Their accounts detailed over 10 hours of a life-threatening race: escaping by car and foot, seeking improvised shelter, and ducking from gunfire.
On the eighteenth day of the war Israel struggles with the waiting phrase before an expected ground incursion; dealing with humanitarian issues and continued strikes
Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, and her husband, whom Hamas did not release, took Palestinians from the Erez border crossing to Israeli hospitals every week her grandson says
As Hamas launches attacks on Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas keeps a low profile, leading to speculations about his political motives.
As a condition for its accession to the US Visa Waiver Program (VWP), Israel has since July 20 loosened access through its borders, and in and out of the West Bank.