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| May 13, 2016
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Captured Hamas teen reveals trove of information to Israel’s Shin Bet

Gaza teenager arrested in April while trying to infiltrate into Israel passes on to the Shin Bet valuable intel about Hamas’ tunnel-digging operations, including terror-tunnels’ layout, methods & operating procedures.

By Lilach Shoval and Gadi Golan

 

An underage Hamas operative arrested by Israeli security forces in April has provided the Shin Bet security agency with valuable information about Hamas’ tunnel-digging operations, the agency revealed Tuesday.

A Hamas terror-tunnel leading from Gaza to Israel – Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

The Southern District Attorney’s Office filed its indictment against the minor, a teenage boy whose identity has been placed under a gag order, with the Beersheba District Court on Tuesday.

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| May 5, 2016
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Arrested Hamas Operative Tells All to IDF

 

Cleared for publication: A Hamas terror operative, caught and arrested in early April after an unsuccessful infiltration attempt into Israel, ‘spills his guts,’ conveying a wealth of information on weapons caches, operatives’ identities, and on terror tunnels.

By Yoav Zitun

 

A Hamas terror operative who is affiliated with the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades was arrested by Israel in early April.

Terror operative Mahmoud 'Atuna (Photo: Shin Bet)

Terror operative Mahmoud ‘Atuna – Photo: Shin Bet

He revealed a wealth of information regarding the tunnels following an interrogation.

The operative, Mohammad Atuna, 29, was arrested after crossing the border fence and in possession of two knives. He crossed with the intent of attacking Israeli forces on the border with Gaza. Continue Reading »

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| April 26, 2016
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REPORT: Iran to send Hamas combatants to fight with Hezbollah in Iraq

 

A-Sharq al-Awsat reports Hamas will be fighting along the Lebanese Shi’ite militant group Hezbollah and Shi’ite Houthi militias in Mosul and Kirkuk.

By i24news

 

Iran is planning to have Hamas fighters join the battle for the liberation of Mosul, Iraq, the Jerusalem Post reports, citing A-Sharq al-Awsat.

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire at Islamic-State militant positions, near Mosul – Photo: JM LOPEZ (AFP/FILE)

Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, has been occupied by the Islamic State group since July 2014. Hamas would be fighting along with soldiers from the Lebanese Shi’ite militant group Hezbollah as well as Shi’ite Houthi militias, the report says. Continue Reading »

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| April 7, 2016
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Hamas’ army of 1000 tunnel diggers keeps Gaza’s lucrative terror business alive

 

Beyond enabling smuggling from Egypt into Gaza, other tunnels are used by Hamas’ elite combat unit, Al Nukhbeh, which recently lost several fighters when a tunnel they were practicing attacks on Israel collapsed.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

While Hamas claims the Gaza Strip suffers from unbearable levels of poverty, the terror organization spends hundreds of thousands of dollars every month to build and maintain its massive terror tunnel network.

With operations along the Israeli and Egyptian borders, the Hamas tunnel system employs a veritable army of over 1,000 regular diggers.

According to a report on Israel Radio, these diggers are paid $300-400 a month. Continue Reading »

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| March 18, 2016
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Hamas’ neglect of Gaza sewage is ticking timebomb for Gazans, Egypt & Israel

 

With large-scale diversion of financial aid to Hamas leaders’ personal accounts or terror tunnels, the lack of sewage treatment could contaminate Gaza’s drinking water or cause a regional cholera or typhoid outbreak, then direct fault at Israel.

By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN

 

Gaza could be a ticking time bomb of disease for the region if a serious sewage issue is not fixed, an Israeli environmental group warned on Thursday.

Gidon Bromberg, founder and Israel director of EcoPeace, told The Jerusalem Post that although there is a sewage treatment plant in the Gaza Strip, it does not have enough electricity to run. Continue Reading »

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| March 11, 2016
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Revealed: Hamas Exploits Gaza, Milks the Palestinians, Scams the World to Demonize Israel

 

From ‘free’ homes with hidden surprise taxes or charges for calling police, Hamas’ tricks for fleecing Gazans and fooling the world about ‘Israeli blockade’ are revealed.

By Ari Yashar

 

Aside from siphoning off international aid for its missile and tunnel programs, Hamas has been cynically manipulating the residents in Gaza by imposing unreasonable taxes to prop up its terror activities, even while deceiving the world into blaming Israel for the bleak situation.

 Hamas continues to complain of the “Israeli blockade” in the international press and accuse it for Gaza’s economic crisis, but meanwhile the terrorist organization is fleecing its residents in various forms of taxes and funneling tens of millions of dollars into its “military arm” every month.
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| March 1, 2016
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Newly obtained Hamas anti-aircraft unit debuts in Gaza parade

 

A Soviet-made anti-aircraft gun, most likely taken out of Libya, was seen in Gaza last week at a Hamas military parade.

By David Rosenberg

 

The Hamas terror group is acquiring anti-aircraft weaponry, the Al-Masdar news agency reported on Monday.

A Soviet-built Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23 anti-air heavy machine gun was reportedly spotted during a Hamas military parade in Gaza last week.

The weapon is believed to have been smuggled into the Gaza Strip via the Sinai Peninsula by ISIS cells operating in the area. If confirmed, this would validate suspicions of expanding cooperating between Hamas and ISIS cells in the Sinai. Continue Reading »

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| February 20, 2016
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Hamas reports to have found Israeli surveillance robot in a Gaza terror-tunnel

 

Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh announced that his Islamic group found an underground IDF vehicle equipped with sensors & cameras that monitored their tunnels.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Hamas claimed on Friday it has captured an Israeli vehicle for monitoring tunnels under the border with Gaza, AFP reports.

