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 Times of Israel reports: Israel and the United States will train together against the threat of a ballistic missile attack this month, the IDF announced on Saturday. The exercise, named Juniper Cobra, is held every two years and is
TEL AVIV – Utilizing critical Iranian funds, Hamas has pressed on with completing the restoration of its network of tunnels, including those reaching into Israeli territory, a top Hamas diplomatic source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
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.
Israel’s Defense Ministry confirmed that it is cooperating with the U.S. to develop a system for detecting tunnels, hailed as an underground equivalent of the Iron Dome missile defense system. The Financial Times reported that the U.S. has earmarked $120
“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
The Jerusalem Post reports: The recently established IDF Commando Brigade completed its first full combat drill, held on a hilltop in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday. In recent days, units in the brigade practiced a number of wartime command operations
JERUSALEM (AFP) – The Israeli army blockaded a village in the northern West Bank on Thursday that it said was home to Palestinian terrorists who carried out a deadly attack in Jerusalem, officials said. Three men from Qabatiya, near Jenin, on Wednesday attacked
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
TEL AVIV – Three terrorists armed with a rifle, knives and an explosive device perpetuated a combined shooting and stabbing attack at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances leading into the Old City.
Arutz Sheva reports: Hamas on Tuesday claimed that it arrested an intelligence agent who had provided information to Israel for 14 years. A website affiliated with Hamas’s internal security agencies in Gaza claimed that the agent, who was only identified
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
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s militant Islamic Hamas rulers say two of its men have been killed after a tunnel they were digging into Israel collapsed. Hamas identified the men, aged 35 and 23, as members of its
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
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
The Times of Israel reports: WASHINGTON, DC – At a town hall meeting with his constituents in August 2014, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was asked a question about the then-ongoing Israel-Hamas war. What unfolded made the inside of that room
TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to critics accusing his government of failing to deal with freshly dug terror tunnels under the Israel-Gaza border by threatening to blow up the subterranean passages and act with far more
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel on Monday blocked entry for non-residents to the West Bank city of Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is based, after a shooting attack the previous day that wounded three soldiers, the army said. “In accordance with situation assessments
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israeli Military Industries is expanding the range of its air-to- ground weaponry, and is in varying stages of developments of three new types of bombs. The new bombs include the MPR 1000 and MPR 2000 munitions, whose
Ynetnews reports: Relatives of 18 terror victims, mostly from the wave of terrorism that began in autumn 2015, on Sunday issued an open letter to government ministers, in which they demanded a harsher response – deporting terrorists’ families. “The real
TEL AVIV – An Al-Qaida affiliate in the Gaza Strip has claimed responsibility for firing rockets into Israel for the second time in less than a month. Ajnad al Makdas (Soldiers of the Temple), a radical jihadi group, said it was
Fox News reports: While the U.S. is pressing Israel to make peace with Palestinian leaders, it is missing the much bigger story of the Jewish State improving relations with several Muslim nations in the Middle East, according to a top Israeli
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
The Daily Express reports: An expert on the Middle East said that North Korea’s history of working with Iran means the risk of nuclear co-operation is real. It comes just after North Korea claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, reawakening
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
Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian teenager who stabbed a pregnant Israeli woman in the West Bank on Monday, amid signs of Palestinians stepping up attacks against Israelis inside Jewish settlements. The military ordered Palestinian laborers to leave their
The Times of Israel reports: Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan canceled a cultural event in East Jerusalem on Sunday, when he discovered the Palestinian Authority was behind it, his office announced. Erdan, however, discovered that a Palestinian Authority representative was
Israel bristled on Sunday at the lifting of international sanctions on Iran and vowed to flag up any violations of its arch-foe’s nuclear restrictions while drawing on U.S. defense aid to prepare for a possible military face-off in the future.
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
A Palestinian girl on official Palestinian Authority TV expressed her belief that “the Jews killed [late PLO leader Yasser] Arafat,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. On the kids program Children Talk last week, the girl, who is approximately 11 or
The Jerusalem Post reports: Palestinian Authority Security forces in Ramallah have arrested a top aide to PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat (pictured) on suspicion of collaboration with Israel, according to a report in a Palestinian online newspaper. The aide, who worked for
The Jerusalem Post reports: Jerusalem – A senior Israeli official has voiced concern for Jordan’s future stability given encroaching Islamist-led insurgencies in the region, a departure from Israel’s customary reticence about its neighbor and security partner. Jordan, one of two Arab
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
The Jerusalem Post reports: Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström is supporting terrorism and encouraging violence, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday in a sharply worded statement, after she once again attacked Israel in Sweden’s parliament. Wallström on Tuesday called for an
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
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
UPI writes: FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 11 (UPI) —Lockheed Martin reports it has begun the process of joining four major components of the structure an F-35 Lightning II aircraft for Israel. The plane is the first being built for Israel and is
