A senior source in the Palestinian Authority has told Breitbart Jerusalem that Palestinian security forces were unable to convince activists claiming to support prisoners that have been on hunger strike in Israeli jails since last month to abandon a protest tent that was erected near the entrance to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority should not accept a larger regional peace initiative that does not aim to create a Palestinian state, senior Fatah official and member of the movement’s Revolutionary Council, Ahmad Guneim, told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.
TEL AVIV — Palestinian security forces are undertaking significant efforts to avoid any escalation in tensions that arise as a result of the ongoing hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails or attempts by Palestinian groups to inflame tensions ahead of President Trump’s visit here next week, a Palestinian security source has told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — An Egyptian Member of Parliament has demanded that couples’ engagement periods be regulated by law before the wedding and that couples who decide to cancel the engagement without proper justification be punished.
Hamas military judges presiding over cases of Islamic State supporters recently concluded legal proceedings for one such case by sentencing the defendants to prison for either belonging to or supporting the Islamic State group, a senior Palestinian jihadist has told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State group has published a series of photos showing the implementation of Sharia law against a Syrian civilian who was convicted twice for theft.
The U.S. held a meeting in early May with representatives from 20 Arab, Europeans and South American countries to discuss ways to confront the extensive economic and commercial activity used by Hezbollah to finance its activities, according to a report in the Saudi newspaper Al-Seyassah.
TEL AVIV — Muslim preacher Mostafa Rashed, considered by many to be the highest authority on Islam in Australia, has sparked a storm of criticism by saying on television that the Islamic figure Muhammad was a Christian until age 40.
TEL AVIV — Hamas’ security forces have arrested a number of Bedouins who reside in the coastal enclave after they tried to enter the Egyptian Sinai to fight the Islamic State group there, a security source in the Gaza Strip has told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Hamas members fear that a military escalation is on the horizon thanks to the financial crisis in the Gaza Strip brought on in part by the Palestinian Authority’s freeze on payments to thousands of its employees in Gaza and Israel’s cessation of electricity payments on behalf of the Gaza Strip.
Ismail Haniyeh was recently elected as Hamas’ new political chief thanks in part to support from the leadership of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the group’s military wing, a source in Hamas has told Breitbart Jerusalem. According to the source,
Hamas has once again earned a political and moral victory in elections for the Students’ Association at Birzeit University, the more important university in the West Bank.
TEL AVIV – Israeli media has published a video showing arch terrorist Marwan Barghouti, the leader of the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike, eating in his cell despite the starvation protest. Barghouti, currently serving four life sentences in Israeli prison, could be seen eating despite the hunger strike he’s leading.
TEL AVIV — Muhamad Alarefe, a prominent Saudi religious leader, has demanded that FIFA, the international soccer governing body, instruct players to stop making the Christian sign of the cross.
The government in Gaza is still heavily divided over the new Hamas charter despite Hamas’s declaration of celebrations for the announcement of its new document in which the group appeared to have recognized a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders and stated that Hamas is not a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood but a national Palestinian liberation movement.
President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia scheduled for later this month serves as a correction of sorts for the Obama administration’s orientation away from the Saudis and toward Iran, contended Abdel Rahman Rashed, a leading Saudi media figure.
TEL AVIV — Jibril Rajoub, a member of the central committee of Fatah, the Palestinian Authority president’s movement, has lashed out at Hamas in a television interview with al-Quds, saying that Fatah is Israel’s greatest enemy and not Hamas.
TEL AVIV — Hamas’ new charter, which is being sold as more moderate than its predecessor, proves that “Hamas was never an Islamic movement,” according to Egyptian jihadist Abu Abdullah Almuhajer, who is active in Sinai and the Gaza Strip.
TEL AVIV — Relations between Hamas and Iran have been growing closer recently, according to the international Saudi publication Al-Hayat, citing Palestinian sources.
