Tag: Israel

Palestinians search the wreckage of vehicle reportedly belonging to a taxi driver working for a local media company following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Israel stepped up its offensive on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Wednesday, pummeling scores of targets and killing more than a dozen people as Israeli leaders signaled a weeks-long ground invasion could be quickly approaching. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israel steps up offensive as diplomacy kicks off

Josef Federman · July 10, 2014 2:23 am

An Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket from the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Besides firing toward Israel's two largest population centers in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Hamas also fired one rocket that reached the northern Israeli city of Hadera for the first time, effectively putting the entire country under rocket range from the north and south. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israeli city in rocket range from both directions

Aron Heller · July 9, 2014 7:35 pm

Podcast: Obama’s Middle East Peace Push Has Backfired

TWS Podcast · July 9, 2014 12:00 pm

Rockets hit Israeli heartland as offensive begins

Rockets hit Israeli heartland as offensive begins

JOSEF FEDERMANNAJIB JOBAIN · July 9, 2014 1:18 am

A Hamas militant. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Ted Cruz: Enough votes in Senate to kill U.S. aid to Palestinian Authority

Paul Bedard · July 8, 2014 9:24 pm

Rocket Hits Jerusalem

Rocket Hits Jerusalem

Daniel Halper · July 8, 2014 6:56 pm

‘America Is the Arsonist of the Middle East’

Daniel Halper · July 8, 2014 1:02 pm

Obama urges restraint for Israel, Palestinians

Obama urges restraint for Israel, Palestinians

Josh Lederman · July 8, 2014 4:16 am

Palestinians carry bodies of the Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam Brigades members who were killed in an airstrike during a funeral in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on Monday, July 7, 2014. The Islamic militant group Hamas that rules Gaza vowed revenge on Israel for the death of several of its members killed in an airstrike early Monday morning in the deadliest exchange of fire since the latest round of attacks began weeks ago. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israeli army launches offensive on Gaza Strip

Daniel Estrin · July 8, 2014 1:54 am

Israeli FM ends alliance with Netanyahu

Josef Federman · July 7, 2014 10:34 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 6, 2014. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel would act calmly and responsibly in the face of rising Israeli-Palestinian hostilities, just hours after Israel's military carried out airstrikes on 10 sites in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

Hamas says 7 militants killed in Israeli strikes

Josef Federman · July 7, 2014 4:05 am

Tariq Abu Khdeir, 15, a U.S. citizen who relatives say was beaten and arrested by Israeli police during clashes sparked by the killing Thursday of his cousin Mohammed Abu Khdeir, is escorted by Israeli prison guards during an appearance at Jerusalem magistrate's court Sunday, July 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli ambassador calls beating of Palestinian-American boy ‘disturbing’

Joseph Lawler · July 6, 2014 4:12 pm