US Official Resigns Over 'Lethal' Aid to Israel, IDF Reports Strikes on Hamas Infrastructure

The IDF reported the killing of Rafat Abu Hilal, the head of the military wing of Gaza's Popular Resistance Committees, in an overnight airstrike on October 18-19 in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. The Popular Resistance Committees is the third-largest militant group in the Gaza Strip after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Additionally, the Israeli military stated that it had also eliminated several members of the Najaba force of Hamas.

Simultaneously, a senior US State Department official, Josh Paul, resigned due to his "disagreement concerning continued lethal assistance to Israel." He expressed his disillusionment with the Biden administration's approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict in a LinkedIn post. Josh Paul worked in the State Department's Political-Military Affairs bureau, which oversees arms transfers to other countries, and he mentioned that he resigned because he couldn't influence the situation.

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