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TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman warned Thursday that if Iran strikes Tel Aviv, Israel would retaliate by striking Tehran and all Iranian bases in Syria, according to an interview with Saudi news outlet Elaph.

Two Palestinian Islamic Jihad members riding on a motorcycle in the Gaza Strip were killed in an explosion on Tuesday, health officials said. Israel’s military denied accounts by local residents that they were killed in an air strike.

Five Code Red rocket alert sirens were sounded in the Eshkol Regional Council in southern Israel on Monday night. The first siren sounded at 1:48 am, followed by four other sirens at 2:54 am, 4:14 am, 4:51 am and 5:03 am. There were no reports of injuries or damage and no rocket remains were found on the ground.

The Israeli Air Force on Monday afternoon conducted fresh strikes on two Palestinian Islamic Jihad positions in the central Gaza Strip, in response to a mortar attack by the terror group against an IDF post earlier in the day, the army said.

TEL AVIV – The Iron Dome air defense system has been deployed in central Israel, the IDF said on Monday night, amid increased tensions between the country and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza since the army destroyed an attack tunnel built by the terror group last month.

TEL AVIV – During Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ surprise summons to Saudi Arabia last week, the PA’s official daily published anti-Iran articles claiming the Islamic Republic was spreading its “tentacles” by appropriating the Palestinian cause as part of its ongoing attempts at regional hegemony.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Sunday said Israeli threats against the terror group’s leaders constituted “an act of war” and vowed to continue to try to carry out a revenge attack against Israel.

An Israeli general has warned Palestinian militants against carrying out attacks in revenge for the blowing up of a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into the Jewish state last month.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced that Israel would hold on to the bodies of terrorists killed during last week’s tunnel blast, a move that Israeli lawmakers said would help in a potential exchange for the bodies of slain IDF soldiers held in Gaza.

Hamas’s deputy political chief Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday held a rare public meeting with Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, the leader of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, during which the two discussed Israel’s recent destruction of an attack tunnel dug from Gaza into Israel and the Palestinian reconciliation process, Hamas media reported.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday baselessly accused Israel of using “poisonous gas” during an IDF strike that saw an attack tunnel stretching from Gaza into Israeli territory blown up the previous day. According to the PA Ministry of Health’s

Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Khaled al-Batsh said Tuesday that the attack tunnel stretching from Gaza into Israeli territory that was blown up by the IDF the previous day had been built by his group for the purpose of kidnapping Israeli soldiers.

Iran on Monday condemned Israel as “bloodthirsty” after the Israel Defense Forces blew up an attack tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, killing seven people, including two commanders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group.

Israeli and Jewish American leaders are speaking out against New York University’s (NYU) decision to host performances of a play that has been criticized for whitewashing Palestinian terrorism and demonstrating anti-Israel bias.

Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar clarified Wednesday that his terror group’s new political program, which some interpreted as accepting the idea of a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines, would not preclude Hamas from seeking to liberate all of historic Palestine, including Israel.

Eight Palestinian operatives were wounded in a tunnel collapse early Wednesday morning in the northern Gaza border town of Shuja’yya, according to Ma’an News Agency.

TEL AVIV – The United States is the Middle East’s main enemy, with the “Zionist regime” a close second, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday.

TEL AVIV – Behind the scenes, Hamas has told Hezbollah that it rejects a resolution passed last week by a panel of Gulf states that designated the Lebanese militia a terrorist organization, a Hamas source told Breitbart Jerusalem. Unlike other Palestinian

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel on Monday blocked entry for non-residents to the West Bank city of Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is based, after a shooting attack the previous day that wounded three soldiers, the army said. “In accordance with situation assessments

TEL AVIV – In interviews with Breitbart Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad each rejected U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s assertion that Israel will become a binational state if the so-called two-state solution is not implemented.

Over the weekend, Palestinian terrorists ran wild within the State of Israel and the Palestinian territories, murdering Jewish men and women and attempting to kill infants. Yet, Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas has refused to condemn this violence, instead blaming Israel for defending itself.

Israeli forces have responded to a series of rockets launched by the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist group into its sovereign territory Thursday morning, striking several locations in Syria held by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.