TEL AVIV – The Fatah leadership has been in turmoil since media reports suggested that the movement has been milling the appointment of a former Hamas-affiliated politician as its nominee for the local elections in the West Bank city of Nablus.
TEL AVIV – Activists from the Black Lives Matter movement arrived in Israel last week to protest the “occupation” and “genocide” propagated by Israel, and to “fight for dignity, justice and freedom.”
Guards belonging to the Ministry of Defense Crossings Authority have thwarted a potential terror attack, after they uncovered improvised pipe bombs in the car of an Israeli-Arab man on Sunday night.
A Palestinian man was arrested at a checkpoint on Route 5 in the northern West Bank late Saturday after guards found knives, axes and bullets in his vehicle.
Fatah and Hamas, the two leading Palestinian factions, are to hold another round of reconciliation talks in the coming weeks in a bid to mend fences after nearly a decade of hostility, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said.
Hamas has announced that it will field a full list of candidates in Palestinian local and municipal elections scheduled for October, in an apparent surprise for the Palestinian Authority (PA).
PHILADELPHIA – The Democrats continue to have an Israel problem. On the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention here, Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson reportedly compared Israeli settlers – meaning Jews living in the West Bank or eastern Jerusalem – to termites.
Hamas is likely to win the Palestinian municipal elections scheduled for October, Fatah and Palestinian Authority officials fear.
The High Court gave the go-ahead Sunday for the Israel Defense Forces to demolish the homes of the two Palestinian terrorists accused of carrying out a shooting attack in central Tel Aviv last month, killing four people and injuring 41.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – The head of a rare Saudi delegation to Israel and the occupied West Bank met a senior Israeli government official during his trip, Israel’s foreign ministry told AFP on Sunday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said the meeting
JAFFA, Israel – The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday raided an arms cache near Nablus, in the West Bank, arresting 13 suspects in trade and illegal possession of firearms, including the head of security at the city’s Al Najjah University.
Actor James Caan, best known for his role as tough guy Santino “Sonny” Corleone in “The Godfather,” on Thursday toured Jewish settlements in the West Bank and urged Israel not to return to its pre-1967 lines.
Ten years after the Second Lebanon War, the IDF has made substantial changes in the way it trains its infantry for war against Hezbollah – arguably Israel’s most formidable military threat in the immediate region.
Firearms prices in the West Bank have increased exponentially, a Palestinian security official told Breitbart Jerusalem, a testament to a decline in law and order in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
Fathiya Safadi was married less than three weeks when her husband, Ashraf, a wanted Palestinian militant, was arrested, jailed and sentenced to 21 years behind bars in Israel.
A stabbing attack occured at the Al Aroub IDF checkpoint on Route 60, south of the West Bank’s Gush Etzion Junction on Monday, the army said.
Clashes erupted Monday as Israel’s military demolished the home of a Palestinian accused of involvement in a February attack outside Jerusalem’s Old City that killed a policewoman, officials said.
Palestinian media reported late Thursday that at least 13 Palestinians were hurt in clashes with IDF troops in a village near Ramallah.
An Israeli border policeman shot dead one Palestinian and wounded another in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday when they drove towards officers, an army spokeswoman said.
The Israeli army has closed 16 Palestinian workshops in the West Bank used to make weapons, in a clampdown since the start of the year, an officer said on Tuesday.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has reportedly offered to host direct talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, as part of Cairo’s fresh efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
TEL AVIV – Hamas has foiled a large-scale attack on the Gaza government institutions, facilities and people that was planned by Islamic State loyalists, a senior official in the movement told Breitbart Jerusalem.
An Israeli man was moderately wounded in a drive-by shooting attack on Saturday night near the West Bank settlement of Tekoa outside of Bethlehem, the army said.
Taysir Kubaa, deputy head of the Palestinian National Council, on Thursday called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to abandon the path of negotiations with Israel which, he said, does not lead to success for the Palestinians.
Israel Police officers from the Southern District have arrested hundreds of Palestinians who entered the country without legal work permits since the beginning of the year, according to new figures released Wednesday.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on the UN Security Council on Wednesday to reject a key report by the diplomatic Quartet that condemned both Israeli settlement building and Palestinian incitement to violence.
Three soldiers were lightly wounded when a Palestinian car rammed into their vehicle outside of Neve Daniel in the West Bank on Wednesday, according to police reports.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Rwanda on Wednesday, a highly symbolic part of an “historic” African tour, boosting ties between two countries with a history marked by genocide.
Video released Tuesday evening captures the moment a Palestinian woman attempted to stab Israeli soldiers at a bus stop near the West Bank settlement of Ariel earlier in the day.
“Sometime after the Six Day War the settlement enterprise began to develop. In your opinion, from a perspective of 50 years later, has the settlement enterprise contributed to or damaged Israel’s national interest?” was one of the opening questions in a June survey comparing the attitudes of Israeli Jews and Arabs on the liberated territories.
A Palestinian terrorist attempted to stab soldiers at the Gitai Avisar junction near the West Bank city of Ariel on Tuesday. No soldiers were hurt in the attempted attack.
Israeli authorities announced Tuesday that they had made a number of key arrests of Palestinian suspects who shed light on Hamas’s efforts to smuggle money to its operatives in the West Bank and its continued efforts to dig tunnels in Gaza.
The Times of Israel reports: Israel on Sunday barred the Hebron governor from entering its territory after he visited the family of a Palestinian who killed an Israeli teenage girl in her sleep, officials said. On Thursday, 19-year-old Mohammed Nasser
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman approved on Sunday construction plans for some 800 new housing units in East Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim settlement, as well as hundreds of new homes for an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is slipping away, the U.N. special coordinator for Middle East peace warned on Sunday, after both sides shrugged off criticism by international mediators.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s security services foiled a large-scale terrorist attack in Jerusalem on Friday, a Palestinian security official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Israeli troops arrested eight Palestinians, including the sister of a terrorist who murdered a teenage girl in the settlement of Kiryat Arba, in overnight sweeps in the West Bank, the army said Sunday morning.
The Israel Defense Forces arrested several suspects in the Hebron area of the West Bank in the early hours of Saturday, as part of the hunt for those responsible for Friday’s terror attack that killed Rabbi Miki Mark.
(AFP) – Israeli troops locked down the occupied West Bank’s most populous city Hebron and surrounding villages on Saturday after two Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks nearby.
TEL AVIV – Donald Trump took to Facebook on Friday to condemn the latest terrorist attack in Israel earlier today in which an Israeli man was murdered and his wife was seriously injured when his car was sprayed with gunfire from a passing vehicle near Hebron.
