At least $26 Billion in aid is going to Israel. soon…
Prime Minister Netanyahu says “Thanks’….
The US is indicating that it will sanction a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers in the Israeli military…..
Hamas action against the Israeli military has slowed…
But West Bank fighting goes on between Palestinians and West Bank settlers….
Israel has done limited strike in Rafah, where they believe some 100 hostages ARE being held….
Hamas has come under pressure for other Arab states to cut some sort of deal to end the fighting……
A Turkish Gaza aid convoy will attempt to land there soon and hope that Israeli’s will let it thru….
Israeli Officials Lash Out Over Potential U.S. Sanctions on Military Unit
The denunciations came hours after Israeli leaders welcomed Congress’s approval of aid for Israel, underscoring the dramatic swings that have characterized relations between the allies in recent months.
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Netanyahu says sanctions against Israel’s military would be a ‘moral low.’
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Palestinians go on strike in the West Bank to protest a deadly Israeli military raid.
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The House, with a bipartisan vote, approves an aid package for Israel….
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The package includes $4 billion for replenishing the Iron Dome and David’s Sling defense systems and $1.2 billion for procuring the Iron Beam defense system.
It also includes $9 billion in humanitarian assistance, some of which will be allotted to Gaza. None of the assistance, however, can go toward the largest humanitarian group serving Gaza, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). The United States suspended funding for the agency after Israel alleged that a handful of its employees participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks….
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Meanwhile, Israeli forces carried out strikes in the city of Rafah overnight, killing 16 people, including nine children, the Palestinian state news agency Wafa reported. A pregnant woman was killed alongside her husband and their child when the couple’s house in the Shaboura camp was bombed, Wafa said. Doctors were able to save the woman’s baby, the Kuwaiti Hospital said, adding that the baby would be sent to the Emirati Hospital for further care…
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Palestinians have for months been bracing for an expected Israeli assault on Rafah, which Israel says is home to the last intact Hamas battalions and more than 100 hostages still held by the group. The United States has urged Israel not to invade the southern city until it can safely evacuate the more than a million Palestinians sheltering there.
