Israeli authorities who have faced a wave of lone-wolf attacks by Palestinians say they have made progress in identifying potential assailants in advance, a challenge now also confronting Western nations.
On any given day a strategically vital installation in the IDF’s Southern Command bristles with activity. From here, the military keeps a close watch on the Gaza Strip, and from here, all of Israel’s firepower will be managed in the event of another war with Hamas.
Critics of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians are protesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order prohibiting state investments in any company that support a boycott of Israel.
The former head of the IDF Home Front Command warned Tuesday that in a future war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel could be pounded with over 1,000 rockets a day, far more than the country has endured in any past conflict.
The graduation ceremony for the Islamic Al-Hoda kindergarten in Gaza featured “children, clad in Islamic Jihad fatigues, demonstrated the planting of anti-tank mines, the killing and kidnapping of enemy soldiers, the launching of mortars, and more,” according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
The Jerusalem Post reports: A suspected terrorist on Thursday afternoon attempted to stab Israeli forces stationed near Einav, an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank, the IDF Spokesperson’s Office reported.
The Times of Israel reports: A Labour activist who was suspended from the British party for claiming that Jews were “chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade” has been readmitted to its ranks.
Ynetnews reports: The Hamas cell that carried out the suicide attack on the Jerusalem public bus contained six militants and intended to carry out a series of terrorist attacks in and around Jerusalem, including suicide, shooting, and car-bombing attacks, it has been revealed in the Shin Bet investigation.
Ynetnews reports: On April 6, a man from Gaza named Mahmoud Atauna infiltrated Israel. The feat didn’t take a great deal of effort or resourcefulness; all he needed to do was jump over a barbed wire fence and then crawl under a second fence.
The Gaza-based, al-Qaida-inspired militant group Ajnad Beit Almaqdes (Soldiers of Jerusalem) claimed responsibility for Wednesday night’s rocket fire on Israel, which triggered an Israel Air Force retaliation.
The Times of Israel reports: Security forces thwarted a terror attack in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon, when they arrested a Palestinian minor in possession of a knife who admitted during interrogation that he planned to carry out a stabbing, Israel Police said in a statement.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Madhat Bin Fuzi Abu Snina from Gaza was indicted on Sunday, accused of a range of security offenses including planting explosives at IDF positions and firing rockets into Israel.
The Jerusalem Post reports: A rocket alert siren sounded in the Eshkol Regional Council on the border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
Sgt. Elor Azaria, an IDF soldier charged with manslaughter after shooting dead a neutralized Palestinian terrorist in Hebron, was released from detention on Friday morning.
In recent weeks the Investigative Project on Terrorism has emphasized the difference between Israeli and Palestinian reactions to violent attacks.
Ynetnews reports: Racheli Dadon was desperately looking for her daughter, 15-year-old Eden, after the bombing on bus number 12 in Jerusalem on Monday, “when I found her, I saw that he entire body was burned.” Police investigation found that an explosive
JERUSALEM — Israeli rescue service says a bus has exploded in the heart of Jerusalem, wounding at least 10. Monday’s blast comes amid a wave of Palestinian attacks on Israelis, mostly stabbings, and immediately raises fears of a return to
JAFFA, Israel – The Palestinian Authority arrested three men suspected of plotting to carry out an attack in Israel, leading to a backlash on social media. The three suspects, who were reported missing by their families, were arrested after an eight-day manhunt. The
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) celebrated on Thursday, at exactly 5:16pm, five years since the first rocket interception by the Iron Dome system. It began with the historic interception of a rocket fired from northern Gaza towards an Ashkelon neighborhood,
The Jerusalem Post reports: An explosive device was detonated early Friday morning during a routine operation in the Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported from the blast. Initial reports show that during a planned operation near the security fence in northern
JERUSALEM – Israel’s cyber security community is bracing for a coordinated global attack by the hacker group Anonymous, scheduled to take place on Thursday, April 7. An annual campaign, #OpIsrael began in 2013 on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Its goal, according to Techcrunch, was
TEL AVIV – TIME magazine on Sunday corrected an article depicting a Palestinian terrorist who murdered three Israelis as a victim of Israeli security forces, the Times of Israel reported. The article, titled “The Desperation Driving Young Palestinians to Violence,” included a report on an October 13 terror attack in Jerusalem in which two Palestinian terrorists boarded an Egged bus and began shooting and stabbing passengers.
