The resignations of the 12 U.S. officials reflects some dissent within the government over its support for Israel. Washington has pushed for the protection of civilians in Gaza and has called on Israel to improve aid access. Israel's assault on Gaza began after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and do homework fast abducting 250 hostages to the Hamas-governed enclave, according to Israeli tallies. The Taliban were not invited to the first meeting, and U.N.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said they set unacceptable conditions for attending the second one, in February, including demands that Afghan civil society members be excluded from the talks and that the Taliban be treated as the country´s legitimate rulers. It was the first time that representatives of the Afghan Taliban administration attended the UN-sponsored meeting in the Qatari capital on Sunday and Monday that focused on increasing engagement with Afghanistan.

However, a U.N. official said Monday the gathering did not translate into a recognition of the Taliban government. There has been mounting international criticism of Israel's conduct in Gaza and of U.S. military and diplomatic support for its ally in a war that has so far killed nearly 38,000 people and created a humanitarian crisis. Jesuit missionaries played a significant role in the education system by establishing schools and teaching indigenous populations. They introduced European languages, sciences, and religious beliefs to the native peoples.

Overall, education was a tool for cultural exchange and assimilation during this period. "America's diplomatic cover for, and continuous flow of arms to, Israel has ensured our undeniable complicity in the killings and forced starvation of a besieged Palestinian population in Gaza," the former officials said in the statement. ISLAMABAD (AP) - The Taliban's delegation to the third United Nations-led Doha meeting on increasing engagement with Afghanistan met with U.S.

envoys on the sidelines and discussed the two Americans imprisoned in the central Asian country. He said: "During our meetings, we talked about the two American citizens who are in prison in Afghanistan," adding "but they must accept Afghanistan´s conditions. We also have prisoners in America, prisoners in Guantanamo. We should free our prisoners in exchange for them." WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - A dozen former U.S. government officials who quit over U.S.

support for Israel's war in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday accused President Joe Biden's administration of "undeniable complicity" in the killing of Palestinians in the enclave. They urged the U.S. government to use its "necessary and available leverage" to bring the war to an end and to ensure the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israel. They also demanded that the U.S.

government support Palestinian self-determination and fund an "immediate expansion of humanitarian assistance" in Gaza. One of the two Americans believed to be held by the Taliban for nearly two years is Ryan Corbett who was abducted Aug. 10, 2022, tutoring services for elementary students near me after returning to Afghanistan, where he and his family had been living at the time of the collapse of the U.