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Saleh al-Arouri, who was appointed in October as the deputy Hamas leader, was replaced in his role as Hamas’s “military commander in the West Bank” by Maher Obeid, sources in the Palestinian security forces revealed to Ynet on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – The threats posed by Iranian proxy terror group, Hezbollah, on Israel’s northern border are “extremely significant,” according to an Israeli news report aired Sunday.

TEL AVIV — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s claim that he earns a modest monthly salary of about $1,300 has drawn more than its share of skepticism among Arab commentators on social media.

The wife of the Pulse nightclub shooter, Omar Mateen, knew her husband was “going to do something bad” in the hours before he carried out his deadly attack, investigators have revealed.

TEL AVIV — Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State organization, has released a video in which it accuses Hamas of betraying Islam and fighting against jihadists in the Gaza Strip, escalating the ongoing propaganda war between the two terrorist groups.

The Islamic State branch in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday called on its supporters to attack Hamas in a gruesome execution video as long-simmering tensions between the rival Islamic terror groups erupted into the open.

The Israeli military says it has struck militant sites in the Gaza Strip in response to repeated rocket fire toward Israel.

Israeli authorities have filed charges against a Palestinian woman after a video showing her and her cousin slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank went viral.

The deadly attack outside a church in Egypt lasted up to 20 minutes and it was another 10 more minutes before police shot and wounded the assailant, according to witnesses who spoke to The Associated Press on Sunday.

The Israeli Air Force struck Hamas terror targets in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday night in Israel’s second response to three rockets that were fired from the coastal territory towards the Jewish state on Friday.

After terrorists in Gaza fired three mortar shells at southern Israel on Friday, apparently to disrupt a ceremony honoring a fallen IDF soldier whose remains are being held captive in the coastal enclave, top Israeli officials have cast blame not only on Hamas, which rules the Strip, but also on Israel’s nemesis, Iran.

TEL AVIV — A significant portion of the projected costs for President Donald Trump’s proposed border barrier with Mexico could be defrayed with the money saved if the U.S. stopped funding the scandalous U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to so-called Palestinian refugees.

An alleged ISIS fighter with an American accent and one leg, identified as Abu Salih al-Amriki, used a web video to call on Muslims to “take advantage of the gun laws” in America to carry out terror attacks.

“Christmas is essential to our understanding of Western Civilization and our values,” said Breitbart News’s Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour on Sunday.

Mansour made her comments while co-hosting Breitbart News Sunday alongside Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon during a special Christmas Eve live broadcast on SiriusXM.

The fake news media narrative circulating the past few days goes something like this: President Donald’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital set off an “eruption of violence,” thus dampening the mood in Bethlehem and keeping tourists this Christmas season from one of the holiest cities for Christianity.

TEL AVIV — The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the so-called military wing of the Marxist-oriented Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is threating to attack American targets in Israel and the Palestinian territories – the first time it has publicly done so in decades.

Hymns filled a church in Iraq’s second city Mosul on Sunday as worshippers celebrated Christmas for the first time in four years after the end of jihadist rule.

The Palestinian Islamist terror group Hamas’ leader in Gaza said on Thursday a reconciliation deal with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction was collapsing, just 10 weeks after the agreement was reached.

NEW YORK — Amid the Trump administration’s threats about cutting funding to the United Nations and member states, the White House should seriously consider entirely defunding the scandalous U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to so-called Palestinian refugees.

The FBI announced on Friday that it arrested a California tow truck driver named Everitt Aaron Jameson for plotting a Christmas terror attack on Pier 39 in San Francisco.

The Afghan refugee responsible for the Melbourne terror attack “attributed his actions to perceived mistreatment of Muslims”, a senior Australian police officer said, contradicting earlier statements that police knew of no reason for the crime or what motivated the suspect to ram his vehicle into pedestrians.

New York City stepped up its security efforts this week following a string of terrorist attempts at the hands of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked jihadists.

Two men in Kosovo pleaded guilty Wednesday to planning attacks against Israelis during a soccer match in Albania last year.

In a first, Hamas security forces arrested terrorists from the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the so-called military wing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Fatah’s party, who are suspected of firing rockets from Gaza at Israel, a member of the Brigades told Breitbart Jerusalem.

The price Mosul’s residents paid in blood to see their city freed was between 9,000 and 11,000 dead, a civilian casualty rate nearly 10 times higher than what has been previously reported.

TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces have arrested Salafist operatives accused of firing rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip since the recent escalation following U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, according to a report in the Israeli daily Haaretz.

Turkish authorities will not allow New Year celebrations at Istanbul’s iconic Taksim Square for security reasons, state media reported Wednesday, quoting local officials.

Police on Sunday said that a Palestinian man who stabbed a Border Police officer near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday had been pretending to be a journalist in the moments before the attack, which allowed him to get closer to Israeli troops unnoticed.

The monitor group Conflict Armament Research (CAR) has issued a report based on three years of documentation that shows weapons procured by the U.S. military in 2015 fell into the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) within weeks.

Israeli police on Sunday arrested a Palestinian carrying an explosive device as he approached a military court in the West Bank, security officials said.

TEL AVIV — The Khaled Bin Walid group, subservient to the Islamic State and active in southern Syria, recently released photos purporting to show the executions of three Syrian civilians accused of cooperating with other so-called opposition organizations.

TEL AVIV — Recent Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have focused on targeting Hamas’ elite units, including positions held by its naval commando unit, an informed source with the terrorist group told Breitbart Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM – Official Palestinian Authority TV recently aired a music video featuring lyrics that include a vow to “break the Jews” and showing images of the one of the most lethal terrorists in Israel’s history.

A Palestinian terrorist wearing a roughly-made suicide vest attacked Israeli border police in the West Bank on Friday before being shot down as he attempted to detonate his device.

Just days after the Israeli army destroyed an attack tunnel leading from the southern Gaza Strip into Israel, a senior army officer told residents of a kibbutz near the border that it likely wasn’t the last such passage.

Israeli security forces are preparing for clashes with Palestinian protesters for a second consecutive Friday following last week’s announcement by US President Donald Trump that the US recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.