TEL AVIV – In comments to Breitbart Jerusalem, Hamas said on Monday that it “welcomed” Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s reported refusal to condemn the Islamist organization. Taher A-Nunu, a spokesman and senior Hamas official, further said Hamas views Corbyn’s willingness to engage with his Gaza-based group as a “painful hit that the Zionist enemy received.”
TEL AVIV – Islamic Jihad Leader Ramadan Abdullah Shallah (pictured) is visiting Iran for bilateral talks after a year-long rift. On the trip, Shallah met the Iranian leadership for the first time, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif, and others.
JAFFA, Israel – Protesting the economic conditions in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, university graduates in the territory on Sunday launched a campaign protesting rampant unemployment and their inability to find jobs, setting up a tent encampment in the city center and starting a hunger strike in protest of their “uncertain future.”
JAFFA, Israel – Saudi authorities have launched an inquiry into the burning of seven buses owned by the Bin Laden family’s company, one of the biggest contractors in the kingdom.
Hamas’ deterrence power in the Gaza Strip has been significantly undermined by radical Islamists, according to an Egyptian intelligence estimate obtained by Breitbart Jerusalem.
JAFFA, Israel – Fatah’s uphill campaign to win a majority in the key election for Bir Zeit University’s student body failed as Hamas clinched 25 seats against 21 won by Fatah.
JAFFA, Israel – A Tunisian journalist has applied for a license to operate the first Arab porn and dating channel.
JAFFA, Israel – The Saudi heir to the throne has launched a 14-year plan in which the kingdom will reduce its dependency on oil and invest in other industries.
JAFFA, Israel – The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in the United States has been a major success with many hitherto unaffiliated populations signing up for the anti-Israel cause, a top Palestinian journalist reported.
JAFFA, Israel – The Egyptian opposition held a day of protest on Monday in the wake of Cairo’s decision to hand over two islands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, while the country marks 34 years since the “liberation” of Sinai from Israeli occupation.
JAFFA, Israel – An overwhelming majority of young Palestinians reject cooperating with Israelis even if they share their neighbor’s vision on the solution to the conflict, a new poll has found.
JAFFA, Israel – A group of young Saudi men face up to five years’ imprisonment and a three million riyal (US$750,000) fine for riding motorcycles half-naked on the seafront in the city of Damam, the Saudi media reported on Monday.
TEL AVIV – Ignoring the historical record and mainstream archeological evidence, an Islamic scholar tied to Hamas and speaking during a Breitbart Jerusalem exclusive interview, completely denied Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, considered the holiest site in Judaism.
The reason suicides in the United States reached a nearly three decade record is the absence of the right religion, i.e. Islam, Dr. Abdullah Maqat, a former senior lecturer in Islamic religion at Gaza’s Islamic University, contended to Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.
JAFFA, Israel – One of the leading columnists in Saudi Arabia believes that President Obama’s visit to the kingdom last week did little to mend the rift between the two countries. Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, the former editor-in-chief of the influential Asharq al
JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic State organization has published photos of the public execution of an unnamed Iraqi man who was thrown to his death from a rooftop after being convicted of homosexuality. The undated pictures show an IS man reading out the “indictment” as the defendant is being escorted up a stairwell, in front of dozens of witnesses in the city of Telaafar. When the reading was complete, he was pushed to his death.
The recent round of negotiation between the Yemeni government and the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels has been marred by speculation that Russia would supply advanced weapons to the rebels in a bid to offset a similar gesture by Saudi Arabia to its loyalists, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JAFFA, Israel – Thousands of Egyptians Christians are expected visit Israel for the Coptic Easter this weekend, as Air Sinai inaugurated on Thursday an airlift of more than 30 flights on its Cairo-Tel Aviv route.
JAFFA, Israel – US President Barack Obama, currently on a visit to Saudi Arabia, received a tepid welcome – at least on social media.
JAFFA, Israel – Saudi social media have aligned with the country’s leadership in an attempt to fend off American attempts to implicate the Kingdom in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks ahead of President Obama’s visit to the kingdom on Wednesday.
Apparently fearing Israeli retaliation, Hamas has evacuated its offices in Gaza following Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem, according to multiple Hamas sources.
The news of the bombing of a Jerusalem bus that left on Monday 21 people injured, including two critically, was met with jubilant responses in the Gaza Strip.
The Hamas Ministry of the Interior in Gaza on Monday announced that five men have been sentenced to death for collaborating with Israel, as the Islamist organization was reeling from an Israeli announcement that one of its attack tunnels had been discovered and destroyed.
A Hamas official downplayed Israel’s announcement on Monday that an attack tunnel reaching into Israeli territory was discovered and destroyed. “The Israeli statements are motivated by domestic politics,” the official claimed to Breitbart Jerusalem. “It’s an old tunnel that wasn’t part of
A Hamas tunnel discovered snaking into Israeli territory is only “a drop in a sea” of what the terrorist group has prepared against the Jewish state, according to an official statement from Hamas’s so-called military wing.
JAFFA, Israel – The South African ambassador to the Palestinian Authority, Ashraf Suliman, visited the Gaza Strip on Sunday and met with Hamas leaders there. During a much publicized meeting with Hamas’s former Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar (pictured) and former
The ongoing tension between Saudi Arabia and the United States reached new heights recently after U.S. lawmakers insinuated that Riyadh may have been complicit in the 9/11 attacks. The acrimony received a great deal of attention in the Arab media.
The Islamic State organization has published pictures of the public humiliation of Iraqi thieves in an attempt to counter news of a string of military setbacks with “business as usual” images.
Iran is apparently pushing for merging two rival Palestinian militias that promote its regional agenda as well as Shi’a Islam.
A Kuwaiti professor and human rights activist may face criminal charges after she said in an interview that the constitution should take precedence over Sharia law.
The Muslim Brotherhood offices in Jordan were shut down on Wednesday by the state authorities. No reason was given for the sudden crackdown on the Islamic movement, which recently cut ties with sister chapters in the Arab world.
JAFFA, Israel – Saudi Arabia has announced that the Friday prayers delivered at Mecca’s Great Mosque will be translated into Farsi, in what seems to be the latest chapter in an ongoing media war with Iran. A journalist for a
The Palestinians expect the international community to not only state clearly that Jewish settlements in the West Bank represent a major obstacle to peace but to actually do something about it, a top adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.
Members of organizations belonging to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) have voiced unprecedented criticism against its head, President Mahmoud Abbas, for his “obsequious” attitude toward Israel. The Abbas loyalist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic
Iran has resumed financial support for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, months after it withdrew support in retaliation for the group’s reluctance to openly back the Islamic Republic, an Islamic Jihad official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JAFFA, Israel – Christian Egyptians have castigated the Coptic Pope Tawadros for removing Christian-themed ornaments before meeting with Saudi King Salman, who is on a landmark visit to Cairo.
Lebanese authorities arrested two Beirut airport employees on suspicion of aiding and abetting “terrorist parties,” security sources confirmed to Reuters on Sunday.
JAFFA Israel – A meeting between the head of Egypt’s Coptic Church and the King of Saudi Arabia, who is currently visiting Egypt, was met with acerbic criticism from Cairo’s prominent Christian columnist, Robert Fares. The meeting between Pope Tawadros
JAFFA, Israel – The Palestinian Authority arrested three men suspected of plotting to carry out an attack in Israel, leading to a backlash on social media. The three suspects, who were reported missing by their families, were arrested after an eight-day manhunt. The
JAFFA, Israel – The Saudi Ministry of Labor has published a list of professions from which women are banned. A ministry official told Al Arabiya Online that the list is meant to protect women’s rights and prevent them from practicing
