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TEL AVIV – The nephew of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is reported to be the most likely successor to head the Palestinian Authority after an aging Mahmoud Abbas steps down.

The Palestinian Presidential Guard has upped security measures for President Mahmoud Abbas following his controversial participation in former Israeli President Shimon Peres’ funeral last week.

TEL AVIV – The Israeli navy intercepted a women-only flotilla aimed at breaching the security blockade of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, about 35 miles off the coast.  

Israeli tank fire struck a Hamas post in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after a rocket launched from the Palestinian enclave hit a nearby Israeli city, with no casualties reported on either side.

The Palestinian high court on Monday ordered municipal elections to be held only in the West Bank and not in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, though a new date for the suspended polls was not set.

IDF soldiers arrested a man on suspicion of crossing the Gaza border fence into Israel on Monday morning.

The Israeli army announced late Saturday night it was sealing off the West Bank and Gaza Strip over Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, from Sunday to Tuesday.

The Gaza Health Ministry says a Palestinian was killed in an accident while working in a “military tunnel” used by Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group.

The Gaza Strip and its residents are barreling towards disaster, brought on by crippling unemployment, a nonexistent economy, water and electricity shortages, a growing population and the “Islamic dictatorship” of Hamas, while the IDF is trying — and thus far succeeding — to keep the coastal enclave’s terrorist leaders deterred and contained, a senior IDF officer from the Southern Command said Sunday.

JAFFA, Israel – Mixed-gender parties organized in conservative Gaza for last week’s Eid al Adha has sparked a controversy in the Strip, ruled by the Islamic movement Hamas.

TEL AVIV – The terror group Hamas is taking advantage of the relative calm in Israel’s south to prepare for the next round of conflict, a senior IDF general said Wednesday.

The drone that Israel downed above the Gaza Strip on Tuesday was developed by Hamas’ Azz a-Din Al Qassam Brigades with Iranian know-how, a top Gaza militant with connections in Hamas told Breitbart Jerusalem.

NEW YORK — At a press event before his final meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while he is still in office, President Obama stressed he wants to “keep alive” the idea of creating a Palestinian state.

KATZRIN, ISRAEL — For Israelis living on the Golan Heights, the muted sounds of explosions just across the border in Syria have become a daily reality, as stray mortars from the brutal six-year-old civil war land on this side of the border.

TEL AVIV – “If Australian money was spent on building [Hamas terror] tunnels, that is beyond the pale,” Australian MP Michael Danby said Sunday.

JAFFA, Israel – A video showing a Gaza militant warning American citizens against visiting the Strip has gone viral on social media.

Hundreds of Israelis killed in thousands of rocket attacks — that is the army’s Home Front Command’s estimation for what to expect in the event of a future all-out war, according to figures released ahead of a nationwide preparedness drill set for next week.

Israel will not tolerate any missiles or mortars being fired from either Syria or from Gaza and will respond with disproportionate force, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Thursday, a day after projectiles were fired at Israel from across both frontiers.

TEL AVIV – The parents of a slain Israeli soldier whose body is being held captive by Hamas are demanding the United Nations and U.S. “take responsibility” to recover his remains, after the Gaza-based terror group abducted their son during a U.S. and UN-brokered ceasefire in the 2014 summer conflict.

The Israeli Air Force struck a number of targets in the Gaza Strip overnight Wednesday-Thursday, in response to an earlier mortar shell fired from the Palestinian enclave that landed in southern Israel.

A Hamas operative picked up by the Israeli Navy last month is suspected of attempting to smuggle explosive materials from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, the Shin Bet security service announced on Tuesday after a gag order on the case was lifted.

Gaza terrorists were undoubtedly anxious late Saturday night upon failing to carry out a rocket attack on southern Israel, due to quick-trigger backfire on the launching pad.

Hamas’ leadership is poised to decide on Ismail Haniyeh as leader of the group’s political bureau, replacing Khaled Meshal, a Hamas source in Gaza has confirmed to Breitbart Jerusalem following several Arab media reports on the matter.

As the residents of the Gaza Strip endure daily hardships due to the dire economic situation in the enclave, their Hamas leaders spend over $100 million a year on the group’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, according to estimates by both Israeli and Palestinian sources.

TEL AVIV – Israel has begun construction on a new $530 million barrier along the length of its 37-mile border with the Gaza Strip to be built both above and below ground, aimed at preventing Hamas from building underground terror tunnels into the country.

Israel’s Defense Minister has said that if quiet from the Gaza Strip is maintained, he would be prepared to reintroduce Israeli work permits for Gazans for the first time since 2007.

Former Gaza prime minister Ismail Haniyeh is likely to replace Khaled Mashaal as head of the Hamas terror group’s politburo in upcoming elections, according to Arab media reports Monday.

Gaza businessman Saqer Alatar, whose company is accused of helping to divert millions of dollars in funds to Hamas, insists he barely knows the NGO worker at the centre of the controversy.

Israel’s prime minister, defense minister, president and the IDF chief of staff were among the hundreds of mourners who gathered on Sunday to pay their last respects to the father of one of the IDF soldiers whose remains are still in the hands of Hamas, the Hebrew news site nrg reported.

Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted an invitation to make the first official visit to Australia by a sitting Israeli prime minister.

Turkish aid for the Gaza Strip has been sent from the country’s southern coast for the second time since relations were normalised between Israel and Ankara in June, a Turkish official said Saturday.

Israeli tank fire targeted a Hamas post on the Gaza Strip border overnight after gunfire at Israeli forces in the area, with no injuries reported, officials said Sunday.

Shots were fired from northern Gaza at IDF forces across the border, the army said early Sunday. No one was hurt on the Israeli side.

GAZA CITY — The wife of a prominent Palestinian journalist and critic of the Islamist terror group that rules the Gaza Strip said Hamas has arrested her husband.

Journalists critical of Palestinian policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been imprisoned and tortured according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based NGO devoted to human rights activism. HRW released a report August 30 documenting five instances of rights abuses against journalists.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s on Monday reportedly said the bodies of two Israeli soldiers being held by Hamas would remain in the Gaza Strip, as he opposed negotiations with the terrorist group. His office later denied that he had made the comments.