The Israeli House of Representatives (Jebbi) and the U.S. Senate (Dem. E. Biden v. Jordan)
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President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday to reiterate the United States’ support for Israel’s security.
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Is Air Force One Going to the Middle East? A Comment on the Operatic Journey of Jakub Jzef Orliski
The US has seen myopia rates go up in the last 50 years. Many of the diagnosed are children. Experts think increased time spent indoors, often looking at screens, could be to blame for bad eyesight.
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The director of the Middle East Institute decried the timing of the visit, saying it couldn’t be worse. Even though the circumstances behind the strike are not clear, it does not matter at this point. The tensions have been inflamed beyond anything we’ve seen over the last week.”
Eventually, Air Force One departed, carrying an American president bound for Tel Aviv at a moment when Gaza was facing a humanitarian catastrophe and anger was reverberating across the Middle East.
The summit in Jordan that Air Force One was going to fly to had been canceled, White House officials told reporters as they sat on the tarmac. It was not known for a moment if the plane would go to the Middle East at all. Mr. Biden wasn’t answering questions when he boarded.
The Israeli-Israel War During the Rafah Attacks: Israeli Action and Israel’s Implications for the Second World War
The Rafah crossing is effectively the only option for Palestinians to leave Gaza, and for any aid to come in. Food, water and medicine are already extremely scarce in Gaza, and the dire conditions have worsened in the last week. Many of the injured, including children, are struggling to be cared for because hospitals are out of power.
Biden’s team has been pressing Israel and Egypt to allow food, water and medicine into Gaza — and to let civilians out. On the way to Tel Aviv, Kirby expressed some optimism that could happen soon.
Biden also hopes to get more information about efforts to locate and free hostages taken during the attacks, a handful of whom are believed to be American citizens. Biden will meet with people who lost loved ones during the attacks, as well as first responders, Kirby said.
Biden pledged his support for Israel in its war against Hamas at the same time that he is asking Congress for more money for Israel’s military.
“He’ll be asking some tough questions – he’ll be asking them as a friend, as a true friend of Israel but he’ll be asking some questions of them,” Kirby told reporters on the eve of Biden’s visit.
Biden was very strong in his support for Israel, suggesting that the Hamas attacks were the most deadly attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust and that Israel has a right to defend itself. Kirby said 31 U.S. citizens were among the dead and 13 Americans remain unaccounted for.
Biden talked to Netanyahu after the hospital explosion. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said that Israel had “categorically and stridently denied” responsibility.
Abbas canceled his meeting with Biden and called for three days of mourning. Biden said he would postpone the visit after he talked to King Abdullah.
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The strike on the hospital was described by Hamas as a massacre that also exposed the American and Western support for this criminal occupation. Hamas called on Muslims and Arabs across the world to protest and rally against Israel.
But Biden has visited war zones before, including a trip to Ukraine in February. The president was in Ukraine when that travel wasn’t revealed.
Protests erupted after the hospital strike in Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon. Protesters in the West Bank chanted slogans against Israel and the Palestinian Authority as police tried to break them up.
According to Daniel Hagari, the initial review showed it was a misfired rocket from Gaza and that there was a chatter among the militants that it was a PIJ.
He said they didn’t see a direct hit at the hospital, but rather a hit in the parking lot and that Israel continues to gather intel, including from Al-Jazeera.
He said that before the hospital was hit, Israel had bombed it twice. He said this was followed by a warning from Israel asking why the hospital had not yet been evacuated.
The president agreed to remain closely involved with each of them over the next few days and to start consulting with them soon, according to the White House.
There was an immediate humanitarian cease-fire called for by the U.N. Secretary-General. He said too many lives and the fate of the entire region hang in the balance.
Israeli air and naval strikes on Gaza condemn Israel: “The death toll goes way beyond Jordan” and “the destruction of families in the Gaza Strip”
Saudi Arabia, which had been in serious talks to normalize relations with Israel just weeks ago, also slammed Israel, saying it “condemns in the strongest terms the heinous crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces.”
Hamas, meanwhile, continues to launch missiles at Israel cities. Israel’s Iron Dome defense system intercepts most. In some cities, air raid sirens are heard.
The Baptist Al- Ahli hospital took in families who were homeless because of the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
At least 3,000 people have been killed in Israeli air and naval strikes on Gaza since then, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. That death toll was before the hospital strike. Another 1,200 people are missing, presumed dead or still alive under the rubble of thousands of homes that have been destroyed.
A senior Health Ministry official in Gaza, Dr. Yousef Abu Al-Reesh, gave a press conference after the hospital strike. He stood at a podium, surrounded by the dead bodies of children, including babies.
Dr. Fadel Naim, a doctor at the Baptist Al-Ahli hospital, told NPR that doctors were operating on patients when they heard a loud explosion. He saw dead and wounded people when he ran outside.
He said that they found a baby on the roof of the hospital. “Many babies died yesterday. Many babies.”
Israeli bombing of a U.N. shelter and a Palestinian refugee’s shelter in Gaza has frustrated the Scholastic Book Fair
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told CNN in an interview Israel has bombed the crossing several times in recent days, including as Egyptian workers were repairing damage from one of the airstrikes, wounding several of them.
A U.N. shelter where thousands of Palestinians were seeking refuge was also struck by Israel on Tuesday, killing six people, according to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.
Gaza has been without electricity for a long time and the biggest hospital there only has a few days of fuel left, according to the U.N. relief agency, OCHA.
Israel partially resumed water supply to the eastern Khan Younis area of Gaza this week, but the U.N’s OCHA says that only reaches 14% of Gaza’s population.
The U.N. relief agency said that people have been consuming water from agricultural wells, increasing exposure to pesticides and other chemicals, putting them at risk of death or disease outbreak.
The book ban movement has taken its toll on a beloved school tradition: Scholastic Book Fairs. The organization was criticized for not allowing schools to choose which books they wanted to order and for putting race and gender in different displays.
The Laundry Guy: How to Make Your Clothes Last Longer and Your Money Saver for Next-to-Leading Order
Across the world, women do the bulk of caregiving in their families. The work often goes underappreciated and unpaid. A program was launched in Columbia to help women pursue interests within walking distance of their homes. They finish school and are aided in finding jobs.
Patric Richardson is host of The Laundry Guy, and he wants you to ignore everything your parents told you about laundry. The self-described “laundry evangelist” has tips to make your clothes last longer and save money.