The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said that Hamas is a "political movement."
U.S. officials reportedly told Axios that Secretary of State Tony Blinken asked the State Department to review various policy options for the recognition of a Palestinian state.
The U.S. announced that it is suspending funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following allegations that the agency's staff was involved in the October 7 attacks against Israel.
President Nixon, in his last official address, August 8, 1974, left a cryptic warning of the Middle East "... so that the cradle of civilization will not...