The barrage of 34 rockets from Lebanon was the largest since 2006. In the hours and days that followed, dozens of projectiles were fired at Israel from Gaza, Syria and Lebanon. Thursday brought a close to a relatively calm Ramadan, save for the spike in violence in early April due to intense clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians inside Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount.īut footage of police brutally beating the Palestinians, some already apprehended, sparked massive uproar and served as a rallying call for Israel’s adversaries across the region. The message represented a rare nod of approval from the US to the four-month-old, hardline government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose efforts to overhaul the judiciary and expand Israel’s presence in the West Bank have led to an intense rebuke from US President Joe Biden himself as well as the summoning of Israel’s ambassador in Washington for a private dress-down.Ī senior US official said the Netanyahu government’s conduct had the Biden administration particularly apprehensive as Ramadan approached, given that the holy month in and of itself adds an extra layer of tensions between Israelis and Palestinians and that 2023 once again featured a confluence of Jewish, Muslim and Christian holidays that further complicated matters.

The appreciation was conveyed during several conversations Biden officials have held with their Israeli counterparts over the past week, the senior Israeli official said. WASHINGTON - The Biden administration has expressed its satisfaction to Israel over the latter’s handling of security tensions during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, an Israeli and a US official told The Times of Israel on Tuesday.

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