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A Palestinian talks on a mobile phone as he walks on the rubble of a damaged house following an overnight Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Egypt presented a cease-fire plan Monday to end a week of heavy fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip that has left at least 185 people dead, and both sides said they were seriously considering the proposal. The late-night offer by Egypt marked the first sign of a breakthrough in international efforts to end the conflict. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel resumes airstrikes after Hamas violates cease-fire

Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken July 9, 2014, an Israeli missile hits an area in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Israel says its punishing air assault on Hamas militants, their property and their weaponry has delivered a devastating blow to the Islamic militant group. Yet rocket fire at Israel has continued almost unabated. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali, File)

Despite offensive, Gaza rockets still hit Israel

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

Palestinians drive past a building destroyed by an Israeli strike on Friday, in Gaza City, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Thousands of Palestinian residents of the northern Gaza Strip fled their homes on Sunday and sought safety in U.N. shelters, heeding warnings from the Israeli military about impending plans to bomb the area in the sixth day of an offensive against Hamas that has killed more than 160 people. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel says it’s downed drone along southern coast

By Peter Enav - Associated Press

CAPTION CORRECTION, CORRECTS THE HOME WAS THAT OF POLICE CHIEF'S COUSIN - A Palestinian mourner chants slogans on the grave of a member of the al-Batsh family who were killed in Saturday's Israeli airstrike, during a funeral procession in Gaza City on Sunday, July 13, 2014. The strike hit the home of a cousin of Gaza police chief Taysir al-Batsh and damaged a nearby mosque as evening prayers ended Saturday, killing at least 18 people, wounding 50 and leaving some people believed to be trapped under the rubble, said Palestinian Health Ministry official Ashraf al-Kidra. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israeli strike kills 18, stirs debate over targets

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

Smoke rises following an Israeli strike on Gaza, seen from the Israel-Gaza border, Saturday, July 12, 2014. Israeli airstrikes overnight targeting Hamas in Gaza hit a mosque its military says concealed the militant group's weapons, in an offensive that showed no signs of slowing down. Israel launched its campaign five days ago to stop relentless rocket fire on its citizens. While there have been no fatalities in Israel, Palestinian officials said overnight attacks raised the death toll there to over 120, with more than 920 wounded. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel widens air attack on Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers

By Najib Jobain and Aron Heller - Associated Press

Israel dramatically escalated its aerial assault in Gaza Thursday hitting hundreds of Hamas targets. The Health Ministry in Gaza reported 22 people killed in a single day. Israel's missile defense system once again intercepted rockets fired by militants. (Associated Press)

Israel rejects talk of cease-fire; Hamas targets suspected nuke site

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Palestinians search in the rubble of a destroyed house where eight members of the Al Haj family were killed in a strike early morning in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, July 10, 2014. Israel dramatically escalated its aerial assault in Gaza Thursday hitting hundreds of Hamas targets, as Palestinians reported more than a dozen of people killed in strikes that hit a home and a beachside cafe and Israel's missile defense system once again intercepted rockets fired by militants at the country's heartland. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas orders civilians to die in Israeli airstrikes

By Adam Kredo — The Washington Free Beacon

Israeli soldiers patrol along the beach front near the Israel-Gaza Border, 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/Ariel Schalit)

Israel hits key Hamas targets in Gaza offensive

By Daniel Estrin - Associated Press

Israeli missile strikes in Gaza on Tuesday could be the start of a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled territory. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appealed for calm, and President Obama wrote an op-ed calling for a "comprehensive negotiated settlement." (Associated Press)

Obama backs Israel’s strikes on Hamas after assault on civilians

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

An Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket from Gaza Strip in the costal city of Ashkelon, Israel, Saturday, July 5, 2014. The Israeli military said its “Iron Dome” defense system intercepted the rockets that were aimed at Beersheba. The military also said at least 29 other rockets and mortars were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel over the weekend. It said it had retaliated with airstrikes on militant sites in Gaza. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Hamas says 7 militants killed in Israeli strikes

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

mourners: Family and friends of three Israeli teenagers who were abducted over two weeks ago mourn during their funeral in Modiin, Israel. Israeli leaders believe Hamas may be behind the taking and killing of the young men. (Associated Press)

Hammer or scalpel: Fewer restraints seen as teen deaths stoke Israeli fury toward Palestinians

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Israeli army: 14 rockets fired from Gaza

Associated Press

Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA, left, speaks during a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential headquarters on the first day of his regional tour to Jordan, the Palestinian territories and Israel in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, May 26, 2014. During an earlier press conference in Jordan Blatter said that his visit to Ramallah and Israel was to defend football in Palestine and also to defend football in Israel. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

FIFA hopes Israel-Palestinian football spat ends

Associated Press

FILE -- In this Thursday, May 15, 2014 file photo, a Palestinian man shouts for help moments after Palestinian teen, Mohammad Abu Daher, on the ground, was shot to death by Israeli troops near the West Bank city of Ramallah. An investigation of a fatal West Bank clash between Israeli forces and Palestinian stone-throwers indicates that troops used live fire without justification and in violation of the army’s rules of engagement, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday, May 20, 2014. The rights group B’Tselem said its findings are based on witness accounts and medical records. Spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli said security camera footage of the incident that surfaced late Monday supports the group’s findings. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Video prompts look at killing of Palestinian teens

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, May 13, 2014 photo, Palestinian refugees Fathiyeh Sattari, 62, and her son Hassan, 40, look at their photograph that was taken at the Rafah U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, clinic in 1975, at their family home in Rafah Refugee Camp, the southern Gaza Strip. The UNWRA photo shows Sattari, her eyes wide with worry, as she presents her malnourished baby boy, Hassan, to a doctor. The picture is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the &quot;Nakba,&quot; or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UN photo archive tells story of Palestinian exodus

By KARIN LAUB and IBRAHIM BARZAK - Associated Press

In this photo taken Saturday, May 10, 2014, a woman carrying her child, stands in front of an oil on canvas painting named The Bitter and the Bitterness, by Palestinian artist Raouf al-Ajouri, during an art exhibition &quot;Traces, a testimony to memory,&quot; displaying over forty Palestinian artists work from Gaza, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Fifty-three paintings and two sculptures by 45 artists have gone on display in the West Bank city of Ramallah, said Haneen Qatamesh, a spokeswoman for one of the sponsors, the Palestinian company PADICO. Since Saturday's opening, 12 works have been sold for prices ranging from $850 to $9,000, she said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

West Bank exhibit gives Gaza artists rare showcase

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, May 13, 2014 photo, Palestinian refugees Fathiyeh Sattari, 62, and her son Hassan, 40, look at their photograph that was taken at the Rafah U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, clinic in 1975, at their family home in Rafah Refugee Camp, the southern Gaza Strip. The UNWRA photo shows Sattari, her eyes wide with worry, as she presents her malnourished baby boy, Hassan, to a doctor. The picture is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the &quot;Nakba,&quot; or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UN photo archive tells story of Palestinian exodus

By KARIN LAUB and IBRAHIM BARZAK - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, Egyptian policemen stand guard at the scene of a powerful explosion, believed to be a car bomb, at a police headquarters building that killed at least a dozen people, wounded more than 100, and left scores buried under the rubble, in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 110 kilometers (70 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt. On Saturday May 10, 2014. Egypt's chief prosecutor's office says it has charged 200 suspected militants with carrying out terrorist attacks that killed 40 policeman and 15 civilians, and of conspiring with al-Qaida and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in one of the country's largest terrorism-related cases. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ashraf, File)

Egypt to try 200 suspected of terrorist attacks

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press