Middle East
Biden Administration Is Giving $1 Billion In New Weapons And Ammo To Israel, Congressional Aides Say
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel.
Anti-war protesters have taken down their tents in Harvard Yard after the university agreed to meet to discuss their demands.
Aid workers are struggling to distribute dwindling food to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel's assault on Gaza's southernmost city.
The friendly comics sparred when Burr, who said heâs âon the side of the kidsâ when it comes to the Israel-Gaza conflict, mocked Maher on his own show.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Maj. Harrison Mann's letter criticized the U.S. for still supporting Israel, "which has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation" of Palestinians.
David Cameron, whoâs now the U.K.âs foreign secretary, rebuked the media outlet for its Hamas terminology after the death of a British-Israeli hostage.
The agreement comes as protests and encampments against the war in Gaza have popped up across university campuses nationwide.
The senator also repeatedly compared Israel's efforts to eliminate Hamas to the United Statesâ choice to deploy nuclear bombs on Japan during World War II.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has delivered some of the Biden administrationâs strongest public criticism yet of Israelâs conduct of the war in Gaza.
Israeli forces are battling Palestinian militants across the Gaza Strip, including in parts of the devastated north that the military said it had cleared months ago.