Israel Lifts Gaza Cement Import Ban
Israel said late Sunday it was lifting a ban imposed last month on private imports of cement to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

Israel said late Sunday it was lifting a ban imposed last month on private imports of cement to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

TEL AVIV – Hamas has extended its condolences to Hezbollah following the elimination of the organization’s top commander in Syria last week. Hamas’ envoy to Lebanon, Ali Barakeh, conveyed the message to the Hezbollah leadership during a

AFP – Salah Abdeslam, a surviving member of the group that carried out the Paris attacks in November that killed 130 people, will be questioned by French investigators for the first time on Friday. For months, Abdeslam was the most

The Jerusalem Post reports: Islamic State threatens Israel in an article in its weekly newsletter this week, saying that unlike Hamas, the “war on Israel will not be limited by geographical boundaries or by international norms.”

The Times of Israel reports: Israeli police on Wednesday captured a shipment of 60,000 hand-grenade springs on their way to the Gaza Strip.

The Jerusalem Post reports: The Israeli navy is in the midst of intensive preparations to deal with a growing rocket and missile threat posed by Hamas and Hezbollah, a senior IDF officer revealed on Wednesday.

The Jerusalem Post reports: The anti-rocket warning sirens that were activated in Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip frontier on Wednesday evening proved to be a false alarm, the IDF said.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Hezbollah appointed Mustafa Mughniyeh military commander following the death of his uncle Mustafa Badreddine last weekend in a shelling at Damascus airport, the London based Asharq al-Awsatreported Tuesday morning.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Hezbollah asked western journalists not to report that Israel was behind the assassination of Mustafa Badreddine, Hezbollah’s military chief, a prominent French journalist has alleged.

The Times of Israel reports: The Israeli Navy arrested off the coast of Gaza last month a Hamas-affiliated smuggler who is accused of bringing weapons and illegal building materials into the Strip, the Shin Bet revealed Monday

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police says a Palestinian assailant has stabbed an Israeli man in Jerusalem, lightly wounding him.

ADEN (AFP) – A suicide bomber killed at least 25 Yemeni police recruits in the southeastern port city of Mukalla on Sunday, medics said, the second attack this week claimed by the Islamic State group.

Haaretz reports: Police arrested a Palestinian man on Saturday suspected of planning a terror attack.

JAFFA, Israel – A Syrian man has been “crucified” by the Islamic State for collaborating with the US-led “Crusader coalition.” The man, a resident of a town near Raqqa, the so-called capital of the IS caliphate, was executed by gunshot and then tied to a lamppost, or a “cross,” IS said in a statement.

The Jerusalem Post reports: An Islamic State operative snuck into the Gaza Strip through Hamas’ system of underground tunnels connecting the Palestinian-ruled area with the Sinai Peninsula, Israel said on Friday.

Israel is bracing for a possible Hezbollah response following the announcement on Friday that one of its top commanders, arch terrorist Mustafa Badreddine, was eliminated in an explosion.

The Times of Israel reports: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday that the Islamic State was carrying out a new “Nakba” in the Middle East, employing the Arabic word for catastrophe traditionally used by the Palestinians and the Arab world to refer to the 1948 creation of the State of Israel.

A Hindu nationalist group in India has asked the gods to bless Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, citing Trump’s stand against Islamist terrorism.

JAFFA, Israel- Fatah’s Facebook page has marked the 36th anniversary of a shooting attack in Hebron that led to the death of six Jewish settlers.

The Times of Israel reports: An IDF officer was seriously injured Tuesday night when four pipe bombs detonated near him at a West Bank checkpoint outside of the Palestinian village of Hizme, north of Jerusalem.

Arutz Sheva reports: The Israel Security Agency (ISA, also known as the Shin Bet or Shabak) has announced that a young terrorist affiliated with Hamas’s military wing was arrested and is now being questioned by authorities.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police says two masked attackers have stabbed two Israeli women in Jerusalem, setting off a manhunt that led to the arrest of the assailants.

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.

Ynetnews reports: Hamas has agreed and committed itself again to a de-escalation on the border of Israel and Gaza, Ynet learned on Sunday morning.

The Times of Israel reports: Israeli officials said Saturday they would continue operations to uncover and destroy cross-border attack tunnels in the Gaza Strip over the coming weeks, even as Israel and Hamas sought to calm tensions along the frontier.

The London Daily Telegraph reports: Three Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria some 10 months ago have been freed, the Spanish Press Federation (FAPE) and government said on Saturday.

Israeli aircraft struck a Hamas facility in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday after cross-border mortar fire, the Israeli army said, as violence continued for a third day. “In response to the ongoing attacks against Israeli forces, Israel Air Force

Haaretz reports: A Hamas member was arrested by Israel last month after crossing the border fence with two knives, the Shin Bet revealed on Thursday.

Ynetnews reports: The IDF has found another Hamas attack tunnel inside the Gaza Strip that is burrowing towards Israel, it was cleared for publication on Thursday. The new tunnel is 28 meters deep and it was found not far from the

The Times of Israel reports: Hours after he was released from a Palestinian prison, Israeli forces on Wednesday arrested a Hamas man wanted for a shooting attack in the West Bank in 2010, the Shin Bet security agency announced in a statement.

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli air strikes hit four Hamas sites in Gaza, the military said, following air raids earlier in the day as tensions flared along the border of the Palestinian territory.

GAZA CITY (AFP) – The militant Palestinian Hamas movement accused its rival Fatah on Wednesday of organising a military cell to “breach security and stability” in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian driver who rammed his vehicle into three Israeli soldiers, injuring them, on a road in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the army said.

Ynetnews reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured the Gaza border on Tuesday, his first visit to the area since the discovery a few weeks ago of a new Hamas tunnel burrowing into Israeli territory.

One of the Muslim terrorists who bombed a Sikh temple in Germany was enrolled in an anti-radicalisation “Salafist prevention” program. Police in Germany have recently released more information regarding the two teenage terrorists who carried out a bomb attack on

Last week’s Jerusalem bus bombing carried out by member of Hamas shows the Islamist movement’s “determination” to continue resisting Israel, the head of the Palestinian group in Gaza said on Thursday.

The Washington Times reports: Iran has begun to ask its teenage boys to volunteer to fight in Syria in a sign the hard-line Islamic regime’s military is suffering rising casualties in the five-year war and needs a morale boost, an opposition group says.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Hamas threatened on Thursday that unless Israel lifts its blockade on the Gaza Strip, “there will be an explosion,” Channel 2 reported.

The Jerusalem Post reports: NEW YORK CITY – The Austrian government and organizations that enabled a Palestinian terrorist to hold an April talk in Vienna faced a firestorm of criticism from Israel’s ambassador and the local Jewish community.

“The Russians and Chinese have rapidly expanded their military capability, but look what’s happened to us!” Donald Trump exclaimed in his foreign policy speech, setting the table for several references to Russia and China as geopolitical adversaries.
