• President Biden explains why he will not accept nomination for a second term as president and endorses Vice President Harris. The official nomination occurs at the upcoming Democratic National Convention in August in Chicago.
• Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress and thanked President Biden and Congress for supporting a war against Hamas in Gaza. President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and over 100 Democratic congress members did not attend in protest. The president and vice president will meet Netanyahu in private talks, and Netanyahu will meet with Republican presidential candidate Trump in Mara Lago.
Outside of Congress, thousands of US citizens protest the invitation to war criminal Netanyahu to appear before Congress and the US participation in the ongoing war, which has killed over 39,100 Palestinians.
In Israel, demonstrations of thousands of Israeli citizens called for Netanyahu to step down and for the war to cease.
• The International Court of Justice ruled on July 19 that Israel is committing racial discrimination and apartheid against the Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem in its continuing illegal occupation and humanitarian law violations and called on all member countries of the United Nations to intervene. In May 2024, the International Criminal Court requested arrest warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu and Hamas members Sinwar, Al-Masri, and Haniyeh for war crimes in the war in Gaza.
• Israel blocks US doctors with Palestinian heritage from entering to serve in hospitals in Gaza.
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