“This is a simple request for information. That is all this resolution is about. It does not alter aid to Israel in any way. It simply requests a report on how U.S. aid is being used,” Sanders said in a floor speech before the vote.
War in Israel
New sanctions come with a formal designation that is meant to sever violent extremist groups from their sources of financing.
Palestinian terrorists battled Israeli forces in northern Gaza and launched a barrage of rockets from farther south on Tuesday.
The Biden administration is expected to soon announce plans to redesignate Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as specially designated global terrorists.
The U.S. launched a new strike against Houthis on Tuesday, hitting anti-ship missiles in the third assault on the Iranian-backed group in recent days.
Israel’s defense minister said the intense Israeli military offensive in the southern Gaza Strip will soon be scaled back.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the U.K. Parliament that U.K. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, conducted alongside the United States, were “limited, not escalatory.”
The attack on the Gibraltar Eagle, later claimed by the Houthis, further escalates tensions gripping the Red Sea after American-led strikes on the rebels.
Israeli soccer player Sagiv Jehezkel returned to Israel to a cheering crowd, hours after he was briefly detained in Turkey for allegedly inciting hatred.
Israel insists its campaign against Hamas won’t end before the Palestinian terrorist organization capitulates and returns all the people it took captive, a senior official said.
An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon hit a home in northern Israel on Sunday, killing two civilians and renewing concerns about the risk of a second front erupting in the Israel-Hamas war.
A new U.S. strike against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen overnight Saturday heightened fears that the Israel-Hamas war could escalate into a regional conflict.
Sunday will mark 100 days since about 250 people were taken hostage by terrorists, triggering the latest war between Israel and Hamas.
Israel insisted at the United Nations’ highest court that its war in Gaza was a legitimate defense of its people and that it was Hamas terrorists who were guilty of genocide.
The first day of strikes Friday hit 28 locations and struck more than 60 targets. However, the U.S. determined the additional location, a radar site, still presented a threat to maritime traffic, one official said.
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