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Hamas sympathizers on Thursday marked the 21st anniversary of the assassination of Yahya Ayash, the movement’s first explosives expert, who was responsible for the killing of more than 100 Israelis.

Some members of the Hamas leadership have had second thoughts about their movement’s ongoing campaign against Islamic State sympathizers in Gaza, saying a more lenient approach would enable Hamas to tap into the jihadists’ arms and supply depositories in Sinai, according to Hamas sources.

A top Hamas official stirred a controversy after called on the Palestinian factions to establish a federal government in the West Bank in Gaza.

Ismail Haniyeh, former Prime Minister of the Hamas government, is “in no hurry” to return to the Gaza Strip for fear that the Islamic State’s Sinai offshoot would try to assassinate him, a senior Hamas operative told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Arab social media users were not impressed with outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech outlining his vision of a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Abu Omar Almaqdesi, a senior Gaza-based Islamic State jihadist, said the soldiers and supporters of the Caliphate must not permit the celebration of Christmas in Islamic countries. He went on to describe the festivities as depraved, lewd and based on the blasphemous idea that Allah had an equal in Jesus.

The Palestinian Fatah movement is gearing up for the celebration of the 52th anniversary of the Palestinian revolution, a day that doubles as the official anniversary of the movement’s establishment.

A senior Islamic State jihadist told Breitbart Jerusalem there was an escalation in the tensions between Hamas and IS, following a wave of arrests of Salafist militants in Gaza and the growing cooperation between Hamas and the Egyptian security services.

TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority has been in contact with the Obama administration and European countries about the possibility of bringing another resolution before the UN Security Council for vote before President Obama leaves office next month, a senior PA official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Arab social media users were largely content with the UN Security Council motion condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.

Palestinian terrorist factions, including the Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, welcomed the UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s settlement policy and branding Jewish settlements in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem as illegal and dangerous to the so-called two-state solution.

Abu Suheib Alanssari is a 28-year-old jihadi from Gaza, who has gone underground since Hamas started persecuting radical Islamists which led to hundreds of raids and arrests.

The void left by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s purges of tens of thousands of soldiers and security agents following July’s attempted coup was partly filled by Islamists, an Arab intelligence official said.

The Tunisian public opinion has been in turmoil after an Israeli TV reporter visited the country in a bid to trace the origins of Muhamad Alzawari, Hamas’ chief drone engineer who was assassinated over the weekend.

JAFFA, Israel — The assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey on Monday highlighted the divisions within the Arab world between Russia’s proponents and detractors.

TEL AVIV – Islamic State sympathizers and militants are celebrating an incident on Monday in which a lorry ploughed through a crowd of shoppers in a busy Christmas market in Berlin, reportedly killing nine people and injuring more than fifty.

Relations between Egypt and Hamas are on track to go back to normal as the movement complied with Cairo’s demands to clamp down on Salafi jihadists, a senior official in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Hamas’ critical reaction to the bloodshed in Aleppo drew criticism from the pro-Hezbollah media in Lebanon.

The Islamic State organization has published a video in which Sinai residents accused of spying for the Egyptian government were seen executed.

Hamas issued an unprecedented condemnation of the “massacre” that was perpetrated in Aleppo, as the Syrian regime emerged victorious from a months-long battle against rebel forces.

Saudi public opinion is reeling from Monday’s detention of a young woman who, according to police, violated modesty rules after she removed her abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes women are required to wear, on a main street in the capital Riyadh.

The Palestinian Authority’s Arab allies have become disenchanted with President Mahmoud Abbas after he and his cronies were reelected at last week’s Fatah Convention, a senior Palestinian official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Turkey is likely to sustain more terror attacks as the campaign against the Islamic State continues to rage at its doorstep, an Arab intelligence officer said.

A Gaza-based jihadi said he was encouraged by the Islamic State’s recent victories in Iraq and Syria.

The Islamic State organization published pictures of activists celebrating the recapture of Palmyra in central Syria.

Egypt’s Monitor on Extreme Edicts, a department of the Religions Ministry, has called for an “ideological” onslaught against the Islamic State alongside military efforts against the radical Islamic militia. In a statement, the monitor said that IS has suffered from

An Egyptian man has been arrested on charges of killing his 10-year-old daughter because she left the house without his permission.

Egypt’s Attorney General has decided to indict a well-known cleric who proclaimed himself the Mahdi, the Muslim messiah.
Sheikh Albdullah Nasser, also known as Sheikh Mizo, has been charged with national security offenses.

Most jihadi militants who haven’t given up on fighting against the Syrian regime are foreign, a Syrian Information Ministry official claimed to Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – While all eyes are set on the battle of Aleppo, there is concern Iran-backed forces could make significant gains in areas close to the Israeli and Jordanian borders, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

An Islamic Jihad delegation that recently returned from Cairo conveyed to Hamas on behalf of the Egyptian government that Cairo is ready to “reboot” its relationship with Gaza’s Islamist government, a top Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Two Hamas security officers were injured on Monday in a fire exchange with Islamic State loyalists in the Gaza Strip, a Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

A top Gaza jihadi has denied media reports that the leader of the Islamic State organization, Abu Baker al-Baghdadi, may have been killed in battle in the Iraqi flashpoint city of Mosul.

The Islamic State organization has continued to disseminate “business as usual” pictures from Mosul, as part of a propaganda push against an ongoing campaign by the Iraqi military and the international coalition to liberate the city.

The capture of two Turkish soldiers by the Islamic State unleashed expressions of a deep-seated resentment of the Muslim Brotherhood, with which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party is affiliated.

A top Saudi cleric sparked a controversy in releasing an online sermon in which he made statements that were misogynistic even by the standards of the ultraconservative kingdom.