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israeli government level delegations that 12 of the agency's 30,000 employees were involved in the hamas attacks of october 7. the absence a jaded allegation prompted other top donors -- the unsubstantiated location prompted other top donors to cut funding. although a number of countries have recently announced their intention to resume funding suffer more we go to jordan where we're joined by tamara alrifai, spokesperson for unrwa, the united nations agency for palestine refugees. if you can start off by talking about the significance of what the u.s. has done? president biden signed off on a bipartisan law that dealt with a lot of issues but among them, cutting off aid to unrwa for the next year and the u.s. is by far the largest funder of this u.n. -palestinian relief agency. >> thank you as always unrwa unrwa for giving this platform. the decision by congress and consequently by the u.s. government to stop funding to unrwa is a huge blow. there is no sugarcoating the impact on our finances is huge. and also the impact on the politics around unrwa, seeing our largest donor, many times
israeli government level delegations that 12 of the agency's 30,000 employees were involved in the hamas attacks of october 7. the absence a jaded allegation prompted other top donors -- the unsubstantiated location prompted other top donors to cut funding. although a number of countries have recently announced their intention to resume funding suffer more we go to jordan where we're joined by tamara alrifai, spokesperson for unrwa, the united nations agency for palestine refugees. if you can...
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we will destroy hamas and continue fighting until the every last hostage has come home." meanwhile, the united states is at its with the u.n. over whether that resolution is binding or not. deputy u.n. spokesperson said u.n. security council resolutions are "as binding as international law." but on monday, linda thomas-greenfield, the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., described the resolution as nonbinding. >> we appreciated the willingness of members of this council to take some of our edits and improve on this resolution. still certain key edits were ignored, including our request to add a condemnation of hamas. and we did not agree with everything in the resolution. for that reason, we were, unfortunately, not able to vote yes. as i have said before, we fully support some of the critical objectives in this nonbinding resolution. and we believe it was important for the council to speak out and make clear that our ceasefire must -- any ceasefire must come with the release of all hostages. as i have said before, the only path to a durable end to this conflict is the release of
we will destroy hamas and continue fighting until the every last hostage has come home." meanwhile, the united states is at its with the u.n. over whether that resolution is binding or not. deputy u.n. spokesperson said u.n. security council resolutions are "as binding as international law." but on monday, linda thomas-greenfield, the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., described the resolution as nonbinding. >> we appreciated the willingness of members of this council to take...
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i made it clear to joe biden in our conversation that we are determined to complete elimination of hamas battalions and raw fat and there's no other way to do it step going in on the ground. amy: there he is speaking to the israeli parliament. he addressed republicans in a closed-door session and there's a question whether the house speaker will be inviting him to address a joint session of congress. phyllis bennis, if you could talk about what netanyahu is doing, the significance of the calls for there to be new elections by none other than the majority leader in the senate chuck schumer, a real change from the way he has embraced the israeli leadership? >> this is something that is a long history in the united states. over the last 15 years or so, there has been a significant shift in how support for the long-standing u.s. support for israeli military, military, economic support, political and diplomatic support -- how all of that shakes out in washington. it has become a much more partisan issue, something that groups like aipac and other parts of the probe israel lobby have always wa
i made it clear to joe biden in our conversation that we are determined to complete elimination of hamas battalions and raw fat and there's no other way to do it step going in on the ground. amy: there he is speaking to the israeli parliament. he addressed republicans in a closed-door session and there's a question whether the house speaker will be inviting him to address a joint session of congress. phyllis bennis, if you could talk about what netanyahu is doing, the significance of the calls...
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it hasn't achieved any of its tactical aims in terms of hamas as an operated force. it hasn't captured the hamas leadership. it hasn't freed except in rare situations. it has created an equation in which the civilian population is being put in harm's way in order to bargain against their return back to the north -- the north of gaza in order to effectively achieve what tactically israel has not achieved. in relation to the stages, a week or so after the october 7 attack, israel has given the entirety the north of gaza an evacuation order. they were ordered to leave the north of gaza, a home to more than a million palestinians. the center of the palestinian political, cultural life was actually ordered to cross, according to them, gaza from north to south. that was the first stage. after the ceasefire, the temporary ceasefire in which some prisoner exchange was happening at the beginning of december, israel has released an interactive map online dividing gaza into kind of a gerrymandered 23 zones. it was very difficult to understand whether they are in zone number 546
it hasn't achieved any of its tactical aims in terms of hamas as an operated force. it hasn't captured the hamas leadership. it hasn't freed except in rare situations. it has created an equation in which the civilian population is being put in harm's way in order to bargain against their return back to the north -- the north of gaza in order to effectively achieve what tactically israel has not achieved. in relation to the stages, a week or so after the october 7 attack, israel has given the...
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proposals out of respect for biden, he said "we are determined to complete the elimination of these hamas battalions in rafah. there's no way to do this without a ground incursion." the official death toll in gaza is approaching 32,000 with over 74,000 people wounded. for more we're joined by democratic senator chris van hollen of maryland. in january he traveled to the egyptian side of the rafah border crossing. he is joining us from kensington, maryland. welcome back to democracy now! thank you for joining us. can you talk about netanyahu's threat to launch a full-scale ground invasion of rafah and what you want biden to tell him? >> it is good to be with you. since my visit to rafah in january, things have gotten even worse. the situation, humanitarian situation in gaza is even more catastrophic and now, as you said, prime minister netanyahu has said he is going to ignore president biden's request and launch a full-scale invasion of rafah. president biden was right in my view to say that would be a redline, that you can't cross it. so now it is going to be very important the president,
proposals out of respect for biden, he said "we are determined to complete the elimination of these hamas battalions in rafah. there's no way to do this without a ground incursion." the official death toll in gaza is approaching 32,000 with over 74,000 people wounded. for more we're joined by democratic senator chris van hollen of maryland. in january he traveled to the egyptian side of the rafah border crossing. he is joining us from kensington, maryland. welcome back to democracy...
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show hamas tried to be flexible. they made some concessions to make it possible to reach an agreement because they are really worried about the humanitarian situation of the people and so many people who are being killed. unfortunately, netanyahu restricted the team that went to qatar. restricted the team and authorization. in my frank opinion, i think netanyahu made these restrictions with his team to prevent reaching an agreement. use that failure to attack rafah . netanyahu knows if he goes into a deal with hamas about freeing some prisoners and exchanger prisoners, his coalition partners will bring his government down. all he thinks about is how to save himself, how to save his position. he doesn't care about israeli prisoners. he knows very well if he attacks rafah, so many israeli prisoners will be killed. he knows that but he doesn't care. he is stuck with these fascists in his government and driving his whole government into -- actually, the israeli government at large. what is happening in palestine could no
show hamas tried to be flexible. they made some concessions to make it possible to reach an agreement because they are really worried about the humanitarian situation of the people and so many people who are being killed. unfortunately, netanyahu restricted the team that went to qatar. restricted the team and authorization. in my frank opinion, i think netanyahu made these restrictions with his team to prevent reaching an agreement. use that failure to attack rafah . netanyahu knows if he goes...