Tag: Israel

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2014 file photo, Palestinians look for their belongings after houses were destroyed in Israeli strikes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Amid fear that Hamas had captured an Israeli soldier, the Israeli military sealed off the Rafah area and began shelling on Aug. 1, 2014. By the end of the next day, 190 Palestinians were dead, according to a list of names compiled by two Gaza human rights groups. The suspected capture of the soldier turned out to be a false alarm and the Rafah operation is almost certain to be a focus of U.N. investigators and rights groups looking into possible war crimes because it highlights a key concern: The treatment of civilians. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali, File)

National Security

Israeli fire on Gaza town raises war crimes claim

KARIN LAUBIBRAHIM BARZAK · August 31, 2014 12:00 pm

A Palestinian inspects a destroyed house in the heavily bombed Gaza City neighborhood of Shijaiyah, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

United Nations agency exposed as a tool for Hamas

Asaf Romirowsky, Nicole Brackman · August 30, 2014 12:00 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, April 29, 2014, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with Palestinian businessmen from East Jerusalem to set up a national fund to support the Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas has accused Hamas of needlessly extending fighting in the Gaza Strip, causing a high death toll. He told Palestine TV in remarks broadcast Friday, Aug. 29, that "it was possible for us to avoid all of that, 2,000 martyrs, 10,000 injured, 50,000 houses (damaged or destroyed)." (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi, File)

Palestinian leader says Hamas caused prolonged war

MOHAMMED DARAGHMEHIAN DEITCH · August 29, 2014 6:32 pm

National Security

Israel identifies body as missing American student

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2014 1:52 pm

Pew: Obama not ‘tough enough’

Paul Bedard · August 28, 2014 8:39 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Israel's prime minister declared victory Wednesday in the recent war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, saying the military campaign had dealt a heavy blow and a cease-fire deal gave no concessions to the Islamic militant group.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Europe seeks role in postwar Gaza

Josef Federman · August 28, 2014 7:40 pm

Israel finds body where US student disappeared

Israel finds body where US student disappeared

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2014 3:47 pm

A Palestinian militant of Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, military wing of Hamas, holds his rifle during a celebration of the victory rally at the debris of destroyed houses in Shijaiyah, neighborhood of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. An open-ended cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip was holding Wednesday. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli premier, Hamas declare victory in Gaza war

TIA GOLDENBERGIBRAHIM BARZAK · August 27, 2014 7:58 pm

Palestinians with their belongings drive a motorbike back to their house in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

A look at the Gaza war and cease-fire halting it

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 3:47 pm

This undated photo released Monday, Aug. 25, 2014 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, claims to show the wreckage of an Israeli drone which Iran claims it shot down near an Iranian nuclear site. Iran's state TV on Monday broadcast footage purported to show an Israeli drone the country's Revolutionary Guard claimed to have shot down over the weekend near an Iranian nuclear site. The brief video, aired on the Arabic-language Al-Alam TV, shows what the channel says are parts of the drone, scattered in an unidentified desert area. (AP Photo/Sepahnews)

National Security

Iran says purported Israeli drone came from north

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 2:44 pm

Warrant issued in threat over Israeli flag

Warrant issued in threat over Israeli flag

Washington Examiner · August 26, 2014 9:49 pm

A Palestinian Hamas supporter holds up a little girl wearing green flags as people gather in the streets during celebrations for the cease-fire between Palestinians and Israelis, in the West bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Israel and Hamas agreed Tuesday to an open-ended cease-fire, halting a seven-week war that killed more than 2,200 people, the vast majority Palestinians, left tens of thousands in Gaza homeless and devastated entire neighborhoods in the blockaded territory. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Gaza truce open-ended, but puts off tough issues

KARIN LAUBMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · August 26, 2014 9:43 pm