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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden held a phone call on Sunday with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against the backdrop of growing U.S. college campus protests and a possibly imminent invasion of Rafah. The two discussed areas of commonality, with Biden “reaffirm[ing] his ironclad commitment to Israel’s security” after
Israel has not provided evidence that U.N. refugee agency staff are Hamas terrorists, independent review finds An independent review of the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees found that Israel has not provided evidence of its claims that staff members were Hamas terrorists. Published today, the report adds that UNRWA has submitted its staff lists […]
Amnesty International demands U.S. suspend weapon sales and transfers to Israel Amnesty International said today that President Joe Biden and Congress should halt all weapons sales and transfers to Israel as there is “overwhelming evidence that war crimes are being committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians.” Paul O’Brien, executive director of Amnesty International USA, […]
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, who dialed into the call between Mr. Biden and Mr. Netanyahu, said afterward that Israel needed to do more to increase the flow of humanitarian supplies to Gaza, a challenge that has expanded exponentially since the attack on aid workers prompted some groups to reconsider their activities on the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that future U.S. support for the Gaza war depends on new steps to protect civilians and aid workers. Biden and Netanyahu spoke by phone days after Israeli airstrikes killed seven food aid workers in Gaza and added a new layer of […]
A White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the Israeli government had agreed to try to reschedule a visit by a group of officials whose trip to Washington to discuss a possible assault on a key southern city in Gaza was scrapped over the U.S. decision not to veto a U.N. resolution calling for an […]
For the increasingly tense U.S.-Israel relationship, the fallout from passage of the U.N. cease-fire resolution was immediate, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that he would not send a planned high-level delegation to Washington for meetings with U.S. officials. President Biden had requested the meetings to discuss alternatives to a planned Israeli offensive into […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that his forces will fight against Hamas in Rafah whether the U.S. supports them or not. Netanyahu emerged defiant from a Friday meeting with his wartime Cabinet and Blinken in Israel, vowing to press on in the southern Gaza […]
Israeli PM’s comments follow mounting criticism from Democrats on the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza. Israel’s war on Gaza will continue, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told US Republican senators, despite mounting criticism from Democratic leaders about the growing humanitarian catastrophe in the besieged Palestinian territory. Speaking to Republican senators via videolink on Wednesday, […]