TEL AVIV – Hamas illegally siphoned off tens of millions of dollars of aid money from the U.S. and Europe to build terror tunnels and fund weapons purchases, the Shin Bet security service said Thursday.
The Times of Israel reports: Cairo is fuming over increasing cooperation between the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and Islamic State-affiliated forces in the neighboring Sinai Peninsula, The Times of Israel has learned, despite attempts in
TEL AVIV – The accusations that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not deal with the threat of Hamas’ terror tunnels prior to the 2014 summer conflict are baseless, his office said late Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Gaza-based terror group Hamas has uploaded a promotional video for a military training summer camp that promises to make “strong and powerful heroes” out of Palestinian teenagers willing to wage “Jihad for the sake of Allah.”
Nearly 40 Syrian soldiers and pro-regime fighters were killed when rebels blew up a tunnel under a government position in Aleppo city, a monitor said Friday.
The Gaza-based Hamas terrorist group appears to branching into the field of local tourism, turning underground tunnels constructed to carry out cross-border attacks on Israeli communities into the latest summer attraction for Gazan youth.
Israeli authorities announced Tuesday that they had made a number of key arrests of Palestinian suspects who shed light on Hamas’s efforts to smuggle money to its operatives in the West Bank and its continued efforts to dig tunnels in Gaza.
Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups on Saturday vowed a tough reaction to reported plans by Israel to build an underground cement barrier along the Gaza border.
TEL AVIV – A senior member of Hamas’ armed wing who is reportedly an expert on the terror group’s tunnels has defected to Israel, rival group Fatah reported.
Israel said late Sunday it was lifting a ban imposed last month on private imports of cement to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
TEL AVIV – The Israel Defense Forces has no intention to escalate the situation along the Israel-Gaza border but it will continue operations to detect and destroy Hamas terror tunnels, IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said om Sunday.
The Times of Israel reports: Israeli officials said Saturday they would continue operations to uncover and destroy cross-border attack tunnels in the Gaza Strip over the coming weeks, even as Israel and Hamas sought to calm tensions along the frontier.
The leader of Hamas in Gaza said on Friday the Islamist group was “not calling for war” with Israel, and that Egypt and other parties were working behind the scenes to defuse the worst flare-up in violence since a 2014 conflict.
Haaretz reports: A Hamas member was arrested by Israel last month after crossing the border fence with two knives, the Shin Bet revealed on Thursday.
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.
Apparently fearing Israeli retaliation, Hamas has evacuated its offices in Gaza following Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem, according to multiple Hamas sources.
TEL AVIV – Hamas will pay a heavy price if war breaks out again, the GOC Southern Command, Maj.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, warned after the discovery of an attack tunnel was announced on Monday.
The Hamas Ministry of the Interior in Gaza on Monday announced that five men have been sentenced to death for collaborating with Israel, as the Islamist organization was reeling from an Israeli announcement that one of its attack tunnels had been discovered and destroyed.
The fact that Hamas risked digging a terror tunnel into Israel – as the IDF announced on Monday – shows that Gaza’s Islamist leaders are preparing for the possibility of war with the Jewish state.
JERUSALEM – At least two Hamas terrorists were killed on Sunday when a tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian media cited conflicting death tolls, with some reports saying as many as five operatives were killed in the collapse. The
JERUSALEM – Israel announced that it will stop allowing cement into the Gaza Strip after it discovered Hamas is using the material to rebuild its terror tunnels. The material’s original purpose was to help reconstruct homes damaged or destroyed in Israel’s 2014 war with
TEL AVIV – Three Palestinians were critically wounded and five others declared missing after a terror tunnel collapsed underneath the town of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian press reported on Saturday. The incident marks the tenth such
TEL AVIV – Israel’s head of Military Intelligence warned that deteriorating conditions in Gaza endanger Israel’s security amid threats by members of Hamas that another outbreak of violence is on the horizon if an exit route isn’t provided, Ynet reported.
TEL AVIV – When it comes to the possibility of Israel taking defensive military action to destroy Hamas’s system of newly constructed and refurbished terror tunnels, it is not a question of “if” but “when,” posited Breitbart‘s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior
TEL AVIV – Utilizing critical Iranian funds, Hamas has pressed on with completing the restoration of its network of tunnels, including those reaching into Israeli territory, a top Hamas diplomatic source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Hamas has been having a difficult two days. First seven of its fighters were killed two days ago while reconstructing a terror tunnel that collapsed in the northeast section of Gaza City.
EILAT, Israel – Hamas’ military wing confirmed Thursday afternoon that at least seven of its fighters were killed in a tunnel that collapsed in the northeast section of Gaza City. The dead are members of a Hamas commando unit, which was tasked
TEL AVIV – The Gaza-based terror group Hamas has rehabilitated itself with cross-border terror tunnels and rocket firing systems, and is ready for a new round of hostilities, a senior defense official said Friday. “Hamas in Gaza has recovered, and (its
A Palestinian terror group has asked Iran for money–in public, on Iranian television. The terror group, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, is linked to the “moderate” Fatah organization headed by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas. Separately, Abbas has announced that he plans to visit Iran in November.
