The Bay area city of Richmond, California, passed a resolution in a 5-1 vote that claims the "state of Israel is engaging in collective punishment against the Palestinian people in Gaza in response to Hamas attacks on Israel."
On October 7, 2023, the fundamentalist Islamist organization Hamas committed an unprecedented terrorist attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, October 7, 2023, killing over 1,400 Israelis.
Former President Barack Obama originally said Israel should “dismantle” Hamas, but has now criticized Israel for the way it is “dismantling” the Palestinian terror organization.
Dearborn, Michigan Mayor Abdullah Hammoud has been appointed to the State Department's Assembly of Local Leaders program, according to a report from The Washington Free Beacon.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel has a “legitimate right to defend itself."
Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, has created a new unit, whose mission is to hunt down and kill every individual who participated in the Hamas terror attack on October 7.
