
According to a diplomatic source speaking to Palestinian Ma’an news, Egyptian officials told Israeli security forces to “hold their aggression” and restrain their response to recent rocket attacks coming from the Gaza Strip.
by Michael Lucchese28 May 2015, 1:18 PM PST0

The Gaza-ruling Islamist terror group Hamas utilized their 2014 summer war against Israel to execute innocent Palestinians, according to a new report from Amnesty International, a human rights NGO.
by Jordan Schachtel27 May 2015, 11:18 AM PST0

Egyptian Army officials revealed on Monday that Cairo forces have found and destroyed over 500 tunnels that connect from Egypt to the Gaza Strip.
by Jordan Schachtel26 May 2015, 10:06 AM PST0

Ynet News reports the terrorist gang Hamas has imposed a new import tax on “non-essential” items imported into the Gaza Strip. “The announcement has local merchants fuming, with some threatening to cease imports into Gaza altogether,” writes Ynet.
by John Hayward25 May 2015, 12:46 PM PST0

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told citizens in his country this week that Muslims need to assert dominance over Jerusalem.
by Mary Chastain18 May 2015, 5:03 AM PST0

Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a jihadist group formally affiliated with the Islamic State, has claimed responsibility for two mortar shells launched at Hamas targets in Gaza. The attack follows a growing war of words triggered by mass arrests of ISIS supporters by the Palestinian terror group.
by Frances Martel8 May 2015, 9:42 AM PST0

A group calling itself Supporters of the Islamic State in Jerusalem has continued to challenge the Gaza-ruling Palestinian entity Hamas. The ISIS-linked Salafists are attempting to stir enough discontent in the Palestinian territory to pose a challenge to the rival jihadi outfit.
by Jordan Schachtel5 May 2015, 9:47 AM PST0

Jimmy Carter blames Netanyahu for failure of Mideast peace negotiations; European Union in disarray over big surge in migrants this weekend; Saudi Arabia denies reports of Saudi ground troops in Yemen
by John J. Xenakis4 May 2015, 6:28 AM PST0

Hamas, the radical Islamist entity which rules the Gaza Strip, carried out mass beatings and arrests to shut down a protest on Wednesday.
by Jordan Schachtel30 Apr 2015, 12:38 PM PST0

Israeli tanks fired upon a “terror site” in north Gaza in retaliation for an unprovoked rocket attack from the Palestinian territory into southern Israel late Thursday.
by Jordan Schachtel24 Apr 2015, 10:42 AM PST0

Iran has sought to take advantage of a discord between the military and political wings of Hamas, with hopes to further expand Tehran’s sphere of influence into the thick of battles between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group.
by Jordan Schachtel23 Apr 2015, 5:24 PM PST0

Palestinian factions ‘unity’ talks in crisis, near collapse; ISIS and Yemen force yet another realignment of the Mideast
by John J. Xenakis23 Apr 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin have declined a request to meet former Democratic President Jimmy Carter when he is due to visit Israel in the next few weeks.
by Jordan Schachtel21 Apr 2015, 9:02 PM PST0

Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip, has taken to using sophisticated machinery to rapidly build up its tunnel network into Israel, according to sources who told the Times of Israel.
by Jordan Schachtel16 Apr 2015, 9:35 AM PST0

The Hamas leadership in Gaza has been unable to rebuild any of the homes destroyed in last summer’s war with Israel, but the terrorist group has had little trouble using heavy machinery to restore its vast tunnel networks that can be used in future attacks.
by The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)15 Apr 2015, 1:36 PM PST0

Gaza prepares for all-out war with Israel; Iran and Qatar give Hamas money and weapons to fight Israel; Israel prepares for war with Hamas in Gaza; Greece denies reports that it’s preparing for a default
by John J. Xenakis14 Apr 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Hamas is allowing Sinai-based jihadists who were wounded in battles against the Egyptian military to get treated at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, according to a recent report by Israel’s Channel 2 News.
by Jordan Schachtel10 Apr 2015, 11:11 AM PST0

The hacker group Anonymous released a message this week threatening to unleash an “electronic Holocaust” — yes, they used that word — on Israel, just a week before Holocaust Remembrance Day.
by John Hayward31 Mar 2015, 12:16 PM PST0

Palestinian terrorist groups committed international war crimes by indiscriminately firing rockets in attempts to kill Jewish Israeli civilians during the summer 2014 war between Israel and Hamas, Amnesty International alleges in a new report published on Thursday.
by Jordan Schachtel26 Mar 2015, 2:36 PM PST0

Yemen suicide bombings bring sectarian civil war closer; Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘no Palestinian state’ scandal exposes political fantasies
by John J. Xenakis21 Mar 2015, 8:00 AM PST0

For the benefit of anyone wondering why Israeli voters are still concerned about security, despite Team Obama and its pet media insisting they are surrounded by nothing but constructive, well-meaning partners in peace, the Middle East Media Research Institute brings us a lovely musical performance by a couple of child rap singers at a Hamas rally in Gaza.
by John Hayward18 Mar 2015, 2:06 PM PST0

The Associated Press used Palestinian children as props in staged photos meant to portray Israel negatively in its investigation into the Israel-Hamas war last summer and did not reveal to its readers that the photos were contrived, Richard Behar and Gary Weiss of the Observer write in their rebuttal of the investigation’s results.
by Jordan Schachtel11 Mar 2015, 11:57 AM PST0

The Al-Qassam Brigades, which is the military wing of Palestinian terror group Hamas, has pledged that it will continue to attempt abductions of IDF soldiers in hopes of freeing Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons.
by Jordan Schachtel10 Mar 2015, 7:26 AM PST0

Libya’s two rival governments in unity talks to fight ISIS; UAE may replace Saudis as Egypt’s most important Arab ally; Boko Haram kills 58 in multiple bombings in Maiduguri, Nigeria; Boko Haram declares allegiance to ISIS
by John J. Xenakis8 Mar 2015, 9:03 AM PST0

Here’s something I once wrote on BBC Bias. On any given subject you know exactly what the BBC’s line will be. If it’s covering the Middle East it will be bigging up the gallant Hezbollah freedom fighters and the plucky
by James Delingpole2 Mar 2015, 5:45 AM PST0