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Meirav Eilon Shahr, ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of the Israel to the UN, observes the vote on a resolution regarding the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, during the 55th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday.

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UN human rights body calls for halt to weapons shipments to Israel

7:30am April 05, 2024

by The Associated Press

While non-binding, the resolution passed Friday is bound to raise international pressure on Israel as a sign of widespread concern about its military campaign in Gaza.

President Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to express concerns about Israeli strikes that killed aid workers and humanitarian conditions in Gaza.

Biden warns Netanyahu that U.S. policy on Gaza hinges on improved conditions there

8:34pm April 04, 2024

by Tamara Keith

President Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed in Israeli strikes. He said a cease-fire is needed so aid can get in.

Members of the public join a walking vigil through the streets of Falmouth, England, for British aid worker James Henderson, organized by Palestine Solidarity Cornwall, April 3. Three British men working for World Central Kitchen were killed along with four colleagues when their clearly marked vehicles were targeted by Israeli military strikes.

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Why a majority of Britons want the U.K. to halt arms exports to Israel

1:37pm April 04, 2024

Countries including Canada, the Netherlands and Spain say they're suspending arms sales to Israel. After an Israeli strike killed British World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza, will the U.K. too?

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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a press conference on Dec. 6, 2023, about DOJ's indictment of four Russian military personnel for war crimes committed against a U.S. national living in Ukraine, the first of such charges ever to be brought under the U.S. war crimes statute.

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DOJ takes a stand against war crimes in Ukraine. In Gaza war, it's been nearly silent

10:37am April 04, 2024

by Ryan Lucas

The Justice Department has taken an active — and public — stand against alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine. But it's been nearly silent on possible war crimes in the Israel-Hamas war.

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A young boy looks out from a car as members of a Palestinian family leave Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip with personal belongings on March 31.

Biden met with a small group of Muslims yesterday. This doctor walked out

11:08pm April 03, 2024

by Asma Khalid

The relationship between the White House and Arab Americans and Muslims is fraught because of President Biden's support for Israel's war in Gaza,

Relatives and friends mourn the death of Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, a member of the U.S.-based aid group World Central Kitchen who was killed as Israeli strikes hit its convoy delivering food in Gaza, during his funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.

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These are the World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli airstrike in Gaza

4:02pm April 03, 2024

Three of those killed by an Israeli airstrike were British and the others were Australian, Palestinian, Polish and a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada.

Muslims gather to hold a demonstration to demand ceasefire for Gaza in front of the White House on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan on March 11.

The White House plans a smaller Ramadan gathering as the war in Gaza continues

4:42pm April 02, 2024

by Asma Khalid

White House officials appear to be trying to hold an event that will both reflect the somber mood in the Muslim community because of the war and also curb the possibility of protests.

José Andrés unloads food packages delivered by World Central Kitchen in Kherson, Ukraine in November 2022.

World Central Kitchen, led by a humanitarian chef, has fed crisis zones for years

1:26pm April 02, 2024

by Rachel Treisman

World Central Kitchen has long brought food to war zones and disaster areas around the world. The deaths of seven of its workers in Gaza come on top of the loss of six workers in Ukraine.

Israeli troops round up Egyptian soldiers captured during fighting in 1956 in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip, which was controlled by Egypt at the time. Israel, Britain and France invaded Egyptian territory after Egypt moved to nationalize the Suez Canal. But U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower intervened, leading to the withdrawal of foreign troops, including the Israeli forces in Gaza.

This isn't the first time the U.S. and Israel have disagreed over Gaza

11:59am April 02, 2024

by Greg Myre

The U.S. and Israel are close allies, but they've had sharp disagreements. Are the current differences over the war in Gaza a short-term dispute or a fundamental change in the relationship?

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Celebrity chef Jose Andres meets with senators at the U.S. Capitol about getting humanitarian aid to Gaza on March 14. Andres said Monday that his organization has lost "several" of its international volunteers in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

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An Israeli airstrike has killed World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza, founder says

10:13pm April 01, 2024

by James Hider

José Andrés, the founder of the organization that feeds people in war and disaster zones, said Monday that "several" international volunteers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.