TEL AVIV — Jordan and Israel have increased cooperation in recent days regarding the ceasefire in southern Syria to ensure against Iran filling the security vacuum in swaths of Syrian territory, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The bill in Israel’s Knesset to allow death sentences for terrorists won’t deter the Palestinians and resistance will continue, Palestinian officials have said in conversations with Breitbart Jerusalem.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas this week hosted a Hamas delegation for a meeting to discuss Palestinian reconciliation.
TEL AVIV — By increasing the number of Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, Israel is trying to exact “revenge” for its “failure” to take “control” of the complex, the chief preacher at the al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ekrama Sabri, claimed.
TEL AVIV — Jordanian media has increased its criticisms of Israel over a recent shooting incident at the Israeli embassy in Amman, where a young Jordanian who stabbed an embassy guard was shot and killed.
TEL AVIV — The crisis between Qatar and Gulf nations led by Saudi Arabia deteriorated further in the last few days due to Saudi reports that Qatar is appealing to the international community for internationalized access to Muslim holy sites in Saudi Arabia for the season of the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca and other holy places, considered a requirement in the lives of all Muslims.
TEL AVIV — Leaders of the Waqf and Muslim figures in Jerusalem are waiting for a report from a special committee of engineers and inspectors commissioned by the Waqf to determine what so-called damages Israel may have caused to the Temple Mount complex during the two weeks Muslim worshippers were absent from the site.
TEL AVIV — The defection of members of Hamas’ military wing to Wilyat Sinai, the Islamic State branch in Egypt, is continuing with six new individuals having crossed into Sinai, according to a senior jihadist in Gaza tied to IS ideology.
TEL AVIV — Social media users from across the Arab world, including journalists and politicians, have been celebrating what they characterized as a major victory for the Palestinians at the Temple Mount after Israel decided to remove all security arrangements at the various entrances to the complex.
Hamas’ judicial system has severely punished a number of individuals suspected of jihadist activity as part of a wider crackdown by Hamas authorities against jihadists in the Gaza Strip.
In an interview with Breitbart Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrima Sa’id Sabri, the chief preacher at the Al Aqsa Mosque, declared Israel’s decision to remove metal detectors from entrances to the site a “victory.”
TEL AVIV — Social media users across the Arab have taken to Twitter to express their anger and spawn anti-Semitic conspiracies over an agreement between Israel and Jordan that ended a crisis surrounding a recent shooting at the Israeli embassy in Jordan where an Israeli security guard shot and killed a Jordanian civilian in self-defense while the Jordanian was reportedly stabbing him.
TEL AVIV — Social media users in Jordan and around the Arab world have been actively posting about the security event at the Israeli embassy in Amman, the Jordanian capital, where an Israeli security guard shot and killed a man who tried to stab him.
TEL AVIV — Hamas has held meetings over the past few days with the leaders of the main Palestinian factions in an attempt to escalate clashes with Israeli troops that have been ongoing in the West Bank, a senior official in one of the Palestinian jihadist organizations active in the Gaza Strip told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Israel, the United States and Russia continue to discuss Israeli reservations regarding the ceasefire agreement in southern Syria agreed upon by Jordan, Russia and the U.S., an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Palestinian social media users, along with some in the general Arab world, praised the brutal Palestinian terrorist attack in which three members of an Israeli family were murdered on Friday night during the Sabbath meal in the town of Halamish west of Ramallah.
TEL AVIV — Hamas authorities arrested six members of the group’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a few days ago as they sought to infiltrate Sinai through the tunnels connecting Gaza to the Peninsula in order to join Islamic State fighters there, a Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Israel “is the best place to live for the Druze minority,” declared Shachiv Shnaan, a member of Israeli’s Druze community and a former Israeli Knesset member in an interview with Breitbart Jerusalem.
Friday prayers normally held at hundreds of mosques in Arab towns in Israel were canceled in dozens of locations following pressure from local Muslim leaders to encourage thousands to throng the Temple Mount area.
