IDF Soldier Shot on Gaza Border: “I Was Saved by a Miracle”

Lt. Bar Vaknin of the elite Givati Brigade who was shot in the stomach by a Hamas sniper in July said in an interview that he was, “saved by a miracle.” Vakhnin was stationed on the security fence separating Israel from Gaza, protecting Israel from the Hamas-led ‘March of Return’ that has brought tens of […]

The Seductive Appeal of Jihadist Terror

Louis Rene Beres

While opposing jihadist terror has become a security obligation in the US, Europe, and Israel, too-little analytic attention has been directed toward focused remedies for such terror, those that could build solidly upon searches for immortality.

IDF Says Detonated Large IED on Gaza Border Crossing

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Thursday that its soldiers had detonated a large improvised explosive device (IED) planted on the Israel-Gaza border fence. The army claimed that it had been placed there during a recent violent Palestinian protest. The discovery of the IED as Israel reopened the sole pedestrian crossing with the Gaza Strip, […]

Palestinian Journalists: We Do Not Have a Free Media

Khaled Abu Toameh

Palestinian journalists living and working under the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip continue to face huge challenges that make it almost impossible for them to operate free of pressure and intimidation.

Fire Kites Sting Negev Honey Farms Just Before Rosh Hashanah

In addition to the bees themselves being scorched by aerial attacks of flammable kites and balloons launched from Gaza, when the fields are burnt then any remaining bees cannot produce honey because there are no flowers on which to graze.

Fatah and Hamas: Reconciliation or Divorce?

Mordechai Kedar

There are manifold reasons that make it so difficult to effect a compromise between the two movements and they involve every aspect of Palestinian Arab life. They do agree on Israel.