Humanitarian aid begins flowing into Gaza from US-built floating pier
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid, including food and temporary shelter, are starting to head into Gaza via a US-constructed temporary pier, less than a day after it was completed.
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1st Aid Shipment Has Been Driven Across Newly Built Pier Into Gaza Strip, U.S. Says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. floating pier into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli restrictions on border crossings and heavy fighting hinder food and other supplies reaching people there.
Israel ‘needs to do more’ to stop settlers sacking Gaza aid trucks, US says
Israeli officials “need to do more” to stop settlers attacking trucks loaded with food, water and other critical supplies from entering Gaza, a State Department spokesman said on Thursday.
The Pro-Palestinian Movement Finds Its Footing As Biden Inches Left
Last Friday, a senior political aide to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) convened a group of progressive pro-Palestinian groups on a Zoom call to discuss strategy. The list of participants included representatives of the political arm of Jewish Voice for Peace, the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project, IfNotNow and Americans for Justice in Palestine Action.
Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift Lose Followers Amid Campaign To 'Block' Celebrities Silent On Gaza
Social media users are blocking celebrities and influencers en masse who have not been publicly supportive of Palestine as the war in Gaza continues and nears 35,000 Palestinian deaths.
House Democrats Fume Over Unprecedented Israeli Rebuke Of Lawmakers
One week after Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. sent dozens of Democrats in the House of Representatives an unprecedented rebuke, congressional staff say they’re still fuming over the letter, a note that accused lawmakers of aiding the Palestinian militant group Hamas, of misrepresenting Israeli policy and of inappropriately trying to influence President Joe Biden.
Jewish American Biden Appointee Is Latest To Resign In Protest Of Gaza Policy
A high-level Biden appointee announced her resignation from the Interior Department on Wednesday in protest of the administration’s Gaza policy — joining the growing list of government officials speaking out against the continued U.S. support for Israel’s military offensive that over the past seven months has devastated the Palestinian enclave.
Voters say they care about inflation more than Gaza. Today’s numbers should worry Biden
The latest inflation numbers should give President Joe Biden pause.