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The bombing killed 256 Palestinians, including 66 children.In Gaza, a Palestinian boy grills corn near houses reduced to rubble by Israeli air attacks [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]The dispute in Congress over distributing aid to Gaza and the occupied West Bank shows how a pro-Israel law put in place during the previous Trump administration may hamper the new Biden team’s efforts to moderate the conflict.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on May 25 and pledged Washington would provide $75m in longer-term development and economic aid to Palestinians.Risch and several other Republicans immediately moved to block most of those funds, accusing the PA of using $150m directed by Abbas to compensate families of Palestinians who killed Israelis in recent years.“Sadly, just after the Biden administration announced additional assistance to the West Bank and Gaza, PA President Abbas issued a $42,000 martyr’s payment to a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist who stabbed two Israelis to death in 2015.
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