Defense minister\u2019s announcement comes despite more than 1 million civilians in city. Plus, Michael J Fox on how Parkinson\u2019s has not defeated him<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Good morning.<\/p>\n Israeli forces will continue their Gaza military campaign to Rafah<\/a>, the Israeli defense minister, Yoav Gallant, has said, despite the huge numbers of Palestinian civilians there.<\/p>\n Where is Rafah?<\/strong> Rafah is the southernmost city in Gaza and there is nowhere farther south for civilians to go as Israel and Egypt will not let them leave the territory.<\/p>\n What else is happening?<\/strong> Joe Biden has issued an executive order targeting Israeli settlers in the West Bank<\/a> who have been attacking Palestinians, amid fast-growing frustration in Washington at Israel\u2019s trajectory in the midst of its war in Gaza.<\/p>\n How have campaigners reacted?<\/strong> \u201cThe Louisiana attorney general\u2019s office protects industry more than they protect the people,\u201d said Sharon Lavigne, a resident of St James parish who has long fought industrial proliferation in her community, and whose emails were targeted in the request. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s why they got all of these emails, just to see what we\u2019re doing and to see how they can stop us.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Defense minister\u2019s announcement comes despite more than 1 million civilians in city. Plus, Michael J Fox on how Parkinson\u2019s has not defeated him Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Israeli forces will continue their Gaza military campaign to Rafah, the Israeli defense minister, Yoav Gallant, has said, despite … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}