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Is there famine in Gaza? Or just a maldistribution of aid? From the start of the Gaza war on October 8, 2023, to October 12, 2024, Israel has allowed into the Gaza Strip 1,074,745 tons of aid in 54,454 trucks. There has been no dearth of aid. Repeatedly we have been assured that there is “famine” in Gaza or “people are starving in Gaza,” but none of these fearful conditions have actually come to pass. There has not been starvation or famine in Gaza. What there has been is a maldistribution of aid once it enters Gaza from outside. Armed...

Vice President Kamala Harris has broken with President Joe Biden to call for 'an immediate ceasefire' in Gaza. Her comments, made during a speech in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday, are the strongest condemnation of Israel's conduct since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack by a senior member of the Biden administration. They came just a day before she is due to meet with a top Israeli official to discuss a potential ceasefire deal and a day after the US began air-dropping aid to the war-torn country, 'Before I begin I must address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza,' Harris said. 'What we...

Israel shared three cell phone numbers used by Qasem Soleimani with U.S. intelligence in the hours before American drones unleashed Hellfire missiles on the Iranian general last year, Yahoo News reported Saturday. The revelation sheds new light on the role that Israel played in the killing of Soleimani, who the State Department says was responsible for hundreds of U.S. troop deaths as the head of the Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force. The drone strike occurred shortly after midnight on Jan. 2, 2020, as Soleimani and his entourage were leaving Baghdad's international airport. As three Delta Force sniper teams monitored Soleimani...