Tag: Gaza

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Beltway Confidential

United Nations relief agency finds Palestinian terrorist rockets in Gaza school

Philip Klein · July 17, 2014 2:33 pm

Palestinians flee their homes Wednesday in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City after Israel had airdropped leaflets warning people to leave the area. Alongside the air strikes, Israel also ordered tens of thousands of residents of the northern town of Beit Lahiya and the Zeitoun and Shijaiyah neighborhoods of Gaza City, all near the border with Israel, to evacuate their homes. The warnings were delivered in automated phone calls, text messages and leaflets.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Beltway Confidential

Five reasons why comparing Israeli and Palestinian death totals is a misleading way to judge the conflict

Philip Klein · July 16, 2014 9:45 pm

Three Iron Dome rockets explode to intercept rockets launched from the Gaza Strip by Palestinians militants, as seen from the Israel Gaza border, southern Israel, Thursday. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Ronald Reagan’s missile defense vision is saving lives in Israel: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · July 16, 2014 9:20 pm

This is why the White House press briefing is so hard to watch

Brian Hughes · July 16, 2014 5:00 am

Palestinian Suma Abu Mahsen, 7, stands by a damaged wall of a house following an overnight Israeli missile strike to a nearby transition center for newly released convicts, that was not yet operational, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. An Egyptian truce proposal for the conflict in Gaza quickly unraveled Tuesday, after the Islamic militant group Hamas rejected the plan. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel: Hamas to pay price for its ‘no’ to truce

KARIN LAUBARON HELLER · July 16, 2014 12:24 am

In this Monday, July 14, 2014 photo, sisters Mariam Attar, center right, and Sada Attar, center left, rest with their children inside the New Gaza Boys United Nations School after fleeing their home in fear of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City. The children of the Attar clan have lived through three wars in just over five years, each time fleeing their homes as Israel bombarded their neighborhood in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Scars show as Gaza’s children endure third war

Karin Laub · July 15, 2014 6:21 pm

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

Smoke rises after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The Israeli military says it has resumed airstrikes on Gaza after Hamas militants violated a de-escalation brokered by Egypt. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Key demands, issues in Israel-Gaza cease-fire

Tia Goldenberg · July 15, 2014 2:16 pm

Why Israel Is Winning This War

Elliott Abrams · July 15, 2014 12:08 pm

A Palestinian mourner cries as she talks to a TV journalist, while the bodies of Mousa Abu Muamer, 56, and his son Saddam, 27, who were killed in an overnight Israeli missile strike at their house are brought in during their funeral procession, on the outskirts of the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, July 14, 2014. Saddam's wife Hanadi, 27, was also killed in the attack. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Egypt proposes cease-fire between Israel, Hamas

JOSEF FEDERMANMAGGIE MICHAEL · July 15, 2014 2:06 am

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

‘This Week’ Roundtable on Immigration, Israel, and Impeachment

Michael Warren · July 14, 2014 11:01 am