Trump’s son-in-law’s firm received $2 billion from a Saudi-backed fund that has prompted scrutiny about his relationship to the kingdom.
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former President Donald Trump, claimed on Sunday that Saudi Arabia was safer for American Jews than U.S. college campuses amid tense ongoing conversations and protests about the Israel-Hamas conflict.
On October 7, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history, with Israel subsequently launching its heaviest-ever airstrikes on Gaza in response. As of Sunday, over 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, the Associated Press reported. More than 8,000 Palestinians in Gaza have died, the AP said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country is “at war” and has cut off food, fuel, electricity, and medicine supplies into Gaza. Israel has allowed some aide to enter Gaza via Egypt. Netanyahu’s government has called up 360,000 army reservists as it prepares for a likely ground offensive into the territory, which has an estimated population of around 2.
