
TEL AVIV – The United States has been promoting former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as a potential successor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a source in the Palestinian president’s office told Breitbart Jerusalem. The source said Abbas’ aides
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked6 Jan 2016, 12:31 PM PST0

TEL AVIV – An al-Qaeda affiliate in the Gaza Strip has claimed responsibility for Friday’s rocket attack on Israel.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked4 Jan 2016, 2:39 PM PST0

TEL AVIV – Amid concerns that Jews might purchase property in Jordan, the head of the country’s lands administration affirmed that current law bars Israelis from doing so.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked4 Jan 2016, 4:06 AM PST0

TEL AVIV – Friday’s shooting attack in Tel Aviv has fascinated Gaza’s Salafi jihadists, with one top Islamic State-aligned militant rejoicing at the possibility that the perpetrator was inspired by IS ideology. “We hope it will emerge that the brother who carried out the
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked3 Jan 2016, 5:06 AM PST0

TEL AVIV – Hamas police in Gaza have banned New Year’s parties in restaurants and hotels throughout the Strip.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked31 Dec 2015, 9:52 AM PST0

TEL AVIV – The Pentagon has reportedly denied Russian media claims that a top Islamic State commander was captured by American troops, while Kurdish security officials told the Al Hayat newspaper the commander was indeed seized over the weekend.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked29 Dec 2015, 5:25 PM PST0

TEL AVIV – Hamas sources told Breitbart Jerusalem that the group’s chief, Khaled Mashaal, has been invited to Tehran by the Iranian government for the first time since 2011.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked28 Dec 2015, 1:26 PM PST0

TEL AVIV – Breitbart Jerusalem conducted an exclusive interview with a leader of the up-and-coming Iran-backed militia in the Gaza Strip, calling itself Al-Sabireen.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked27 Dec 2015, 6:05 PM PST0

TEL AVIV – Islamic Jihad sources told Breitbart Jerusalem that the movement has been suspending payments to its activists for three months.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked27 Dec 2015, 1:10 AM PST0

JERUSALEM – Hamas leader Khaled Mashal was denied entry to Jordan, a diplomatic source in Amman told Breitbart Jerusalem. Mashal made an official request earlier this month to visit the country and meet with King Abdullah, which was recently declined,
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked24 Dec 2015, 4:07 AM PST0

JERUSALEM – In addition to an up-front bonus of $4,000, the Islamic State is promising new recruits free housing and even matchmaking assistance for those interested in getting married, Breitbart Jerusalem has learned.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked24 Dec 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

TEL AVIV – Hamas and Salafists in the Gaza Strip who adhere to the ideology of the Islamic State are in the process of negotiating a cold truce that would see jailed Salafists released from Hamas prisons in exchange for a cessation of rocket fire from Gaza.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked21 Dec 2015, 3:42 PM PST0

JERUSALEM – The United Nations’ Middle East envoy Nikolay Mladenov met with Hamas officials during a visit to the Gaza Strip on Monday, Breitbart Jerusalem has learned from sources with inside knowledge of the meeting.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked18 Dec 2015, 1:28 PM PST0

EILAT, Israel – An Islamic State militant writing in a closed encrypted instant messaging group joked that the terrorist organization should ask beverage companies to serve as corporate sponsors for the group’s next major attack. The jest was made at the expense
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked17 Dec 2015, 3:01 AM PST0

JERUSALEM – In recent weeks, at least twenty members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the so-called “military wing” of Hamas, have traveled abroad from the Gaza Strip to participate in combat training, according to a Palestinian security source.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked15 Dec 2015, 3:12 AM PST0

TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia has arrested four Americans accused of joining the Islamic State, sources told the country’s Al Jazirah newspaper. The paper, one of four leading daily publications in the kingdom, reported on Sunday that the Americans were arrested as part of a broader anti-terrorist operation in which a total of 377 people have been detained over the past 57 days on suspicion of joining ISIS.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked14 Dec 2015, 3:08 PM PST0

JERUSALEM – The Islamic State may want Western and moderate Arab countries to send ground troops to Syria, because it believes an apocalyptic battle is necessary to fulfill an end-of-days prophecy of total Muslim conquest.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked13 Dec 2015, 6:01 PM PST0

TEL AVIV – Hamas in the Gaza Strip has been hard at work attempting to manufacture rockets capable of reaching Tel Aviv. It has also shared its rocket-making capabilities with other terrorist organizations in the coastal enclave, according to security sources here familiar with the matter.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked12 Dec 2015, 2:02 PM PST0

TEL AVIV – Palestinian terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip have recently expelled dozens of members for supporting the Islamic State, illustrating ISIS’ rising popularity in the Palestinian coastal enclave.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked11 Dec 2015, 3:03 AM PST0

TEL AVIV – Palestinian terrorist organizations did not take kindly to Donald Trump’s call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked8 Dec 2015, 2:43 PM PST0

TEL AVIV – In interviews with Breitbart Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad each rejected U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s assertion that Israel will become a binational state if the so-called two-state solution is not implemented.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked7 Dec 2015, 6:25 AM PST0

TEL AVIV – Hamas was not amused with reports presidential candidate Ben Carson pronounced their name like the Mediterranean chickpea dish “hummus” during a forum Thursday hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked5 Dec 2015, 12:35 PM PST0

TEL AVIV–An encrypted instant messaging service that serves as a Twitter of sorts for Islamic State fighters and their Islamist militant supporters has been ablaze with speculation about Wednesday’s mass shooting inside a California learning disability center.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked3 Dec 2015, 1:28 AM PST0

The Russian air force is carrying out increased airstrikes to aid a Syrian military campaign aimed at devastating rebel positions along the Syria-Turkey border, an official from Syria’s Ministry of Information told Breitbart Jerusalem.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked1 Dec 2015, 11:42 AM PST0

TEL AVIV – In the first such visit in 35 years, the head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church attended the funeral of a local bishop in Jerusalem, sparking controversy in Egypt for Pope Tawadros and his decision to enter the Jewish state.
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked30 Nov 2015, 5:53 AM PST0