fuaz Ibrahim Julani, a 22-year-old Palestinian resident of eastern Jerusalem, was arrested by the Shin Bet on September 9, several days before his attack was...
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The political party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas praised the gunman who murdered two Israelis in Jerusalem on Sunday, referring to him as a “martyr” on social media. Musbah Abu Sbeih opened fire on a crowd of people waiting for a train, wounding six and killing two others before being fatally shot by police....
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The United Kingdom has frozen roughly $30 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority over concerns that taxpayer money is being used to pay the salaries of Palestinian terrorists, The Sun reported Friday. The move comes after an investigative report published in the Mail on Sunday in March and another released by the Overseas Development Institute think-tank in June found that British aid money...
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Six residents of the village of Ghajar on the Golan Heights were accused on Thursday of planning a terror attack in Israel with help from the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah. Diab Kahamuz, the alleged ringleader, was caught after he apparently forgot where he hid the explosives he received from Hezbollah. The explosives were found...
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A terror group with ties to ISIS fired a rocket that struck a street in Sderot on Wednesday, causing minor damage. Ahfad al-Sahaba-Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis took credit for the rocket attack. The group released a statement in what The Times of Israel described as “poorly-translated Hebrew”: “Oh you cowardly Jews: You...
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A Gaza-based terror group unveiled a new rocket that it claims can hit strategic installations in Israel, Channel 2 News reported Monday. The Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella group made up of former members of other terror factions, unveiled a new rocket yesterday in a ceremony in Gaza. The group,...
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Leading political and communal leaders in New York City called on the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas on Monday to release the two Israeli hostages it is holding captive, as well as the bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip two years ago. At a Manhattan press conference organized by...
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Iran “must stop meddling in Arab affairs, from Yemen and Bahrain to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon,” former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri wrote on Thursday in The New York Times. Hariri’s father Rafik, also a former prime minister, was assassinated in 2005. An international tribunal at The Hague determined that the assassination was carried out...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas praised a Jordanian man who was shot while attempting to stab Israeli Border Police officers, calling him a “martyr” in a condolence letter to his family this week. The attacker, Saeed Amro, approached the police officers with a knife at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s...
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The Israel Air Force shot down a drone launched by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, the army said Tuesday. WATCH: Footage of Hamas drone which was shot down by an IAF fighter jet earlier today. pic.twitter.com/MBPWjp9y2Y — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) September 20, 2016 The drone had been “under IAF surveillance from...
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