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The Times of Israel reports: The Shin Bet, together with the IDF, has seized dozens of homemade weapons and gun-making equipment in Palestinian cities in the West Bank over the past few months, the security service announced on Sunday. During

GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (AFP) –  A second Gazan was found dead Sunday after the collapse of a tunnel on the Egypt border, the interior ministry in the Islamist Hamas-run enclave said. On Thursday, rescue services said seven men had been

The Jerusalem Post reports: An Israeli was lightly wounded in a stabbing attack near Jerusalem’s Dung Gate on Friday afternoon. Magen David Adom was treating the Israeli, who sustained a stab wound to the upper body. After fleeing from the

An Israeli busker has become a local celebrity after smashing his guitar over the head of a Palestinian terrorist on a fatal stabbing rampage along the Tel Aviv seafront. Yishai Montgomery, 26, has been dubbed the “guitar hero” by Israeli

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party praised the murder of an American tourist in Jaffa on Tuesday, calling the terrorist a “heroic martyr,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. On its official Facebook page, Fatah posted a sketch

TEL AVIV – Superintendent Micky Rosenfeld, foreign press spokesman for the Israel Police, says he does not believe there is any connection between the increase in attacks in the last 24 hours and Vice President Joe Biden’s visit here at the same

TEL AVIV – Two Israelis assisted in subduing terrorists from Tuesday’s rampage in improbable ways – the first by pulling the attacker’s knife from his own neck and stabbing him with it; and the second, in a separate attack, by

A 16-year-old Danish girl who was arrested in January was planning bomb attacks against a Jewish school in Copenhagen and another school in Denmark, Danish prosecutors said on Tuesday. Prosecutors presented the preliminary charges against her and a 24-year-old man

The Times of Israel reports: The Hamas terror group praised a series of attacks across Israel on Tuesday that left a US tourist dead and 14 Israelis injured. In the wake of a deadly stabbing spree in Jaffa and Tel Aviv,

The Jerusalem Post reports: The IDF on Tuesday night imposed a blockade on the West Bank villages of the Palestinian terrorists who carried out stabbing attacks earlier in the day in the Israeli cities of Jaffa and Petah Tikva. Also

TEL AVIV – An American tourist was killed and at least eight others wounded, three seriously, in terrorist stabbing attacks perpetrated by the same individual at two locations in Jaffa, the port city located just south of Tel Aviv. The attacks took place as U.S. President Joe Biden was in Jaffa, speaking at the Peres Center for Peace, Breitbart Jerusalem has confirmed.

Ynetnews reports: A female attacker tried to ram into soldiers posted at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank on Friday morning. The woman, who arrived at the junction from the direction of Jerusalem, drove onto the sidewalk and hit

The Jerusalem Post reports: The Shin Bet and the Israel Police in a joint operation recently arrested two Arab-Israeli men who allegedly supported the Islamic State and who are suspected in connection with the execution of a terrorist attack. The two

Ynetnews reports:  Since the beginning of the current escalation of violence, there have been 13 attacks committed by pairs of terrorists from the West Bank or East Jerusalem. This trend is slowly beginning to challenge the perception that attacks are

TEL AVIV – An internationally renowned Muslim cleric from India published a claim that the Islamic State was created “by Jews, Christians, Western powers, and Islam’s enemies,” MEMRI reported. In a lengthy piece entitled “ISIS: You Are such [a Friend] Who

Ynetnews reports:  The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council decided Wednesday to formally define Hezbollah a terrorist organization. The decision comes against the backdrop of the recent crisis between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon in which Saudi Arabia has decided to stop the transfer

Ynetnews reports:  Two terrorists infiltrated the settlement of Eli in the West Bank early Wednesday morning, and attacked a local resident at his doorstep with clubs. They ran away but were killed by security forces soon after. Roi Harel recounted

TEL AVIV – A new propaganda video showing terrorists simulating Islamic State-style executions of Israeli soldiers is one of the latest in a series of Hamas-produced videos showcasing terrorist skills and demonstrations. The clip shows three masked Hamas terrorists in camouflage

JERUSALEM – Palestinians purportedly randomly interviewed on the street overwhelmingly condemn the participation of children in terror attacks against Israelis, a new report by Fatah-run TV indicates. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported that Awdah TV conducted on-street interviews with Palestinian passersby, asking them

The Jerusalem Post reports: Israeli Security Forces on Sunday arrested Saadi Ali Abu Hammad, charged with attacking a security guard in Ma’aleh Adumim’s shopping mall with an ax. Police received a call at 1:15 a.m. on Friday regarding the victim.

