Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s pro-settler (land stealer) national security minister, warned the U.S. that his country is “not another star on the American flag” after the Biden administration denounced earlier comments from top Israelis that Palestinians in Gaza will need to vacate the area for good.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Saturday that humanitarian aid trucks lined up in Egypt have begun to make their way across the Gaza border, which should offer some limited relief for the city’s population of 2.3 million that have been choked off since the Hamas attack earlier this month.
Retired U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said in an interview last week that an Israeli ground invasion in Gaza could be long and bloody, and compared it to U.S. forces in Iraq.