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A Palestinian Hamas supporter holds up a little girl wearing green flags as people gather in the streets during celebrations for the cease-fire between Palestinians and Israelis, in the West bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Israel and Hamas agreed Tuesday to an open-ended cease-fire, halting a seven-week war that killed more than 2,200 people, the vast majority Palestinians, left tens of thousands in Gaza homeless and devastated entire neighborhoods in the blockaded territory. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Gaza truce open-ended, but puts off tough issues

KARIN LAUBMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · August 26, 2014 9:43 pm

A Palestinian walks amid the rubble of a destroyed house after it was hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza City, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza attacks triggers Israeli exodus from border

Ian Deitch · August 25, 2014 9:47 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 22, 2014, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint news conference with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Tel Aviv, Israel, regarding the Israel-Hamas war. A day after the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, posted the video of American journalist James Foley's killing, Netanyahu debuted his latest catchphrase: "Hamas is ISIS. ISIS is Hamas." He has continued to repeat the slogan at news conferences, on Twitter and even at his weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday, Aug. 24. Hamas itself condemned Netanyahu's comparison, saying its battle is against Israel, not against the entire West. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

Israel leader tries to link Hamas, Iraq extremists

Daniel Estrin · August 25, 2014 5:22 am

In this combination photo composed of six frames, the Al-Zafer apartment tower block collapses following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a 12-story apartment tower in downtown Gaza City on Saturday, collapsing the building, sending a huge fireball into the sky and wounding at least 22 people, including 11 children, witnesses and Palestinian officials said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

National Security

Israeli airstrike collapses Gaza apartment tower

KARIN LAUBPETER ENAV · August 23, 2014 10:54 pm

Leader says Hamas agrees in writing to support Palestinian bid at International Criminal Court

National Security

Leader says Hamas agrees in writing to support Palestinian bid at International Criminal Court

Washington Examiner · August 23, 2014 5:20 am

Death Cult

Geoffrey Norman · August 22, 2014 1:28 pm

Palestinian doctors treats an injured baby, following an Israeli airstrike on a building, at the treatment room of al Najar hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Israel kills 3 Hamas military commanders in Gaza

KARIN LAUBIAN DEITCH · August 21, 2014 8:57 pm

FILE - This undated file image released by the Israel Defense Forces shows a combination of three photos of Israeli teens Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, a 16-year-old with dual Israeli-American citizenship, who disappeared while hitchhiking home near the West Bank city of Hebron late at night on June 12, 2014, and were never heard from again. Their bodies were found two weeks later. Saleh Arouri, a senior Hamas leader, said on Wednesday, Aug. 20, that the group carried out the kidnapping and killing of the three Israeli teens in the West Bank in June - the first time anyone from the Islamic militant group has said it was behind the attack that helped spark the current war in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Israel Defense Forces, File)

Hamas admits kidnapping Israeli teens

Josef Federman · August 21, 2014 8:38 pm

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, shakes hands with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, right, as the then Emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, looks on after signing an agreement in Doha, Qatar. The explosions rocking the Gaza Strip may seem far removed from the flashy cars and skyscrapers of ultra-rich Qatar, but efforts to end fighting between Hamas and Israel could hinge on how the tiny Gulf state wields its influence over a militant group with few friends left. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal, File)

Some see Qatar’s hand in collapse of Gaza talks

Adam Schreck · August 21, 2014 6:37 am

Demonstrators gather in Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza Park as they prepare to march across the Brooklyn Bridge during a pro-Palestinian rally, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Palestinian banner unfurled on NYC bridge

Washington Examiner · August 21, 2014 3:09 am

Smoke and dust rise after an Israeli strike hit Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Airstrike kills wife and child of Hamas figure

IBRAHIM BARZAKTIA GOLDENBERG · August 20, 2014 7:53 pm

A Palestinian youth looks at damages in front of a crater caused by an Israeli strike on the al-Louh family house in Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, early Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. Many were killed in an airstrike on the house of the al-Louh family in Deir el-Balah, including a mother, father, three children, and two brothers of the father, according to Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Steep obstacles to any Gaza deal

KARIN LAUBMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · August 20, 2014 1:38 pm