The fighting came amid serious and reports of growing level of humanitarian crisis in the region.
At the confirmation hearing for LaCamera, Kaine suggested a temperature-lowering measure and wanted to bounce it off the Korea commander.
He would not give a justification for targeting the 12-storey press building in Gaza on air, but later claimed Hamas had an intelligence unit inside.
In Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, Arab protesters clashed with police firing stun grenades to disperse them.
The war came to an end after 50 days of conflict when a ceasefire was agreed upon on 26 August 2014.
One brother was killed about 18 months ago, at the age of 20.