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TEL AVIV – Nearly half of the Palestinian terrorists responsible for attacks or attempted attacks against Israeli civilians during the ongoing so-called cycle of violence are aged 20 or less, and more than one in 10 were carried out by women,

The Southern Poverty Law Center, always seeming to hover in the shadows whenever honest citizens and organizations try to stand up for this country, is at it again. In addition to the usual suspects – which includes pretty much anyone

TEL AVIV – Last month, Palestinians commemorated the anniversary of the death of Hamas bomb-builder Yahya Ayyash, the terrorist behind the use of suicide bombs in the 1990s and 2000s, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. Known as “the engineer,” Ayyash built

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police officers fatally shot two Palestinians who opened fire at them outside Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Sunday, police said, on a day when officials said three other Palestinian terrorists were killed in two other incidents. A

TEL AVIV – Screenshots obtained by Breitbart Jerusalem of an Egyptian suicide bomber’s online chat with another jihadist provide a rare inside glimpse into the Islamic State’s suicide operations.

JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi government adviser has warned that even when the Islamic State is vanquished, many other “Islamic States” will follow. “Organizations like IS will always exist, because they distort the interpretations [of the scriptures] to their own

The Israeli army locked down a village in the West Bank, the military said, as part of efforts to find the terrorist who stabbed a Jewish man from a nearby settlement Tuesday. The army spokeswoman said only “humanitarian cases” would be

Hamas on Monday denied Israeli accusations that wounded Islamic State terrorists from Egypt had been smuggled through tunnels to receive medical care in the Islamist-run Gaza Strip. Israeli General Yoav Mordechai had accused the jihadist terror group of smuggling wounded fighters

The Times of Israel reports: The Palestinian terror group Hamas called Sunday on activists to carry out suicide bombing attacks against Israelis, specifically on buses, in a manner reminiscent of the devastating attacks of the 2000-2005 Second Intifada. In a

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas says it has killed one of its own commanders over unnamed “moral and behavioral violations.” The Islamic militant group, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, said in a short Twitter statement

Ynetnews reports:  A new music video aired on Sunday on Hamas’s al-Aqsa TV network urges the resumption of suicide bombings on Israelis.  The video shows portraits of Yahya Ayyash (Hamas’s deceased chief bombmaker) and the murderers of the Henkin couple,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he would advance legislation enabling the suspension of parliamentarians for “inappropriate conduct” after Arab MPs met relatives of Palestinian terrorists killed while attacking Israelis. “In a meeting with heads of the coalition parties,

The armed wing of Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, said Sunday it had executed one of its members, with sources familiar with the case calling him a senior official accused of spying for Israel. “The Al-Qassam Brigades announce that

Another member of Islamic State’s self-proclaimed  ‘Beatles’ prison guards has been identified as a Londoner who once joined an aid convoy to Gaza organised by George Galloway. Alexanda Kotey, 32, from Shepherd’s Bush, brutally tormented foreign prisoners in Islamic State-held territory in Syria,

The Israeli army Saturday said it was lifting a blockade imposed on the West Bank town of Qabatiya, from where Palestinians carried out a Jerusalem terrorist attack that killed a policewoman. “Based on an assessment of the situation, it was

The rate at which suspected jihadists are being blocked from departing Australia has doubled in the past year, a report said Sunday, amid a government crackdown of its nationals travelling to Iraq or Syria to fight. There were 312 people

The woman who led the French authorities to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind behind last November’s terrorist atrocity in Paris, has said that 90 jihadis who posed as migrants are currently in Paris. Despite foiling further attacks including a planned attack

TEL AVIV – A pro-Hamas journalist has launched a highly unusual attack on the “boastful” statements made by some of the Islamist movement’s leaders regarding the network of terror tunnels along the border with Israel. “The public statements of our leaders are detrimental to

The Jerusalem Post reports: Seconds before she herself was killed, Border Police woman Hadar, 19, saved the life of her fellow officer and friend during Wednesday’s attack in Jerusalem. At her funeral a day later, her father Ofer, his voice filled

The Jerusalem Post reports: Following Wednesday’s terror attack that took the life of a 19-year-old female Border Police officer and seriously wounded another young female officer, Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Dov Kalmanovich requested that IDF troops help buttress security in the capital.

Arutz Sheva reports: Three MKs of the Arab Joint List party met this week with the family members of Arab terrorists, including terrorists who have murdered Israelis during the recent wave of attacks, drawing widespread condemnation from the Knesset on Thursday.

Arutz Sheva reports: The head of the Israeli Fund for UNICEF (The UN Children’s Fund) has condemned the culture of incitement which encourages children to carry out terrorist attacks, as “child abuse.” Jonny Cline, Executive Director of UNICEF’s Israeli Fund, made

TEL AVIV – Wednesday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem seems to be a “departure” from the so-called wave of violence carried out by Palestinians – motivated largely by anti-Israel incitement – according to Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein.

TEL AVIV – In its latest glorification of terrorism, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement took to Twitter to urge Palestinians to take up their weapons and become martyrs in the struggle against the Israeli enemy, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW)

“Three Palestinians killed as daily violence grinds on.” This was the headline on the website of US TV network CBS on Wednesday, following a terror attack in Jerusalem in which Border Police officer Hadar Cohen, 19, was murdered and her

JAFFA, Israel – Saudi Arabia has ways to influence Russia’s Middle East policy other than oil, a high-profile Saudi journalist with close ties to the royal family suggested on Wednesday. In an article published in the London-based Asharq al Awsat, Mshari Elzaydi

TEL AVIV – The presence of the Islamic State in Libya is a fait accompli, a top Jordanian intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem against the backdrop of an anti-IS summit held in Rome on Tuesday. IS is maintaining alliances with local

TEL AVIV – To the amusement of the Twittersphere, Hamas’ new tank, unveiled at a funeral for seven of its members who died when a tunnel collapsed on them, turned out to be little more than a parade float. Leaders

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A top Israeli general says the Islamic State group is “our enemy” and that Israel is sharing intelligence with allies battling the extremists despite remaining on the sidelines of Syria’s civil war. Maj. Gen. Nitzan

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament passed a law on Tuesday expanding police powers, allowing them to stop and frisk suspects without probable cause, the latest attempt to crack down on near-daily Palestinian attacks on Israelis. Critics say the law will

TEL AVIV – Two Hamas operatives who entered Israel from the Gaza Strip using forged medical documents were arrested by the Israeli police and the Shin Bet security agency, Ynet news reported. The Gazan suspects, Mahmoud Maatouk, 30, and his

TEL AVIV – The Islamic State organization has published pictures of its militants executing an Iraqi man who was accused of “cursing” Allah. The middle-aged “defendant” was beheaded in front of a live audience after his verdict was read out

Israel restricted access Monday into and out of the Palestinian political capital of Ramallah on the occupied West Bank after a checkpoint shooting that wounded soldiers, stepping up its response to attacks. It was the first time such a step

Nissim Hakmon and his neighbors say they hear banging and clattering at night. They are convinced it can only mean one thing: Hamas is tunneling under their homes from Gaza and will one day emerge, guns blazing, to attack or

The Jerusalem Post reports: In a rare New York Times op-ed, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon scolded Israel on Monday for its criticism of his comments last week that Jerusalem interpreted as giving a tailwind to terrorism, chiding Israel for “lashing

JAFFA, Israel – Gaza Islamists held a press conference on Saturday urging members of the Palestinian Authority security forces to follow in the footsteps of a Palestinian policeman who carried out a shooting attack against Israeli soldiers in the West Bank earlier that