A day after the head of Hamas announced that the murderer of Mazen Fukha was captured, the family of the assassinated official claimed that the assassin was a man named Ashraf Abu Laila, 37, from the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Israel was summarily blamed for the assassination of Hamas commander Mazan Fukha, but it wasn’t the only one interested in his untimely demise.
An Islamic State operative snuck into the Gaza Strip through Hamas’ system of underground tunnels connecting the Palestinian-ruled area with the Sinai Peninsula, Israel said on Friday.
It has been cleared for publication that the IDF recently discovered a terror tunnel from Gaza into southern Israel, marking the first such discovery since 2014’s Operation Protective Edge.
The Islamist group Hamas publicly acknowledged on Friday that it is holding the remains of two Israeli soldiers and also has in its custody two Israeli nationals who went missing in the Gaza Strip.
An indictment presented to the Be’er Sheva District Court on Wednesday asserts that Majd Ouida, a computer engineer and tech expert from Gaza, managed to hack into the IDF’s drone surveillance system, allowing the leaders of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization to view HD footage from drones hovering above the Gaza Strip.
Crossings Authority inspectors together with the Shin Bet intelligence agency recently foiled an attempt to smuggle commercial multicopter drones into Gaza, authorities announced on Sunday.
Security forces arrested a 40-year-old Israeli-Arab woman in October at the Erez Border Crossing between Gaza and Israel and charged her on Thursday with entering Israel from Gaza, to carry out terrorist attacks on behalf of a jihadist organization.
One rocket fired from Gaza fell in an open area inside the city of Sderot in a residential area, damaging a bus and a home Friday night before a second round of code red sirens was heard in the south, this time in the city of Ashkelon.