#Bipartisan lawmakers introduce Iron Dome appropriations act

#Bipartisan lawmakers introduce Iron Dome appropriations act

Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), Max Miller (R-Ohio) and Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) on Tuesday introduced a bill that would appropriate $2 billion to help Israel with its Iron Dome defense system. The Iron Dome is a system that intercepts rockets being fired at Israel. “Radical Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists are kidnapping, torturing, raping, burning…

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#Palestinian president asks UN for help with ‘Israeli aggression’ in Gaza

#Palestinian president asks UN for help with ‘Israeli aggression’ in Gaza

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the United Nations to help stop the “Israeli aggression” in Gaza, state media reported Monday. In a call with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Abbas reportedly asked the U.N. to “immediately intervene” to stop the ongoing “Israeli aggression,” Palestinian news agency WAFA reported Monday night. Abbas urged Guterres and the…

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#Here’s the latest on Israel’s response to Hamas attack as nation declares war

#Here’s the latest on Israel’s response to Hamas attack as nation declares war

The Israeli government formally declared war against Palestinian militant group Hamas on Sunday following the group’s surprise onslaught of attacks Saturday that have left hundreds of people dead and thousands more injured. In the 24 hours that followed Hamas’s unprecedented attacks early Saturday, both Israel and Gaza saw rising death tolls as Israeli forces attempted…

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#Stop playing politics with Palestinian lives 

#Stop playing politics with Palestinian lives 

One wouldn’t know it from the headlines, but the next violent eruption in the Gaza Strip may be just around the corner. As most of Washington remains mired in its traditional August doldrums, yet another a potential crisis is brewing in the already isolated and impoverished Gaza Strip. For the past several months, $75 million…

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