Palestinian terrorism

Katz assures West Bank leaders IDF Central Command head Bluth has not been dismissed

Katz's clarification followed a statement he made during a live Channel 14 interview on Sunday, in which he called for Bluth to be removed before walking back his claims.

Defense Minister Israel Katz attends a cornerstone-laying ceremony for the new settlement of Doran in the Mount Hebron region of the West Bank, June 16, 2026.
(From R-L) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Security Council head Shmuel Ben-Ezra, military secretary Maj.-Gen. Guy Markizeno, IDF chief Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, IDF Intelligence head Maj.-Gen. Shlomi Binder, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and Shin Bet head David Zini consult, July 24, 2026.

Netanyahu orders West Bank crackdown after two Israelis killed in terror shooting amid clashes

Israeli security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack near the Israeli settlement of Alon Moreh, in the West Bank, July 23, 2026

Israeli man seriously wounded in West Bank terror stabbing, two Palestinian attackers killed

A journalist holds the blood-covered camera belonging to Palestinian photojournalist Mariam Dagga, a journalist who freelanced for AP since the start of the war and who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, during her funeral on August 25, 2025.

Press watchdog CPJ reviewing Gaza casualty database over 'journalists' tied to Hamas, PIJ


Israel's inability to strategize on Gaza prevents disarming, replacement of Hamas - analysis

"The IDF is preparing a plan to disarm Hamas by resuming fighting." The overall sense is that Israel will need to have a plan in place in case the US-led one doesn’t work or if Hamas re-arms.

Hamas terrorists look on as they escort members of the Red Cross in Gaza City, November 12, 2025

On This Day: Yasser Arafat, PNC, announce Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Algiers

November 15 is also the birthday of Arafat's successor as PA leader, Mahmoud Abbas, who was born in Safed during the British Mandate in 1935.

Yasser Arafat raises his hand as he declares an independent Palestinian state during the PNC meeting in Algiers. November 15, 1988.

Never again: Executing Hamas terrorists best way for Israel to prevent future kidnappings - opinion

KNOW COMMENT: It is time to have a public debate on the issue of hostage and prisoner exchanges before Hamas can seize any more.

Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel in a swap for hostages and a ceasefire last month. The release of over 2,000 terrorists, including hardened and experienced Palestinian mass murderers, will incentivize future kidnappings, the writer argues.

Can the IDF avert an explosion of terror in the West Bank? - analysis

The West Bank has been largely ignored by the media due to Israel's other fronts - but that does not mean it was ignored by the IDF and Jerusalem's security apparatus.

IDF soldiers operate during an Israeli raid in Tammun near Tubas in the West Bank, November 4, 2025

Israel's Shin Bet thwarts imminent attacks from West Bank, 40 Bethlehem terrorists arrested

The Shin Bet said it arrested around 40 Palestinian terrorists from Bethlehem in a major bust that thwarted imminent attacks, marking the first large-scale operation under new chief David Zini.

Israeli security forces operate after settlers torched the Al-Hajj Hamida Mosque in the West Bank, November 13, 2025

Israel, US reach deal to deport 200 terrorists from beyond Yellow Line in Gaza

Notably, no country has agreed to take the Hamas terrorists in after they are deported.

A Hamas terrorist gestures as people gather around an ambulance carrying a body retrieved from a tunnel in an area north of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 28, 2025

FM Sa'ar: PA trying to ‘fool the world’ on pay-for-slay despite finance minister dismissal

Sa'ar's comments come after PA President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed the PA's finance minister, seemingly for illicit prisoner payments.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas looks on as he visits the Istishari Cancer Center in Ramallah, in the West Bank, May 14, 2025.

Hamas says terrorists holed up in Rafah will not surrender

"The enemy must know that the concept of surrender and handing oneself over does not exist in the dictionary of the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades," the group said.

Palestinian Hamas terrorists stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025.

Netanyahu backs Ben-Gvir's death penalty for terrorists law, Hirsch tells Knesset

The statements came during Ben-Gvir’s discussion and vote to advance the death penalty for terrorists bill ahead of its first reading in the plenum.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir pushes for a bill to see terrorists receive the death penalty.

Israel considering capture of Hamas-controlled Gaza territory in response to ceasefire breach

Discussions with the United States are currently underway to determine the scope of the expansion into Gaza.

An Israeli soldier stands near military vehicles, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, at the Israel-Gaza border in southern Israel October 12, 2025.