TEL AVIV — Recent reports of a deterioration in the health of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas set off fears of a political war of succession that could work to the advantage of Hamas, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The Islamic State terrorist group published photos on its Telegram account showing “child soldiers” executing Afghani soldiers who were purportedly captured by IS during fighting in the Nanajahar region in Afghanistan.
TEL AVIV — A security delegation from the Palestinian Authority is set to arrive in the Gaza Strip at the orders of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in order to follow the investigation into an explosion that recently targeted a convoy that included the prime minister and intelligence chief Majed Faraj, a Palestinian source from the Interior Ministry said.
TEL AVIV — The working assumption within the Palestinian Authority is that Palestinian intelligence commander Majed Faraj and not PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah was the main target of the assassination attempt on Tuesday morning in the Gaza Strip, a PA official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State has released photos over the encrypted Telegram forum purpoting to be from the areas under its control in Syria showing members of the IS-affiliated Khaed Bin Waleed militia in the Yarmouk region of the Golan, the triangular border zone between Syria, Jordan and Israel.
TEL AVIV — Hamas has demanded that other jihadist Palestinian organizations prevent any attempts to carry out attacks in the border area with Israel in order to avoid harming the chances of leading thousands of Palestinians to the border fence in a protest planned as part of events marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding, a senior official in one of the jihadist Palestinian organizations told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — A verbal conflict erupted during a television program between Egyptian member of Parliament Gada Ajami and Egyptian Salafist cleric Waleed Ismail over a bill presented to the Egyptian Parliament that would make it illegal for a man to marry a second woman without the knowledge of his first wife.
TEL AVIV — Hamas is furious over the poor quality of goods entering the Gaza Strip in recent weeks, a source in the terrorist organization told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority’s integration of 20,000 Hamas employees in its ranks is evidence of the PA government’s commitment to making reconciliation with Hamas a success, a Fatah told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Hamas is planning a number of provocations ahead of Israel’s upcoming Independence Day next month set to include thousands of Palestinians, including the elderly, women and children going out to protest, according to a report Thursday in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth.
TEL AVIV — Security forces from Hamas, the terrorist organization that rules the Gaza Strip, have arrested four jihadists in recent days suspected of being involved in an attack perpetrated by the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State against the 101st Brigade of the Egyptian army, an attack for which IS’ offshoot in Sinai claimed responsibility.
TEL AVIV — Lebanon is carefully following the visit of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri to Saudi Arabia amid the campaign for parliamentary elections scheduled to take place in a few weeks.
TEL AVIV — A militant with the Iran-supported Houthi militia in Yemen has reportedly admitted that he and others were given weapons training and ideological courses by the Lebanese organization Hezbollah before being sent to the front to fight in Yemen by Houthi leaders.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State has released propaganda photos showing the execution of a man south of Damascus named Moussa Badawi, who was accused of cooperating with a rival organization called Ahrar al-Sham.
TEL AVIV — Hamas was handed a significant victory this week in its fight against the Salafist jihadists in the Gaza Strip after one of their most senior members turned himself over to Hamas security forces.
TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces have stepped up their pursuit of Islamic State operatives and supporters as well as other Salafist jihadists in the Gaza Strip, even while a Hamas delegation is visiting in Egypt led by politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Gaza jihadist affiliated with IS ideology told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority’s religion ministry has stopped the work of Muhammad Abahreh, the preacher of the biggest mosque of Jenin in the northern West Bank, after he accused the leadership of the PA of treachery against the Palestinians in his sermon last Friday.
TEL AVIV — An Egyptian intelligence security delegation arrived in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Sunday in an effort to save the reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas as talks have reached a dead end between the two parties.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State has released photos over the Telegram chat application of jihadists who took part in an attack against Egyptian army headquarters, where the terrorist organization says the military operation of the Egyptian army is run against Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of IS.
TEL AVIV — Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah announced the Palestinian Authority’s 2018 budget on Monday, which will stand at a total of $5.8 billion.
