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| November 11, 2015
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24 Terrorists Arrested in Hamas Network In Qalqiliya

 

Two dozen militants arrested in joint IDF, MAGAV and Shin Bet operation, busting Hamas infrastructure in West Bank that was receiving funding from Hamas HQ in Qatar and Gaza.

By Yoav Zitun

 

The IDF, Shin Bet and police exposed Monday night a large Hamas network in Qalqilya and arrested 24 militants, including senior officials.

Hamas infrastructure exposed in Qalqiliya

Its members served as the regional headquarters and worked to renew the organization’s terrorist activities in the city and nearby villages, according to police. The infrastructure received guidance, instructions and large-scale funding from Hamas command centers in Qatar and the Gaza Strip. Continue Reading »

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| November 10, 2015
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Abbas: Israel & Hamas negotiating with Egypt to annex part of Sinai to Gaza

 

Hamas officials, Abbas has lost his legitimacy as president of the PA and no longer represents the Palestinians. Another said that Abbas was behaving like a “clown.”

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was quoted on Monday as claiming that Israel and Hamas have been conducting direct negotiations to expand the Gaza Strip so that it would include some 1,000 square kilometers of Sinai.

Hamas members at an anti-Israel rally in Rafah in southern Gaza, November 13, 2014. – Photo :REUTERS

Abbas, who is currently visiting Cairo, told Egyptian journalists who met with him on Sunday night that the idea of slicing off land from Sinai to expand the Gaza Strip was first proposed by ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Continue Reading »

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| November 2, 2015
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14 months after Gaza war, first family moves into rebuilt home

 

Over a year after Israel’s Operation Protective Edge against Hamas missile attacks, the al-Zaza family has moved into their rebuilt home.
* Because of widespread corruption by Hamas & within the UN, most international funding to reconstruct Gaza has not been forthcoming.

The Associated Press 

 

The al-Zazas have much to celebrate these days, after returning a few weeks ago to their neighborhood in the Gaza Strip — the first Palestinian family to move back into a completely rebuilt home since last year’s Operation Protective Edge.

Um Alabed al-Zaza mops her new kitchen in the family’s house – Photo: Associated Press

It was a much-anticipated homecoming. Continue Reading »

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| October 26, 2015
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It’s about fu**ing time: Facebook removes Hamas news page

 

Israeli students sent reports to Facebook complaining against the Shehab News Agency page, with its 2.7 million likes, which shares Hamas’ ideology, posting nonstop anti-Semitic and inciting content depicted in cartoons containing graphic violence.

By Itamar Eichner

 

Facebook removed on Tuesday the page of Hamas’ news agency Shehab, after Israeli students who are a part of a program to fight anti-Semitism reported the page. 

The students received a message from Facebook saying the page, one of the more popular Facebook pages in the Arab world with 2.7 million likes, has been removed because it was found to be containing graphic violence, which violates Facebook’s terms of use.  Continue Reading »

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| October 20, 2015
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WATCH: IDF officers arrest co-founder of Hamas, Hassan Yousef just before dawn

 

In the IDF released video, officers from the Artillery Corps Ra’am battalion, along with soldiers from the Binyamin territorial brigade, can be seen entering Yousef’s home & taking him into custody.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

The Israel Defense Forces released a 67-second video clip showing soldiers arrest Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef in the West Bank village of Beitunia before dawn on Tuesday.

Female IDF Capt. takes Hamas leader into custody - IDF Screenshot

Female IDF Capt. takes Hamas leader into custody – IDF Screenshot

In the video, troops from the Artillery Corps Ra’am battalion as well as units from the Binyamin territorial brigade are seen entering Yousef’s home and escorting him into custody. Continue Reading »

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| September 20, 2015
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Hamas Official Threatens to Hang Palestinian Leader Abbas

 

Senior Hamas politburo member makes not-so-subtle threat on Mahmoud Abbas and other PA officials, saying ‘their fate is execution by hanging’ for security cooperation with Israel.

By Dalit Halevy

 

Mahmoud al-Zahar, a member of the Hamas politburo and a senior official in the terrorist organization, threatened violence against the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Friday despite the unity agreement between the two groups sealed last April.

Both corrupt Palestinian leaders

Speaking at a massive rally in Gaza’s Khan Younis organized by Hamas in support of the Islamist rioters attacking police on the Temple Mount, al-Zahar slammed the PA for not openly conducting attacks against Israel. Continue Reading »

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| September 7, 2015
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Another Week, Another ‘Work Accident’ – Hamas Naval Commando Drowns

 

Militant of Gaza’s governing terror organization’s expanding commando unit met his doom in a training mishap in the northern Gaza Strip.

By Elior Levy

 

A fighter in Hamas’s naval commando unit in Gaza has drowned during a training accident near the beaches of Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip, the terror organization’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, announced Sunday.

The dead Hamas commando is Sahar Nabil al-Bahri, 27, from Beit Lahiya. In a strange coincidence, the meaning of name al-Bahri in Arabic is “naval”.

Sahar Nabil al-Bahri’s funeral

Hamas’ naval commandos are believed to be well trained and well equipped. Continue Reading »

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| September 6, 2015
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Israel Security Service Snatches Top Gaza Terrorist

 

 

Shin Bet & Israel Police arrest a 27 yr-old, affiliated with global jihad, who according to security investigators, confessed to planting bombs that were targeting IDF soldiers during Operation Protective Edge.

By Yoav Zitun

 

The Shin Bet and police arrested a man from Gaza who was allegedly responsible for terror attacks against IDF troops during Operation Protective Edge and other targets, it was revealed on Sunday.

