General Information

News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (June 9-15, 2010)

This past week’s terrorist events focused on the shooting attack of an Israeli patrol car on the road from Beersheba to Jerusalem. The results of the flotilla to the Gaza Strip spurred many countries and organizations to proclaim intentions to send ships of their own.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (June 2-8, 2010)

Intermittent rocket fire from the Gaza Strip continued targeting the western Negev. An anti-tank missile was fired at an IDF force engaged in routine security activities along the border. On June 7 the IDF prevented a terrorist squad from infiltrating Israel from the sea and carrying out a terrorist attack. Four operatives of the squad
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (May 26-June 1, 2010)

During the night of May 31 IDF forces took control of the aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip. Five ships were taken without exceptional incident.. The pro-Palestinian activists on board the ship, which had been sent by the Turkish Islamist organization IHH, attacked the soldiers with clubs, knives, stones and other cold weapons. At one
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (May 18-25, 2010)

This past week two rockets fell in open areas in the western Negev. Clashes continued between IDF soldiers and squads of terrorist operatives The aid flotilla of nine ships to the Gaza Strip is scheduled to arrive between May 26 and 28 (no exact date available).
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (May 11-17, 2010)

This past week the western Negev remained quiet. On May 15, the 62nd so-called “Nakba Day” was marked in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, commemorating what the Palestinians consider the “catastrophe” of the establishment of the State of Israel. On May 14 the cargo ship Rachel Corrie left Ireland on its way to the
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A New Book by Dr. Anat Berko: The Smarter Bomb. Women and Children as Suicide Bombers

For the past several years the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center has dealt with female suicide bombers as part of its overall coverage of suicide bombing terrorism. Dr. Anat Berko, a criminologist who received her PhD from Bar Ilan University, studied the involvement of women in anti-Israeli terrorism and revealed surprising facts. The Smarter Bomb
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