IDF surveillance robot - Photo Meir Azulay

IDF surveillance robot – Photo: Meir Azulay

Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s leader in Gaza, said that 10 days ago the group’s armed wing “discovered an underground vehicle on which were installed cameras and sensors to monitor tunnels and fighters.”

Speaking in a sermon at Muslim prayers in the Shati refugee camp where he lives, Haniyeh said the find gave the movement an “advantage.” Continue Reading »

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| February 3, 2016
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Eighth Terrorist Dead After Another Hamas Terror-Tunnel Collapses in Gaza

 

Only a week after 7 Palestinian terrorists were killed digging a Gaza terror-tunnel when it collapsed due to heavy rainfall, another incident yesterday killed yet another Hamas terrorist.

By Ari Soffer

 

A member of Hamas’s “military arm,” the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, has died after an underground tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip Tuesday.

The terrorist was identified by Hamas’s Al Aqsa TV station as 23-year-old Khaider a-Zahar.

His death was formally announced after numerous Palestinian media outlets reported that one person was missing and eight others injured after the tunnel collapsed earlier this evening.

It comes just one week after seven other Hamas terrorists were killed under similar circumstances, when the tunnel they were in collapsed as a result of heavy rainfall. Continue Reading »

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| January 20, 2016
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Hamas leader corrects Abbas’s propaganda: Jihad, not despair, behind Palestinian violence

 

The Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, unimpressed with Mahmoud Abbas’s propaganda remark to Christian media that the current ‘knife attacks’ were the result of Palestinians’ despair, said, “This intifada is a jihad, a holy war fought by the Palestinian people against the Zionist occupation. Only a holy war will drive the occupier out of Palestine.”

By Daniel Siryoti

 

Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh declared Tuesday that the motive driving the recent wave of Palestinian terrorism was the desire to wage an all-out war against Israel.

A call to Jihad on Facebook

“This intifada is not the result of despair.

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| December 30, 2015
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Hamas: Christian Celebration of New Year’s Eve is Totally Forbidden in Gaza Strip

 

In another blow to the dwindling Christian population in Gaza, a Hamas spokesman says New Year’s Eve celebrations (a.k.a. Saint Sylvester’s Day to the Catholic Church in many countries) will not be allowed because it is “contrary to our traditions and an imitation of the West.”

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

Hamas has banned New Year’s Eve celebrations throughout the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources.

Hamas against new years eve celebrations. – Photo: J’POST STAFF,REUTERS

The sources said that owners of restaurants and hotels in the Gaza Strip have been warned not to hold parties on this occasion.

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Ayman Al-Batniji, spokesman for the Hamas police, expressed astonishment over the intention of some hotels and venues to hold parties on New Year’s Eve. Continue Reading »

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| December 18, 2015
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Palestinian Military Wing of Hamas in Gaza Working Directly With Islamic State in Sinai

 

Hamas militants in Gaza are paying tens of thousands of dollars to the ISIS Sinai branch each month, in exchange for the group’s assistance at smuggling weapons into the terrorist enclave.

By Alex Fishman

 

Hamas’ military wing in the Gaza Strip has been transferring tens of thousands of dollars a month to the Islamic State group’s Sinai branch over the past year, via one of its emissaries.

Islamic State militants in Raqqa, Syria. – Photo: AP

The transfer of cash is just one part of the military and strategic cooperation between the two groups. The finances of Hamas’ military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, are independent of those of the organization’s political bureau. Continue Reading »

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| December 9, 2015
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US Federal grant of $100,000 goes to Hamas fundraising front

 

USAID, an American taxpayer-funded organization, gives a substantial grant to a known Hamas linked fundraising group banned in Israel and the UAE for channeling financial assistance to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

By Ari Yashar

 

The US Agency for International Development (USAID), a taxpayer-funded aid organization, is giving a $100,000 federal grant to an Islamic charity banned in Israel for giving aid to Hamas and other terrorist organizations.

Grant information on the USAID endowment reveals the massive allotment to Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) will be given in 2016 for various foreign projects.

IRW was banned in Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2014, after investigations revealed it was a fundraising front for Hamas, channeling its donations to funding attacks and paying terrorists. Continue Reading »

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| December 8, 2015
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Report: ISIS captured weapons cache in Sinai meant for Hamas

 

Having attacked the Egyptian army last summer after they intercepted an arms cache in route to the Gaza smuggling-tunnels, ISIS took the illegal weapons – but told Hamas the supply had been destroyed in their attack on the Egyptian Army.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

An Islamic State (ISIS)-affiliated group may have taken the upper hand in the ongoing struggle for power in the Sinai desert and Gaza, a report revealed Monday.

The Sinai has recently witnessed some of the heaviest fighting between security forces and Islamists since the army ousted President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013. Continue Reading »

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| November 30, 2015
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Listen: PA shuts down Hamas radio station over ‘incitement’

 

Gaza-based Al-Aqsa Voice Radio network silenced in the PA territory after Fatah issues threats.

By Tova Dvorin

 

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has banned a Gaza-based Hamas network from broadcasting within its borders Monday, it announced on its official Facebook page – apparently to stop incitement

While Israel has cracked down on incitement against Israelis and Jews from within the PA, the PA itself has apparently begun monitoring – and filtering – broadcasts as well.

Since last week, many staff members of the Al-Aqsa Radio Hamas channel’s PA branch have been arrested on “various pretexts,” sources told Walla! News, and were also threatened anonymously over the phone and on Facebook. Continue Reading »

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