TEL AVIV — Ahead of President Donald Trump’s White House meeting today with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Wassel Abou Youssef, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview that the Palestinians are expecting to be pressured by the U.S. administration on multiple fronts.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State group has publicized photos on its Telegram account showing the beheading of a Syrian accused of performing “magic.”
A Palestinian member of the Islamic State group who is prominent on social media claims to have unmasked an attempt by Palestinian intelligence to infiltrate groups of IS supporters in the West Bank.
Fighters of the Al Nusra Front, Al Qaida’s affiliate in Syria, or as the group now calls itself, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, have recently been posing a serious challenge to Hezbollah in the border area between Lebanon and Syria, a senior Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Egypt has yet to respond to a request from Hamas to allow Ismail Haniyeh, deputy to politburo chief Khaled Meshal, to leave the Gaza Strip for Qatar in order to announce from there the group’s new political platform and the results of internal elections that took place secretly, a senior source in the group told Breitbart Jerusalem.
A female passenger on Cairo’s metro reportedly tried to cut off a local young woman’s hair off, saying this was because she was not wearing any head covering.
TEL AVIV – A new video published by the Islamic State-affiliated Aamaq news agency shows the last moments of the terrorist group’s suicide bombers during attacks on Iraqi forces in Mosul.
The West is “entering a new age of conflict” with the Islamic State, while the terrorist group will also not hesitate to continue acting against Arab countries, Abu Abdullah Almuhajer, a jihadist currently living in the Gaza Strip, claimed in an interview.
TEL AVIV — Egyptian authorities have found the body of a Coptic Christian teenager who was murdered in the Bnei Swef district in southern Egypt.
Photos released by the Islamic State group purport to show that its’ jihadists are again using small unmanned drones to attack targets in the area of Mosul where IS is locked in battle with the Iraqi army.
Wilayat Sinai, Islamic State’s affiliate in Egypt, has been using sniper rifles that were intended to reach Hamas in the Gaza Strip but were captured in Sinai, a senior Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The Islamic State group is determined to move closer to Israel’s borders, Gaza-based Palestinian jihadist and IS supporter Abou Baker Almaqdesi claimed to Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Egypt has received clear warnings from U.S. officials insisting that Egypt should withdraw its military experts from their posts at Syrian army bases, Egyptian diplomatic sources told Arab news media.
Public calls are on the rise in Egypt for Al-Azhar, the most important religious institution in Egypt and in the Sunni world, to intervene and reform Islamic education after twin terror attacks targeted Coptic Christian churches on Palm Sunday last week killed dozens of worshippers and a number of security personnel.
TEL AVIV – Deputy Secretary General of the Fatah Revolutionary Council Fayez Abou Aita told Breitbart Jerusalem that the New York Times’ publication of an oped written by Palestinian prisoner and convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti was a “very positive step” for the Palestinians.
Islamists around the Arab world celebrated Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan’s victory Sunday in a referendum to change governing laws and give the head of state expanded powers.
TEL AVIV — A video published online by the Islamic State group showing snipers from Walaiyat Sinai, the group’s Egyptian affiliate, shooting Egyptian soldiers has many asking how the advanced sniper equipment fell into the group’s hands.
TEL AVIV — In an attempt to fight the concept that Iran is part of the war against terrorist organizations, particularly the Islamic State group, social media users in the Arab world have rallied behind a hashtag online, #ISIS_and_Iran_are_one, claiming that the two have mutual interests and are serving one another.
TEL AVIV — An Egyptian television channel aired an interview with the widow of an Egyptian who was killed in the deadly attack on a church in Alexandria on Palm Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Two of the main suspects in the assassination of Mazen Faqha, a senior official in Hamas’ military wing in Gaza, were among those Hamas terrorists released from an Israeli jail in return for captured soldier Gilad Shalit, a senior Palestinian figure involved in investigations into the assassination told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Hamas in recent days arrested nine of its militants who were trying to cross into the Egyptian Sinai with their weapons, apparently to join Waliyat Sinai, the Islamic State’s affiliate in Egypt, according to an informed Hamas official.
