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Linda Casher moved to this Israeli collective near the Gaza Strip as a young American woman in the 1970s, she would often mingle with Palestinians at outdoor markets amid the mounds of pomegranates and rows of hanging chickens. She would hitchhike alongside Palestinian workers waiting for minibuses, and she even welcomed Palestinian women from Gaza to her kibbutz, Yad Mordechai, which has a tradition of supporting initiatives that encourage coexistence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It had been three nightmare nights. Faten Qdeih and her six children had fled Israeli shelling of their home, but were trapped by tanks and soldiers that shot at the crowd trying to escape. Wherever they went, explosions followed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the battered Gaza neighborhood of Shejaiya, Ataf Ettish surveys what was once her home. An Israeli bomb ripped off the outside of the three-story building, exposing the blue and pink inner walls of her daughter's bedroom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Israel's military is starting to rein in its retaliatory offensive against Hamas in the West Bank amid concern that a campaign of arrests and raids following the disappearance of three teenagers may backfire by stirring Palestinian unrest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Secretary of State John Kerry has always said he was cleareyed about the high hurdles standing in the path of successful Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. But the politician-turned-top diplomat sounded uncharacteristically pessimistic Friday as he acknowledged that the talks -the signature initiative of his 14-month tenure - teeter on the verge of collapse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Last summer Secretary of State John Kerry set out on what many considered to be a mission impossible: reach a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians creating a Palestinian state by the end of April. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The grainy black-and-white infrared images from the night-vision camera show a group of rebel fighters, apparently members of Al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, as they creep through the night, unaware Hezbollah is watching them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Though Secretary of State John Kerry and Pope Francis are operating independently, together they form a powerful force for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Before the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011, Hamas was a key ally of Damascus and a component of the Iran-led "axis of resistance" that challenged Israel and the West in the Middle East. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Secretary of State John Kerry's focus on restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, underscored by his third visit to Jerusalem in two weeks, marks what some see as perhaps the most promising American diplomatic efforts here since 2000. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The death of a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody this week has sparked the worst violence between Israel and Gaza since a November cease-fire, but it appears unlikely to seriously undermine the relative calm that has prevailed the past four months. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]