Just one hour before doing so, the Trump Administration informed Congress that it would disregard Congressional oversight and long-standing practice under the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and immediately notify more than $6 billion in arms sales to Israel.
The four sales to Israel, including tactical vehicles and helicopters, were a violation of congressional norms, a senior Democratic official said, adding that Trump refuses to ‘engage Congress on critical questions about the next steps in Gaza’
Will Rafah crossing open to empty Gaza?; headlines on Iran; UNRWA without protections; settlers act as “vigilante militias” in West Bank; apartheid in the open; more arms to Israel with less Congressional oversight; the US occupation of Gaza
Israel kills at least 44 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday; incl 4 aid seekers; 91% of people killed by Israel in Gaza were civilians; Israeli threats against Yemen, flotilla; more arms sales in the works
Israeli forces kill at least 75 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, including at least 18 aid seekers; 313 have now died of starvation; Israel wreaks havoc in West Bank; Netanyahu avoids ceasefire discussion in cabinet meeting, encourages settler violence; DNC ignores constituents on weapons to Israel
Israeli forces kill at least 94 in Gaza, including19 aid seekers; 271 total known dead of starvation; “final resolution” in Gaza City; how to get a tent; Israel’s “devastating” E-1 settlement plan; dehumanization of Palestinians
Israel kills at least 97 Palestinians, including aid seekers; massive attacks on cafe, hospital/shelter; meningitis hits Gaza; Israel caught in a lie about aid killings, but US will continue paying; strongly-worded letter to Sec’y Rubio; more.
Israeli forces kills more than 70 in Gaza, including 36 aid-seekers, 3 more in West Bank; post-Madleen, Global March To Gaza is the latest campaign to break the siege; Amb. Huckabee says two-state solution is dead; France’s ‘uninterrupted flow’ of weapons to Israel; IAEA an ‘instrument for Israel’; more
US, EU continue to supply weapons for Israel’s genocide; Israeli attacks against Christians, clergy on the rise in West Bank – on Easter and every day; Israeli military admits ‘professional failures’ over Gaza paramedic killings; settler attacks on Palestinians on the rise
Palestinian journalist and family killed; Israel has no plans to allow food into Gaza; Gaza’s donkeys; weapons arrive in Israel by the planeload; Gaza bombarded with ‘nearly six times Hiroshima bomb’s explosive power’; over 100K Israelis demand end to war; West Bank deaths