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The Hamas terror group murdered one of the leaders of the anti-Hamas protests that took place in Gaza last week. Over the weekend, Hamas terrorists abducted Odai Naser Saadi, 22, tortured him for four hours and executed him. They then dumped his body at the doorstep of his family’s home with a message: “This is the price for those who criticize Hamas.”

Despite the influence of the west on Iran's popular culture, Hafez, a poet who died over 600 years ago, still gets the crowds flocking, writes Robert Tait The pilgrims could have been on day out at Graceland. Representing the full range of the age and socio-economic spectrums, they came to pay homage to an icon of modern popular culture. But the hero being saluted was not Elvis Presley or any comparable figure from the age of mass communication, but a poet who died centuries ago, and whose messages remain disputed and obscure among even the most literary of his fellow...

(IsraelNN.com) In an interview with the Israeli website Ynet (Yediot Acharonot newspaper online), the wife of the head terrorist of the Islamic Jihad in Samaria declared that the Jihad will continue. Nawal Sa'adi, wife of imprisoned Islamic Jihad leader Bassam Sa'adi, told Ynet that Islam commands Jihad. For the purpose of "liberating Palestine" and "liberating Al-Aqsa mosque," Mrs. Sa'adi said, she would not hesitate to sacrifice all of her children. She said that she is proud of those of her children who have already died as "martyrs" (shaheed).