‘We Will Do It Alone’: Netanyahu Says Israel Will Push Into Rafah Without Biden’s Support

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken on Friday that Israel is prepared to continue its war against Hamas alone by launching an offensive into Rafah, amid tense relations between the two allies over the six-month-old Gaza conflict. Blinken met one-on-one with Netanyahu in talks aimed at ensuring more food flows

Newsom Calls for Gaza Ceasefire

California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) in a Thursday open letter to California’s Muslim, Palestinian, and Arab-American communities called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza. “It is time to work in earnest toward an enduring peace that will furnish the lasting security, autonomy, and freedom that the Palestinians and the Israeli people both deserve,” Newsom wrote.