The European Union hit two extremist Palestinian Islamist groups, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), with new sanctions on Friday. Three companies and six people have been targeted with punitive measures for financing the two groups and “enabling their violent actions.” New sanctions apply to Zuheir Shamlakh, who according to the EU, is a money […]
Recent polls have revealed that a majority of Palestinian respondents, both on the West Bank and in Gaza, believe that the October 7 atrocities were a good idea. There could be no clearer illustration that creating a Palestinian state would be Jewish suicide. Next week, however, Labour is set to launch a manifesto committing to recognition […]
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday that it killed an Islamic jihad commander, who is said to have been the logistics head in Rafah for the pro-Iranian militia allied with the Palestinian Islamist Hamas group. The attack, part of airstrikes, took place east of Rafah, the army said, adding that the IDF is […]
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian security officers killed a gunman in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a rare intra-Palestinian clash whose circumstances were disputed and which the fighter’s faction described as an Israeli-style “assassination”. Palestinian Authority security services spokesperson Talak Dweikat said a force sent to patrol Tulkarm overnight came under fire and […]
Jihad Anwar Keys, 24, has been convicted of 11 crimes committed between 2017 and 2019, including the first-degree murder in Topeka of Michael Lowry, Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay announced Friday. Sentencing is set to take place April 5, said a news release put out Friday by Katie Garceran, who recently became public information […]
By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Hamas and the allied Islamic Jihad have rejected an Egyptian proposal that they relinquish power in the Gaza Strip in return for a permanent ceasefire, two Egyptian security sources told Reuters on Monday. Both groups, which have been holding separate talks with Egyptian mediators in […]
Israel says it has arrested 200 members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups in the past week and taken them into its territory for questioning. A statement said some of the suspects had been hiding among the civilian population and surrendered voluntarily. Israel says 700 Palestinian militants have been arrested since it launched its […]