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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media, before departing, at Ben Gurion International airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 22, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool
Blinken says Israeli offensive into Rafah risks 'further isolating Israel around the world'
TEL AVIV — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that a looming Israeli ground offensive into the southern Gaza city of Rafah would risk “further isolating Israel around the world and jeopardizing its long-term security and standing.”The top US diplomat’s blunt message comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — following a meeting with Blinken — doubled down on his vow to carry out the military campaign with or without US support.Blinken said he had “candid conversations” with Netanyahu and the Israeli war cabinet, and told them the US “shares Israel’s goal of defeating Hamas” — but that “a major military ground operation in Rafah is not the way to do it.”“It risks killing more civilians; it risks wreaking greater havoc with the...
March 22, 2024

Blinken says Israeli offensive into Rafah risks 'further isolating Israel around the world'

A general view shows a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Friday, March. 22, 2024
Russia and China veto US proposal for Gaza ceasefire at the UN
NEW YORK — Russia and China have vetoed a US-proposed resolution in the UN Security Council that called for a ceasefire in Gaza tied to a hostage agreement.The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 11 members in favor and three against, including Algeria, the Arab representative on the council. There was one abstention, from Guyana.Before the vote, Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian Ambassador to the UN, stated that Russia was in favor of an immediate halt to hostilities. However, he criticized diluted language that referred to moral imperatives, which he called philosophical wording that does not belong in a UN resolution.Nebenzia accused US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield of “deliberately misleading the international...
March 22, 2024

Russia and China veto US proposal for Gaza ceasefire at the UN

Alma (L) and Tarazan, her 18-month-old brother
Gazan girl begs rescuers to save brother first as entire family killed
RAFAH — In a video recorded by a Palestinian rescuer, a shout comes from under mounds of smashed concrete."I'm Alma.""Don't help me first. Help my mum and dad. And please help my brother Tarazan. He's a baby, 18 months old."It's morning on 2 December 2023, and 12-year-old Alma Jaroor has been buried under the rubble of a five-story building in downtown Gaza City for over three hours."I want to see my brothers and sister," she shouts. "I have missed them."But the rescuer reaches Alma first, and she clambers out -- unaided -- from between jagged slabs of concrete and twisted metal bars.She is coated in dust but has no major injuries.They ask where her family is. She points to the rubble on her right and left.Three months on, Alma...
March 22, 2024

Gazan girl begs rescuers to save brother first as entire family killed

New Gaza hospital raid sign of Hamas capabilities
JERUSALEM — Four months after Israeli troops first stormed Gaza's biggest hospital, al-Shifa, claiming it was a cover for a Hamas command and control center, they have returned.The Israeli military said it had "concrete intelligence" that Hamas operatives had regrouped there. Palestinians have told the BBC of their fears of being trapped in fierce battles.While this week's raid again highlights a desperate humanitarian situation, it is also a strong reminder that Hamas is far from a spent force.Some analysts suggest it shows the desperate need for a comprehensive strategy to deal with the Islamist group and a clear plan for the post-war governance of Gaza.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) now claim to have killed "over 140 terrorists" in ongoing fighting at...
March 22, 2024

New Gaza hospital raid sign of Hamas capabilities

The Palestinians were set to be bussed to Gaza early Thursday morning.
Israeli Supreme Court halts plan to return Palestinian hospital patients to Gaza 
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court has temporarily halted a government plan to send a group of Palestinian patients being treated in East Jerusalem and Tel Aviv hospitals back to Gaza.The decision follows a petition by the Israeli non-profit organization Physicians for Human Rights Israel, which decided to take action following a CNN report on the Palestinian hospital patients.“Returning residents to Gaza during a military conflict and a humanitarian crisis is against international law and poses a deliberate risk to innocent lives,” the organization’s spokesperson Ran Yaron said Wednesday. “All the more so when it concerns patients who may face a death sentence due to insanitary conditions and hunger, along with the unlikely availability of medical care.”Following the...
March 21, 2024

