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...

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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...

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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....

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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,...

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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...

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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-...

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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...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday predicted that “more stages were expected” in the country’s three-day-old Operation Protective Edge, as analysts converged on the assessment that Israel may have to initiate a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip in the wake of a series of moves by the Palestinian...

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An analysis written Thursday by Lt. Col. Michael Segall, a senior analyst at the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs, documents the rhetorical support Iran has given to Hamas’s rocket war against Israel. Segall explains that with no Arab states stepping forward to offer support for Hamas, Iran has stepped into...

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Yesterday evening, President Obama joined many other world leaders in expressing support for Israel as it defends itself from ongoing rocket attacks from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The Times of Israel reports that the president also offered to help arrange a ceasefire: “The president expressed concern about the risk of further...

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