Tag: Hamas

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

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

Mike Bloomberg to Fly to Tel Aviv

Michael Warren · July 23, 2014 12:06 am

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

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