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IDF troops met with a disturbing tactic at base of Hamas's Force 17 near Jabaliya; 'We stand ready to face more instances of such cynical and brutal use of civilians,' Israeli officer says. IDF troops who engaged in fierce combat with Hamas terrorists for control over an operations base in the Gaza Strip were met with a disturbing tactic: roughly 100 women and children were pushed forward by Hamas to act as a human barrier.

Early on the morning of March 16th, 1984, William Buckley left for work at the American embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Officially, Mr. Buckley, a decorated veteran of the Special Forces, served as the political officer at the embassy. In reality, however, Mr. Buckley was the embassy’s CIA station chief. On his way to the compound, Buckley’s car was stopped by a group of masked men, who forced him from his car at gunpoint. His assailants would later be identified as terrorists from the group Islamic Jihad, which served as an alias for the real perpetrators, Hezbollah. The circumstances surrounding the...

Abu Mazen is not as terrorism-free as might have been thought - and he is in fact connected with one of the 20th century's most infamous terrorist crimes: the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes - including American citizen David Berger - at the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany in 1972. Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen, long the treasurer of the PLO, was the man who provided financing for that attack, according to information compiled by Israeli attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center. Darshan-Leitner told Arutz-7 that PA sources themselves told her that it is...

JERUSALEM: The Israeli military has arrested a member of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's presidential guard who had been involved in numerous shooting attacks, an Israeli security source said. Force 17 member Bashar Said Kamal Khatib, 30, was arrested in his home town of Qalandia just south of the West Bank town of Ramallah during Israel's reoccupation of West Bank cities in April, the source said. Details of his arrest were released after the conclusion of an investigation into Khatib's activities. The probe found Khatib guilty of involvement in numerous shooting attacks at soldiers and Israeli buses, the source said. Meanwhile,...