Tag: Palestinians

A Palestinian man rides past a transition center for newly released convicts that was empty and not yet operational, that was hit by an overnight Israeli missile strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Beltway Confidential

Poll finds Republicans sympathize with Israel much more strongly than Democrats

Philip Klein · July 15, 2014 4:52 pm

An Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket from Gaza Strip in the costal city of Ashkelon, Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Good news: Obama administration supports a border fence — in Israel

Cal Thomas · July 14, 2014 7:32 pm

An Israeli armored personnel drives along the Israel and Gaza border, Sunday, July 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Benjamin Netanyahu calls Israeli military response ‘surgical’

Zack Colman · July 13, 2014 4:27 pm

Smoke rises following an Israeli strike on Gaza, seen from the Israel Gaza border on Sunday, July 13, 2014. Israel briefly deployed ground troops inside the Gaza Strip for the first time early Sunday as its military warned northern Gaza residents to evacuate their homes, part of a widening offensive that has killed more than 160 Palestinians. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

AP Analysis: Mideast crisis a strategic stalemate

Dan Perry · July 13, 2014 3:17 pm

Israelis stand on a hill at the Israeli town of Sderot, overlooking the Gaza Strip, as they watch smoke rising following an Israeli strike on Gaza, Saturday, July 12, 2014. Ignoring international appeals for a cease-fire, Israel on Saturday widened its range of Gaza bombing targets to civilian institutions with suspected Hamas ties and announced it would hit northern Gaza "with great force" to prevent rocket attacks from there on Israel. More than 150 Palestinians have been killed in five days of bombardment. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel troops briefly raid Gaza as offensive rages

KHALED KHAZZIHAMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · July 13, 2014 5:04 am

An Israeli soldier leans on the barrel of the gun of a mobile artillery unit at a position on the Israel-Gaza border, Friday, July 11, 2014. Gaza rocket fire struck a gas station and set it ablaze Friday in southern Israel, seriously wounding one person as rocket fire also came from Lebanon for the first time in the four-day-long offensive. Rocket fire by Palestinian militants continued from Gaza toward various locations in southern Israel. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Palestinians draft UN resolution urging cease-fire

Edith Lederer · July 12, 2014 3:30 am

Palestinian relatives mourn over the body of Noor Alnajedy, 10, who was killed during an Israeli air strike on a building near his family house, at the main mosque during his funeral in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday July 11, 2014. Israel launched the Gaza offensive to stop incessant rocket fire that erupted after three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and killed in the West Bank and a Palestinian teenager was abducted and burned to death in an apparent reprisal attack. The military says it has hit more than 1,100 targets already, mostly what it identified as rocket-launching sites, bombarding the territory on average every five minutes. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

Over 100 killed in Gaza as rockets fall on Israel

Aron Heller · July 12, 2014 2:17 am

‘We Will Continue Living From One Round of Shooting to the Next’

‘We Will Continue Living From One Round of Shooting to the Next’

Lee Smith · July 11, 2014 6:05 pm

Palestinians inspect the rubble of a building after it was hit by an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Friday, July 11, 2014. Israel launched the Gaza offensive to stop incessant rocket fire that erupted after three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and killed in the West Bank and a Palestinian teenager was abducted and burned to death in an apparent reprisal attack. The military says it has hit more than 1,100 targets already, mostly what it identified as rocket-launching sites, bombarding the territory on average every five minutes.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

UN doubts legality of Israeli air campaign

Washington Examiner · July 11, 2014 1:39 pm

FILE - In this July 9, 2014 file photo, an Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket from the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel's "Iron Dome" defense system has emerged as a game-changer in the current round of violence with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, shooting down dozens of incoming rockets and being credited with preventing numerous civilian casualties. The system is ensuring Israel's decisive technological edge that has helped it operate virtually unhindered in Gaza. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ changes the face of battle

Aron Heller · July 10, 2014 7:24 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with China's President Xi Jinping, right, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Thursday, July 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)

National Security

Kerry: Crisis in Israel, Gaza, needs de-escalation

Bradley Klapper · July 10, 2014 12:08 pm

An Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket from the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Besides firing toward Israel's two largest population centers in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Hamas also fired one rocket that reached the northern Israeli city of Hadera for the first time, effectively putting the entire country under rocket range from the north and south. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israeli city in rocket range from both directions

Aron Heller · July 9, 2014 7:35 pm