Israel Defence Forces bombed terrorist targets in Gaza yesterday, including near Gaza City, in the strongest retaliation against mortar and rocket attacks on Israel since the end of Operation Cast Lead a year ago, Arutz 7 reports.
At least two terrorists were killed, and three tunnels and a weapons factory were successfully targeted. Hamas officials said four other terrorists are missing.
One of the tunnels was in central Gaza and was intended to be used for infiltration …

Lebanese analyst Ibrahim al-Amin, who is affiliated with the Hezbollah terrorist group, says that the military might of the Gaza terrorist organisation Hamas in 2010 is equal to that of Hezbollah’s in 2006 – before the Israel’s war againt the Lebanese terrorists.
Al-Amin wrote that “fighters from Hamas and other factions have been training for a year on the various uses of anti-aircraft missiles and on how to simultaneously set off a large number of explosives, …

Israel will notify Egypt by Sunday of its decision regarding the release of 50 “heavy” prisoners that Hamas is unwilling to forego in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Ynet reports.
Israel has opposed the release of these prisoners thus far. Sources said that Israel’s decision will determine whether the swap deal will succeed or fail.
The sources said the “heavy” prisoners issue is the last remaining obstacle to a prisoner exchange. They added that former …

Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza escalated attacks against Israel yesterday and fired Russian-made anti-tank missiles for the first time, Arutz 7 reports.
The missiles exploded in the fields of Kibbutz Alumim, adjacent to the separation fence, and no injuries or damage was reported.
The advanced missiles were of the type usually fired from helicopters, and they carry a larger payload and have a longer range than anti-tank missiles that previously have been used in attacks against Israel.
The firing …

The Islamic terrorist group Hamas have banned girls from riding behind men on motor scooters and forbade women from dancing at the opening of a folk museum, and girls in some public schools must wear headscarves and cloaks, Bloomberg reports.
Signs of Hamas’s creeping Islamisation are everywhere in Gaza that the terrorist group have run since 2007.
Hamas officials claim that they have no plans to impose Islamic law. “What you are seeing are incidents, not policy,” …

Terrorists from Gaza, where Hamas vowed three days ago there would be a total halt to rocket attacks, struck the Western Negev, Arutz 7 reports.
No one was wounded, and no damage was reported in the missile explosions in the Shaar HaNegev region, where rocket-battered Sderot is located. The Air Force retaliated near dawn today and hit a weapons warehouse and two tunnels used for smuggling weapons, merchandise and terrorists.
One day after the Hamas announcement of …

No fewer than 32 children have been killed over the past three years while working in Gaza arms smuggling tunnels, Arutz 7 reports.
A new report, prepared by an organization called the “Palestinian National Society for Democracy and Law”, was released on Saturday and it deals with the child abuse perpetrated on child labourers in the tunnels used to smuggle weapons, arms and other items from Egypt into Gaza.
The report attempts to shift some of the blame …

The US House of Representatives condemned yesterday the UN report that accuses Israeli forces of committing war crimes in Gaza early this year as irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy, Ha’aretz reports.
With a 344-36 vote, the House passed a nonbinding resolution that urged President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to oppose unequivocally any endorsement of the report. Twenty-two representatives voted present.
The report, commissioned by the UN Human Rights …

Israel’s Military Intelligence chief Major General Amos Yadlin says that terror organizations in Gaza have significantly improved their ability to attack Israeli population centres, and in recent days, several successful tests of Iranian-made rockets have been carried out, adding that the rockets have a range of up to 40 miles, which means that the Tel Aviv area is under threat of rocket fire from the Strip, Jerusalem Post reports.
Yadlin warned that Iran was continuing to …

Terrorists launched two Kassam rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel overnight Saturday, Jerusalem Post reports.
The rockets exploded in open areas in the western Negev. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
“Colour Red” warning sirens were heard in Sderot following the launch.

Terrorists in northern Gaza fired a mortar shell today at a kibbutz in the Sha’ar HaNegev region of the western Negev, Arutz 7 reports.
No one was injured in the attack, which was aimed at workers in the agricultural fields of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, located near the security fence.
The Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council area is located midway between Be’er Sheva and Ashkelon and is bound on the west by Gaza. More than 6,000 Jews live in …

The terror group that rules Judea and Samaria, which the world media likes to call “moderate” – Fatah – has never recognized Israel’s right to exist and has no intention of ever doing so, member of the Fatah Central Committee Rafik Natsheh said yesterday.
Natsheh, who also serves as chairman of the faction’s disciplinary “court,” is the second senior official in recent months to make similar statements regarding Israel, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Earlier this year, Muhammad …

I stumbled upon a great reader’s comment on the Washington Post to an article written by Israel’s ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The article itself was quite rubbish, pretty much all the same Olmert has said before, justifying his actions etc. But the comment by someone named “nlkatz” caught my eye because it’s the same thing I’ve been telling over and over:
Why did the Palestinians reject Olmert’s offer of the end of 2008?
Probably for the very …

Did you think that Hamas are just a bunch of bearded angry men who only think about how to blow themselves up among Israelis? Well, it has emerged that they also have a sense of humour. Or, rather, they’re just utter idiots.
The latest propaganda invention by the Gazan terror organisation is, quite honestly, remarkable. They suspect that Israeli intelligence services are supplying Gaza with chewing gum that boosts the sex drive in order to “corrupt …

Since the end of the IDF operation in Gaza on 18th Jan 2009, about 366,282 tons of aid and over 45.693 million liters of fuel have been delivered to the Gaza Strip, according to Israel’s Government.
At the Cabinet meeting of 22nd March, the Government of Israel instructed the bodies dealing with the matter to enable the entry – without restriction – of foodstuffs to the residents of Gaza from all relevant sources, after it has …

According to some sources in the terrorist group Hamas, former US President Jimmy Carter passed a message to the group from the Obama administration.
The contents of the purported message are not known, and the sources didn’t say if it was an oral or written message, WorldNetDaily reports.
Hamas’ chief political adviser Ahmed Yousef didn’t confirm or deny the existance of this message, but the said in an interview with WorldNetDaily that Carter is the “right person” …