Claire's tests came out fine. Thanks to those who emailed.
"People, once suckered into a war, will defend that war rather than admit they were suckers." -- Michael Rivero
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has scheduled a vote for Wednesday to advance President Biden’s massive $106 billion emergency spending request that includes military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, as well as additional funding for the border, POLITICO reported.
Israel intensified airstrikes in southern Gaza on Monday and bombed areas where it told Palestinians to seek shelter, Reuters reported.
Israel ordered the evacuation of parts of the main southern city of Khan Younis, but residents said areas where they were told to flee were still coming under attack. The Israeli military posted a map on X with arrows pointing from Khan Younis, telling people to head toward the Mediterranean Sea and the town of Rafah, near the Egyptian border.
Biden referred to Israel’s initial bombing attack, prior to its ground invasion, as “indiscriminate,” and that was a phrase his people didn’t walk back.
The IDF is planning to pump seawater into the Hamas tunnel network in Gaza, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Five large pumps have been assembled north of the al-Shati refugee camp during the last month, with each one capable of pumping thousands of cubic meters of seawater into the tunnels.
Israel informed US officials that they were considering this option last month and needed to weigh feasibility and environmental factors against military necessity.
As the 2024 presidential election looms, President Joe Biden finds himself in a precarious position.
Recent polls indicate a significant dip in his approval ratings, with the leading Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, outperforming him in direct comparisons.
The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of the government in its conduct of the war in Gaza.
An Israeli minister has said the country's security forces must continue to shoot to kill, despite domestic uproar over an off-duty soldier's killing of an Israeli man who intervened in an attack in Jerusalem last week.
More than 6,600 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7, the government’s media office says.
Thousands more are missing under the rubble amid relentless bombardment, it added.
On Friday, Catherine Russell, executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund, warned that Gaza is once again “the most dangerous place in the world to be a child”, following the resumption of the war.
Israeli demonstrators urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be removed on Saturday in a town where the premier has a private estate.
In the past two months, Palestinian journalist Yara Eid has lost family members, friends, colleagues and her childhood home to relentless Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
