President Biden is considering a full-year supplemental request for around $100 billion, which would cover defense assistance for Israel and Ukraine, border security funding, and aid to countries in the Indo-Pacific including Taiwan. In 2022, the Biden administration requested $3.3 billion in foreig...
January 16, 2025Just the News Days before departing his last political job, a beleaguered Joe Biden went to the podium to announce a long-awaited ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. But when pressed by the news media over who should get credit for the deal, the 46th American president demur...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday in Egypt, the latest in a series of discussions between Blinken and leaders of countries surrounding Israel and Gaza as the Biden administration works to stave off the possibility of broader region...
A view of the Great Omari Mosque and the surrounding fields in 1862. Photograph: Francis Frith/Library of Congress via The New York Times The destruction of the built environment in Gaza has been so pervasive that, by early May, at least 57 per cent of all buildings in th...
Palestinians check the rubble of a building damaged by Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on Feb. 11, 2024. The death toll in the Israeli army's heavy strikes on the southern city of Rafah and surrounding areas of the Gaza Strip exceeded 100 on Monday, with ...
For the first time in months, Israel sent a column of tanks into northern Gaza and launched major operations there, surrounding Jabalia, the largest of strip’s eight historic refugee camps, as strikes hit a mosque and a school in attacks that killed 24 and wounded nearly 100, according to...
After 300 years of Egyptian occupation, the Peleset (Philistines), one of the Sea Peoples, settled the city and surrounding area. Gaza became an important centre of the Philistine Pentapolis (league of five cities). There the biblical hero Samson perished while toppling the temple of the god...
A full-blown war between Israel and Hamas has further stoked volatility in global markets, and one Wall Street firm saidit could drive investors away from risk assets, mimicking the climate surrounding the Russia invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022. ...
Currently, Hamas, recognized as a terror organization by most western countries, has de facto control of the city and Strip.[67]参考译文:2005年,以色列从加沙地带撤军并撤离了数千名在该地区定居的以色列人。(见2004年以色列单方面脱离接触计划)。自以色列撤军以来,哈马斯与其竞争对手巴勒斯坦组织法塔赫之间...
On Friday, the military ordered tens of thousands of residents to leave their homes in Burej, an urban refugee camp, and surrounding communities, within the territory that Israel originally told people to flee to. The air and ground campaign also continued in the north, even as Israel says ...