The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

The uncovering of an operative infrastructure belonging to Hamas (in Judea) thwarted plans to abduct Israelis and use them as bargaining chips in negotiations for the release of prisoners.

Issued on 21/12/2006 Type Article
In recent months, the Israeli security forces have uncovered a squad consisting of Hamas operatives in the Judea region. Instructed by senior operatives from the Gaza Strip, the squad members were planning to abduct a settler or a soldier in the Jerusalem area and use him as a bargaining chip in the negotiations for the release of Hamas detainees held in Israeli prisons.
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News of the Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation December 1-14, 2006

Issued on 14/12/2006 Type Article
The Palestinian terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip continue to violate the ceasefire by sporadically firing Qassam rockets at population centers in the western Negev. However, the scope of rocket fire from the Strip has decreased, and there has been a sharp decrease in other forms of terrorist activity. Responsibility for most of the continued rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and the attempted terrorist attack was claimed by various Fatah factions. Negotiations for the establishment of a Palestinian national unity government have stalled, leading to increased anarchy in the Palestinian Authority-administered territories, especially the Gaza Strip
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Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya firmly positioned himself in the Iranian-Syrian axis during visits to Damascus and Teheran

Issued on 13/12/2006 Type Article
Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya firmly positioned himself in the Iranian-Syrian axis during visits to Damascus and Teheran. He made it clear that Hamas rejected Israel’s right to exist and supported its destruction by terrorism. He totally rejected the demands of Abu Mazen, the Quartet and the international community.
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Women in terrorism: a Palestinian feminist revolution or gender oppression?

Issued on 04/12/2006 Type Article
The place of women in terrorism and the extensive media coverage received by attacks involving women have been on the agenda of discussions of global terrorism. Throughout history, women have participated in national struggles for independence, in wars and more recently, in terrorist attacks.
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News of the Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation November 15-30, 2006

Issued on 01/12/2006 Type Article
The focus of the past two weeks was an unwritten understanding for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. It was reached in a phone conversation between Palestinian Authority chairman Abu Mazen and Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, and began on November 26. Despite the understanding, the Palestinian terrorist organizations continued sporadic rocket fire at Sderot and other western Negev population centers. The IDF, on the other hand, pulled its forces out of the Gaza Strip and so far has exercised restraint and not responded to the rocket fire.

In the political arena, in a speech on November 27, the Israeli prime minister sent a conciliatory message to the Palestinians. He called upon them to implement the road map and enter into a dialogue with Israel
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The Palestinian terrorist organizations, have recently made more frequent use of civilians as human shields to protect their bases and operatives

Issued on 23/11/2006 Type Article
The Palestinian terrorist organizations, aware that the IDF will not deliberately attack civilians, have recently made more frequent use of civilians as human shields to protect their bases and operatives. Hamas and other terrorist organizations have publicly praised the tactic of using human shields and called for continuation. Hamas and other terrorist organizations have publicly praised the tactic of using human shields and called for continuation
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Information on The Israeli Palestinian Conflict
The Palestinian Authority is a semi-autonomous entity which controls the Palestinian population in Judea and Samaria. The Palestinian Authority was established in 1994 with the signing of the Oslo Accords. Formally, according to the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority also controls the Gaza Strip, but in reality it lost control in June 2007 when Hamas' violently took control. Since Yasser Arafat's death, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has headed the Palestinian Authority.
The Palestinian Authority's status was severely damaged by the Palestinian terrorist campaign (the Al-Aqsa, or second intifada). Since it was unable and unwilling to prevent terrorist attacks from being carried out from its territory, Israel ended cooperation with it and most Palestinian Authority activities came to a standstill. Today the Palestinian Authority security forces maintain internal order and prevent terrorist attacks.
Many countries around the world give the Palestinian Authority some sort of recognition as a political entity, although most of them do not recognize it as a sovereign state. Some of them formalized their diplomatic relations and promoted their representatives to the status of ambassadors. Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas recently applied to the UN for membership. On September 23, 2011, he formally appealed to the secretary general of the UN to recognize the state of "Palestine."