The Authority’s “weakness” means not only that it can’t disarm Hamas but that “Israel is left to dismantle the terror networks they refuse to confront” in Judea and Samaria, the Israeli envoy said.

“This legislation is unhelpful virtue-signaling,” a US State Department spokesperson told JNS. “It does not serve the cause of peace in the Middle East.”

“The demilitarization of Hamas is a basic condition of the peace agreement,” the Israeli envoy to the United Nations said. “There will be no future in Gaza as long as Hamas possesses weapons.”

The food-security agency that made the famine determination relied on unweighted sampling of data, while weighted data failed to meet famine conditions.

“It’s not realistic to expect people to just drop arms,” a senior U.S. adviser told reporters.

“If the UK television and film industry colludes with acts contrary to this legislation, organizations are themselves likely to be in breach.”

The American president took the terror group to task for failing to immediately turn over the bodies of more hostages.

Danny Danon told the UN Security Council that Hamas rocket factories in Judea and Samaria are “hidden workshops of death, right on our doorstep.”

“In addition to doing very exquisite, kinetic strikes against the worst terrorist leaders, we must have a very aggressive counter-ideology campaign,” Sebastian Gorka told JNS.

The proposed sale reportedly includes $3.8 billion for 30 AH-64 Apache helicopters and $1.9 billion for 3,250 infantry fighting vehicles.