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Gaza Receives First Aid Trucks Since Hamas Attack as Egypt Border Opens Briefly
21Oct By adminNo Comments
World

Gaza Receives First Aid Trucks Since Hamas Attack as Egypt Border Opens Briefly

Updated Oct. 21, 2023 9:19 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)A convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza for the first time since the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas militants. Egyptian officials said 20 trucks filled with medical supplies and some food and bottled water crossed into Gaza on Saturday morning before Egypt closed the border again. Citizens of the U.S. and other foreign countries stuck in Gaza weren’t able to enter Egypt, the officials said.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Mohamed Salah, Egypt and the scrutiny of his words about the war in Israel and Gaza
21Oct By adminNo Comments
Sports

Mohamed Salah, Egypt and the scrutiny of his words about the war in Israel and Gaza

Late on Wednesday, Mohamed Salah released a short video on his social media platforms.Most of the Egyptian’s updates are determinedly uncontroversial — pictures of his goals, his holidays, his family. This one was different: a video message, delivered in close-up, straight to camera, about the war in Israel and Gaza.Salah, 31, did not apportion blame for any of the bloodshed. His message was, simply, a call for humanitarian aid to be sent into Gaza, citing that all lives are sacred.Salah, one of the world’s best footballers, has largely been commended in the West for his diplomacy, but it is a reminder of the tightrope being walked by Salah — an icon of the Arab world whose popularity extends across the planet — that in Egypt and across other parts of North Africa and the Middle East, his...
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American Grandmother Stuck in Gaza After Visit to Ailing Father
18Oct By adminNo Comments
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American Grandmother Stuck in Gaza After Visit to Ailing Father

Updated Oct. 18, 2023 12:06 am ETRAFAH, Gaza Strip—When Israel’s retaliatory airstrikes on Gaza started last week, retired American schoolteacher Wafa al-Saqqa, who had come to visit her ailing father, resolved to stick it out, figuring his upscale northern neighborhood was unlikely to be targeted.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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U.S., Egypt Reach Deal to Evacuate Americans From Gaza
14Oct By adminNo Comments
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U.S., Egypt Reach Deal to Evacuate Americans From Gaza

Listen to article(2 minutes)TEL AVIV—U.S. and Egyptian officials agreed on a deal Saturday to allow Americans to leave Gaza for Egypt, a senior State Department official said, as Israel said it would give Palestinians safe passage southward for a few hours from the northern part of the Gaza Strip.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Sen. Bob Menendez Indicted on New Charge of Aiding Egypt
12Oct By adminNo Comments
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Sen. Bob Menendez Indicted on New Charge of Aiding Egypt

Updated Oct. 12, 2023 5:46 pm ETSen. Bob Menendez was indicted Thursday on a new charge of conspiring to act as an illegal foreign agent of Egypt, adding a new criminal count to the bribery case the New Jersey Democrat already faces.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Hamas’s Global Test for Biden
10Oct By adminNo Comments
Business

Hamas’s Global Test for Biden

Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York. He is also a member of Aspen Institute Italy and board member of Aspenia. Before joining Hudson, Mr. Mead was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations as the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy. He has authored numerous books, including the widely-recognized Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004). Mr. Mead’s next book is entitled The Arc of A Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Future of the Jewish People.  
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