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London’s Metropolitan Police say they have foiled 24 terrorist plots over the past two years. Radical Islamic terrorism remains the most significant threat.

A Gaza-based terror group on Saturday said it had downed an Israeli military drone over the Strip, but the small vehicle may have actually belonged to another terrorist organization.

TEL AVIV — Islamic State gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula intercepted a shipment of rockets being smuggled to the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources told i24News Arabic on Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority is liable for damages potentially reaching NIS 1 billion ($280 million) in a slew of terror attacks carried out against Israelis during the Second Intifada, a Jerusalem District Court ruled in a landmark case Monday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday commented on reports of an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal in Gaza, after two days of fighting in which four Israelis were killed, saying that Israel was readying for further confrontations with terrorist groups in the coastal enclave.

TEL AVIV – More than 60 rockets were fired at Israel’s south overnight Tuesday from the Gaza Strip, despite an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, with Israel retaliating by striking dozens of terror targets in the coastal enclave.

Israel’s army accused Hamas of firing a rocket that hit a house north of Tel Aviv on Monday, wounding seven people, and announced it was sending reinforcements to the Gaza area.

The Hamas terror group may seek to spark a war with Israel in the near future in an attempt to elicit international sympathy and an influx of international aid money to the Gaza Strip, which it controls, according to an Israeli Military Intelligence assessment released Wednesday.

After receiving information from a former jihadist, Italian police have arrested 15 suspects alleged to be part of an organisation that helped smuggle radical Islamic terrorists into the country as illegal immigrants and asylum seekers.

A new cease-fire between Israel and Hamas led Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to resign in protest Wednesday.

Contents: Islamic Jihad agrees to Egypt-sponsored ceasefire in Gaza after night of terror; Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) accepts the Egyptian-mediated ceasefire

Islamic Jihad on Saturday took responsibility for the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip overnight and threatened further launches, as the Israeli military accused the Palestinian terror group of carrying out the attacks on behalf of Iran and Syria.

GAZA CITY — Palestinian terror group Islamic Jihad selected a new leader for the first time in more than 20 years Thursday, a senior official said, but is likely to remain close to Iran.

TEL AVIV – A group of 20 Palestinian children were used as “bait” in an attack from a Palestinian sniper that left one IDF officer moderately wounded, the IDF said late Wednesday night.

The U.N. human rights chief attacked Israel on Monday, calling acts of self defense by IDF soldiers during Palestinian Hamas terrorist riots along the Gaza border fence “shocking.”

TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday addressed protesters in Iran, telling them in Farsi that the Iranian regime is wasting billions of dollars in proxy wars instead of investing it in the country.

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman sought to encourage the ongoing protests in Iran against the ruling Islamic regime on Tuesday, issuing a Facebook post in Farsi that addressed the ongoing political and economic discontent that appears to be driving the demonstrations.

The Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups claimed responsibility for the rocket barrage at Israel early Wednesday, warning they will not allow Israeli strikes in the Palestinian enclave to go unanswered.

TEL AVIV — The massive escalation of Gaza terror rocket and mortar attacks aimed at Israeli civilian population zones over the last twenty-four hours combined with the terror kite onslaught indicates that a desperate Hamas continues to do Iran’s bidding despite the potentially disastrous consequences.

TEL AVIV – The IDF released additional information on the more than 65 sites it targeted in the Gaza Strip in response to the 100 rockets and mortars launched from terrorist groups there, saying the targets included weapons manufacturing facilities and a stash of unmanned submarines that Hamas was preparing to use for attacks on Israeli naval targets and underwater infrastructure.

The Iran-backed, Gaza Strip-based Islamic Jihad terrorist group published a video on Wednesday showing its operatives firing mortars and rockets into southern Israel the previous day.

NEW YORK — The sudden, massive barrage of potentially deadly rocket and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip is a transparent attempt by Iran to utilize its Gaza proxies to advance Iran’s own aims inside Syria.

The UN Security Council is expected to meet in emergency session Wednesday to discuss continuing Palestinian terrorist rocket and mortar attacks against Israel.

One of the rockets fired by terrorist groups from Gaza at southern Israel Tuesday struck equipment that provides electricity to the southern Gaza Strip, knocking out power to thousands, a spokesperson for Israel’s Electric Company said.

An Israeli tank fired on an Islamic Jihad position in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday morning, killing three people, after Palestinians planted an explosive device along the security fence in the latest exchange along the restive border, the army said.

The Israeli army’s spokesperson penned a scathing article for the Wall Street Journal on Monday, condemning Hamas for “[lying] to the world” about the recent Gaza border riots and criticizing international media outlets for accepting the falsehoods.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Gaza’s ruling Hamas militant group said Saturday that a man who was gunned down in Malaysia was an important member of the organization, accusing Israel of being behind the brazen killing.

Michael Steinhardt, the co-founder and major supporter of Birthright Israel—a program that has brought more than 600,000 Jewish young adults from around the world to Israel for free 10-day heritage trips—gave the middle finger to a group of anti-Israel, anti-Birthright activists outside a gala Birthright celebration on April 15.

Palestinian terror organization Islamic Jihad said Saturday that four of its members were killed in an accidental explosion near the Gaza Strip border with Israel.

Security forces arrested a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group off the Gaza coast suspected of planning to sink an Israeli naval patrol boat and kidnap any survivors last month, Israel revealed on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV — Representatives of the Palestinian terrorist factions praised Monday’s attack in Ariel where an Israeli civilian – father of four Itamar Ben Gal from the settlement of Har Brakha – was stabbed to death.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian officials and terrorist groups are claiming that the Trump administration’s threat to cut funds to the Palestinian Authority and to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to so-called Palestinian refugees, amounts to a blackmail attempt.

TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Central Committee will convene in the middle of this month to discuss the formation of a Palestinian strategy to respond the historic decision of President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Iran has been putting increasing pressure on Hamas by reducing financial aid to the terrorist group over the past two months, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Hamas and Islamic Jihad praised Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday for his aggressive speech to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Two Palestinian militants were killed in Gaza Tuesday in an explosion whose cause was unclear, with Israel firmly denying claims from authorities in the Hamas-run enclave that it was responsible.