Tag: Gaza

Hamas, designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S., has governed the Palestinian territory of Gaza since they defeated rival Fatah, the group that governs the West Bank. (AP Photo)

Why there can never be ‘peace in the Middle East’

Larry Elder · July 24, 2014 2:32 pm

Joe Klein Defends Israel’s Military Action

Michael Warren · July 24, 2014 11:05 am

FILE - In this Monday, July 21, 2014 file photo, a man uses binoculars to look at the Gaza Strip from his balcony in the town of Sderot, Israel after a group of Hamas militants was detected infiltrating into Israel. With deadly fighting raging next door in the Gaza Strip, southern Israeli towns along the border have turned into mini army bases as most residents have fled. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Israeli border towns empty, adjust to new threats

Aron Heller · July 24, 2014 6:30 am

Israelis airport workers pass a sign pointing to a shelter for refuge in case a warning siren indicates the possibility of an incoming rocket, at Ben Gurion International airport a day after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration imposed a 24-hour restriction on flights after a Hamas rocket landed within a mile of the airport, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew into Israel's main airport Wednesday despite a Federal Aviation Administration ban in an apparent sign of his determination to achieve a cease-fire agreement in the warring Gaza Strip despite little evidence of progress in ongoing negotiations. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

European carriers suspend more Tel Aviv flights

DAVID RISINGMATTHEW KNIGHT · July 24, 2014 4:48 am

A International Red Cross employee runs for cover after an Israeli strike during a two-hour temporary ceasefire in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Israeli troops battled Hamas militants on Wednesday near a southern Gaza Strip town as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reported progress in efforts to broker a truce in a war that has so far killed more than 650 Palestinians and at least 30 Israelis. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

National Security

US pushes for truce as Gaza battle rages

IBRAHIM BARZAKTIA GOLDENBERG · July 24, 2014 4:46 am

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, meets with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh in the capital, Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Ban is in the Middle East to meet regional leaders and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to make the highest-level push to end the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi, Pool)

Rockets found at UN Gaza school went missing

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 1:02 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry boards his plane after his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Kerry is meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Netanyahu, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as efforts for a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel continues. (AP Photo/Pool)

Senators push to end Hamas threat in cease-fire

Washington Examiner · July 23, 2014 7:57 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

A arrivals flight board displays various canceled and delayed flights in Ben Gurion International airport a day after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration imposed a 24-hour restriction on flights after a Hamas rocket landed Tuesday within a mile of the airport, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew into Israel's main airport Wednesday despite a Federal Aviation Administration ban in an apparent sign of his determination to achieve a cease-fire agreement in the warring Gaza Strip despite little evidence of progress in ongoing negotiations. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Oil stays above $102 amid Gaza peace efforts

Pablo Gorondi · July 23, 2014 11:47 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