Israeli Supreme Court halts plan to return Palestinian hospital patients to Gaza 

Palestinian fishermen walk on the beach in Gaza City (FILE)
Jared Kushner suggests Israel should move Palestinians out of Gaza and 'clean it up'
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former White House adviser, Jared Kushner, has said Gaza's "waterfront property" has a “very valuable” potential, suggesting Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the area.“Gaza’s waterfront property, it could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner said in an interview dated 15 February.It was posted earlier this month on the YouTube channel of the Middle East Initiative, a program of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and first reported on Tuesday by The Guardian.“If you think about all the money that's gone into this tunnel network and into all the munitions, if that would have gone into education or innovation, what could have been...
March 20, 2024

Jared Kushner suggests Israel should move Palestinians out of Gaza and 'clean it up'

Members of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades in Gaza (file)
US reports death of senior Hamas military leader Marwan Issa
NEW YORK — Hamas leader Marwan Issa died in an Israeli air strike, White House official Jake Sullivan has said.As deputy military commander, Issa would be Hamas's most senior leader to die since the war began on 7 October.The Palestinian group, which controls Gaza, has not officially commented on reports of his death.Israeli media sources have reported that Issa was killed in a strike on a tunnel complex under the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza last week.The deputy commander of Hamas's military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, was considered one of Israel's most-wanted men. The European Union, which placed the Hamas leader on its terrorist blacklist, linked him directly to the 7 October attack led by the group which killed approximately 1,200 people.He had been...
March 19, 2024

US reports death of senior Hamas military leader Marwan Issa

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu’s response to Schumer widens rift in US-Israeli relations
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is refusing to bow to calls by the top US senator for a new election and is pushing back against White House warnings about a potential new offensive in Gaza, widening a rift with top Democrats in Washington.An extraordinary turn in US-Israel relations in recent days is coinciding with intense diplomacy aimed at securing a ceasefire in Israel’s war with Hamas and the release of hostages as the conflict deepens bitter divides in US politics. But the gulf in trust and goals between Israel and Hamas has thwarted hopes for a breakthrough for weeks.Netanyahu’s defiance shone through an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday, three days after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer – the highest-ranking Jewish American in the US...
March 18, 2024

Netanyahu’s response to Schumer widens rift in US-Israeli relations

Displaced Palestinians gather to collect food donated by a charitable youth group in Rafah, Gaza, on March 12
Israeli attack kills 20 and injures 155 at Gaza food aid point
GAZA — Gaza’s health ministry says at least 20 people were killed and 155 wounded by Israeli shelling as they waited for desperately needed food on Thursday, a claim that Israel vehemently denied, as Palestinians increasingly face deadly violence in their search for aid.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a preliminary review found Israeli forces “did not open fire at the aid convoy in Kuwait Square,” instead claiming that “armed Palestinians opened fire while Gazan civilians were awaiting the arrival of the aid convoy.”The death toll is expected to rise as casualties are still being transferred to the hospital, according to Mohammad Ghrab, a doctor at the emergency unit at Al Shifa Hospital. Earlier, a witness on the scene said dozens of people had been killed in the latest...
March 15, 2024

Israeli attack kills 20 and injures 155 at Gaza food aid point

Palestinian farmer Fares Samamreh says he and his family left their farm after being attacked by Israeli settlers
The battle between farmers in West Bank pitting Israel against the US
JERUSALEM — The US has announced sanctions against three more Israeli settlers and -- for the first time -- two farming outposts, as part of new measures by Washington and London to stop the violent displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.Fares Samamreh may not carry a gun, but he has a global superpower defending him. He's still losing the fight.A Palestinian sheep farmer on the sun-tinged slopes of the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank, his battle with his neighbor, an Israeli settler called Yinon Levy, has drawn both the US and the UK into the dispute."Yinon Levy came here three years ago and started bothering me," Fares said, his head wrapped in a piece of white cotton, his eyes narrowed in a permanent squint against the sun."Before the...
March 15, 2024

The battle between farmers in West Bank pitting Israel against the US

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