The Jerusalem Post reports: GAZA – A senior leader of the Islamist group Hamas said the Palestinian movement was not seeking a new war with Israel and insisted a network of tunnels it is digging, some of which have reached

The Jerusalem Post reports: Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti (pictured) intends to run in the next Palestinian Authority presidential election when and if they take place, his wife, Fadwa Barghouti, announced on Wednesday. Barghouti  told a Hamas-affiliated online newspaper that it

Ynetnews reports: A 30-year-old Reserves Captain Eliav Gelman was killed Wednesday afternoon by gunfire targeting a terrorist who attempted a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Junction south of Jerusalem.  Gelman’s brother is married to the sister of soldier Benaya Sarel,

Ynetnews reports:  A 23-year-old Israeli man was critically wounded Wednesday afternoon from gunfire targeting a terrorist who attempted a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Junction south of Jerusalem. A terrorist attempted a stabbing attack at Gush Etzion Junction. Soldiers

In an fascinating exercise in selective data use, the Huffington Post has published a remarkable essay suggesting that the vast majority of terrorists have nothing to do with Islam and that Islam itself has nothing to do with encouraging violence. In

NABLUS (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (AFP) –  A Palestinian tried to stab an Israeli soldier in the West Bank on Sunday and was shot dead, Israel’s army said, the latest incident in a nearly five-month wave of violence. The attack occurred at the

The Islamic State’s outreach commission organized a Quran contest this week, encompassing the territory under the group’s control in Iraq, the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency reported. The “first Dar al-Islam” contest was divided into levels, and started with regional qualifiers participated in by hundreds

TEL AVIV – When it comes to the possibility of Israel taking defensive military action to destroy Hamas’s system of newly constructed and refurbished terror tunnels, it is not a question of “if” but “when,” posited Breitbart‘s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior

TEL AVIV – Israel should take preemptive “brief but forceful” action against Hamas, the executive director of Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) wrote in a new analysis. Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, who served as the IDF’s chief of Military Intelligence until 2010, further stated that Israel must devise a technological solution to deal with the cross-border underground terror tunnels that Hamas is building.

TEL AVIV – Nearly half of the Palestinian terrorists responsible for attacks or attempted attacks against Israeli civilians during the ongoing so-called cycle of violence are aged 20 or less, and more than one in 10 were carried out by women,

JAFFA, Israel – Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan (pictured) has condemned the Palestinian Authority for continuing its security cooperation with Israel after a top member of the movement was arrested by the Israeli army. Dahlan publicly rebuked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,

The Southern Poverty Law Center, always seeming to hover in the shadows whenever honest citizens and organizations try to stand up for this country, is at it again. In addition to the usual suspects – which includes pretty much anyone

TEL AVIV – Last month, Palestinians commemorated the anniversary of the death of Hamas bomb-builder Yahya Ayyash, the terrorist behind the use of suicide bombs in the 1990s and 2000s, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. Known as “the engineer,” Ayyash built

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police officers fatally shot two Palestinians who opened fire at them outside Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Sunday, police said, on a day when officials said three other Palestinian terrorists were killed in two other incidents. A

The simple act of setting up a LinkedIn business networking account has thrown down a trail for security services pursuing a British terrorist who helped recruit the Islamic State executioner ‘Jihadi John’. Rabah Tahari, from Birmingham, is the leader of a

TEL AVIV – Screenshots obtained by Breitbart Jerusalem of an Egyptian suicide bomber’s online chat with another jihadist provide a rare inside glimpse into the Islamic State’s suicide operations.