UK, Australia and Canada recognize a Palestinian state
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JERUSALEM, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Israel's military kept up its assault on Gaza City and the wider Gaza Strip on Saturday, dismantling underground shafts and booby-trapped structures in attacks that killed at least 60 Palestinians, according to Gazan health authorities.
The Allenby Bridge border crossing is the main gateway for Palestinians to leave the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
In August 2023, Israel’s then-Energy Minister Israel Katz visited the synagogue at the Abrahamic Family House in the United Arab Emirates, a sign of warming ties between the two countries under the 2020 US-brokered Abraham Accords.
Israel shut the sole gateway between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan on Friday, a day after a driver bringing humanitarian aid from Jordan for Gaza opened fire and killed two Israeli military personnel there.
The huge sales come as U.S. plans to broker an end to the nearly two-year war between Israel and Hamas have stalled.
Experts commissioned by the U.N. Human Rights Council say Israeli forces are "continuing to commit" genocide in Gaza. Israel calls the report Hamas lies.
US President Donald Trump has opposed the recognition of a Palestinian state, but has not publicly criticised Israeli moves towards annexation. Israel seized the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and has never left.
Though the move is largely symbolic, it is a historic moment as Western nations recognize a Palestinian state, although the United States and Israel stridently oppose such moves.
In his typical no-nonsense style, Fish called the win a total team effort, saying “everyone in the line-up contributed in some way. ” Israel’s National Team in baseball overcame demonstrations, bad weather,