JAFFA, Israel – Palestinians in several locations took to the streets while others converged on social media to celebrate a terrorist shooting attack in downtown Tel Aviv’s Sarona market on Wednesday night that killed four Israeli civilians.
Contents: Israel’s Netanyahu responds cautiously to Tel Aviv terror attack; West Bank Palestinians reject call to end security cooperation with Israel; Turkey endures two days of terror bombing attacks; Terror attacks in Turkey complicate EU-Turkey migrant deal
TEL AVIV – Horrific security camera footage has been posted on the Internet showing two Palestinian terrorists dressed in suits opening fire on a crowded restaurant in Tel Aviv.
Norway on Monday said it is holding an internal investigation into claims that an East Jerusalem driver for its envoy to the Palestinian Authority was arrested last week by Israel for allegedly attempting to smuggle antiquities into the West Bank from Jordan.
JAFFA, Israel – Gaza Premier and Hamas’ deputy diplomatic leader Ismail Haniyeh came under fire over the weekend for saying that life in Gaza is “good.”
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that the Palestinians will accept nothing less than a full Israeli withdrawal from territories Israel captured in the 1967 war and the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Newly-appointed Defense Minister Avidgor Lieberman has issued an order easing some restrictions imposed on the Palestinians ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, which begins on Monday.
The Saudi Initiative, originally proposed by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2002, states that Israel would receive “normal relations” with the Arab world in exchange for a full withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip, West Bank, Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem, which includes the Temple Mount.
JAFFA, Israel – The decision of a West Bank municipality to name a street after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has backfired, with street signs vandalized and a great deal of abuse on social media.
TEL AVIV – Despite its own lingering problem of domestic Islamic extremism, France has turned its sights on attempting to solve the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict, holding a “peace” summit on Friday without the participation of either Israel or the Palestinian Authority.
The Jerusalem Post reports: A suspected terrorist on Thursday afternoon attempted to stab Israeli forces stationed near Einav, an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank, the IDF Spokesperson’s Office reported.
TEL AVIV – The rightwing Knesset Land of Israel caucus announced its intention to draw up a bill for the annexation of Ma’aleh Adumim, citing a poll showing that 78 percent of Israelis are in favor of full Israeli sovereignty over the settlement.
TEL AVIV – The openly gay grandson of a West Bank Hamas founder has finally found refuge in the United States, VICE News reported.
TEL AVIV – The Israel Defense Forces on Monday arrested 11 Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus and the surrounding refugee camps on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms, in the latest string of measures against the territory’s militants and one day after Hamas operatives were arrested for masterminding a bus attack in Jerusalem last month, in which 19 Israelis were injured.
The Algemeiner reports: While the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign aims to hurt Israeli companies, the movement’s actions have actually had the opposite effect, the head of a major Israeli company told The Algemeiner on Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – The former rabbi of New York City’s prestigious Fifth Avenue Synagogue has “no regrets” about immigrating to Israel despite his teenage son’s near-death experience in a terror attack on Saturday.
In first remarks as Israel’s designated defense minister, right-wing settler Avigdor Lieberman joked about his fiery reputation: “I have undergone surgery to lengthen my fuse.”
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — France’s prime minister said Tuesday that peace between Israelis and the Palestinians is also important for security in Europe.
USA Today reports: Since a spate of attacks against Israelis began in October, authorities have arrested dozens of Palestinians for “incitement” of violence — based on their Facebook posts.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A gated community of villas with well-tended flower gardens near the West Bank town of Ramallah may help explain why Palestinians almost universally believe there is corruption in the government of President Mahmoud Abbas.
GAZA CITY – Authorities in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip are planning to carry out a series of public executions, the attorney general in the Palestinian enclave said on Sunday. Islamist movement Hamas has carried out previous executions in Gaza, although
TEL AVIV (AFP) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was Sunday in Israel to advance his country’s plan to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the face of opposition from his counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Times of Israel reports: A gunman opened fire on an armored Israeli bus traveling in the West Bank on Saturday evening. No injuries were reported in the incident which occurred near the settlement of Tekoa but the bus sustained
Israel on Friday night returned to the Palestinian Authority the bodies of two terrorists, one belonging to a West Bank man who killed an American tourist during a stabbing spree in Jaffa two months ago. Bashar Massalha, 22, from Qalqilya, murdered US citizen Taylor Force and injured 10 others in a rampage along the Jaffa boardwalk on March 8. He was killed by security forces at the scene of the attack, which coincided with a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden, who was meeting with Shimon Peres minutes away from the scene.
TEL AVIV – The Bahraini daily Al-Watan published a column condemning the “despicable” stabbing attacks on unarmed Israelis by Palestinians, saying they only fuel hatred toward Muslims and Arabs.
TEL AVIV – 20 years in the making, a new $28 million Palestinian museum of national heritage opened in the West Bank exhibiting – nothing.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gazans who endured a border blockade by neighboring Egypt and Israel for almost a decade thought they were finally catching a break when Israel slightly eased restrictions on travel from the Hamas-ruled territory in recent months.
Haaretz reports: Police arrested a Palestinian man on Saturday suspected of planning a terror attack.
TEL AVIV – “The time for Jewish sovereignty over the land of Israel has come,” Israel’s Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel said at the inauguration of a new visitor’s center in the West Bank kibbutz of Kfar Etzion.
The Times of Israel reports: An IDF officer was seriously injured Tuesday night when four pipe bombs detonated near him at a West Bank checkpoint outside of the Palestinian village of Hizme, north of Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Hillary Clinton reiterated her position that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement was an impediment to peace, ahead of her Methodist church’s bid to join the Israel boycott, The Times of Israel reported.
TEL AVIV – For the first time in 15 years, liberal Democrats in the U.S. sympathize more with the Palestinians than with Israel (40 percent versus 33 percent), a new poll from the Pew Research Center found.
TEL AVIV – An overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis – 71.5% – do not believe that Israel’s control of the West Bank is an “occupation,” while 40% of them think Hillary Clinton will make a better president for Israel compared with 31% in favor of Donald Trump, according to a new poll conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute.
TEL AVIV – Euronews published a misleading headline that read, “Israeli troops shoot dead driver of rammed car,” referring to a Palestinian terrorist who drove his vehicle on Tuesday evening into three soldiers in the West Bank.
JAFFA (ISRAEL) (AFP) – The trial opened on Monday of an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter for shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head while he was lying on his back.
TEL AVIV – The Israel Defense Forces has no intention to escalate the situation along the Israel-Gaza border but it will continue operations to detect and destroy Hamas terror tunnels, IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said om Sunday.
Israel National News reports: The Middle East Quartet, made up of the US, EU, UN, and Russia, is scheduled to release a major policy report later in coming weeks, and senior diplomats involved in its drafting have indicated that the
The Times of Israel reports: Israeli warplanes struck several Hamas targets near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, in response to a series of cross-border attacks this week on Israeli troops.
Ynetnews reports: IDF troops shelled Hamas military posts in the Gaza Strip for three times on Wednesday in response to mortar shell fire at forces operating near the border fence.
The Times of Israel reports: Shots fired from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon struck an IDF vehicle near the northern border with the Palestinian enclave, the army said in a statement.
