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Administration Agrees to Block Iran From $6B

Qatar, US reach 'quiet understanding' to keep money from helping Hamas

(Newser) - Facing congressional pressure, the Biden administration has moved to ensure Iran can't use any of its $6 billion freed up in the deal that resulted in the release of five Americans last month. The money, which had been frozen by the US, was sent to accounts in Qatar, whose...

At Kibbutz, 'We Killed Everyone Who Came to the Fence'

Special forces veteran fought off Hamas attack with 'regular men'

(Newser) - Gunfire awoke residents of the Nir Am kibbutz in southern Israel at 6:30am Saturday. A former special forces member who gave his name only as Adam jumped out of bed, the BBC reports, to lead the effort to fight off the Hamas attack. "I took my pistol, my...

Biden Team, GOP Rivals Wonder What Trump Sees in Hezbollah

Pence, DeSantis join criticism of front-runner for calling terrorist group 'smart'

(Newser) - White House and Biden campaign aides expressed disgust and bafflement Thursday for Donald Trump's expressed admiration for Hezbollah. "Sickening rhetoric," Kevin Munoz, a campaign spokesperson, posted on X, in response to the former president's remarks to supporters in Florida on Wednesday night. Trump's comments were...

UN Warns of Gaza 'Disaster,' American Toll Rises

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel in wake of the Hamas attacks

(Newser) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the "reign of terror" of Hamas as he traveled to Israel on Thursday to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu as well as the families of Americans killed or taken hostage. As Israel inched closer to a ground invasion, Blinken also urged restraint, notes the...

Student Sees Swift Fallout After Condemning Israel

Prestigious Chicago law firm rescinds job offer for NYU's Ryna Workman

(Newser) - The fallout continues for those criticizing Israel's role in violence that has killed 2,500 people since Saturday. A law firm has rescinded a job offer to the president of New York University's Student Bar Association after the law student claimed "Israel bears full responsibility for this...

Tlaib Faces Censure Motion Over Remarks on Israel

She says Hamas attack was a 'war crime,' but so is 'collective punishment of Palestinians'

(Newser) - The only Palestinian American in Congress is facing a censure motion over her remarks on the Hamas attack on Israel, but Rep. Rashida Tlaib rejects suggestions that she has sympathies for the extremists. The Democrat, whose Michigan district includes parts of Detroit, tells the Detroit Free Press that she considers...

Israel: No Power, Water for Gaza Until Hostages Are Returned

ICRC calls siege 'not acceptable'

(Newser) - Gaza's only power plant ran out of fuel Wednesday amid what Israel calls a "complete siege"—and the country's energy minister says supplies won't be restored until Hamas frees the hostages seized during its surprise attack Saturday. "Not a single electricity switch will be...

CEOs: Blacklist Harvard Students Tied to Israel Statement

At least a dozen CEOs are calling for names of students to be released by university

(Newser) - Dozens of Harvard student groups signed a letter that put the blame for the surprise Hamas attack squarely on Israel's shoulders, and now at least a dozen CEOs are calling for the university to name the students involved in those groups so that the execs can avoid hiring them...

'Utterly Horrific' Scenes Found in Israel Kibbutz

Military says families were 'butchered' by Hamas fighters

(Newser) - Harrowing stories are continuing to emerge from the surprise Hamas attack on Israel, which killed at least 1,200 people. Hours after troops took full control of the Kfar Aza kibbutz on Tuesday, Maj. Gen. Itai Veruv told CNN there had been a "massacre" in the small farming community...

Israel Police Snip 'Another String' in Hamas' 'Bow'

Authorities say they've frozen terror group's crypto accounts

(Newser) - The Israel-Hamas war is expected to only escalate , despite more than 2,100 lives on both sides already lost. Israeli police have announced one big move after Hamas' bloody attacks over the weekend, reporting on Tuesday that they'd frozen cryptocurrency accounts used by the terror group. Israeli police said...

Report: Hamas Attack May Have Surprised Iran Leaders

But Tehran was definitely complicit, US says

(Newser) - American officials say there's no doubt that funding from Iran helped make the Hamas attack possible—but the surprise attack on Israel may also have been a surprise to Iranian leaders. The New York Times , citing "US officials and another official in the Middle East," reports that...

Israel Has 10 Iron Dome Batteries. We Have 2 More

In a letter, senators ask the batteries be sent to Israel immediately

(Newser) - A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday evening requested two Iron Dome batteries that are held by the US be sent to Israel. In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, NBC News reports Sens. Mike Rounds, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jacky Rosen, and Rick Scott said "the United States...

Israel Forms an Emergency Wartime Government

Netanyahu joins with opposition leader Benny Gantz to form small cabinet to fight Hamas

(Newser) - A top opposition Israeli politician says he has reached an agreement to enter a wartime unity government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reports the AP . Benny Gantz, a former defense minister and military chief of staff, released what he said was a joint statement with Netanyahu. The statement said they...

Pilot Who Ripped Israel Online 'Removed From Flying'

Air Canada's Mostafa Ezzo allegedly wore pro-Palestinian colors, told Israel to 'burn in hell'

(Newser) - An Air Canada pilot won't be getting behind the controls for a while after complaints poured in about his social media posts regarding Hamas' attack on Israel over the weekend. The airline confirmed to the Toronto Sun on Tuesday that Montreal-based Capt. Mostafa Ezzo "was taken out of...

Gaza Set to Run Out of Electricity Within Hours
Gaza's Sole Power Plant
Has Run Out of Fuel
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Oct 11, 2023 7:25 AM CDT

Gaza's Sole Power Plant Has Run Out of Fuel

Hospitals struggle to treat the injured as fuel, medical supplies dwindle

(Newser) - Gaza's only power plant has run out of fuel, forcing it to shut down after Israel cut off supplies, the Energy Ministry said Wednesday. That will leave only generators to power the territory. The blackouts come as Israel has blocked fuel shipments into the Gaza Strip as part of...

Ilhan Omar Called 'Unfit to Serve' After Israel Comments

3 members of the Squad accuse Israel of operating an apartheid state

(Newser) - Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of "the Squad" in the House of Representatives and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress , on Monday took to social media to decry Israel's response to the attack by Hamas. Omar, who supports the Palestinian cause and has a...

Israel Defense Minister Says He Has 'Released All the Restraints'

Neighborhood-by-neighborhood airstrikes could be prelude to ground offensive

(Newser) - Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants. Humanitarian groups pleaded for the creation of corridors to get aid into...

180K+ Palestinians Are in Shelters, 'Nowhere to Go'

And those civilian shelters aren't even safe

(Newser) - Over 180,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are packed into UN shelters as Israeli warplanes pound the tiny territory of 2.3 million people in the wake of Hamas' weekend attack on Israel. Among them is 27-year-old Sabreen al-Attar. She sprang into action when she heard rocket after rocket...

Biden: Americans Were Taken Hostage by Hamas

He condemns the assault on Israel as 'pure unadulterated evil'

(Newser) - President Biden condemned the Hamas attack on Israel over the weekend as "pure unadulterated evil" Tuesday and confirmed that Americans were among those being held hostage, reports the New York Times . He did not say how many, though he raised to 14 the number of Americans killed in the...

Iran's Khamenei: Israel Risks a 'Heavier Slap'

Supreme leader denies helping Hamas with the attack over the weekend

(Newser) - Iran's supreme leader says his nation had no role in the surprise Hamas attack on Israel, despite allegations to the contrary . But Ayatollah Ali Khamenei nonetheless praised the assault, reports Reuters . "We kiss the hands of those who planned the attack on the Zionist regime," said Khamenei...

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