WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday defended a decision to pause a delivery to Israel of 3,500 bombs over concerns they could be used in the Gazan city of Rafah, saying Israel lacked a “credible plan” to protect some 1.4 million civilians sheltering there. Speaking to ABC News’ This Week, […]
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Biden is right to nudge Israel toward protecting civilians in Rafah
This week Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) delivered another classic grandstanding moment during a Senate budget hearing. Citing reports that President Biden was pausing weapons shipments to Israel, Graham expressed his displeasure with his usual demonstrative hand gestures and a well-timed table slap. He even leaned back and licked his lips after asking the chairman of […]
France warns that forcing civilians from Rafah may be a war crime
The French Foreign Ministry has emphasized its “firm opposition” to Israeli plans to launch a military ground offensive against the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. “France also recalls that the forced displacement of a civilian population constitutes a war crime under international law,” the ministry said in a statement on Monday. The […]
Israel has briefed US on plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians ahead of potential Rafah operation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel this week briefed Biden administration officials on a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians ahead of a potential operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah aimed at rooting out Hamas militants, according to U.S. officials familiar with the talks. The officials, who were not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity […]
LSU students show support to civilians caught in the middle of Israel, Hamas war
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Protests in support of Israel and Palestine are happening across the country on many college campuses, including at LSU’s Student Union steps. Students for Justice in Palestine are claiming Israel’s response to Oct. 7 is genocide. “I don’t want to die. They should stop killing me. They should stop shooting […]
More civilians die in Ukraine as analysts warn over US aid delays
More civilians have died across Ukraine as analysts warned that delays in US military assistance would see Kyiv struggle to fight off Russian offensives. One man was killed on Sunday after a Russian drone hit the truck he was driving in the Sumy region, the local prosecutor’s office said. Elsewhere, a 67-year-old woman was killed […]
More civilians die in Ukraine amid warning US aid delays will hamper Kyiv forces
More civilians died across Ukraine on Sunday as analysts warned that delays in US military assistance would see Kyiv struggle to fight off Russian offensives. One man was killed when a Russian drone hit the truck he was driving in the Sumy region, the local prosecutor’s office said. Elsewhere, a 67-year-old woman was killed after […]
More civilians die in Ukraine amid warning US aid delays will hamper Kyiv forces
More civilians died across Ukraine on Sunday as analysts warned that delays in US military assistance would see Kyiv struggle to fight off Russian offensives. One man was killed when a Russian drone hit the truck he was driving in the Sumy region, the local prosecutor’s office said. Elsewhere, a 67-year-old woman was killed after […]
Russian double-tap strikes hit civilians then rescuers too
On the night of 3 April, a swarm of Russian drones attacked Kharkiv, in Ukraine’s northeast. The country’s second-largest city has been targeted almost incessantly since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. But this time was worse than usual, because, when rescue workers arrived at the scene, there was a second strike. Three of them […]
protect Gaza civilians, or else
US president Joe Biden effectively gave Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu an ultimatum on Thursday: protect Palestinian civilians and foreign aid workers in Gaza or Washington could rein in support for Israel in its war against Hamas militants. The message, after months of US calls for Israel to change its military tactics that have killed […]
Biden tells Israel’s Netanyahu future US support for war depends on new steps to protect civilians
This combination photo shows President Joe Biden, left, on March 8, 2024, in Wallingford, Pa., and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 28, 2023. Biden and Netanyahu spoke Monday, March 18, in their first interaction in more than a month as the divide has grown between allies over food crisis in […]
Islamic State-linked fighters kill at least a dozen civilians in eastern Congo
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s army says extremist-linked rebels have killed at least a dozen people in a raid on a rural community in the east, in the latest violence near the border with Uganda. Allied Democratic Forces rebels with ties to the Islamic State group have long operated in the border area. The United […]