Lapid's two-day visit is the first to the country by an Israeli minister since 2003, and the first such meeting in Morocco since the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords.
Baltimore police said William Clinton III, 18, and a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old are being held without bail in the May 3 fatal shooting of Efraim Gordon.
May 25, 2021
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. would work with its partners “to ensure that Hamas does not benefit from the reconstruction assistance” to Gaza.
By United with Israel Staff and AP
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Tuesday to “rally international support” to aid Gaza following a devastating war there while keeping any assistance out of the hands of its rulers, members of the Hamas terror group.
Hamas and Palestinian Jihad launched the 11-day war, murdering Israeli civilians, including a five-year-old boy, with indiscriminate rocket fire at Israeli population centers.
The truce that came into effect Friday has so far held, but it did not address any of the underlying issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, something Blinken acknowledged after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
May 19, 2021
“Whoever supports terror won’t be safe in Germany,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in a statement. “Regardless of what shape the support takes.”
By United with Israel Staff and AP
German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to affirm her nation’s support for the Jewish state as Hamas continues to attack it with successive waves of rocket attacks.
Merkel emphasized Germany’s solidarity with Israel and the country’s right to self-defense.
She condemned the continued rocket attacks from Gaza into Israeli and voiced her hope for a swift end to the fighting in light of the loss of civilian life.