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- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli leaders in Tel Aviv on Friday on the final stop in his sixth urgent trip to the region since the start of the war. Blinken said he would share alternatives to Israel's planned ground assault into the southern Gaza town of Rafah during talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his War Cabinet. (Mar. 22)
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Israel's Netanyahu rebuffs US plea to halt Rafah offensive. Tensions rise ahead of Washington talks
By MATTHEW LEE AND JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press
Fri,03/22/24-1:21PM , 227 Reads
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday once again left the Middle East empty-handed as Israel’s prime minister rejected American appeals to call off a promised ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which is overflowing with displaced civilians.
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- Aid continued to be parachuted into the the Gaza Strip on Friday. The airdrops are part of an international effort to work around extreme difficulties plaguing ground transport of aid into Gaza. Truckloads of aid have been stalled by political and security concerns. It comes as the U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a U.S.-sponsored resolution declaring that “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war is “imperative” to protect civilians and allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to more than 2 million hungry Palestinians. (Mar. 22)
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The Latest | Blinken urges Israel not to invade Rafah. Netanyahu says he'll 'do it alone'
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fri,03/22/24-2:57AM , 571 Reads
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sternly rejected the visiting U.S. secretary of state's plea not to launch a ground invasion into Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, saying Friday “we will do it alone” if necessary.
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- A general view shows a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Friday, March. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
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Russia and China veto US resolution calling for immediate cease-fire in Gaza
By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press
Thu,03/21/24-11:54PM , 617 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China on Friday vetoed a U.S.-sponsored United Nations resolution supporting “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, calling the measure ambiguous and saying it was not the direct demand to end the fighting that much of the wor
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- Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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US calls for vote Friday on UN resolution declaring that immediate Gaza cease-fire is `imperative'
By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press
Thu,03/21/24-5:13PM , 389 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States called for a vote Friday on a newly revised and tougher U.N.
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