First Appropriate Resolution of a Senate Motion to Pass an Emergency Aid Package for the U.S., Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine
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President Biden sent William J. Burns to join the talks, as he said that he had spoken with the prime minister of Israel and leaders of Egypt and a number of other countries to push this forward. The officials from Hamas are taking part in the negotiations on their own.
After months of setbacks and negotiations, a bipartisan majority in the Senate voted early this morning to pass a $95 billion emergency aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The bill passed 70-to-29, despite warnings from House Republicans that it may never receive a vote. The package does not include changes to U.S. border policy despite early insistence from Republicans that they would not support a foreign aid bill without border policy changes.
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The Times of Hamas: Why Israeli Prisoners Aren’t Safe in Their Own Regime and Why Israel is Probing Gaza
A primary obstacle, according to another U.S. official, is a disagreement on how many Palestinians Israel would release from its prisons in exchange for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and its allies. There were several exchanges in late November where three Palestinians were released for each hostage.
Mr. Netanyahu has said that Israel will conduct such an offensive and has ordered the military to draw up plans to evacuate civilians from the city. Many Palestinians and international aid groups fear that moving people away from the main entry point for aid will make things worse in Gaza.
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