Tag: Israel

Central American migrants ride a freight train during their journey toward the U.S.-Mexico border in Ixtepec, Mexico. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo)

Senate border plan spurns Obama, but helps firefighters and Israel

Susan Ferrechio · July 23, 2014 7:14 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, South African Navi Pillay, addresses the United Nations Human Rights Council at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Pillay opened an emergency debate in the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council with an assessment that around three-quarters of the 650 Palestinians and 31 Israelis killed in the conflict were civilians, and thousands more have been injured. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

UN rights chief warns of possible Gaza war crimes

John Heilprin · July 23, 2014 6:52 pm

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold a banner and shout slogans, in Paris, France, Wednesday, July 23, 2014 during a demonstration to protest against the Israeli army's shelling in the Gaza strip. Protesters marched through Paris against the Israel-Gaza war under the watch of hundreds of police in an authorized demonstration days after two banned protests degenerated into urban violence.(AP Photo/Francois Mori )

Thousands attend tense pro-Gaza march in Paris

Washington Examiner · July 23, 2014 6:01 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, walking with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, waves upon his arrival at a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Kerry is meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas as efforts for a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel continues. (AP Photo/Abbas Momani, Pool)

National Security

Kerry cites progress in Gaza cease-fire talks

Washington Examiner · July 23, 2014 2:52 pm

This graphic posted on the Israeli Defense Forces website, dated July 20, 2014, shows an artist's rendition of the Shijaiyah neighborhood in Gaza in an attempt to support Israeli government claims that Hamas is using hospitals, mosques and residences to hide, store and fire rockets. Beyond the boom of Israeli airstrikes and the stream of rockets fired from Gaza, Israel and Hamas are also battling to control the message emanating from this latest Israeli-Palestinian conflagration. Propaganda and psychological warfare are nothing new in battle, but technology and social media have exponentially increased the ability of each side to penetrate their intended audiences. (AP Photo/IDF website)

Israel, Hamas battle over public opinion online

Tia Goldenberg · July 23, 2014 11:08 am

A traveler views a departures board Tuesday, July 22, 2014, at the Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. The Federal Aviation Administration is telling U.S. airlines they are prohibited from flying to the Tel Aviv airport in Israel for 24 hours after a Hamas rocket exploded nearby. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Flight bans show skittishness over trouble spots

The Associated Press · July 23, 2014 9:15 am

Mike Bloomberg to Fly to Tel Aviv

Michael Warren · July 23, 2014 12:06 am

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, shakes hands with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah upon his arrival in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. The two men were set to hold a joint news conference regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

UN chief believes Gaza fighting will end soon

Edith Lederer · July 22, 2014 11:55 pm

Israeli police officers secure a destroyed house that was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza, in Yahud, a Tel Aviv suburb near the airport, central Israel, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. As a result, Delta Air Lines and U.S. Airlines decided to cancel their scheduled flights to Israel.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

National Security

Airlines ban flights to Israel after rocket strike

Aron Heller · July 22, 2014 11:34 pm

Travelers congregate in front of a departures board showing one canceled flight to Tel Aviv at Newark Liberty International Airport, Tuesday, July 22, 2014, in Newark, N.J. In a sign of increased caution about flying near combat zones, U.S. and European airlines halted flights to Israel Tuesday after a rocket landed near Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. Delta Air Lines and United Airlines suspended service between the U.S. and Israel indefinitely. The actions come days after a Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine with 298 people on board. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

FAA tells US airlines not to fly to Tel Aviv

Washington Examiner · July 22, 2014 10:52 pm

FILE - In this Monday, July 21, 2014, file photo, a Palestinian family watches rescuers searching for bodies and survivors under the rubble of homes which were destroyed by an Israeli missile strike, in Gaza City. Disagreement over whether to lift the Gaza blockade is a key stumbling block to ending more than two weeks of fighting between the Islamic militant Hamas and Israel. Some in Gaza say they would rather endure more fighting than return to life under blockade. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Gaza blockade key to any Israel-Hamas truce deal

Karin Laub · July 22, 2014 7:47 pm

A destroyed house that was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza, in Yahud, a Tel Aviv suburb near the airport, central Israel, Tuesday. As a result, Delta Air Lines and U.S. Airlines decided to cancel their scheduled flights to Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Beltway Confidential

U.S. flight ban could be Hamas’ biggest success in latest clash with Israel

Spencer Brown · July 22, 2014 5:10 pm