TEL AVIV – Psychological disorders are a recurring phenomenon behind attacks by Palestinian “lone wolf” terrorists – many of whom enter Israel legally using a family reunification law, Israeli security agency Shin Bet said on Wednesday.
Ynetnews reports: Two attackers stabbed and moderately-to-seriously wounded a female IDF soldier on Thursday morning near Ariel. The attack occurred next to the transportation station at the square at the entrance to Ariel, which is used by hundreds of Palestinians and
Three Palestinians carried out two attacks — a shooting and a car-ramming — on Israelis in the southern occupied West Bank on Monday before they were shot dead, the Israeli army said. “Two assailants opened fire at pedestrians waiting at
The Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds chose International Women’s Day as the perfect occasion to hail the work of female terrorists. The paper said they should be lauded as examples of the full flowering of Palestinian womenhood.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The security cabinet late Thursday night approved the immediate renewal of construction work on the security barrier around the area of Jerusalem, in an effort to halt Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis. It was one of
The Jerusalem Post reports: “Choose love, not hate” Lakin Avni told US Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday as he urged him to push the Obama administration to clamp down on Palestinian terrorism. “The American government is funding [Palestinian Authority
An Israeli busker has become a local celebrity after smashing his guitar over the head of a Palestinian terrorist on a fatal stabbing rampage along the Tel Aviv seafront. Yishai Montgomery, 26, has been dubbed the “guitar hero” by Israeli
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party praised the murder of an American tourist in Jaffa on Tuesday, calling the terrorist a “heroic martyr,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. On its official Facebook page, Fatah posted a sketch
TEL AVIV – The head of the far-left Israeli NGO Peace Now blasted a stabbing victim’s act of self-defense in a terror attack on Tuesday, calling it an “extrajudicial killing.” Yariv Oppenheimer took to Twitter to condemn terror victim Yonatan Azarihab, who was stabbed multiple times in a store in Petah Tikva before he managed to pull the terrorist’s knife from his own neck and use it to stab and eventually kill his attacker.
The Jerusalem Post reports: MKs from all coalition parties and some in the opposition signed a bill that would deport terrorists’ family members to Gaza, which Knesset House Committee David Bitan (Likud) submitted Wednesday. The idea for the bill came
TEL AVIV – Two Israelis assisted in subduing terrorists from Tuesday’s rampage in improbable ways – the first by pulling the attacker’s knife from his own neck and stabbing him with it; and the second, in a separate attack, by
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sent a condolence letter to the family of a Palestinian terrorist killed on Friday, writing that the terrorist was “a martyr who quenched the land of Palestine with her pure soul.” Amani Hosni
A Palestinian civilian was seriously wounded in a combined vehicular and shooting attack near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate. Two terrorists from Kafr Aqab in East Jerusalem tried to run over policemen and civilians near the Jerusalem light rail’s stop nearby.
The United States on Tuesday condemned a shooting and stabbing spree in Tel Aviv that killed an American tourist and left 12 people wounded. “The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today’s outrageous terrorist attacks in Jaffa, Petah
The Times of Israel reports: The Hamas terror group praised a series of attacks across Israel on Tuesday that left a US tourist dead and 14 Israelis injured. In the wake of a deadly stabbing spree in Jaffa and Tel Aviv,
The Jerusalem Post reports: The IDF on Tuesday night imposed a blockade on the West Bank villages of the Palestinian terrorists who carried out stabbing attacks earlier in the day in the Israeli cities of Jaffa and Petah Tikva. Also
The Times of Israel reports: Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday night pledged “total, unvarnished commitment” to the security of Israel, having arrived in the country in the midst of a spate of terror attacks. Biden landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in
The Jerusalem Post reports: Three Israelis were wounded in separate terror attacks that occurred within minutes of each other in Jerusalem and Petah Tikva on Tuesday. Two Israelis were wounded in a shooting attack targeting security forces near Damascus Gate