The U.S. official said Israel was involved in the process to select the targets that led to a likely U.S. strike on the school. NBC News has reached out to the Israeli embassy in Washington, which had no immediate comment.
Walid Khalidi may be remembered as the diplomatic gentleman-scholar who became one of Palestine’s greatest historians. But he was also a teacher, a leader, and a pioneer whose life was entirely devoted to and consumed by the question of Palestine.
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The agency demanded that all parties protect civilians and reiterated the secretary-general’s call “to end the fighting and engage in diplomatic negotiations.”
“Last year, I warned about the possibility that Israel might drag the United States into a regional conflict. What’s happening now is worse than I could have ever imagined.”
The World Council of Churches’ new campaign called “From Condemnation to Consequences” aims to pressure governments to hold Israel accountable for its deepening occupation of the West Bank and its accelerated program of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
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For decades, Israel has had a hit list of countries that must be weakened in order to “remake the Middle East” into a region where Israel can call the shots.
The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days alone, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.