Jacob Flickinger was born and spent most of his childhood in Quebec, the son of a Canadian mother and an American father.
Israel
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Biden tells Netanyahu future U.S. support for war depends on new steps to protect civilians
Biden and Netanyahu spoke by phone days after Israeli airstrikes killed seven food aid workers in Gaza and added a new layer of complication to the leaders’ increasingly strained relationship.
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Lewiston council passes resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza
The resolution asks Maine’s congressional delegation and President Biden to demand an end to violence in Gaza and Israel, and ‘an immediate and unconditional release of all Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners unjustly held.’
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In Israel’s war against Hamas rule, Gazans go hungry, aid groups retreat
International aid efforts were dealt a further blow this week when an Israeli airstrike killed seven workers from World Central Kitchen.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Biden faces protest over his support for Israel during White House meeting
Biden’s support for Israel’s military operations in Gaza, including the sale of U.S. weapons, has angered Muslim Americans.
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World Central Kitchen victims remembered for going ‘extra mile’ to deliver Gaza aid
The attack on the organization founded by celebrity chef José Andrés drew international rebuke.
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Aid group halts food delivery in Gaza after Israeli strike kills 7 World Central Kitchen workers
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that the country’s forces had carried out the ‘unintended strike … on innocent people.’
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Israeli troops withdraw from Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest, after raid
The hospital raid gutted a facility that had once been the heart of Gaza’s health care system but which doctors and staff had struggled to get even partially operating again after a previous Israeli assault in November.
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Syria says an Israeli airstrike destroyed Iran’s consular building in Damascus
The strike on the Iranian consulate building, which killed several people, could mark an escalation of the Israeli military’s ongoing targeting of Iranian military officials and allies in Syria.
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Israelis rally in their largest anti-government protest since the war in Gaza began
Israeli society was broadly united immediately after Oct. 7, when Hamas killed some 1,200 people during a cross-border attack and took 250 others hostage.