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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Biden says Israel under terrorist attack, pledges US support
President Joe Biden condemned the deadly surprise attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas as an assault by a “terrorist organization” and pledged “rock solid” U.S. support for Israel. “Today, the people of Israel are under attack,” Biden said Saturday in remarks from the White House. “The United States stands with Israel. We will not ever fail to have her back.”
The lunch rush was over, and Byron Marinovich ambled through the storage room of the Black Velvet Oyster Bar & Grill, perched on the bank of the Mississippi River roughly 60 miles south of New Orleans. As he flushed out the building’s water heater into a plastic bucket, he pulled out bits of white sediment, a few nearly as large as a fingernail. “Salt,” he said, sighing with a frustration palpable throughout this part of rural Plaquemines Parish. As a mass of saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has forced its way nearly 70 miles up the drought-stricken Mississippi, the problem has drawn national attention, triggered a presidential emergency declaration and ignited a feverish effort to protect the drinking water supply for roughly 1 million people around greater New Orleans. Good news arrived Thursday, when the Army Corps of Engineers released updated projections showing that a saltwater wedge once estimated to arrive in Jefferson and Orleans parishes later this month will now probably not arrive until late November, if at all.
President Joe Biden condemned the deadly surprise attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas as an assault by a “terrorist organization” and pledged “rock solid” U.S. support for Israel. “Today, the people of Israel are under attack,” Biden said Saturday in remarks from the White House. “The United States stands with Israel. We will not ever fail to have her back.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Saturday that “we are at war” after Hamas militants from Gaza launched a surprise, multipronged attack across central and southern Israel, killing an estimated 250 Israelis and wounding 1,000 more. The assault began early Saturday when Hamas launched thousands of rockets toward Israeli cities and sent militants into Israeli territory overland and by using paragliders and speedboats. Gunmen seized control of pockets of southern Israel, taking hostages and leaving bodies of civilians in the streets.
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