JERUSALEM – Just in case anyone missed it the first time around, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party reiterated its praise for the terrorists of the 1972 attack on Israel’s airport after it was first reported that the political party was honoring the surviving gunman, Kozo Okamoto, ahead of the anniversary of the attack.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Shurat Hadin, an Israeli NGO that focuses on litigating terrorism cases, wrote a letter to Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon last Tuesday arguing that any Israeli banks that cooperate with the Palestinian Authority or its banks should not be protected against anti-terrorism lawsuits.
Israel on Friday night returned to the Palestinian Authority the bodies of two terrorists, one belonging to a West Bank man who killed an American tourist during a stabbing spree in Jaffa two months ago. Bashar Massalha, 22, from Qalqilya, murdered US citizen Taylor Force and injured 10 others in a rampage along the Jaffa boardwalk on March 8. He was killed by security forces at the scene of the attack, which coincided with a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden, who was meeting with Shimon Peres minutes away from the scene.
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JERUSALEM – A news report on a children’s event broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV News included a young Palestinian girl’s hate speech claiming that the Jews kill Muslim worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque and that they imprison small children.
JAFFA, Israel- Fatah’s Facebook page has marked the 36th anniversary of a shooting attack in Hebron that led to the death of six Jewish settlers.
JAFFA, Israel – The death of three children in a house fire on Gaza has sparked a fierce media war between Fatah and Hamas.
TEL AVIV – Israel Law Center-Shurat Hadin on Sunday threatened to sue Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government for purportedly allowing the Palestinian Authority to use Israeli airwaves to broadcast incitement to violence.
Ynetnews reports: Natan Meir, who lost his wife Dafna Meir in a terror attack at their home in Otniel, was snubbed by every ambassador at the UN security council after being officially invited by Israeli Ambassador Danny Dannon, where they were present at a UN Security Council meeting dealing with the situation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week confirmed that the Palestinian Authority is continuing its policy of paying salaries to jailed terrorists, despite having previously claimed that it ceased to do so.
The Times of Israel reports: Hamas Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday accused Israel and the Palestinian Authority of complicity in the deaths of three children killed in a fire that burned down their home, which was apparently started by candles used to light the residence.
TEL AVIV – On Saturday, Israeli jets struck Hamas targets after rockets were fired last night and early this morning from the Gaza Strip aimed at Israeli civilian population zones. “Earlier today… a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip
The Times of Israel reports: Hours after he was released from a Palestinian prison, Israeli forces on Wednesday arrested a Hamas man wanted for a shooting attack in the West Bank in 2010, the Shin Bet security agency announced in a statement.
TEL AVIV – In provoking the Israel Defense Forces along the Israel-Gaza border, Hamas seems to be testing Israel’s military and political response to the possibility of another outbreak in the south
TEL AVIV – Millions of gallons of sewage from Gaza poured every day into the Mediterranean is destroying Palestinian and Israel’s freshwater supplies as well as local fishing zones, the Associated Press reported.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Germany is beginning to re-examine its longstanding policy of near-automatic support for Israel in light of what it perceives as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s disinclination to move toward a two-state solution to the Palestine question. According to
The Times of Israel reports: The Palestinian flag this week appeared on a list of banned banners for the Eurovision song contest, alongside the Islamic State group flag and others. Under Eurovision rules, regional flags, those belonging to federated states,
TEL AVIV – Arab MK Haneen Zoabi called on Palestinians to revolt against the Palestinian Authority over its security cooperation with Israel, the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper reported Monday.
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The Jerusalem Post reports: The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday denied that it has postponed its effort to seek a UN Security Council resolution calling for an end to construction in the settlements. The PA said that it was going ahead
Speaking at the gala dinner of J Street, a George Soros-funded Mideast advocacy group that is critical of Israeli policies, Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged “overwhelming frustration” with Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, saying the prime minister is leading the Jewish state in the wrong direction.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Paris Protocol has to be amended to halt the annual loss of $285 million to the PA, the World Bank said in a report it issued Sunday in advance of Tuesday’s meeting in Brussels of the
The Jerusalem Post reports: NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League said it was “outrageous” that a debate topic at an inter- university debating competition in Atlanta required participants to justify Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israelis. At the US Universities Debating
Israeli forces raided a money changer in the Palestinian political capital Ramallah early on Thursday, blowing up a safe and sparking a fire, which led to minor clashes, the army and witnesses said. An Israeli army spokeswoman said the pre-dawn
TEL AVIV – The Obama administration accused Israel of “excessive use of force” against Palestinians during the current wave of Palestinian terrorism. An annual State Department human rights report accused Israeli forces of “arbitrary arrest and associated torture and abuse, often
The only power plant in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip was at a standstill on Tuesday due to an ongoing shortage of fuel caused largely by a dispute over taxes, officials said. The plant has been closed since Saturday night when
Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to embarrass himself by making uninformed and false anti-Israel statements that seem to parrot radical left, BDS-style, Palestinian propaganda talking points.
JAFFA, Israel – The Palestinian Authority arrested three men suspected of plotting to carry out an attack in Israel, leading to a backlash on social media. The three suspects, who were reported missing by their families, were arrested after an eight-day manhunt. The
Sen. Bernie Sanders kept up his criticism of the Jewish state, this time accusing Israel of a “disproportionate” response during the 2014 Israel-Gaza War.
JERUSALEM – Palestinian security forces arrested on Saturday three Palestinians who they say were planning to carry out a terror attack against Israeli targets. The three men, Basel Muhammad Alkarj (33), Muhammad Abdallah Harb (23), and Hishar Alsiaj (19), have
Israel National News reports: The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Ambassador to the UN on Friday confirmed reports that the Palestinians are discussing a new draft UN resolution with Arab countries to confront Israel over its construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern
The Times of Israel reports: Senior Palestinian officials say that security talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel are currently focused on a proposal to halt all Israeli military activity in West Bank cities, in accordance with a schedule to
JERUSALEM – Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti (pictured), who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison, called on the Palestinians in a recent column to unite and turn the current wave of terror attacks into a “comprehensive intifada.” Barghouti, who
JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas defined all of Israel as an “occupation ” in an Arabic-language interview, contradicting comments he has made in the past to the Israeli media. Abbas, ostensibly Israel’s best option as a partner in peace talks,
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli and Palestinian officials reached an agreement on Wednesday to stop several days of rolling blackouts in the occupied West Bank over what Israel says is some $450 million in debt. Under the agreement, the Palestinian Authority would
JERUSALEM – A senior official from Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, called the United States “the number one enemy of the Palestinian people” in a recent television interview. Jamal Muhaisen, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, made the comments in an interview aired on official PA TV on March 23.
Haaretz reports: The Palestinian Authority is “on the brinks of collapse” if the current situation continues, PA President Mahmoud Abbas warned in an interview, broadcast Thursday night, with Channel 2 journalist Ilana Dayan. Abbas said he was insisting on continuing security
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian Authority school hosted a basketball game this month named after the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who perpetrated the worst terror attack in Israel’s history, killing 37, including 12 children. The Palestinian daily Al Quds, in an article translated
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority Security officers tore out the beard of a Muslim cleric over his criticism of the PA, according to Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation), a radical Islamist group which seeks to re-establish the “Islamic Caliphate.” The group
TEL AVIV – The bodies of Palestinian terrorists will no longer be returned to their families, in accordance with a new policy set by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu on Monday ordered Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon to halt the transfer of terrorists’
