August 21, 2016
11:47 am

A party thrown for Sufyan Abdu, who had just been released from prison after serving a 14-year sentence for attempting to poison Israelis during the Second Intifada, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber on August 15, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Police arrest 6 more in probe of freed Palestinian convict

East Jerusalem residents to be questioned in connection with Sufyan Abdu, taken in last week for ‘incitement’ 3 days after completing 14-year sentence

By Times of Israel staff and Judah Ari Gross

August 19, 2016
3:10 pm

3 days after ending 14 years jail for poison plot, Palestinian rearrested for incitement

Sufyan Abdu, who planned to kill Jerusalem cafe-goers in 2002, nabbed for ‘incitement’ after Hamas flags flown at his welcome home party

By Judah Ari Gross

December 16, 2014
6:15 pm

Arafat gave us arms for Second Intifada attacks, Hamas official says

Mahmoud al-Zahar: After 2000 Camp David talks broke down, Palestinian leader okayed Islamic terror group’s ‘operations’ against Israel

By Elhanan Miller

August 20, 2014
4:12 pm

A digger removes the cement and debris on August 20, 2014, of a home destroyed the night before in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, which killed the wife and two children of elusive Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif, the Islamist group said. (photo credit: AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Deif: Elusive Hamas terror chief and Israel’s most wanted

The military commander whose wife and son were killed in Gaza has eluded assassination attempts for years

By Adel Zaanoun

March 19, 2014
8:13 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Mohammad Dahlan, left, leave a news conference in Egypt, in February 2007. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Exiled Fatah strongman calls Abbas a ‘catastrophe’

Responding to criticism, Mohammad Dahlan hints that the PA president’s leadership is illegitimate, he wants a third intifada

By Lazar Berman

March 13, 2014
11:30 pm

Abbas accuses rival Dahlan of spying for Israel

PA chief alleges that his former close aide was involved in Arafat’s death and Israel’s killing of Hamas terror chief

By Avi Issacharoff and AP

December 18, 2012
4:01 am

Home Front Defense Minister Avi Dichter (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Threat of arrest gone, Avi Dichter makes official visit to London

Home front defense minister and former Shin Bet chief had been targeted by pro-Palestinian groups in UK seeking to jail Israeli leaders

By Sam Ser

November 13, 2012
7:57 pm

Members of the Hamas executive inspect the destroyed vehicle of Islamic Jihad Movement military leader Omar al-Khati after it was targeted in an Israeli air strike, July 2007 (photo credit: Ahmad Khateib/Flash90)

As rocket fire slows, Israel mulls return to targeted killings

While some are demanding a large-scale Gaza operation, others argue surgical strikes could be best option

By Amy Tiebel

Topic: Salah Shehadeh