The Palestinian Authority (PA)

This week barrels of explosives were discovered on the Ashqelon and Ashdod beaches. Apparently the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip were planning to blow them up near an Israeli Navy boat. The western Negev was quiet Senior Hamas legal figures presented the main arguments of Hamas’ response to the Goldstone Report. Read more...

This past week there was an increase in the number of rockets and mortar shells fired into Israeli territory. They were launched by rogue terrorist organizations contrary to Hamas’ continuing policy of rocket fire restraint. The tension between Hamas and Egypt continued following Egypt’s refusal to allow most of the Lifeline-3 convoy into the Gaza Read more...

This past week sporadic rocket and mortar shell fire from the Gaza Strip continued targeting Israeli territory. On January 4, 2010, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Sharm el-Sheikh. President Mubarak updated Mahmoud Abbas on his December 29, 2009 conversation with Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu. Read more...

This past week events focused on the shooting attack in which an Israeli civilian was killed. Two days later an IDF force entered the Kasbah (old city) in Nablus to detain the terrorists who had carried out the attack in Samaria. Hamas initiated a media campaign in response to Egypt’s building a barrier along its Read more...