Tag: territory
Hamas’s Next Objective: Seizing Control Of West Bank
JERUSALEM - The Hamas terror group will take over the West Bank if Israel evacuates the strategic territory to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, said Mahmoud al-Zahar, widely considered the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Quick Takes: News From Israel You May Have Missed
Large numbers of Israeli forces maintained some of their positions in Hebron ahead of the planned eviction of 11 families living in a Jewish-owned...
Targeting Terrorist Leaders
Israel's targeting terrorist leaders in order to thwart attacks against its citizens continues to draw criticism around the world. Some of it, of course, is from those who are acting viscerally out of a deep anti-Israel or anti-Jewish animus. But there are some who are disturbed over the fact that those marked by Israel have not been convicted in a court of law, and that Israel sometimes operates in territory under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority to get at them. What followed last week's helicopter attack against suspected terrorists should be illuminating.