Abe Katsman

Israel has been pounded by well over 100 rockets from Gaza in just the past 24 hours.  Air raid sirens have gone off even in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. What is Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, up to? How

The BBC has investigated, and found inaccurate, numerous graphic images which are being shared on social media to show how people in Gaza have been affected by the renewed tensions with Israel. Hamas has been firing hundreds of rockets from

Israel launched a series of airstrikes on Gaza militants early on Tuesday, dubbing the offensive “Operation Protective Edge.” More than 50 targets were hit in the offensive, according to Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. Meanwhile, rocket fire on Israel’s south continued. Militants

Gaza Palestinians on Monday fired an anti-tank missile, rockets and bursts of gunfire at Israel Defense Forces troops patrolling along the border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, reports The Times of Israel. One soldier was wounded by shrapnel from a

Reuters on Tuesday published figures showing that Iran has, for the eighth straight month, violated crude export restrictions set by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) agreement. Reuters cited experts suggesting that the Obama administration has been deliberately looking the other

As well-publicised bouts of Islamist violence plague the Middle East, concern about Islamic extremism is high among countries with substantial Muslim populations, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. Lebanese, Tunisians, Egyptians, Jordanians and Turks are all more

In response to recent rocket barrages against Israel’s southern towns, the Israeli Air Force struck 34 targets in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, carrying out “precision strikes” against Hamas and Islamic Jihad structures, reports The Times of Israel. Following some

Over 20 rockets fired from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip slammed into Israel early Monday morning, reports Israeli news site Ynet. The rocket attacks follow increasingly violent days in Israel’s south which have seen a rocket destroy an Israeli factory and

Israel’s National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen and Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz will travel to Washington over the weekend to press Israel’s concern about a “bad” nuclear deal with Iran, reports The Jerusalem Post. The Islamic Republic and the western powers

A clear majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip oppose a two-state solution to end their struggle with Israel, according to a poll released on Wednesday, commissioned by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Sixty percent

The Hamas abduction of three Israeli teenagers last week has elicited impressive solidarity all across Israeli society. But Israelis are also paying close attention to the reactions from near and far to this terror crime, and they are not impressed.

Palestinian sources in Gaza said Hamas’s internal security forces arrested the terror cell responsible for firing rockets at southern Israel Monday and Tuesday, reports The Times of Israel. The identity of the group is as yet unknown. However, it apparently belonged

The Israeli military has discovered dozens of suspected terror tunnels and weapons laboratories in the Hebron area during Operation Brother’s Keeper, the operation to find three teen boys kidnapped by Hamas, reports Israeli news site Ynet. Members of Israel’s elite engineering unit

The Jerusalem Post reports that Jibril Rajoub, a senior Fatah official and former Palestinian Authority security commander in the West Bank, said on Thursday that Israel “understands only the language of abductions.” Referring to the kidnapping of the three Israeli

Israel fears that a jihadist offensive that has conquered large areas of Iraq may prompt American concessions to arch-foe Iran, reports Israel National News. “If Washington needs Tehran’s help to solve the Iraq crisis, the United States will need to be more flexible in

Since news broke of the kidnapping of three Israeli teens, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have been handing out sweets in the streets to passersby and rejoicing at the IDF’s unsuccessful efforts to find the boys, reports the Jerusalem

An Israel Defense Forces Spokesman said Wednesday morning that, as part of the large-scale intelligence and operational activities undertaken in order to locate three abducted teens, security forces have arrested about 65 wanted men. Of these, 51 were among those

As fallout from the continuing crisis regarding the three kidnapped Israeli teens, which Israel has blamed on Islamic terror group Hamas, the Times of Israel reports that the Palestinian Authority has stopped taking steps in the reconciliation process with Hamas

The Israel Defence Forces arrested over 40 Hamas operatives in the West Bank, including a senior Palestinian lawmaker, as a search for three missing Israeli teens believed to have been abducted and a crackdown on the Islamist group continued overnight

Islamist terrorists in Iraq and Syria have begun creeping toward neighboring countries, sources close to the Islamic fundamentalists revealed this week, according to a report from the Gatestone Institute. The terrorists, who belong to The Islamic State of Iraq and

A leaked audio recording of chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat harshly criticising Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas exposed severe fissures within the Palestinian leadership, and showed profound disdain by Erekat for his president, reports The Times of Israel. In the video,

The United States condemned a Wednesday rocket attack from Gaza on southern Israel, but maintained that it wasn’t ready to hold the new Palestinian unity government responsible for the attack, reports Israeli news site Ynet. “We condemn all rocket fire

Terror groups are now pointing well over a hundred thousand missiles at Israel, a top IDF officer told listeners at the Herzliya Conference, as reported by Israel National News. Itai Brun, director of research in the Israel Defense Forces Intelligence branch, said

Israel’s plain-spoken Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Tuesday gave a wide-ranging assessment of security challenges facing Israel, reports The Jerusalem Post.   Speaking at the Herzliya Conference, Israel’s foremost annual global policy gathering, Ya’alon was skeptical of the recent Hamas-Fatah Palestinian

In a wide-ranging address, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz spoke about the gamut of security challenges to Israel on Monday morning at the Herzliya Conference, reports The Times of Israel and Israel National News. The conference, hosted