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Attacks continued along the Gaza Strip border this past week. Terrorist networks launched rockets and mortar shells into Israeli territory and shot at IDF forces and civilians operating near the security fence. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak authorized the building of 445 new living units in settlement blocks in Judea and Samaria. Read more...

This past week there was a slight increase of attacks initiated by terrorist networks operating in the Gaza Strip. A rocket was fired at the western Negev and in two separate incidents Israeli civilians working near the Gaza security fence were shot at. In response the Israeli Air Force attacked a tunnel in the northern Read more...

In the northern Gaza Strip the IDF opened fire at three suspicious Palestinians who were apparently trying to plant an IED near the security fence, killing one. Following the incident two mortar shells were fired into Israeli territory. In response the Israeli Air Force attacked a tunnel to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip from Read more...

This week the sixth Fatah conference ended with the election of the Central Committee and the Revolutionary Council, Fatah’s two most important institutions. On the ground, relative quiet continued in the western Negev. On August 14 inside the Gaza Strip an exceptional event occurred in Rafah when Hamas’ security forces confronted operatives of an Islamist Read more...

This past week one rocket hit was identified in an open area near an Israeli village in the western Negev, the first in three weeks. The Fatah conference which opened on August 4 ended on August 9 with elections for the movement’s the central committee and revolutionary council. Before the elections there were interpersonal struggles Read more...

The relative calm in the western Negev continues. This week’s events focused on the sixth general Fatah convention which began on August 4. Hamas, on the other hand, continues smiling at the United States and the West, using softened rhetoric completely different from the extremist language employed when speaking to the Palestinians. Read more...