Hamas

News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (April 15 – 21, 2015)

This past week Israel’s south remained quiet. In Judea and the most prominent event was the vehicular attack carried out at bus stop at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem. Senior Hamas figures attending Palestinian Prisoners’ Day events said the organization intended to abduct Israeli soldiers and “settlers” everywhere. Israel and the Palestinian Authority reached
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (April 1 – 14, 2015)

These past two weeks Israel’s south remained quiet. In Samaria there were two stabbings at IDF roadblocks. In Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem stones were thrown at Israeli vehicles. The Israel Security Agency recently exposed a Hamas cell that planned to carry out a shooting attack targeting IDF soldiers at a roadblock at the entrance to
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Initial Hamas Reactions to the Long-Term Lull Proposal in Return for Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and Lifting the Siege

In March 2015 the Hamas media reported that Hamas had recently received a proposal for a long-term lull in the hostilities with Israel (as long as five years) in return for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and lifting the siege (on several occasions Hamas figures referred to a ceasefire, hudna).
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Who Is a Terrorist and Who Is a Journalist? Hamas Operative Abdallah Mortaja, Killed in Operation Protective Edge, as a Case Study.

About a week after the end of Operation Protective Edge the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate issued a list of 17 names, allegedly of journalists who had been killed in the operation. The list was published by the PA’s Wafa News Agency, which received it from the Hamas-controlled Gaza office of the ministry of information.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (March 25 – 31, 2015)

This past week In Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip Palestinians marked Land Day without exceptional events. Israel agreed to thaw tax revenues collected for the Palestinians, frozen for the past four months. Riyadh al-Maliki, foreign minister of the Palestinian national consensus government, said that on April 1, 2015 he would attend the ICC ceremony
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (March 17 – 24, 2015)

A Hamas cell was exposed in Qalqiliya, handled by terrorist operatives in the Gaza Strip. It planned to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel. Official spokesmen for the Palestinian Authority (PA) claimed the election in Israel was an internal matter. They claimed the Palestinians would negotiate with any new Israeli government for a two-state.
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