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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the Islamic militant group Hamas that rules Gaza on Sunday that his country will retaliate with “greater force” than deployed in the 2014 Gaza war if cross-border tunnels are used to

JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic State has been exploiting mounting divisions within Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood – which culminated in the movement’s failure to organize a meaningful protest on the fifth anniversary of the 2011 revolution last week – to recruit

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor justified the Palestinians’ “right” to spill innocent blood and praised the current terror wave against “cancerous” Israelis for “wearing the occupation down and making it lose sleep,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.

Ynetnews reports: Three Israelis were wounded in a terrorist shooting attack on Sunday morning at a checkpoint south of the settlement of Beit El in the Samaria region of the West Bank. The terrorist, who arrived at the checkpoint by

Tel Aviv – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the UN Security Council to provide the Palestinians with international protection from Israel amid fears that the Israeli government’s policies “would lead to the entry of Daesh [the Islamic State] into

GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (AFP) –  Seven members of Hamas’ military wing were killed when a tunnel collapsed this week in the Gaza Strip, the Islamist movement said on Thursday. “Al-Qassam Brigades declare seven Qassam members were martyred in a tunnel

Hamas leaders have met Iranian officials in a continuing bid to upgrade the Islamic Republic’s financial support for Gaza’s Islamist rulers, a top source in the movement told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Ynetnews reports: Nashat Melhem (pictured), the terrorist who killed three people in Tel Aviv on January 1, told one of the three people suspected of aiding him that he had planned a second attack, it was revealed Wednesday. “I’ve murdered

TEL AVIV – The Gaza-based terror group Hamas has rehabilitated itself with cross-border terror tunnels and rocket firing systems, and is ready for a new round of hostilities, a senior defense official said Friday. “Hamas in Gaza has recovered, and (its

JAFFA, Israel – Islamic State has stepped up recruitment efforts in North Africa, one of the only regions in the Arab world where the organization remains weak compared to Al Qaeda, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem. Al Qaeda

TEL AVIV – Islamic Jihad has made headway in fundraising in Algeria and Turkey, sources in the group told Breitbart Jerusalem, after Iran, the organization’s main source of revenue, pulled the plug.

JAFFA, Israel – During the 10 years since Hamas’ election victory, unemployment in the Gaza Strip has reached 45 per cent, and the number of residents relying on foreign aid has hit 80 per cent, A Sharq al Awsat newspaper reported on

A Fatah official went on Palestinian Authority TV in order to honor four female terrorists as role models for Palestinians hoping to inflict violence on Israeli citizens, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. The broadcast was in honor of this year’s

TEL AVIV, Israel – Hamas has pledged to crush the Army of Islam, a Gaza-based Salafi group that has openly threatened Hamas and labelled it heretical and its policies “anti-Islamic.”  Earlier this month, the group released a video accusing Hamas of straying

TEL AVIV, Israel – Hamas has rejected an Iranian offer to upgrade its relations with Tehran in exchange for an overt condemnation of Saudi Arabia, sources in Hamas told Breitbart Jerusalem. Last week, citing Hamas sources, Breitbart Jerusalem reported that Iran

JERUSALEM (AFP) –  A Palestinian terrorist stabbed a woman in a West Bank settlement Monday and was shot by security personnel, the Israeli army and medics said, in the second such incident over the last 24 hours. The 30-year-old woman stabbed

The Jerusalem Post reports: The Israel Navy keeping is a close eye on Hamas in Gaza as the terrorist organization busily rebuilds its offensive capabilities, which now appear to include a potential to wage underwater combat. If fighting breaks out with

The Jerusalem Post reports: NEW YORK – “Iran is continuing to strive for nuclear weapons and the International Atomic Energy Agency’s optimism must not blind the international community,” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon (pictured) said on Saturday, as

The Jerusalem Post reports: Syria has Russian-made Yachont missiles, and there is the feeling that they have also made their way into the hands of Hezbollah,” a senior Israel Navy officer told The Jerusalem Post’s Hebrew-language sister publication Ma’ariv. “In any event,

TEL AVIV – Hamas has warned Israel against provoking another violent conflict, saying the movement is ready to fight. Top Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh declared earlier this week that the movement’s military wing will “stun the whole world with its power of resistance.”

A hip-hop track dedicated to an American Jewish student who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists while on a study abroad program in Israel has gone viral. The song, written and sung by fellow Americans in Israel, Samuel Kalnitz and Yaakov

TEL AVIV – A Gaza journalist announced he is quitting his beat as a political journalist after being tortured in a Hamas jail, the Associated Press reported. Ayman al-Aloul is one of the rare voices willing to criticize the rule

The Jerusalem Post reports: A suspected terrorist lightly wounded an Israeli officer on Thursday after stabbing him on the hand on the slopes of Mount Ebal near Nablus located in the West Bank. The assailant was shot and killed following the

An Israeli aircraft attacked a group of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday who the military said planned to detonate a bomb at the border with Israel, and a Palestinian terrorist faction said one of its men was killed. Local

JAFFA, Israel – A prominent Saudi media outlet is striking back at British officials who accused the kingdom of fanning the flames of terror. The British officials relied on a German intelligence report and similar statements by German officials indicating that

The Israeli embassy in Britain has sent a letter of complaint to a Muslim Labour MP after she claimed that no Israeli children had been killed or even injured by rock-throwing Palestinians. During a parliamentary debate on child detainees and

Belgian police have found three safehouses that were used by suspects before they carried out the terror attacks in Paris, prosecutors said on Wednesday. “The investigators were able to identify three premises that have been used by the conspiring perpetrators

The Times of Israel reports: Eighteen months after the last Israel-Hamas war, the Islamist terror group is believed to have rebuilt much of its cross-border terror tunnel infrastructure, with almost as many terror tunnels reaching under the Gaza border into

A group of citizens, some armed, assembled on the sidewalk next to Central Square Park in downtown Dallas to peacefully protest the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Saturday, January 9, in what marked the fourth Bureau of American-Islamic Relations (BAIR) led gathering.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement marked its 51st anniversary with parades in which children are seen sporting mock explosive belts and carrying dummy RPG launchers, MEMRI reported. You can see their video coverage here.  In his “Fatah

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement posted a picture of the terrorist who murdered three people in Tel Aviv lying dead in a pool of blood and congratulated him on becoming a martyr, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW)

The Times of Israel reports: Hezbollah is receiving long-range missiles, laser-guided rockets and other sophisticated weaponry directly from Russia in Syria, and is free to use that weaponry against Israel if it so chooses, Hezbollah fighters told the Daily Beast

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) are renewing their call for the Obama administration to reveal the immigration histories of individuals recently implicated in terrorism.

The Times of Israel reports:  In a joint Shin Bet-IDF operation, a Hamas terror cell was broken in Hebron in November, officials announced Sunday. The Hamas cell had purchased a variety of weapons, including an M-16 rifle, in order to carry

TEL AVIV – Breitbart Jerusalem on Sunday interviewed Abu Ayna Al-Ansari, a top Salafi militant in the Gaza Strip associated with Islamic State (IS) ideology, about the possibility of IS cells among the Israeli-Arab population.

JAFFA, Israel – One of the slain perpetrators of Friday’s deadly shooting attack in the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada made fierce anti-Christian remarks on Facebook shortly before the attack, the Egyptian media reported on Sunday.