The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday condemned Israel for issuing evacuation orders in Gaza ahead of an expected ground invasion, calling it a "death sentence" for the sick and injured Palestinians in hospitals in the region. "Forcing more than 2000 patients to relocate to southern Gaza, where health facilities are already running at maximum...
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) argued on Saturday that supporting innocent Palestinians doesn’t make a person anti-Israel amid the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas. “It’s a fairly simple proposition: valuing innocent Palestinians’ lives- as I very much do- obviously doesn’t by itself imply one doesn’t also value innocent Israelis’ lives,” Nadler said in a post...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) argued Saturday that the U.S. shouldn't take in Palestinian refugees fleeing from Gaza amid the war between Israel and Hamas militants. "I don't know what [President] Biden's gonna do, but we cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees," DeSantis, a GOP presidential candidate, said during a campaign...
Most U.S. adults say the country is heading in the wrong direction, according to a recent survey from the Associated Press-NORC Research Center. The poll, released Saturday, found 78 percent of respondents saying the country is headed in the wrong direction. Only 21 percent said it is headed in the right direction. Just a month...
A human rights expert for the United Nations called for a ceasefire between Hamas and Israeli forces Saturday, warning of mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. “The situation in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel has reached fever pitch,” Francesca Albanese, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since...
Richie Kessel's post work has raised alarms from New York's attorney general, comptroller and inspector general, so why did Hochul name him chair the...
President Biden said that the U.S. will work with Israel, the U.N. and countries neighboring the Jewish state to ease humanitarian issues following the first Israeli-led ground raids in Gaza.