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Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday removed $1 billion in military funding for Israel from legislation to fund the US government after objections from House of Representatives liberals, setting the stage for a potential fight over the matter later this year.

Earlier, a video, showing US President Joe Biden appearing to fall asleep during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, went viral on Twitter, although many later claimed that the footage was “misleading.”

Groups including Within Our Lifetime and Occupy Wall Street affiliates marched in New York City on Friday calling to smash the "settler Zionist state" and calling to "globalize the intifada."

The Biden administration will build on the “successful efforts” of its Donald Trump-led predecessor to encourage more countries to normalise ties with Israel, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.

The Biden administration held a short telephone call with leaders of American Jewish organizations on Aug. 27, giving them a general outline of the meetings between U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett earlier that day.

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett are set to hold their first face-to-face meeting Thursday, and Israel’s new Prime Minister intends to press Biden to give up pursuit of reviving the Iran nuclear deal.

Fifty-three House Democrats have warned of the grim humanitarian situation in Gaza in a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in which they denounced Israel's collective punishment of Palestinians in the besieged enclave and the occupation state's banning of essential material that are vital to ease Palestinian suffering.

United States Congresswoman Marie Newman has described Israel's forceful expulsion of Palestinian families in occupied Al-Quds as despicable, calling for an immediate end to this policy.

Hamas: We denounce in the strongest terms today’s entry of a US delegation into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the tour they carried out in its courtyards under protection from the Israeli occupation police.

A petition in the United States is calling on the United Nations to send a protection force to protect Palestinian civilians from Israeli occupation forces.

New York city police department promoted Palestinian American Filastin Srour 38, to a captain, making her the first woman of Arab descent to reach one of the highest ranks in the NYPD.

The State Department has approved selling Israel up to 18 CH-53K heavy-lift cargo helicopters in a deal estimated to be worth $3.4 billion, according to a notice released Friday.

Senator Ted Cruz is blocking the advance of a bill that would promote normalization between Israel and Arab states because it includes language enshrining a two-state solution as the preferred US outcome to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Hady Amr calls on Israel to take steps to improve economic, political situation of Palestinian Authority.

A letter sent by Palestinian-American Christians has asked US President Joe Biden to reconsider his policy towards Hamas, stressing that it is not a terrorist group, but a freely-elected movement.

Israeli settlements in east Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the occupied West Bank amount to a war crime, a U.N. human rights investigator said on Friday, calling on countries to inflict a cost on Israel for its "illegal occupation".

The US government warned Israel again after it demolished the family home of Palestinian-American Muntasir Shalabi, who has been accused of the killing of an Israeli student.

Attacks against Jews in New York City because of Israel's war crimes reached alarming heights in May in particular, subsequent to the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Despite being members of different faiths, Muslim and Sikh motorcyclists in Canada have united in an exemplary act of solidarity to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza, in addition to the Indigenous population in the country who have been brutally murdered over the years.

The State Department's annual report into efforts to stop human trafficking has criticised Israeli efforts and said that it is not doing enough.

American Congressman Andre Carson said his support for Palestinians is rooted in his experience as a black person growing up in America and spoke at length about the racism.

In the latest anti-Israeli measure across US universities, Yale’s student council approved a statement authored by a campus pro-Palestinian group accusing Israel of genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

The Zionist regime’s ambassador to the U.S. resigned on Sunday, hours after welcoming Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to D.C., where he will meet on Monday with President Biden at the White House.