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TEL AVIV — Palestinian Authority preventative security arrested a number of Islamic Jihad members in the area of Ramallah and subsequently tortured some of them during investigations, according to a report Wednesday in media belonging to the Islamic Jihad movement, which is backed by Iran.

TEL AVIV — The leadership of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group has plans to bring one of its own officials before a disciplinary committee after he criticized Iran, a senior source within the organization has told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — H.R. McMaster, the embattled National Security Adviser to President Trump, is threatening U.S. national security by refusing to recognize radical Islamic terrorism, a top terrorism expert told Breitbart News.

In a 2014 speech on the Middle East, embattled White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster claimed that Islamic terrorist organizations are “really un-Islamic” and are “really irreligious organizations” who cloak themselves in the “false legitimacy of Islam.”

Palestinian terror groups praised the deadly shooting attack at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Friday, while Palestinian social media was rife with accolades for the killers.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian jihadist factions launched the traditional summer camps in recent days where Palestinian youth are indoctrinated in anti-Israel propaganda while some camps conduct weapons training and teach jihadist combat tactics.

TEL AVIV — Egypt and Hamas have agreed that Hamas will continue managing the Gaza Strip’s internal affairs while former Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan, a leading political opponent of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, will help run Gaza’s foreign affairs, according to an Islamic Jihad official who gave an interview to a Lebanese television station.

TEL AVIV — Jibril Rajoub, a member of Fatah’s central committee, has put himself on the receiving end of anger on Palestinian streets after telling Israel’s Channel 2 that he Western Wall “will remain under Israeli sovereignty. There’s no argument that this is a holy site for Jews.”

The Gaza Strip-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist group published a video this week in which it threatened Israel with a new round of violence, the Hebrew news site Walla reported.

Israeli Air Force jets on Monday afternoon bombed several targets in the Gaza Strip, after an early-morning rocket attack on Israel’s south.

TEHRAN — Everything was in place on Tuesday for a gala celebration at Iran’s annual conference in support of Palestinians. Awaiting the hundreds of guests was a table piled high with cakes and fruit, with plenty of tea to wash it all down and a placard saying, “Netanyahu: Go to Hell.”

Hamas forces on Sunday demolished a half-built mosque that belonged to Islamic Jihad activists, claiming it was constructed on Hamas-owned land without the required permits.

A court in Israel on Thursday sentenced a Palestinian computer engineer from Gaza to nine years in prison for hacking into Israeli drones for the terror group Islamic Jihad, the Justice Ministry said.

Shot in the arm and slumped behind a table, Francois al-Asmar played dead as the gunman walked through the exclusive Istanbul nightclub shooting the wounded as they lay on the ground.

The Palestinian Fatah movement is gearing up for the celebration of the 52th anniversary of the Palestinian revolution, a day that doubles as the official anniversary of the movement’s establishment.

Palestinian terrorist factions, including the Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, welcomed the UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s settlement policy and branding Jewish settlements in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem as illegal and dangerous to the so-called two-state solution.

Hamas issued an unprecedented condemnation of the “massacre” that was perpetrated in Aleppo, as the Syrian regime emerged victorious from a months-long battle against rebel forces.

TEL AVIV – Iran has been prodding Palestinian jihadists to resume hostilities against Israel, a Palestinian security official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

The Shi’ite festival of Ashura was marked by an unprecedented number of Gazans, testifying to the growing spread of Shi’ite-Iranian influence in the region.

The Gaza Health Ministry says a Palestinian was killed in an accident while working in a “military tunnel” used by Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group.

The Israel Air Force conducted 50 airstrikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip late Sunday night, following a rocket fired into Israel by Palestinian militants earlier that day.

TEL AVIV – Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah admits that the terror group’s entire budget is funded by Iran, an Arab news report claimed.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) became the first Palestinian faction to announce that it will boycott the upcoming municipal elections set to take place on October 8th, according to a PIJ press release.

A Hamas militant was killed on Saturday when a tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health officials and the group’s military wing said.

The Munich resident who hurled insults at shooter Ali David Sonboly as he was carrying out an attack on a shopping mall has been accused of libel, the Munich prosecutor has announced.

TEL AVIV – Islamic Jihad, a Gaza-based terror group, unveiled its newest rocket at the annual family festival “Bond of Blood” festival on Thursday, Palestinian news website Donia al-Watan reported.

A Catholic priest has called for Christians to take a stand against Islamic terror, arguing that pacifism in the face of mortal danger is immoral and un-Christian.

Despite its very public military setbacks in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State has persisted with iron fist policies toward the subjects of its “caliphate.” The global terror group’s propaganda organ has recently published photos purporting to show “verdicts” on people charged with prostitution, blasphemy, and treason.

A member of terror group Islamic Jihad was killed Tuesday night during an IDF operation to arrest him near the West Bank City of Hebron.

JAFFA, Israel – The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday raided an arms cache near Nablus, in the West Bank, arresting 13 suspects in trade and illegal possession of firearms, including the head of security at the city’s Al Najjah University.

A Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror operative was killed in the Gaza Strip Monday night when a tunnel used by the group collapsed east of the town of Khan Yunis, according to various media reports.

Tommy Robinson, the leader of Pegida UK, has been attacked on Twitter by liberals following his condemnation of the terror attack in Nice as an Islamist atrocity. As news broke that 84 men, women and children had been brutally murdered

In recent years Israel has conducted numerous drone strikes with Cairo’s blessing on terrorists operating in the Egyptian Sinai, according to a former senior Israeli official.

TEL AVIV – Russia’s military says one of its helicopters was downed by the Islamic State in Syria, killing two of its airmen.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday said Israel should start kidnapping senior Hamas members to gain leverage in its bit to secure the release of two Israeli civilians and two bodies of IDF soldiers held in the Gaza Strip.

Video released Tuesday evening captures the moment a Palestinian woman attempted to stab Israeli soldiers at a bus stop near the West Bank settlement of Ariel earlier in the day.