Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas criticized Hamas on Friday for firing rockets at Israel. Business Week reports: “What are you trying to achieve by sending rockets?” Abbas asked on Palestine TV, without explicitly naming Hamas, which recently lent its backing to his government after a seven-year rift. “We prefer to fight...

As world leaders continue to express support for Israel’s right to defend itself, Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah has gone on the offensive, attacking this backing of Israeli actions. (Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim) Qassem stressed that “Gaza and Palestine are facing an international Zionist aggression, covered by the U.S. administration...

Day 6 of Operation Protective Edge is over. #Israel Operation Protective Edge Day 6: Ashkelon under fire, massive rocket fire continues over all Israel http://t.co/jfAKOhJM9v — anneinpt (@anneinpt) July 14, 2014 A Hamas rocket knocked out power to 70,000 Gaza residents. The Times of Israel reports: A rocket fired from...

The Jerusalem Post reports today that Secretary of State John Kerry, who is in Vienna for a final push to reach a permanent nuclear deal with Iran, will ask Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to have his country stop sending rockets to Hamas. An administration source was quoted: “Iran...

The Times of Israel reported Friday on a new video appearing at the official Facebook page of Fatah, the political party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, praising female fighters and suicide bombers. The Times reports that  the narration of cites three notorious female terrorist as role models for Palestinian women....

In an analysis appearing Friday in the Times of Israel, The Conciliatory Conservative, political correspondent Haviv Rettig Gur writes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not “willingly go to war without first taking great pains to ensure Israel’s overseas allies understand the need.” Rettig Gur compares Netanyahu to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol,...

Palestinians in the West Bank came under rocket fire from Hamas in Gaza over the weekend. Rockets landed in or next to Hebron, Bethlehem and Ramallah. The Palestinian Bureau of Statistics puts those cities’ populations at 202,000, 30,000 and 34,000 respectively. “The notion that Palestinian militants in Gaza might fire on Palestinian...

Reuters reported Thursday afternoon that Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Vienna this weekend along with foreign ministers from the P5+1 powers, who have been negotiating with Tehran over the latter’s nuclear program, amid concerns that a deal may not be reached by the time the interim Joint...

Day 5 of Operation Protective Edge has ended. Daily recap: the fifth day of Operation Protective Edge pic.twitter.com/2bkpzZ7Q9g — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) July 13, 2014 Palestinians are not immune from Hamas’s rocket fire. Rockets landed in Hebron and Bethlehem, the IDF Spokeperson said. Four rockets landed in total in the attack-...

The fourth day of Operation Protective Edge is coming to an end. The Times of Israel sums up the current situation: Four days into Operation Protective Edge, over 400 rockets have been fired at Israel, and several Israelis were injured during Friday, even as Iron Dome intercepted most rockets heading...