20 h. ago Mike Huckabee, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Questions Palestinian State Policy

The envoy, Mike Huckabee, said in media interviews that “Muslim countries” should build a Palestinian state on their territory, which would be a sharp departure from decades of U.S. foreign policy.

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24 h. ago Major Western countries coming together to support recognition of a Palestinian state

Opposition to the war in Gaza is fueling a new diplomatic approach. Major Western countries are coming together to support formal recognition of a Palestinian state. Israel is threatening retaliation.

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35 h. ago Huckabee suggests Muslim countries should give up land for Palestinian state

Huckabee suggests Muslim countries should give up land for Palestinian state  BBC

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36 h. ago U.S. Ambassador Huckabee: Palestinian State Could Be Built in Muslim Country, Not Inside Israeli

The United States no longer supports a Palestinian state in Israel’s “Judea and Samaria” (the West Bank) regions, declared U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who suggested it could be formed “elsewhere in the region” — while warning Iran over uranium enrichment and insisting Hamas must free hostages before any end to the Gaza war. The post U.S. Ambassador Huckabee: Palestinian State Could Be Built in Muslim Country, Not Inside Israeli-Controlled Lands appeared first on Breitbart.

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4 d. ago Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Washington, and Wyoming Join in Food Safety Crisis as Salmonella Outbreak Spreads Across Nine US States

Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Washington, and Wyoming Join in Food Safety Crisis as Salmonella Outbreak Spreads Across Nine US States  Travel And Tour World

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2 w. ago World Food Program head says peace critical to solve hunger in Congo

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Cindy McCain, executive director of the World Food Program, about the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and cuts to WFP funding.

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4 w. ago Palestinians are counting lentils, as Gaza food crisis worsens

Nearly half a million people in Gaza now face starvation, according to a new report from the IPC, the international panel of famine experts who advise the United Nations.For more than ten weeks, Israel has halted the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, to pressure Hamas to release Israeli hostages. Israel accuses Hamas of seizing aid, selling it on the black market and using aid distribution to reinforce its control of Gaza.The UN says hundreds of truckloads of lifesaving supplies are waiting at the border. Meanwhile, inside Gaza, food is scarce. Humanitarian groups like the UN World Food Programme (WFP) exhausted supplies of basic staples weeks ago, forcing them to shut down their kitchens and bakeries, and everyday Palestinians are grinding up pasta and lentils to make flour for bread. Antoine Renard of the WFP says when he was in Gaza last week, wheat flour was selling for $10 a pound. Juana Summers talks with Renard about what he's seen in Gaza, and what's next for the people th...

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4 w. ago In Private, Some Israeli Officers Admit That Gaza Is on the Brink of Starvation

Israel’s government has publicly dismissed warnings of extreme food shortages after it blocked aid deliveries, but an internal analysis concluded that a crisis looms if food supplies are not restored.

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