Just two weeks after Hamas terrorists stormed Israeli neighborhoods, massacring families in their homes and parading bloodied hostages through the streets of Gaza, an anti-Semitic hate group with multiple documented links to Hamas visited U.S. Congress
AMP’s presence in America’s highest corridors of power, so soon after Hamas’s slaughter of Israeli innocents, threatens to stain US-Israel relations and empower extremists.
The UN relief agency has warned of devastation in the Gaza Strip as Israel has conducted several ground operations over the past few weeks.Rina Bassist, Adam Lucente, Ezgi Akin, Elizabeth Hagedorn, Jack Dutton, Beatrice Farhat, Jared Szuba, Ben Caspit and Al-Monitor’s contributors on the ground in Gaza contributed to this blog.Click here for our most recent updates.
As the Israeli army announced an expansion of operations Friday evening, Palestinian media and an internet watchdog noted a complete "collapse of connectivity" in communications within Gaza.