Tag: anti-Israel violence

A district court in Sweden found three men guilty of attempted arson against the Jewish synagogue in Sweden’s second-largest city of Gothenburg last year.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Saturday criticized Israeli and international officials who called to open an investigation into the violence that broke out on Friday along the Gaza border fence, where 16 Palestinians were reported to have been killed, five of them Hamas operatives, and 1,400 injured during massive protests.

Ynetnews reports: Two Israeli soldiers were wounded early Wednesday morning, when in the course of demolishing the home of Hussein Abu Ghosh, one of the terrorists responsible for killing Shlomit Krigman in January. While the demolition was in progress, a violent

TEL AVIV – Following the IDF’s discovery of a Hamas attack tunnel, a private Israeli firm hired by Gaza-border communities may have found a second one in Israeli territory.

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli authorities on Tuesday were investigating a Jerusalem bus bombing that wounded 21 people and raised fears of a sharp escalation in violence, while police planned tightened security for the Jewish Passover holiday.

USA Today reports: JERUSALEM  — Nearly six months of non-stop Palestinian attacks are dampening prospects for an Easter tourism season that normally provides this historic region a big economic boost. Israel’s $10-billion-a-year tourism industry never fully recovered from the war with Hamas in the summer

Ynetnews reports:  A 30-year-old man was stabbed in the head and shoulder and moderately wounded on Tuesday afternoon at the entrance to Neve Daniel in Gush Etzion, in what bore all the signs of yet another terror attack targeting local

The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel will invest more in technology enabling it to gather intelligence on social media about potential “lone wolf” terrorists, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said on Wednesday. Erdan was speaking at a session at the third annual

The Jerusalem Post reports: In the past few weeks, pro-Palestinian activists have been waging an international campaign for the release of Ahmad Manasrah, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who stabbed two Israelis in a Jerusalem suburb in October. Manasrah carried out the

A cash reward for information that could lead to the capture of Nashat Melhem, the suspect in Friday’s deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv, was offered on Tuesday by Mazen Qaq, the head of the merchants’ committee in Jerusalem’s Old City.

TEL AVIV – A Michigan woman posted a video on YouTube defending Palestinian stabbing attacks against Jews and compared Jews to animals. In the Arabic-language video (watch it here) translated by MEMRI and titled “Is stabbing Jews haram [forbidden]?”, pro-Palestinian activist Lina Allan blasts Muslims who say that stabbing is “haram,” or forbidden under Islamic law, and tells such Muslims to “go back to watching Turkish soap operas.”

The shaming of Israel Police was withering and public on Sunday night and it just kept coming. A veteran crime reporter – one of the more recognizable faces on Israeli broadcast news – sent out a message to the WhatsApp group

To his family and residents of his village, 31-year-old Nashat Milhem is a mentally troubled young man who never gave any indication he would carry out an atrocity on the streets of Tel Aviv and become the subject of a

As searches for the gunman behind the fatal shooting in central Tel Aviv entered their second night Saturday, policemen deployed in force in the north of the city and concentrated their operations there, apparently believing that the killer could be hiding

Israel’s Welfare Minister says Palestinians “should go to Jordan, they don’t want peace and they manipulate our weakness,” Israeli website Arutz 7 reported. On Saturday, Chaim Katz (Likud) made the following comments about the two state solution: “The land of Israel

Campaigners from Jeremy Corbyn’s Stop the War Coalition have been rumbled after quietly deleting controversial articles from the group’s website, including some advocating war against Israel. Social media users pointed the finger after the organisation, which was chaired by the

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas referred to the last three months of violence Monday as a “justified popular uprising”. Abbas’s comments came as a new poll shows widespread Palestinian support for ongoing attacks on Israelis.

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says its aircraft struck a Hamas target in the Gaza Strip in response to two shooting incidents. The statement says the aircraft hit a military post belonging to the Islamic militant group that rules

Israel’s national broadcaster on Tuesday said Palestinian authorities had prevented a bomb attack on Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank, a report suggesting the strength of security ties despite public feuding over a two-month wave of unrest. Israel Radio

JERUSALEM – Israel closed the offices of a Palestinian radio station because of its ongoing incitement to murder Israelis, including airing songs with lyrics that include “blow up the executor’s innards” and “rise and strap yourself with bombs.” The Israel

TEL AVIV – Hamas is in the process of building a sophisticated network of tunnels beneath​ the Gaza Strip, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the ​issue speaking to Breitbart Jerusalem. The tunnel infrastructure mirrors ​the network built by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

JERUSALEM (AFP) – A Palestinian rammed his car into Israeli soldiers at a bus station in the occupied West Bank Friday before being shot dead, police said. “A Palestinian car hit two Israelis standing by a bus station (near Kfar Adumim). The

The Israeli military believes the current wave of lethal violence with Palestinians, which has claimed over 100 lives on both sides in the last two months, will continue in the coming months amid the risk of a further serious escalation.

The Shin Bet security service on Wednesday published the transcript of an interrogation of two cousins aged 11 and 14 from East Jerusalem who went on a stabbing rampage two weeks ago and wounded a light rail security guard. The

Two stabbing terror attacks were thwarted in the West Bank on Sunday morning when a 16-year-old Palestinian girl tried to stab Israelis near Itamar and a Palestinian taxi driver tried to stab an Israeli man after failing to run over

Barack Obama and his administration do not care about Jews. It doesn’t matter whether the Jews are European or Israeli or American

The United States said on Thursday it was “disappointed” that an Israeli riot policeman was sentenced to community service, and not prison, for beating an American teenager of Palestinian descent last year, claiming there was clear evidence excessive force was used.

A lone gunman opened fire on an Israeli car from inside his own vehicle in a West Bank attack today. The Israeli military said the driver fled the scene and “intentionally” rammed his vehicle into a group of pedestrians. The military said

TEL AVIV — At a memorial honoring Palestinian terrorist Muhamm​ad Halabi, 19, who killed two men in Jerusalem on October 3, an official from the ruling Palestinian Fatah party said he “salutes the soul of [the] martyr who detonated the

JERUSALEM – Sarah Tehiye Litman, whose wedding was postponed ​for a week ​after ​a Palestinian terrorist shot and killed her father and brother last Friday​, has invited the entire country to celebrate her nuptials in Jerusalem. “This evening, instead of wearing the bridal dress,

An article published in The New York Times equates an Israeli anti-terror children’s game to Palestinian praise of a woman who attempted to murder an Israeli civilian.

JERUSALEM – In a bid to curb an ongoing wave of knife, gun and car-ramming attacks against Israeli citizens, Israeli security forces have used excessive force and may have carried out summary executions, UN experts claimed on Monday. “Cases of

India has warned of Islamic State (IS) using regional militant groups to mount strikes in the country, and has increased security around the diplomatic missions of the United States, France, Israel and Britain among others, a government advisory said. The

On Monday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) applauded the House of Representatives for passing a bipartisan resolution condemning the Palestinian Authority (PA) for incitement.