The Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday’s events as they unfold.
US says it welcomes nomination of new Palestinian Authority cabinet
The US welcomes the nomination of a new Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet, the US State Department says.
“A revitalized PA is essential to delivering results for the Palestinian people in both the West Bank and Gaza and establishing the conditions for stability in the broader region,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller says in a statement.
Trump posts video with an image of a hog-tied Biden, drawing rebuke
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump draws criticism for posting a video on social media that contains the image of a hog-tied President Joe Biden painted on the tailgate of a passing truck.
The Biden campaign is quick to condemn the video for suggesting physical harm to the sitting Democratic president. Biden has portrayed his likely 2024 opponent as someone who freely evokes Nazi imagery with regard to immigrants, while also stressing in speeches that Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 elections ultimately led to an assault on the US Capitol.
“Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously — just ask the Capitol police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6,” says Michael Tyler, the Biden campaign’s communications director.
Imagine if Joe Biden tweeted out a video of someone driving down the road with an image of Trump tied up in the back of a pickup truck.
— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) March 30, 2024
Zelensky says without US aid, Ukraine forces will have to retreat
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says in an interview that if Ukraine does not get promised US military aid blocked by disputes in Congress, its forces will have to retreat “in small steps.”
“If there is no US support, it means that we have no air defense, no Patriot missiles, no jammers for electronic warfare, no 155-milimetre artillery rounds,” Zelenskiy tells the Washington Post.
“It means we will go back, retreat, step by step, in small steps,” he says. “We are trying to find some way not to retreat.”