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PARIS (AFP) – Jihadists claiming allegiance to Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State group have struck in several European countries, with France — where there was a new attack Friday — the hardest hit.

Police on Sunday said a car-ramming in the northern city of Acre in which two soldiers, a border guard and a civilian were lightly injured was a nationalistically motivated terror attack.

TEL AVIV – Stop the violent protests or Israel will respond harshly, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) warned Gazans demonstrators in an Arabic-language video Tuesday, adding that they might consider protesting against their oppressive Hamas government instead.

An IDF soldier was lightly wounded in an attempted car-ramming attack in the Jordan Valley on Friday, the army said.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday praised the U.S. Ambassador to Israel for blaming the lack of peace on the Palestinians’ endorsement of terror.

TEL AVIV – Terror group Hamas on Tuesday hailed a shooting attack that saw an Israeli father of six killed in the West Bank as “heroic,” and warned Israel that the worst is yet to come.

The Bangladesh-born terror suspect who allegedly attempted to detonate a suicide-bomb in New York was able to enter the United States as a foreign relative of an immigrant, extended-family member who had won a visa to the U.S. under the Diversity Visa Lottery.

LONDON (AP) — A 31-year-old man has been charged in England with sharing a photo of Prince George and details about his pre-school in a social media post prosecutors allege was meant to help others plan terror attacks.

TEL AVIV – Terrorism will win as long as the Arab world continues to ignore the hatred and anti-Semitism that is rife in their societies, Dr. Tawfik Hamid, an Egyptian-born Muslim and former Islamist radical, said in the wake of the terror attack in Sinai.

Sayfullo Saipov, detained after allegedly driving a pick-up truck through a Manhattan bicycle lane on Tuesday and killing eight, demanded an Islamic State (ISIS) flag to display in his hospital room, according to a criminal complaint released on Wednesday.

In a Wednesday evening press conference, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Joon Kim announced charges filed against Sayfullo Saipov for the Islamic terror attack carried out on Tuesday evening in New York that killed eight people.

At the top of a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday President Donald Trump announced his administration is moving to immediately terminate the “diversity visa” program that allowed the alleged New York city Islamic terrorist to enter the country followed by up to 23 other people.

JERUSALEM — Israel’s domestic security agency says it has arrested two Palestinians suspected of killing an Israeli man found dead last week, in what it says was a “terror attack.”

An illegal ‘North African’ migrant was behind the knife attack in Marseilles, France, on Saturday according to reports, which has been claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned a deadly Palestinian shooting attack that killed three Israelis, his spokesman said, two days after it took place.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party said Tuesday it will revive legislation applying the death penalty to convicted terrorists after a deadly terror attack in the settlement of Har Adar earlier in the day.

The alleged “refugee” teenager held in connection with Friday’s terror attack in London was arrested just two weeks before the attack, neighbours who knew his foster family have claimed.

An Uber driver who allegedly attacked police officers with a sword outside Buckingham Palace whilst shouting “Allahu Akbar” has appeared in court charged with terror offences.

TEL AVIV – Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian wedding singer on Wednesday morning after he sang a song praising the terrorist who murdered three members of the same family at their Shabbat table in the Halamish settlement last month.

A second arrest has been made following the terror attack near Buckingham Palace Friday night when a Luton man brandishing a four-foot sword attacked three police officers whilst shouting: “Allahu akbar.”

Roadblocks will surround this year’s Nottinghill Carnival and armed police in plain clothes will mix with the crowds to guard against an anticipated terror attack.

On the last stop of Vice President Mike Pence’s four country tour of South America, he reaffirmed President Donald Trump’s condemnation of the terror attack in Spain and offered assistance from the United States to Spain to “find and punish those responsible.”

TEL AVIV – Security forces on Wednesday demolished the family home of a 19-year-old Palestinian terrorist who stabbed three Israelis in the West Bank community of Halamish in July while they were eating Shabbat dinner in their home.

A secret Islamic State camp in Syria is training Western jihadists to smuggle themselves into Europe and launch attacks on British soil, a captured fighter has claimed, predicting “more suicide attacks in Europe”.

A 17-year-old British girl of Moroccan heritage allegedly married an Islamic State fighter online and prepared to receive arms from the terror group for an attack in the UK.

PETAH TIKVA — A selfie stick. An umbrella. A guitar. Nunchucks, and now, a pizza platter. Shlomi Madar added the heavy wooden saucer to the growing list of obscure objects used to subdue (or just slow down) terrorists over the past two years, when he went after a stabber outside his pizzeria in Petah Tikva, outside Tel Aviv, late Monday morning.

TEL AVIV – Hundreds of residents from the community of Halamish gathered Sunday to begin construction of a new West Bank outpost as a response to Friday night’s Palestinian terror attack in the town which claimed the lives of three family members.

TEL AVIV – Pictures released by the IDF and by ZAKA International Rescue Unit Sunday show the carnage of Friday’s Shabbat dinner killing spree in the West Bank settlement of Halamish.

As U.S. President Donald Trump returned home to the U.S. from France and on the one year anniversary of an Islamic terror attack in Nice, France, Trump pledged, “solidarity with France against terror.”

A new Gallup poll released Wednesday finds that an increasing number of Americans are less willing to attend crowded events due to a fear of terrorism — while almost half of those polled are less keen on traveling abroad.

Presenter Piers Morgan demanded controversial activist Tommy Robinson “show some respect” and not show a Quran on television, labelling him an “Islamophobe” who was “sounding like a bigoted lunatic”.

LONDON (AFP) – The 47-year-old accused of driving a van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers outside a London mosque is “troubled”, according to his family, while those who know him describe a man who has verbally abused Muslim children.

PARIS (AFP) – French police have taken into custody four members of the family of a radicalised Islamist who was killed when he rammed a car loaded with guns and a gas bottle into a police van on the Champs-Elysees, a judicial source said Tuesday.

Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked Iran’s parliament and the shrine of its revolutionary leader on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people, wounding dozens and igniting an hours-long siege at the legislature that ended with four attackers dead.

Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked at the daily White House press briefing on Tuesday about London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s saying that President Donald Trump’s visit to the UK should be cancelled after the president criticized the mayor’s remarks about the terror threat there.

Fighting terrorism and religious persecution, the defense of life, and commitment to religious freedom were at the top of Vice President Mike Pence’s message to Catholics on Tuesday at the 13th Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.