The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

During Operation Cast Lead a promotional film was seized about a military academy established by Hamas named after Dr. Abdallah Azzam, Osama bin Laden’s ideologue.

Hamas turned him into a role model, although in practice the movement restricts the activities of the global jihad networks in the Gaza Strip.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (May 26-June 2, 2009)

Hamas’s policy of restraint continues, and no rockets or mortar shells were fired into Israeli territory this past week. In the Mt. Hebron region the Israeli security forces killed a wanted Hamas terrorist operative who had been involved in suicide bombing attacks in Israeli cities in the 1990s. In Qalqiliya the Palestinian security forces killed
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (May 18-26, 2009)

This past week a rocket hit a house in the southern Israeli city of Sderot. It was the first time since the end of March that a rocket hit was identified there. In addition, terrorist squads detonated an IED and opened light-arms fire on an IDF patrol along the border security fence with the Gaza
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New Palestinian Authority Government Headed by Salam Fayyad (Initial Report)

On May 19, 2009, the new Palestinian Authority government, headed by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (who continues as finance minister) was sworn in.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict May 12-18, 2009

The trend toward calm in the western Negev continued this past week, and there were no mortar shell or rocket attacks. In Judea and Samaria as well there were no terrorist attacks worth mentioning. Nakba Day (referring to the establishment of the State of Israel, which is called “the catastrophe” by the Palestinians) was marked
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The Palestinian Authority exploits the Pope’s visit to make political and propaganda capital and attack Israel, especially regarding the sovereignty over Jerusalem (updated to May 12)

The Palestinian Authority has exploited Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority to make political and propaganda capital and to attack Israel on a number of issues, especially the sensitive one of sovereignty over Jerusalem.
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