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An Israeli artillery crew near the Israel and Gaza border prepares to fire towards Gaza, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Israel pounded Hamas rocket launchers, uncovered more than a dozen cross-border tunnels and engaged in gunbattles with Palestinian militants Saturday, as fighting intensified on the second day of its open-ended ground operation in Gaza, as the Palestinian death toll continued to rise. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Hamas tunnels ‘intended for large attacks in Israeli communities’ destroyed

By Ibrahim Barzak and Ian Deitch - Associated Press

Smoke rises after Israeli missile strikes hit the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Israeli war planes and naval vessels intensified attacks across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, targeting senior Hamas leaders and bombarding a coastal area, where four Palestinian boys were killed. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli strike kills 4 Gaza youths on coastal road

By Ibrahim Barzak and Peter Enav - Associated Press

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

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

Cindy Corrie, center, and Craig Corrie, left, the parents of Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003, meet their lawyer at the Supreme Court In Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. The family of slain American activist Rachel Corrie asked Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday to overturn a verdict clearing the military of any wrongdoing in her death. Corrie, 23, was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer during a protest in the Gaza Strip in March 2003. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Family of slain US activist appeals Israel verdict

By JON GERBERG - 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 Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 photo, a Palestinian boy walks around his home in the village of Beit Ummar near the West Bank city of Hebron. At the age of 15, the boy was held for nine months in an Israeli military jail for throwing rocks at passing Israeli cars near his village in the West Bank. An Israeli 15-year-old boy was arrested for a similar crime at the same time but faced a different justice system. The Israeli boy refused to allow his photo to be taken. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

In West Bank, teen offenders face different fates

By DANIEL ESTRIN and JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 photo, a Palestinian boy walks around his home in the village of Beit Ummar near the West Bank city of Hebron. At the age of 15, the boy was held for nine months in an Israeli military jail for throwing rocks at passing Israeli cars near his village in the West Bank. An Israeli 15-year-old boy was arrested for a similar crime at the same time but faced a different justice system. The Israeli boy refused to allow his photo to be taken. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

In West Bank, teen offenders face different fates

By DANIEL ESTRIN and JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

This undated photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on Friday, March 21, 2014, that they claim shows a tunnel dug from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip that stretches hundreds of meters (yards) inside Israel. The Israeli military says it has discovered another tunnel &#8212; the biggest so far &#8212; dug from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip into Israel and says it was intended for attacks on soldiers and civilians. Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida blamed the tunnel's discovery on recent rains that exposed its opening. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Forces)

Israel uncovers ‘biggest terror tunnel’ ever by Gaza border

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A wounded Israeli soldier is brought to a hospital in Haifa, Israel, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A roadside bomb hit an Israeli patrol near the frontier with the Golan Heights on Tuesday, the army said, wounding four soldiers in the most serious violence to strike the area since the Syrian conflict began three years ago. Israel said it responded with artillery strikes on Syrian army targets. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed the strategic area in a move that was not internationally recognized. (AP Photo/Hertzel Shapira) ****ISRAEL OUT***

Israeli airstrikes kill 1 Syrian soldier, wound 7

By Albert Aji - Associated Press

Hamas military wing members take part in a ceremony to inaugurate a monument marking the anniversary of the death of a senior Hamas official Ibrahim Maqadama, killed in an Israeli air strike in 2003, in Gaza City , Monday, March 10, 2014. The monument represents a model of the Hamas made longer-range M75 missile which has a range of about 80 kilometers and was used for the first time in 2012 against targets in Israel. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israeli drone crashes in Gaza; airstrike kills 3

By IBRAHIM BARZAK - Associated Press

Israeli border police stand guard in Birzeit, in the Palestinian territories on the West Bank, during a protest Monday against Israel’s military strikes on the Gaza Strip. An Israeli warplane killed at least one senior Palestinian militant in a missile strike, and Hamas fired 75 rockets into Israel. (Associated Press)

Israel seizes Iran rockets en route to Gaza terror groups

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade adjust their weapons during training near the border with Syria in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Hezbollah says Israel carried out an airstrike targeting its positions in Lebanon near the border with Syria earlier this week, claiming it caused damage but no casualties. The Wednesday statement was the group's first acknowledgement of the reported Monday night airstrikes. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel takes risk with airstrike on Hezbollah

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, walks with U.S. Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Martin Indyk, right, while returning from a trip to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, at Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv Israel, on Sunday Jan. 5, 2014. Kerry continues his regional peace-making efforts Sunday. (AP Photo / Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Palestinians briefly hold group of Jewish settlers

By Nasser Ishtayeh - Associated Press

** FILE ** Israeli soldiers look at an Iron Dome missile as it launched near the city of Ashdod, Israel, to intercept a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel retaliates with airstrike in Gaza

Associated Press

** FILE ** Islamic Jihad militants hold rocket-propelled grenades during a rally marking the 26th anniversary of the movement's foundation and marking the 18th anniversary of the death of the group's leader, Fathi Shikaki, in the Rafah Refugee Camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. Shikaki was gunned down in Malta by a man on a motorcycle in an attack widely attributed to Israel. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli military claims direct hits with Gaza Strip strikes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Supporters of the Islamic militant group Hamas attend a rally in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Hamas, which is sworn Israel's destruction, has ruled Gaza since 2007, when it ousted forces loyal to the secular Palestinian group Fatah. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel, Hamas blast each other in rare Twitter exchange

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

An Israeli soldier drives an armored personal carrier during a military exercise in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Reporters, human rights activists trash Israel on secret Facebook site

By Alana Goodman - The Washington Free Beacon

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Israel activates 2,000 reservists for surprise drill against Hezbollah

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Sunday, April 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

Israel shoots down drone threatening P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu’s chopper

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times