Hamas - an internationally recognized terrorist organization - deliberately embeds its military operations deep in residential areas, and exploits its own civilian population as human shiel ...

Hamas positions its rocket launching sites, weapons caches, and command centers in areas surrounded by civilian buildings, and stores explosives and weapons in and around schools, mosques, ...

In the first direct hit on an Israeli target since the recent escalation in rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, a paint factory in the Sderot industrial area was struck and bu ...

Hamas uses schools, hospitals and mosques to support violence. After the organization kidnapped three Israelis, our soldiers began targeting the resources that fuel its terrorism.

One of the detained suspects is Ziad Awad, 42, of Idhna, a Hamas operative who was imprisoned in the past and released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange.