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Why isn’t desperately needed aid reaching Palestinians in Gaza?

From the earliest days of the Israel-Hamas war, the United States and much of the international community have pressed Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. But as the fighting rages on with no end in sight, the humanitarian catastrophe there has only worsened.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-humanitarian-aid-gaza-1ce556a8a839803c8a1624b1b69b0a13?

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How do Biden’s new sanctions affect Jewish charities that donate in Israel?

(JTA) — When the Biden administration announced new sanctions meant to stop the flow of U.S. donations to extremist Israelis, many watchdogs assumed that one charity would be especially concerned.

https://www.jta.org/2024/02/20/united-states/how-do-bidens-new-sanctions-affect-jewish-charities-that-donate-in-israel?

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🇮🇱 Bibi's first post-war plan
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Displaced Palestinians camp in Rafah, near the border fence between Gaza and Egypt. Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — for the first time — laid out his post-war plan for Gaza yesterday, Axios' Barak Ravid writes.

  • Why it matters: President Biden has long pushed Netanyahu to focus on the day after the war.

The document is short on concrete details but broadly addresses several key areas for post-war Gaza and Israel:

  1. The IDF would indefinitely maintain freedom of operation across the entire Gaza Strip.
  2. The Gaza Strip would be completely demilitarized except for weapons that are "necessary to maintain public order."
  3. Gaza's reconstruction "will be carried out with the financing and leadership of countries acceptable to Israel."
  4. The Strip will be governed by "local elements with management experience" who will be responsible for civilian management and public order.

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A deal between Israel and Hamas appears to be taking shape. What would it look like?

CAIRO (AP) — Israel and Hamas are inching toward a new deal that would free some of the roughly 130 hostages held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a weekslong pause in the war, now in its fifth month.

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-hamas-israel-ceasefire-deal-2ef0d5b960c4f132bfe9d91b19878a12?

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Israeli troops fire on Palestinians seeking food. Israel says deadly scene was a chaotic stampede

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops fired on a crowd of Palestinians racing to pull food off an aid convoy in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed in the chaos, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to health officials.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-29-2024-f9b5a62a80d8b83eac4946d3c85af58b?

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Palestinians say Israeli troops fired at people seeking food. Israel says scene was deadly stampede

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops fired on a crowd of Palestinians racing to pull food off an aid convoy in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed in the chaos, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to health officials.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-29-2024-f9b5a62a80d8b83eac4946d3c85af58b?

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New setback for hostage deal

More than 100 Palestinians were killed today near a convoy of aid trucks.

  • Hamas blamed Israeli forces who opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians, while Israel claimed most of the casualties were the result of Palestinians being trampled as crowds stormed and looted the trucks.
  • More than 30,000 Palestinians have now died in five months of war.

President Biden acknowledged that the incident will complicate negotiations over a temporary ceasefire, Axios' Barak Ravid reports.

  • The Biden administration had already been warning Israel about the breakdown of law and order in the enclave.
  • Airstrikes and Israeli restrictions have made it increasingly difficult and dangerous to get aid into Gaza, raising concerns that many more Palestinians could die of hunger and disease.

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Biden approves military airdrops of aid into Gaza after chaotic encounter left more than 100 dead

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will begin airdropping emergency humanitarian assistance into Gaza, President Joe Biden said Friday, a day after more than 100 Palestinians were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-meloni-white-house-ukraine-112dacd932a45f42621a25b304ae5d99?

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Kamala Harris calls for 6-week ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza and places onus on Israel to deliver aid

(JTA) — Vice President Kamala Harris called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and placed most of the onus on Israel for a shortfall in humanitarian aid entering the enclave.  

https://www.jta.org/2024/03/04/politics/kamala-harris-calls-for-6-week-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza-and-places-onus-on-israel-to-deliver-aid?

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Hostage crisis poses dilemma for Israel and offers a path to victory for Hamas

Over the last five months, Israel has killed thousands of Hamas fighters, destroyed dozens of their tunnels and wreaked unprecedented destruction on the Gaza Strip.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-hostages-endgame-0b4720545d294b4eb25eb97055c238eb?

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Kibbutz Be’eri Rejects Story in New York Times October 7 Exposé: “They Were Not Sexually Abused”

“It’s not true,” said the kibbutz spokesperson, of one of the stories featured in the paper’s controversial article.

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/nyt-october-7-sexual-violence-kibbutz-beeri/?

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Biden says there’s ‘got to be a ceasefire’ in Gaza and warns of fighting during Ramadan

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden called for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war before Ramadan, the upcoming Muslim holy month when the fighting could become “very, very dangerous” if a truce is not reached.

https://www.jta.org/2024/03/05/israel/biden-says-theres-got-to-be-a-ceasefire-in-gaza-and-warns-of-fighting-during-ramadan?

Biden will announce a plan for a temporary port on Gaza’s coast to increase flow of humanitarian aid

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will announce a plan in his State of the Union address Thursday for the U.S. military to help establish a temporary port on the Gaza coast, increasing the flow of humanitarian aid for the beleaguered territory during the Israel-Hamas war, according to administration officials.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-gaza-humanitarian-aid-port-us-military-israel-25fb6d71bc951d7491de3ab99733a749?

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In State of the Union, Biden tells Israel that humanitarian aid is not a ‘bargaining chip’

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden used his State of the Union speech to call on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, saying that it must not be used as leverage.

https://www.jta.org/2024/03/08/politics/in-state-of-the-union-biden-tells-israel-that-humanitarian-aid-is-not-a-bargaining-chip?

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Heavy fighting rages around Gaza’s biggest hospital as Israel raids it for a second day

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Explosions and shootings shook the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital and surrounding neighborhoods as Israeli forces stormed through the facility for a second day Tuesday. The military said it had killed 50 Hamas militants in the hospital, but it could not be independently confirmed that the dead were combatants.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-03-19-2024-a46aed2d25a6d95d9f3d67edcd60dd50?

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Why Israel is so determined to launch an offensive in Rafah

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is determined to launch a ground offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, a plan that has raised global alarm because of the potential for harm to the hundreds of thousands of civilians sheltering there.

https://apnews.com/article/rafah-hamas-gaza-israel-war-541e91c0f09196944a4dabeded94596f?

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Trump warns Israel on "a very big mistake"
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Palestinians inspect the debris of a house destroyed by Israeli bombing in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on March 4. Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images

 

In an interview with an Israeli paper owned by the Adelson family, Trump said he supports Israel's war in Gaza but that "you have to finish up your war."

  • "Israel has to be very careful, because you're losing a lot of the world, you're losing a lot of support," he said.

Trump said Israel made "a very big mistake" by publishing the footage of its retaliations in Gaza.

  • "I wanted to call [Israel] and say don't do it. These photos and shots. I mean, moving shots of bombs being dropped into buildings in Gaza. And I said, Oh, that's a terrible portrait. It's a very bad picture for the world. The world is seeing this.… Every night, I would watch buildings pour down on people."
  • The big picture: Trump arguably went a step further than Biden, who hasn't explicitly called for an end to the war and has been careful to link calls for a ceasefire with demands that Hamas release all remaining hostages, Axios' Barak Ravid and Dave Lawler write. 

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US and Israeli defense chiefs meet to discuss plans for Gaza as tensions between the allies spike

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense leaders met with Israel’s minister of defense on Tuesday as the United States warns against a ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but rising tensions between the two allies put any progress in question.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-pentagon-defense-austin-gallant-ba2fa9612856b2e6e8c9e0e1624fd3aa?

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Israelis stage largest anti-government protest since the war in Gaza began

JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered outside the parliament building in Jerusalem on Sunday in the largest anti-government demonstration since the country went to war in October. They urged the government to reach a cease-fire deal to free dozens of hostages held by the Hamas militant group in Gaza and to hold early elections.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-03-31-2024-2dfbc154409ae6160b4e594b1b346e13?

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Gaza medical officials say Israeli strike kills 4 foreign aid workers, driver after delivering food

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An apparent Israeli airstrike killed four international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver late Monday, hours after the group brought in a new shipload of food to northern Gaza, which has been isolated and pushed to the brink of famine by Israel’s offensive.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-01-2024-e75cf75aa88a9133774a883d987115c1?

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New fear of wider war in Middle East
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Workers remove debris at the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, Syria, after an Israeli strike yesterday. Photo: Omar Sanadiki/AP

Tensions in the Middle East spiked to dangerous new highs yesterday after an Israeli airstrike killed seven Iranian officers in Syria — including a senior general who oversaw an allied network of militant proxy groups, Axios' Barak Ravid and Zachary Basu write.

  • Why it matters: The strike could significantly escalate the shadow conflict that has raged in the Middle East since Hamas' terrorist attack on Oct. 7, U.S. and Israeli officials say.

Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi is the most senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer to be killed since the U.S. assassinated Qassen Soleimani in 2020.

  • Iran has vowed to seek revenge and accused Israel — which flattened a diplomatic building in Syria with its airstrike — of a "breach of all international conventions."
  • Iran hasn't directly intervened in the current conflict and mostly relies on proxies.

👀 Behind the scenes: Israeli intelligence has been following Zahedi, who is in charge of arming and coordinating with Hezbollah and other pro-Iranian militias in Lebanon and Syria, for a long time.

  • An operational window to take him out only opened in recent days, an Israeli official said.

Israel notified the Biden administration a few minutes before its Air Force conducted the strike but didn't ask for a green light, Israeli and U.S. officials said.

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Aircraft drop humanitarian aid over the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. Photo: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP

Israeli forces withdrew from the largest hospital in Gaza after a devastating two-week raid killed hundreds of alleged Palestinian militants and left the facility in ruins.

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Biden tells Israel’s Netanyahu future US support for war depends on new steps to protect civilians

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden issued a stark warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that future U.S. support for Israel’s Gaza war depends on the swift implementation of new steps to protect civilians and aid workers.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-netanyahu-3591fb5f82b22cf8e5d1060fccaef115?

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