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Updated: May. 18, 2021 1:18 PM
Fighting between Israel and Hamas escalated in what has become the heaviest flare-up since the 2014 Gaza War. At least 213 people were killed in the Gaza Strip, and 10 in Israel in the most intensive aerial exchanges in years.
On Saturday, an Israeli man was killed after a barrage of rocket fire targeted Tel Aviv and central Israel, shattering two days of calm in the region. Buildings and infrastructure have been damaged in several cities in central Israel and the IDF downed a media tower housing offices of Al Jazeera, The Associated Press, and other media outlets.
Gregory Meeks, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, decided not to send a letter to the Biden administration asking for a delay in the transfer of missiles to Israel.
Meeks, a New York Democrat who just months ago pledged to leave sacrosanct defense assistance to Israel, promised greater oversight of arms sales, including to Israel going forward, a sea change in how
Democrats relate to Israel.
Meeks convened the committee in a private session Monday night to consider asking for a delay in light of the war raging between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. A number of Democrats in Congress have called for an immediate ceasefire and for greater Israeli restraint.
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Afghans who aided U.S. troops are in danger of being hunted down by the Taliban.
“The day the last U.S. soldier goes wheels up out of Bagram air base, we’ve handed these people a death sentence,” Rep. Michael Waltz said in an interview. | AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack
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House lawmakers are increasingly frustrated with the Biden administration’s lack of progress in expediting special immigrant visas for thousands of Afghans who have worked with the U.S. as the deadline to withdraw all U.S. troops from the country gets closer.
Lawmakers “have been completely underwhelmed by the total lack of a sense of urgency, or a plan” to prioritize the safety of the thousands of Afghan interpreters and others who qualify for such visas and who will be hunted down by the Taliban if the Biden administration does not take action, said Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), a former Green Beret who worked with Afghan interpreters during his deployment.
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