The Palestinian Authority (PA)

News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (August 17 – 23, 2016)

This past week terrorist events focused on the rocket attack targeting the southern Israeli city of Sderot. A Salafi jihadist network and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) issued separate claims of responsibility for the attack. Israel and Hamas both made it clear that they did not want the hostilities to escalate.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (August 10-16, 2016)

This past week prominent terrorist events were a stabbing attack in the A-Tor neighborhood of east Jerusalem and two attempted stabbing attacks, one at a roadblock near the community of Shaked (northern Samaria) and the other at a roadblock in Hebron. The Israeli security forces recently exposed a number of terrorist squads in Judea and
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Spotlight on Iran* (July 31 – August 14, 2016)

At least six Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) fighters and one regular army officer were killed during the past two weeks battling Syrian rebels in the Aleppo region. Qasem Soleimani, commander of the IRGC’s Qods Force praised the brigade, which so far has lost about 400 of its fighters in combat in Syria. A delegation
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (August 3-9, 2016)

This past week Palestinians continued throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli security forces and Israeli vehicles on the roads in Judea and Samaria. They also shot at an Israeli vehicle near Pisgat Ze’ev in north Jerusalem. The Israeli security forces recently detained two Palestinians working for international aid organizations in the Gaza Strip who
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (July 27 – August 2, 2016)

This past week terrorist events focused on an attempted stabbing attack of IDF soldiers by a Palestinian at a roadblock at the entrance to Nablus. Muhammad al-Faqih, who murdered Michael Mark, was killed by Israeli security forces.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (July 20 – 26, 2016)

This past week the throwing of stones and Molotov cocktails and shootings at passing Israeli cars continued. However, no serious terrorist attacks were carried out. This year as well Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip are exploiting the summer vacation to give children and adolescents military training.
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