Tens of thousands of Palestinians, including hundreds of gunmen and children dressed as terrorists and waving mock weapons, rallied in Gaza on Wednesday in support of the militant Islamic group Hamas that rules the territory on the 29th anniversary of its founding.
Two-thirds of Palestinians believe a two-state solution to their conflict with Israel is no longer possible, a poll said Tuesday.
A Gaza-based jihadi said he was encouraged by the Islamic State’s recent victories in Iraq and Syria.
Two Hamas terrorists were killed while working on an attack tunnel intended for an infiltration from Gaza into Israel collapsed in the territory near the border with Israel, according to a statement issued by the group.
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.
TEL AVIV – There have been numerous reports about the possibility the Obama administration may seek unilateral action at the United Nations Security Council regarding movement on a Palestinian state or resolutions targeting Jewish communities in the West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem.
Israel has begun allowing parcels to be sent to Gaza again, officials said Monday, months after a ban over allegations the Palestinian enclave’s Hamas rulers were using them to smuggle weapons.
A Palestinian man was arrested Saturday evening shortly after crossing into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
TEL AVIV – The Islamic State organization published on Wednesday another picture of one of its militants who died in battle, a Palestinian, in a further bid to embarrass Hamas.
A Turkish prosecutor called for charges related to a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound ship to be dropped following diplomatic reconciliation between Turkey and Israel, state media reported on Friday.
Coca-Cola and its Palestinian bottling franchisee have opened the US beverage group’s first production plant in the Gaza Strip, marking a rare foreign manufacturing investment in the Israeli-blockaded, conflict-prone coastal territory.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday urged Muslims to defend the Palestinian cause, striking a tough stance on Israel despite improved ties between the two nations.
More than 30,000 people spent their Friday and Saturday in Hebron this past weekend to celebrate “Shabbat Hebron,” the weekend in which observant Jews read the Biblical portion which tells of Abraham’s purchase of Cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron.
TEL AVIV – Israel warned that it would not hesitate to use lethal force against Palestinians attempting to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) told Palestinian media on Saturday.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi praised US President-elect Donald Trump and said he expected greater engagement in the Middle East from his administration, in an interview with Portuguese media.
Hamas has arrested Abdullah Alashkar, a prominent Salafi leader in Gaza, who has been on the government’s wanted list for more than four years, a Salafi source in the Strip told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Iran has been prodding Palestinian jihadists to resume hostilities against Israel, a Palestinian security official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Iran has demanded that Hamas execute the killers of a high-profile Shi’ite activist who was killed in Gaza last week, according to a Palestinian security official.
Shi’ites worldwide have been enraged at the assassination of a high-profile activist in Gaza who has been blacklisted by the Hamas government.
Dozens of Palestinian Authority public servants in Gaza have reportedly not yet received last month’s salary after being suspected by President Mahmoud Abbas of being loyal to his main challenger within the Fatah movement, Mohammed Dahlan.
Hamas has stepped up measures against Islamic State loyalists in the Gaza Strip, an official in the movement told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The commanders of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah’s military wing, have been mulling recommissioning to turn their guns against Israel and the Palestinian Authority’s “despots,” a top militant told Breitbart Jerusalem.
An Israeli man was killed by gunfire near the border with Egypt at noon on Tuesday, a military spokesperson said.
The military wing of Hamas, Izzadin Kassam Brigades, released a statement saying that a member of the brigade was killed when the tunnel collapsed on him.
Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in an interview with a Palestinian newspaper Monday that Israel’s next war with Gaza militants would be their last “because we will completely destroy them”.
Sirens warning of an impending rocket attack blared early Monday morning in communities in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council in southern Israel. The projectile reportedly landed inside the Gaza Strip.
A group of four Palestinians, including one who was granted temporary Israeli residency on humanitarian grounds, planned to carry out a terror attack at a wedding hall where one worked and also kidnap an IDF soldier to be used for leverage in negotiations with Israel, Israeli security officials said Thursday.
JERUSALEM – A spokesperson for Hamas said the terror group “is saving” something that “will surprise the world” during future prisoner exchanges with Israel.
A Palestinian woman approached Israeli border police with a knife in the northern West Bank on Wednesday and was shot dead by officers, police said.
The Shi’ite festival of Ashura was marked by an unprecedented number of Gazans, testifying to the growing spread of Shi’ite-Iranian influence in the region.
The Israeli army announced Saturday it would be closing off the West Bank and Gaza Strip, barring Palestinian passage into Israel, for 48 hours beginning at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, for the upcoming Sukkot holiday.
Thousands of worshipers flocked to the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday evening for the traditional prayers of supplication, or selichot, a day ahead of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
Hamas has cracked down on Salafi activists, some openly supporting the Islamic State, in the wake of two incidents in which rockets and mortars were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip, a security official in the territory told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz will visit Turkey on Thursday in the first ministerial visit between the two countries for six years, Israel’s embassy in Ankara said in a statement on Monday.
TEL AVIV – An Arab-Israeli terrorist opened fire on Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill on Sunday morning, wounding at least seven people with two in critical condition, the Israel Police reported.
Israel has deported all but one of a group of women activists who tried to break its decade-long blockade of the Gaza Strip by boat, the interior ministry said Friday.
The 81-year-old Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, was given a clean bill of health on Thursday following an emergency heart procedure after suffering exhaustion and chest pains.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Thursday that while Israel does not want to spark a war with Hamas, it will answer every attack from the Gaza Strip with a “forceful response.”
JAFFA, Israel — The leader of a pro-Iran militia in the Gaza Strip has lauded Iran’s “unremitting support” for the Palestinian people and the Palestinian cause.
An IDF tank attacked a Hamas outpost in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday in response to a mortar shell fired at southern Israel earlier in the day, the army said.
