President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the humanitarian situation in Gaza and strikes on aid workers are unacceptable and that U.S. policy could change if Israel doesn’t fix its approach, the White House said Thursday. During a call, Mr. Biden said Mr. Netanyahu must announce and implement “a series of specific, concrete […]
The war between Israel and Hamas has revealed extensive Chinese support for Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups that the U.S. and Israel consider terrorist organizations, according to strategic analyst Guermantes Lailari. Mr. Lailari, in a report published by the Jewish Policy Center, said that the Israel Defense Forces uncovered large caches of Chinese-made weapons, […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A new diplomatic crisis between Poland and Israel has erupted following the death of a Polish aid worker in Gaza, with the Polish president on Thursday denouncing a comment by the Israeli ambassador as “outrageous” and the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw saying it was summoning him for a meeting. A 35-year-old […]
Israel‘s top general late Tuesday issued a formal apology for a deadly airstrike on a humanitarian convoy in Gaza that killed seven aid workers, calling it a “grave mistake” that will be investigated by an independent agency. Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, said the strike was not carried […]
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — The bodies of six foreign aid workers killed in a series of Israeli strikes were transported out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt on Wednesday ahead of their repatriation, Egypt‘s state-run Qahera TV reported. The deadly strikes have renewed criticism of Israel’s conduct in the nearly six-monthlong war with Hamas, […]
JERUSALEM — Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians and wounded a third on Gaza’s beach, the military acknowledged Saturday, responding to a video that showed one man falling to the ground after walking in an open area and then a bulldozer pushing two bodies into the garbage-strewn sand. The military said troops opened fire after […]
JERUSALEM — A three-ship convoy left a port in Cyprus on Saturday with 400 tons of food and other supplies for Gaza as concerns about hunger in the territory soar. World Central Kitchen said the vessels and a barge were carrying ready-to-eat items like rice, pasta, flour, legumes, canned vegetables and proteins that were enough […]
Occupied Gaza Prior to October 7, there were roughly two million Arab citizens of Israel but no Jewish citizens in Gaza. Gazans in 2006 voted in Hamas to rule them. It summarily executed its Palestinian Authority rivals. Hamas canceled all future scheduled elections. It established a dictatorship and diverted hundreds of billions of dollars […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Talks have restarted aimed at bringing top Israeli officials to Washington to discuss potential military operations in Gaza, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a planned visit this week because he was angry about the U.S. vote on a U.N. cease-fire resolution, the White House said Wednesday. “So we’re now working with […]
Israel’s methodical destruction of terrorist hiding places in Gaza has come at the cost of American support for continuing the war to root out Hamas, according to a new poll. A new Gallup poll shows that support for Israel’s war has declined from a November survey, when support stood at 50 percent, to 36 percent […]
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