Overview

• AIPAC’s public denunciation marks a rare instance of the pro-Israel lobby rebuking a Republican for criticism of Israeli operations.
• Greene’s social media post accused Israel of genocide, humanitarian crisis and starvation in Gaza, breaking with the GOP’s traditional pro-Israel consensus.
• A U.N.-backed food security body reports at least 197 deaths from starvation as Gaza endures worst-case famine conditions under blockade.
• U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the “trickle of aid” must become an “ocean” to stave off further deaths in the territory.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said President Trump had effectively given Israel the go-ahead to take over the remainder of Gaza.