TEL AVIV — Hamas has angered the family of a senior Palestinian jihadist after the group told them they would not be allowed to erect a mourning tent on behalf of their relative to receive condolences as is customary in Palestinian society.
TEL AVIV — Saudi investigators and security forces have brought in author and intellectual Muhammad al-Sahami for questioning after he criticized the building of mosques and the calls to prayer through Muezzin loudspeakers.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State has released propaganda photos over the encrypted Telegram messaging application purporting to show the actions of its members along the border area between Syria and Iraq.
TEL AVIV — Fatah criticized the Hamas terrorist group on Wednesday after spokespeople for Gaza’s Hamas rulers said that Palestinians should be preparing for life after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and that the PA has finished its historic role.
The Islamic State has released propaganda photos that the terrorist group claims depicts the lives led by its jihadists in Iraq despite declarations from the Iraqi government that IS has been ejected from the country.
TEL AVIV — A Syrian civilian has been accused of “prostitution” and arrested by the Islamic State-affiliated Khaled Bin Waleed armed militia active in the triangle border area between Syria, Israel and Jordan, according to the jihadist group.
TEL AVIV — In a highly unusual ruling, a judge in Lebanon has ordered three Muslim men to learn passages from the Quran by heart that praise and glorify the Virgin Mary after they were found guilty of insulting the religious figure, according to a report by the Al Arabiya television network.
TEL AVIV — Hamas officials visiting Egypt have committed to increase their efforts against competing jihadist organizations active in the Gaza Strip, a Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — No one has any right to interfere in Palestinian reconciliation efforts, Fatah public relations chief Iyad Nasser told Breitbart Jerusalem in response to Egypt’s renewed attempts to conclude a reconciliation agreement between Fatah and the Hamas terrorist organization.
TEL AVIV — Saudi Cleric Ahmad Bin Qassem al-Gamedi caused a firestorm in Saudi Arabia for ruling that Muslims are allowed to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
TEL AVIV — The Fatah movement has released a special music video in honor of Ahmed Ismail Jarar, the relative and aide to Ahmed Nasser Jarar, the Hamas operative who murdered an Israeli civilian last month near the settlement of Havat Gilad.
TEL AVIV — Arab countries have started taking action to communicate to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that the Palestinians can’t continue to complicate the Arab world and its relations with the U.S., an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State is threatening to torpedo the presidential elections in Egypt that are scheduled to take place next month.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State has released photos and video purporting to showing women fighting among its ranks.
TEL AVIV — Nayef Hawatmeh, secretary-general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has met Hezbollah commander Hassan Nasrallah and the two have agreed to act together against Israel, the Palestinian terror figure told the pro-Iranian Al Mayadeen network based in Beirut.
TEL AVIV — Palestinian terrorist factions have been considering the possibility in recent days of organizing mass protests of Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip to the border with Israel to try to break into Israeli territory to demonstrate against the worsening humanitarian crisis in the enclave, a senior official in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Arab social media users have been mourning the death of Ahmed Jarar, a Palestinian resident of Jenin who was killed in an IDF shootout on Tuesday morning after having murdered Israeli civilian Raziel Shevach last month near the Havat Gilad settlement in the north of the West Bank.
TEL AVIV — Representatives of the Palestinian terrorist factions praised Monday’s attack in Ariel where an Israeli civilian – father of four Itamar Ben Gal from the settlement of Har Brakha – was stabbed to death.
TEL AVIV — Hamas and the other armed factions active in the Gaza Strip have warned citizens to prepare for an Israeli incursion into the territory which could come as soon as the next few days, according to senior sources in the Palestinian organizations who spoke to the London-based international Saudi publication Al Hayat.
TEL AVIV — Despite its continued weakening position in Syria and near-complete removal from Iraq, the Islamic State terrorist organization has disseminated propaganda photos showing IS police beating a Syrian resident of accused of selling cigarettes.
