Tag: Hamas

Displaced Palestinian family members pass their time at the U.N. school where they sought refuge during the war, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced in the Israel-Hamas war that began July 8, at least 10,000 housing units have been destroyed and many have found refuge at U.N. schools turned into shelters. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Egypt: Israel, Hamas to extend temporary truce

MOHAMMED DARAGHMEHTIA GOLDENBERG · August 13, 2014 10:37 pm

This photo taken in August, 2014 shows Associated Press video journalist Simone Camilli on a balcony overlooking smoke from Israeli Strikes in Gaza City. Camilli, 35, was killed in an ordnance explosion in the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 together with Palestinian translator Ali Shehda Abu Afash and three members of the Gaza police. Police said four other people were seriously injured, including AP photographer Hatem Moussa.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

AP video journalist Simone Camilli killed in Gaza

Zeina Karam · August 13, 2014 8:29 pm

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during his meeting with Israel's President Reuven Rivlin, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

National Security

NY governor offers ‘total solidarity’ for Israel

Washington Examiner · August 13, 2014 5:13 pm

FILE - This undated file photo shows Israeli Army 2nd. Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23, from Kfar Saba, central Israel. Israel's military announced early Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, that Goldin, of the Givati infantry brigade, had been killed in battle.(AP Photo/YNet News) ISRAEL OUT

Israeli tactic to stop soldier capture criticized

Aron Heller · August 13, 2014 5:08 am

Israel targeting mosques hurts Gaza social fabric

Hamza Hendawi · August 13, 2014 4:32 am

Cuomo invited to visit Palestinians on Israel trip

Cuomo invited to visit Palestinians on Israel trip

Edith Lederer · August 12, 2014 10:53 pm

Palestinian Ziad Rizk, 38, sits with others in a shelter made of a blanket stretched over four boles next to one of the destroyed Nada Towers, where he lost his apartment and clothes shop, in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Egypt presents proposal to end war in Gaza

Mohammed Daraghmeh · August 12, 2014 10:23 pm

FILE - The June 12, 2014 file photo shows Amal Alamuddin, human rights lawyer and fiancee of US actor George Clooney, as she attends the 'End Sexual Violence in Conflict' summit in London. Alamuddin has been chosen for the U.N.'s three-member commission of inquiry looking into possible violations of the rules of war in Gaza, United Nations Human Rights Council said Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)

Gaza probe ‘operational’ without Alamuddin

Washington Examiner · August 12, 2014 8:17 pm

Gaza Talks Continue As Truce Holds

Gaza Talks Continue As Truce Holds

Washington Examiner · August 12, 2014 7:07 pm

FILE - The June 12, 2014 file photo shows Amal Alamuddin, human rights lawyer and fiancee of US actor George Clooney, as she attends the 'End Sexual Violence in Conflict' summit in London. Alamuddin has been chosen for the U.N.'s three-member commission of inquiry looking into possible violations of the rules of war in Gaza, United Nations Human Rights Council said Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)

Clooney’s fiancee Alamuddin rejects Gaza probe job

John Heilprin · August 11, 2014 9:34 pm

A Palestinian woman stands in the rubble of her destroyed home in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. An Egyptian-brokered cease-fire halting the Gaza war held into Monday morning, allowing Palestinians to leave homes and shelters as negotiators agreed to resume talks in Cairo. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Gaza cease-fire takes hold as negotiators gather

Mohammed Daraghmeh · August 11, 2014 9:14 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 file photo, Israeli Yair Lapid, a popular former TV anchorman, head of the new centrist party Yesh Atid, delivers a speech in the Ariel college of Judea and Samaria in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel. In an interview with the Associated Press Monday Aug. 11, 2014, Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid called on the international community to pull together a massive aid package for Gaza conditioned on the Palestinian Authority returning to power in place of the Islamic militant group Hamas. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Lapid: Gaza aid should be tied to restored PA rule

Dan Perry · August 11, 2014 7:26 pm