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Sam Bankman-Fried Faces 110-Year Max Sentence After FTX Trial—Here’s How Long Experts Think He’ll Be Behind BarsIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday appeared to rebuff the Biden administration’s push for temporary pauses in Israeli military action in Gaza, saying such pauses must be contingent on Hamas’ release of Israeli hostages, despite widespread pleas from U.S. lawmakers for pauses to allow for humanitarian aid.
U.S. officials said before the meeting between Blinken and Netanyahu that Blinken would call on Israeli leaders for temporary pauses in military operations to allow for the safe release of hostages as well as humanitarian aid, including food, medicine and water.“we need to do more to protect Palestinian civilians,” adding, “they will be no partners for peace if they’re consumed by humanitarian catastrophe and alienated by any perceived indifference to their plight.
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