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Three Palestinian terrorists in Gaza were killed and another critically wounded on Wednesday evening in a retaliatory IDF attack along the border after a sniper opened fire on Israeli soldiers in a latest round of violence that has gripped the region in recent months.

JERUSALEM – Israeli authorities said Wednesday they have arrested 10 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip accused of planning a missile attack and hostage taking against a navy ship.

TEL AVIV – Hamas launched a large-scale military exercise in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, in response to Israel’s increased forces along the border ahead of a mass march as part of a “day of rage” planned to coincide with the eve of Passover later in the week. 

TEL AVIV — In recognizing Israel’s right to Jerusalem and correcting the antagonistic, anti-Israel ideology and actions of his predecessor, President Trump has already proven himself to be one of the greatest friends that Israel ever had in the White House. Still, Even the closest of friends make the occasional blunder.

TEL AVIV – Israeli security forces on Sunday simulated responses to series of terror threats – including a raid on a vacation resort – in the country’s southern region, in preparation for large-scale sea and land attacks from the Hamas terror group in Gaza.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt visited a cross-border Hamas terror tunnel on Sunday, and blasted the terrorist group for wasting funds on rockets and tunnels instead of alleviating Gaza’s crippling humanitarian crisis.

TEL AVIV – The Hamas terror tunnel destroyed by the IDF on Saturday was intended for an attack on the border crossing where the majority of humanitarian aid reaches the Gaza Strip, an IDF spokesperson said.

TEL AVIV – Following violent riots on the border between Israel and Gaza, the Defense Ministry’s chief coordinator in the coastal enclave urged Palestinians not to allow the Hamas terror group use them as pawns in their fight against the Jewish state.

The US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, launched a scathing attack on the Palestinians and their leadership on Wednesday, blaming them squarely for the lack of peace with Israel.

Three Palestinian terrorists who were convicted of murder in October for their involvement in the June 2016 terror attack that killed four Israelis in Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market were each sentenced in Tel Aviv District Court on Wednesday to four life sentences and an additional 60 years.

Hamas appears to be changing its tunnel strategy, shifting from a focus on border-crossing attack routes to more internal defense structures, as Israel steps up work on its underground barrier surrounding the Gaza Strip, according to IDF assessments on Wednesday.

The heart of Europe has once again been shaken by a vehicle-ramming terrorist attack that evidences time-tested tactics deployed against Israelis by Palestinian terrorists here in the Jewish state.

Israel’s Shin Bet security agency on Tuesday unveiled the discovery of a complex money-transferring scheme run by the Gaza-ruling Palestinian terror group Hamas.

TEL AVIV – The underground wall that Israel is building to stop the terror group Hamas’ cross-border tunnels from Gaza will also stretch into the Mediterranean to prevent infiltration from the sea, the Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. 

TEL AVIV – An Israeli man just escaped with his life as a Palestinian mob attempted to lynch as he drove through the West Bank on Sunday.

TEL AVIV — Rejecting archeological evidence, the historic record and accepted fact, Maher al-Sousi, a lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza, claimed that the Jewish temples were never located on the Temple Mount and that Jews have no right to the holiest site in Judaism.

On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing to discuss the Taylor Force Act, which, if passed, would cut financial aid from the United States to the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless the PA stops its “pay for slay” payments which reward terrorists.

Biased coverage by the BBC of a recent attack by Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem has been slammed by Lord Michael Grade, a former chairman of the publicly-funded British broadcaster.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Jr., on Saturday slammed the BBC for its headline on the Jerusalem terror attack that only mentioned the deaths of three Palestinians and failed to mention that they were terrorists who murdered a border policewoman.

NEW YORK — Europe has once again been devastated by a terrorist attack utilizing jihadist tactics time tested by Palestinian terrorists in Israel.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has stirred condemnation and disbelief from members of his own party after it was revealed he attended a graveside wreath-laying ceremony honoring a Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.

TEL AVIV – The mother of an American student who was killed in a Palestinian terror attack in the West Bank in 2015 called on the internal community on Tuesday to put immediate pressure on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to end its monthly salaries to terrorists and their families.

Intelligence and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said Tuesday that convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti should have been given the death penalty instead of life imprisonment for orchestrating murders during the second intifada.

TEL AVIV – A bill to sever U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority until it stops paying salaries to terrorists and their families for attacks on Israelis and Americans would be reintroduced, Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Tuesday.

Some 400 protesters rioted and clashed with police outside the Kirya IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday both before and after Sgt. Elor Azaria was convicted of manslaughter after shooting dead a seriously wounded terrorist in Hebron. At least four of the protesters were arrested.

TEL AVIV – Jihadi Christmas strikes the Palestinians again, this time with a Christmas tree in east Jerusalem festooned with Arab “martyrs” killed while carrying out terrorist attacks against Jews that has become an attraction for both Arab Muslims and Christians.

TEL AVIV – Inboxes belonging to U.S. senators have been flooded with more than 22,000 emails over the past week urging them to back the Taylor Force Act, a bill that would make aid to the Palestinian Authority conditional on its cutting off financial rewards to terrorists and their families, a major Christian group said on Monday.

TEL AVIV – Israel warned that it would not hesitate to use lethal force against Palestinians attempting to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) told Palestinian media on Saturday.

TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump should cut off U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority over its policy of paying millions of dollars in reward money to terrorists and their families, the Wall Street Journal urged on Sunday.

TEL AVIV – A new IDF video instructing Israeli soldiers serving in the West Bank to avoid shooting female Palestinian terrorists and use Krav Maga instead has prompted outrage in Israel, with people calling the new guidelines “insane” and “delusional.”

JERUSALEM – A spokesperson for Hamas said the terror group “is saving” something that “will surprise the world” during future prisoner exchanges with Israel.

TEL AVIV – An Arab-Israeli terrorist opened fire on Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill on Sunday morning, wounding at least seven people with two in critical condition, the Israel Police reported.

TEL AVIV – The terror group Hamas is taking advantage of the relative calm in Israel’s south to prepare for the next round of conflict, a senior IDF general said Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – “If Australian money was spent on building [Hamas terror] tunnels, that is beyond the pale,” Australian MP Michael Danby said Sunday.

TEL AVIV – More than 20 senior officials from the Arab-Israeli party Balad were arrested Sunday on suspicion of the illegal transfer of millions of shekels in donations to the party’s coffers.

TEL AVIV – The parents of a slain Israeli soldier whose body is being held captive by Hamas are demanding the United Nations and U.S. “take responsibility” to recover his remains, after the Gaza-based terror group abducted their son during a U.S. and UN-brokered ceasefire in the 2014 summer conflict.