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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the U.S. will drop food aid into the Gaza Strip, noting that the humanitarian aid flowing into the region for Palestinians is insufficient.
President Joe Biden said on Thursday the United States was checking reports of Israeli troops firing on people waiting for food aid in Gaza and that he believes the deadly incident will complicate ...
More than 32,900 people have died in Gaza since the war began, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. About 1,200 people in Israel were killed on Oct. 7, according to the Israeli government.
The Gaza war [p] has been fought between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [q] in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. The fifth war since 2008 in the Gaza–Israel conflict, it is the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, [74] and sparked an ongoing Middle Eastern crisis.
In June 2024, the NAACP called on the Biden administration to stop sending weapons to Israel. [369] In July 2024, a group of U.S. doctors and nurses returning from Gaza stated they had witnessed widespread war crimes committed by the Israeli army and called on the United States to implement an arms embargo. [370]
Critics have called on Biden to freeze US arms sales as leverage against Israel to halt its military operations. [6] The Leahy Act prohibits aid to foreign military units involved in crimes, and Section 620(I) of the Foreign Assistance Act states that no aid shall be provided to any government that "prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of United ...
President Joe Biden’s efforts to tamp down tensions in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas faced major setbacks even before he departed for the Middle East on Tuesday, as Jordan called ...
Israel's location. The State of Israel is one of the smallest countries in the world, at around 20,000 sq. km, and has relatively few natural resources. Due to its limited space, semi-arid climate, high population growth and resource scarcity, Israel is highly susceptible to environmental crises. [1]