TEL AVIV – The Army of Islam, a Gaza-based Salafi organization that was involved in the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, is attempting to become the Islamic State’s sole representative in Gaza and the West Bank, according to militant Salafi sources in Gaza close to the organization.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Yehiyeh Ayash, the man known as “The Engineer,” was one of the founders of the Izzadin Kassam Brigades, which is the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. He was also one of the masterminds
Ynetnews.com reports: Three ultra-Orthodox Jews were attacked in London by a group of anti-Semites on Wednesday evening, who threw gas cylinders at them and shouted “Hitler is on the way.” The attackers fled, and no one was hurt in the incident.
The Jerusalem Post reported: A prominent Israeli campaigner for Palestinian rights was recorded saying that he helps Palestinian authorities find and kill Palestinians who sell land to Jews. The recording was aired Thursday by the television program Uvda of Israel’s Channel
An online pamphlet of unknown origin purporting to represent the Islamic State surfaced Saturday on numerous social media accounts belonging to Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.
Ynetnews reports: A day after the week-long manhunt for Nashat Melhem ended with his death in Arara, details began to emerge about where he hid during that time and who may have helped him. Alongside the operation to catch Melhem,
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Palestinian Authority, Hamas and other Palestinian groups declared Nashat Milhem a shaheed (martyr). The PA Ministry of Health initially added Milhem, who is an Israeli citizen, to its list of “martyrs” who were killed by Israelis
Ynetnews reports: “It’s our only solace, and the happy thing is that none of our own were scratched in the raid. I had no doubt that they’d reach him.” So said Dudu Bakal, whose son Alon Bakal was murdered by
Despite some international criticism, Israel remains steadfast in its policy of demolishing the homes of terrorists as a creative effort to deter terrorism. Ynetnews reports: The home of Muhannad Halabi, who carried out a deadly stabbing attack in Jerusalem in October, was
Ynetnews reports: An attempted stabbing attack was foiled early Saturday morning when IDF soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians who tried to attack them with knives at the Beqaot checkpoint in the northern West Bank. The two soldiers, part of
Unidentified gunmen have commenced an assault on a hotel in the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada, in Egypt, injuring at least two foreigners thus far.
A string of car bombings and other terrorist actions was topped off with a massive truck bomb that killed 47 people at a police training center in the western town of Zliten, Libya today.
Bassem al-Agha, the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, reiterated his governing body’s support for Riyadh in the latest diplomatic flareup between the Saudis and the regime in Iran.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi celebrated Christmas with Coptic Christians, issuing a speech in which he pledged to rebuild churches torn down by Islamists.
TEL AVIV – One week after carrying out a deadly shooting attack at a Tel Aviv pub, the suspected gunmen, Nashat Melhem, was killed after raising a weapon to police forces in his hometown in northern Israel on Friday.
Ynetnews reports: Police deployed in large numbers in Tel Aviv and its environs on Friday following a security assessment, exactly one week after a terrorist murdered three people in the heart of the city. Police stopped cars and requested drivers’ IDs.
An alleged plan by two Hamas-linked young men to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a suicide bombing was revealed on Friday when indictments were served against the East Jerusalem residents.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Acclaimed American journalist Dan Rather, former anchor of the CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes, is visiting Israel this week to “show this important land” to his grandson. Though details surrounding the trip were sparse, Rather
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel has asked the Palestinian Authority security forces to help find Nashat Milhem – wanted for the murder of three people in a shooting spree in Tel Aviv last Friday – a Palestinian security official in
The Times of Israel reported: Naftali Bennett has a bit of a cold when he sits down for an interview with The Times of Israel in his Knesset office on Monday. He may have caught it a day earlier, when
The Jerusalem Post reported: The Counter-Terrorism Bureau posted travel warnings to several African states on Thursday, following an increase in the scope of terrorist attacks on the continent. The bureau, a part of the Prime Minister’s Office, said that after a
HEBRON – The morning Gennady Kaufman, a gardener at the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in the heart of Hebron, was stabbed, I was showing an Australian journalist around the Jewish part of Hebron – the 3 percent of
JAFFA, Israel – The twentieth anniversary of the targeted assassination of top Hamas explosives expert Yahya Ayyash was marked in the Palestinian Territories on Tuesday. It was also marked on Twitter, with a #Ayyash_is_coming hashtag that reached more than 26
TEL AVIV – The Islamic State is claiming responsibility for an attack Thursday on a hotel in Cairo and a nearby tour bus waiting to pick up a tour group consisting of Israeli Arabs.
The Jews are behind a rising tide of anti-Islamic sentiment in America, the director of a Washington, D.C. mosque told an Iranian state-controlled media outlet on Thursday.
A video posted by TimeOut Tel Aviv of Jewish and Arab Israelis kissing has disappeared from Facebook, only hours after it went up in what was a response to the Education Ministry’s decision to disqualify a book about a Jewish-Arab love affair.
