Middle Orient

Hamas’s long-planned attack is an effort to position itself as the defenders of Jerusalem. Israel must shatter the terror group’s assumptions Well before the Sheikh Jarrah dispute erupted, Hamas was prepared to launch rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, including toward Jerusalem. Its goal was to tie the Gaza Strip …

It’s about Hamas seeing a chance to seize the narrative and increase its own influence and control over Palestinians in Jerusalem As I write this, rockets are raining down on Israel from Gaza, and protests are being instigated in cities throughout the country. People have already died as a result …

In the 1980s, Rabbi Meir Kahane’s violent anti-Arab ideology was considered so repugnant that Israel banned him from parliament and the U.S. listed his party as a terrorist group. Today, his disciples march through the streets by the hundreds, chanting “Death to Arabs” and assaulting any they come across. This …

Turmoil from the battle between Israel and Hamas spilled over into the West Bank on Friday, sparking the most widespread Palestinian protests in years as hundreds of young demonstrators in multiple towns clashed with Israeli troops, who shot and killed at least 11 people. Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip …

Turkey’s President said late Thursday that he expects Nigeria to show solidarity with the Palestinian people amid the latest attacks by Israel on Jerusalem and Gaza. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari discussed the necessary international attitude towards Israel in response to the regime’s inhumane attacks on …

Gaza (IP) – As the Gaza health system was struggling with a runaway surge of coronavirus cases, Authorities cleared out hospital operating rooms, suspended nonessential care and redeployed doctors to patients having difficulty breathing. In Israel, airstrikes and artillery attacks so far, at least 120 Palestinians, including 31 children, have …

The UN Security Council will publicly discuss the worsening Israeli-Palestinian tensions on Sunday. The decision to hold the meeting came after reaching a compromise over US objections to a meeting on Friday. Diplomats said the United States, a close ally of Israel, had initially suggested a virtual public meeting could …

Gaza (IP) -In response to the Israeli regime’s threat of a ground offensive against Gaza, the spokesman for the military branch of the Islamic Jihad Movement stressed that the ground battle was the shortest way for the resistance to victory and that the fate of the Zionist soldiers would be …

Such statements are agreed by consensus. All 15 council members also have to agree to a meeting under rules guiding the body’s virtual operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The United States has objected to a request by China, Norway and Tunisia for a public, virtual meeting of the United Nations …

Some 2,000 rockets fired since fighting began on Monday. The Israeli Air Force bombed Hamas’s underground tunnel network late Thursday night in the northern Gaza Strip in what military officials said was one of the most aggressive aerial assaults in recent years. In a 40-minute-long air campaign which began around …