Rights groups and humanitarian organizations have spent months documenting alleged violations of international law by the Israeli military in Gaza - many believed to have been carried out with U.S.-made weapons - including attacks on civilian neighborhoods, health facilities, journalists and aid workers.
Israel ordered new evacuations in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Saturday, forcing tens of thousands more people to move as it prepares to expand its military operation closer to the heavily populated central area, in defiance of growing pressure amid the war from close ally the United States and others.
Chief Hospital Corpsman Daniel Douglass McCracken, a Navy reservist who worked as a police officer in Pennsylvania, died Monday in the Middle East in a noncombat-related incident, according to the service.
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns, a veteran diplomat and Arabic speaker, was in Cairo alongside Qatari and Egyptian mediators this week as U.S. President Joe Biden set off a political firestorm by halting the shipment of about 3,500 bombs to Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel must go into Rafah to finish off the remaining battalions of Hamas, the U.S.-designated terrorist group that killed 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped about 250 last Oct. 7. He said Hamas will “murder again and again” if allowed to survive in Rafah.
Heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the outskirts of the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and forced more than 110,000 people to flee north, U.N. officials said Friday.
Israel has racked up a bill of $16 billion after seven months of war, leaving its budget deficit on a path to blow past this year’s target absent government action to stabilize finances.
Many Jewish families in Bay Area communities say an undercurrent of antisemitism has emerged unchecked in K-12 schools amid the divisive national debates spawned by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel has received more U.S. military aid — and more U.S. aid of any type — than any other country since World War II.
The United States warned on Thursday that Israel will be dealing a strategic victory to Hamas if it carries out plans for an all-out assault on Rafah, the militants’ last major stronghold in Gaza.