TEL AVIV — The leaders of Palestinian jihadist factions in the Gaza Strip held a press conference threatening that if Israel continues an “assault” against the Al Aqsa Mosque, “this will result in a response that will change the entire region.”
TEL AVIV — Twitter users in Saudi Arabia have been in an uproar of late after a Snapchat video went viral of a local young woman wearing a mini skirt walking through an ancient fort in Ushayqir, Hadj.
The Temple Mount is “a holy place for Muslims only, and no one but the Muslims have any religious or historical right there,” Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.
Israel has no historic or religious right or affinity to the al-Aqsa Mosque, and “Israel’s actions in that place are unilateral actions meant to strengthen Israel’s grip on Jerusalem,” Hatem Abdel Qader, the head of Jerusalem matters for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah movement, told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.
TEL AVIV — Rejecting archeological evidence, the historic record and accepted fact, Maher al-Sousi, a lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza, claimed that the Jewish temples were never located on the Temple Mount and that Jews have no right to the holiest site in Judaism.
Hamas security personnel in the Gaza Strip arrested dozens of Salafist activists in the immediate aftermath of an attack in Sinai of militants from Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State, in which 23 Egyptian soldiers were killed.
The Islamic State group has released photos over its Telegram account purporting to show the deadly attack in northern Sinai last Friday that killed 23 Egyptian soldiers.
TEL AVIV — The defeat of the Islamic State in Mosul has led to an extensive online discussion among Arab media figures and the Iraqi public, with most objecting to the term “victory” and claiming that destruction and sectarian fracturing are the main results of the fight against the Islamic State group.
TEL AVIV — Former Palestinian Welfare Minister Shawqi al-Issa has revealed in a Facebook post the reasons for his resignation two years ago from the government of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, setting off a storm within the Palestinian Authority.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian jihadist factions launched the traditional summer camps in recent days where Palestinian youth are indoctrinated in anti-Israel propaganda while some camps conduct weapons training and teach jihadist combat tactics.
TEL AVIV — Three of those responsible for the deadly Islamic State attack on Friday in northern Sinai were former members of Hamas’ so-called military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a senior jihadist in the Gaza Strip told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Islamic State members vowed to continue their worldwide crusade to impose a caliphate governed by strict Sharia law despite the terrorist group’s military losses in Mosul and expected defeat in Raqqa.
TEL AVIV — It’s not unusual to see a Gazan woman riding on the back of a motorbike driven by her male partner or family member. But this sight is expected to disappear due to a decision by Hamas police in the Gaza Strip to forbid women from riding motorbikes with their partners or family members.
TEL AVIV — Hamas is acting to infiltrate the ranks of the Islamic State group in Sinai, a senior jihadist associated with IS claimed to Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Social media users in the Arab world have started more than one hashtag to highlight the Islamic State group’s loss in Mosul and the withdrawal of the global terrorist organization from other locations.
TEL AVIV — The crisis between Qatar and the Gulf countries continues to be the topic of conversation for citizens of the Gulf.
TEL AVIV – The hashtag “#saudis_for_normalization,” referring to normalization with Israel, has stirred up significant controversy on social media.
TEL AVIV — The Saudi author Turki al-Hamad set off a storm of controversy on social media in Saudi Arabia after tweeting an accusation against local educational facilities, which he claimed espoused ideology that supported Islamic terrorism.
TEL AVIV — The Fatah movement, led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has harshly condemned an incident in which the IDF destroyed a monument that was erected in the city center of Jenin of a Palestinian terrorist who was involved in the murder of dozens of Israelis.
TEL AVIV — Eleven jihadist residents of the Gaza Strip who swore allegiance to the Islamic State organization succeeded last weekend in joining Wilayat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State, a senior jihadist source in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ so-called military wing, has begun a process of redeployment that includes the reorganization of the movement’s military systems, a Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