The suspect, Ihab Abu Nahal, 27, was apprehended at the end of July as he requested permission to travel to Qatar for a job as a teacher as part of an initiative to employ Gazan teachers. Continue Reading »

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| September 4, 2015
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Increasing Number of Gaza Men Risk Life & Limb to Enter Israel

 

IDF has noticed a significant increase in the number of unarmed Gaza men fleeing the Hamas ruled enclave, seeking asylum in the Jewish state, even preferring Israeli prison with all the services it provides.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Palestinians raised in the Gaza Strip are taught to believe Israel is a blood-thirsty monster that desires nothing more than their destruction. Apparently, many aren’t buying the lies, as the number of Gazans risking it all to seek asylum in the Jewish state is growing.

Hamas rally in Gaza

Every day, Palestinians are crossing the border, and telling of impossible living conditions under the Hamas regime. Continue Reading »

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| August 21, 2015
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Hamas Chief Reports Talks With Israel Going Well – Jerusalem Refutes Report of Talks

Mashal told London-based Arabic newspaper that one mediator in the Hamas-Israel cease-fire talks is former British premier Tony Blair.

By YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA

 

 

Is a long-term truce between Israel and Hamas in the offing?

Khaled Mashaal, the head of the Palestinian Islamist movement’s political bureau, confirmed on Friday that the two sides are engaged in indirect discussions on a possible cease-fire in the South.

Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal (L) meets with Jordan’s King Abdullah in Amman. – Photo: REUTERS

“There is talk between the two sides,” Mashaal told the London-based Arab-language daily newspaper Al-Araby al-Jadid.

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| August 21, 2015
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Karma: Hamas Henchmen Snatched in Sinai

Photo: EPA

 

 

 

 

Hamas in a frenzy after 4 armed members abducted in Egypt’s Sinai by unknown gunmen, heightening tension between the Strip’s leadership and its powerful neighbor.

By Reuters

 

Four members of Hamas’ armed wing were abducted in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday after the bus they were on was stopped by unidentified gunmen, sources close to the Palestinian group and Egyptian security officials said.

The Egypt Gaza border, not far from the abduction site – Photo: AP

Egypt accuses Hamas of supporting militant groups seeking to topple the Cairo government, an allegation the movement denies.

Hamas warned in a statement that the abductions could strain ties with Egypt, which faces a serious security challenge from Islamist militants. 

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| August 19, 2015
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Elite Hamas Naval Frogmen Proudly Profess to Capturing Mossad Dolphin Spy

As in at least 4 other Muslim countries, again Israel’s Mossad has been accused of using animals to spy on its neighboring countries.

By i24news

 

Hamas has claimed to have captured a dolphin they say was working for the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, Army radio reported Wednesday.

 

Screen grab – “Hamas Frogmen”

According to the report, the dolphin was captured several weeks ago by the naval unit of Hamas, known as frogmen.

It was said to have been equipped with cameras and other “spying equipment.”

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While dolphins are considered so advanced that some countries have used them militarily, the only sort of dolphins known to be used by the Israeli army are the fleet of Dolphin class submarines. Continue Reading »

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| August 11, 2015
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Arrested Hamas militant gives details about Gaza’s tunnel network to Israel

Israel’s Shin Bet arrest Hamas operative who confessed to his involvement in terror tunnel planning, attacks, and much more from Gaza.

By i24news

 

The IDF revealed Tuesday that Israeli security forces had arrested a militant of the Hamas terror organization who was actively involved in plotting tunnel attacks from the Gaza Strip.

Hamas fighters inside a tunnel – Al Qassam Brigade file photo

Rafah resident Ibrahim A’adel Shahada Shaer, 21, was arrested in early July as part of a joint Shin Bet [Israel Security Agency] and Israeli police operation, the IDF spokesperson said in a statement.

Shaer gave interrogators a plethora of detailed information regarding Hamas’ terror activities in Rafah, including how Hamas planned attacks during conflict and its intentions to use terror tunnels to carry out attacks against Israel civilians. Continue Reading »

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| August 2, 2015
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Israel Discusses Peace with the Palestinians with Gulf States…and Hamas

Israeli strategists sense that a weakened Hamas might be ripe for a long-term hudna or ‘truce’ with Israel, instead of trying to strengthen the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority that rejects every attempt at peace.

By LESLIE SUSSER

 

A YEAR after last summer’s fighting and Gaza is still in ruins. Very little has been done to rebuild. Over 100,000 people are still homeless or living in decrepit bombed-out buildings. The economy has shrunk dramatically. At 43 percent, unemployment is the highest in the world.

Rafah border crossing

A Gaza woman waits at Rafah for a travel permit to cross into Egypt, June 14. – Photo: IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA/REUTERS

Gaza is a powder keg waiting to explode.

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| July 10, 2015
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Hamas’ Business in Ransoming Kidnapped Israelis Escalates With More Demands

Senior Hamas henchman Mahmoud al-Zahar reiterates his demands saying the negotiations are ‘closed’ until Israeli releases dozens of imprisoned terrorists.

By Dalit Halevi

 

Hamas is continuing to demand massive concessions from Israel as a precondition for even starting talks over two Israeli citizens held captive in Gaza.

In an interview Thursday with Turkish media, senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar reiterated conditions set by the terrorist groupThursday for opening talks over 26-year-old Avraham Mengistu and another as-yet unnamed Israeli civilian it is holding hostage, as well as the remains of two soldiers still held by Hamas since last year’s Operation Protective Edge.
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