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In the largest operation of the year, Israeli security forces seized dozens of weapons, confiscated equipment and made arrests in Hebron and Bethlehem early Tuesday morning as part of an ongoing effort to crack down on illegal guns in the West Bank, an IDF official said.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian man has been fired from his job for the crime of saving the Jewish children of a West Bank rabbi after the latter was killed in a terror attack.

A 21-year-old civil engineering student from the West Bank’s Hebron University attempted to carry out a mass-casualty bombing attack on Jerusalem’s light rail last month to exact revenge for Jewish visitation to the Temple Mount, police said on Tuesday.

Israel’s security forces overnight killed the Hamas terrorist who murdered Rabbi Miki Mark in a July 1 shooting attack in the West Bank.

The High Court gave the go-ahead Sunday for the Israel Defense Forces to demolish the homes of the two Palestinian terrorists accused of carrying out a shooting attack in central Tel Aviv last month, killing four people and injuring 41.

An Israeli soldier facing manslaughter charges for killing an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in March will testify in his defense for the first time on Sunday, in a trial that has divided Israelis.

A soldier peered around the corner of a concrete building. “We can go this way,” he said to his comrade standing behind him. The terrorists were in a building in the next yard, 50 meters away. Their commander thought the decision was wrong for the moment.

TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security cabinet Saturday night to weigh a series of responses last week’s terrorist attacks which killed two and wounded five.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is refusing to condemn the ongoing wave of Palestinian terrorism, including the murder of a 13-year-old Israeli girl on Thursday and a father of 10 on Friday, and is also eschewing phone calls from world leaders demanding that he denounce the attacks.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement declared a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed to death a 13-year-old Israeli-American girl while she was sleeping in her bed to be a “martyr.”

Israeli troops arrested eight Palestinians, including the sister of a terrorist who murdered a teenage girl in the settlement of Kiryat Arba, in overnight sweeps in the West Bank, the army said Sunday morning.

The Israel Defense Forces arrested several suspects in the Hebron area of the West Bank in the early hours of Saturday, as part of the hunt for those responsible for Friday’s terror attack that killed Rabbi Miki Mark.

(AFP) – Israeli troops locked down the occupied West Bank’s most populous city Hebron and surrounding villages on Saturday after two Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks nearby.

TEL AVIV – Donald Trump took to Facebook on Friday to condemn the latest terrorist attack in Israel earlier today in which an Israeli man was murdered and his wife was seriously injured when his car was sprayed with gunfire from a passing vehicle near Hebron.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday visited the family of 13-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel, who was murdered Thursday morning as she slept in her Kiryat Arba bedroom after a terrorist from a nearby Palestinian village sneaked

TEL AVIV – A relative of the 17-year old Palestinian who stabbed and killed a 13-year old girl after breaking into her bedroom on Thursday reportedly tried to stab an Israeli female soldier on Friday near the Tomb of the

Israeli security forces in recent months broke up three Palestinian terror cells operating near the West Bank city of Hebron, police said Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian terrorist infiltrated a West Bank Jewish community and stabbed a 13-year old girl in her own bedroom, critically wounding her. The girl, identified as Hallel Yaffa Ariel, died on her way to the hospital.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian vandals removed and desecrated a mezuzah – a religious parchment affixed to the doorposts of Jewish homes – from the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Friday, Arutz Sheva reported.

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The Jerusalem Post reports: the IDF soldier charged with manslaughter for the fatal shooting of an immobilized terrorist in Hebron in March “admits to 90 percent of the case” and the onus is on him to prove his claims of self defense, the military prosecution said Wednesday in the ongoing trial of Sgt. Elor Azaria.

JAFFA (ISRAEL) (AFP) – The trial opened on Monday of an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter for shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head while he was lying on his back.

The Times of Israel reports: Israeli army forces operating in the West Bank arrested overnight two Palestinians suspected of instigating riots and carrying out violent acts against Israeli civilians and security forces, the IDF said Wednesday.

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.

Thousands of Israelis rallied in a central Tel Aviv square on Tuesday calling for the release of a soldier charged with manslaughter for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian assailant.

TEL AVIV – Major Israeli pop stars are slated to take part in a solidarity concert organized by the family of an IDF soldier who shot and killed an already-neutralized Palestinian terrorist last month. Megastar Eyal Golan, rapper Kobi Shimoni, a.k.a. Subliminal,

A Palestinian armed with an axe attacked an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank and was shot dead on Thursday, the Israeli army said, ending a three-week lull in deadly incidents.

Israel’s prison service on Monday said it has approved the early release of a 12-year-old Palestinian girl who confessed to planning to carry out a stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement. Prison service spokesman Assaf Librati said Monday that

JERUSALEM (AFP) –  An Israeli colonel has been cleared of any criminal charges after shooting dead a Palestinian teen who stoned his jeep in the West Bank last year, the military said Monday. A rights group that distributed a video showing

Ynetnews reports: Zouheir Bahloul, the only Arab MK in the Zionist Union, caused a furor on Thursday when he claimed the Palestinian who stabbed an IDF soldier in Hebron and was later shot dead by another soldier despite having already

Ynetnews reports: A new Palestinian city is being built “illegally, with no permits, and under the noses of the Civil Administration” a spokesperson for NGO Regavim said Wednesday. Oved Arad, head of the Regavim field division, raised this issue during

BAR-LEV MILITARY BASE (ISRAEL) (AFP) –  An Israeli soldier caught on video shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant as he lay on the ground appeared in a military court Tuesday as dozens of his supporters protested outside. Prosecutors were seeking to extend

The Times of Israel reports: Top Israeli military officials on Saturday night rejected assertions that a soldier who shot an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in the head was right to do so as he feared the man could be wearing an

The Times of Israel reports: The soldier who was arrested Thursday after he was filmed shooting a disarmed Palestinian assailant in the head in the West Bank city of Hebron said he shot the man as he believed him to be

The Times of Israel reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Monday joined the Israel Defense Forces in condemning an incident in which a soldier shot a disarmed Palestinian assailant in the head in Hebron, saying

Two Palestinians who attacked an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday were shot dead by troops at the scene, the military said in a statement. Footage filmed by a bystander moments after the attack