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Palestinians drive on a street that was heavily bombed following Israeli air strikes on the city of Khan Yunis. Mohammed Talatene/dpa
Israel’s military continued its bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, reporting that it had attacked more than 400 terrorist targets since the truce with the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement ended the previous day.
Overnight, warplanes bombed more than 50 targets around the city of Khan Younis in the south of the sealed-off coastal area, officials said. Troops also attacked Hamas militants and infrastructure in the Beit Lahia area in northern Gaza with tanks and targeted airstrikes.
Hadeel Ikhmais left her home in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem at 5 a.m. on Tuesday to catch her 5 p.m. flight to Dubai. Ikhmais is the head of the climate change office at the Palestinian Environmental Quality Authority, or EQA, and for months she and her colleagues had been planning to attend COP28, the annual United Nations climate conference taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, this year. Encouraged by the fact that an Arab nation was hosting the conference for the second year in a row, the Palestinian government had paid the United Nations tens of thousands of dollars to secure a pavilion for the first time ever. Pavilions serve as spaces for press conferences, delegate meetings, and venues to showcase a country’s climate priorities to COP attendees. Palestinian delegates spent months designing visuals for the pavilion, securing funds for travel, and preparing materials for the conference. Nearly 50 delegates planned to attend.
According to former Solicitor General Neal Katyal, Donald Trump’s loss on Friday in an appeals court ruling on his presidential immunity defense claim was bad for the former president but what made it worse was who signed off on blowing it out of the water.
Appearing on MSNBC with host Jonathan Capehart, the legal analyst joked that the assertions by Trump lawyers that the president could commit illegal acts with impunity was so ridiculous a “fourth grader” could see through it, before pointing out that an appointee on the appeals court panel that ruled against him used to be one of Trump’s top White House lawyers.
