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Amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine escalation, Gal Gadot has shared a public statement calling for an end to what she said is a “vicious cycle that has been going on for far too long.”
In the statement, the
Justice League star who won the title of Miss Israel in 2004 when she was 18 and also served in the Israel Defense Forces, a compulsory move for Israeli citizens said she was praying leaders would “find the solution” and expressed hope that peace could be attained.
“Israel deserves to live as a free and safe nation,” Gadot wrote. “Our neighbors deserve the same. I pray for the victims and their families, I pray for this unimaginable hostility to end, I pray for our leaders to find the solution so we could live side by side in peace.”
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The Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday that at least 28 people had been killed amid Israeli airstrikes in the region, with 10 children among the dead. News of the airstrike deaths comes after days of fighting in the area, with the tensions between Israelis and Palestinians focused on the religious sites of Jerusalem considered sacred by multiple belief systems.
On Sunday, the White House announced that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had spoken by phone with Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat “to express the United States’ serious concerns” over violent confrontations in and around the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem.
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Gas stations in nearly two dozen states are running out of fuel after a Russian cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline system this week. Islamic terrorist organization Hamas is waging war against innocent civilians in Israel, where many Americans live and work. The White House called a lid at 3:34 p.m. this afternoon.
First, the gas shortage:
Officials said don’t panic buy but this is the gas line at Sam’s Club in Roanoke tonight. @WDBJ7? pic.twitter.com/24ogen35HZ Jean Jadhon (@JJadhonWDBJ7) May 11, 2021
Meanwhile the White House national security advisor, not President Biden, is publicly dealing with Hamas.
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Readout from NSC Spokesperson Emily Horne on National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Call with Israeli National Security Advisor
The White House
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke by phone today with Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat to express the United States’ serious concerns about the situation in Jerusalem, including violent confrontations at the Haram al-Sharif / Temple Mount during the last days of Ramadan.
Mr. Sullivan highlighted recent engagements by senior U.S. officials with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials and key regional stakeholders to press for steps to ensure calm, deescalate tensions, and denounce violence. Mr. Sullivan also reiterated the United States’ serious concerns about the potential evictions of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. They agreed that the launching of rocket attacks and incendiary balloons from Gaza towards Israel is unacceptable and must be