Biden urging lawmakers to ‘immediately’ approve aid to Israel and Ukraine

US President Joe Biden is calling on American lawmakers in the House of Representatives to pass a proposal that would send billions of dollars in aid to both Israel and Ukraine.

The aid is part of a larger $95bn national security funding bill that Biden is keen on getting turned into law.

The bill supported by the president also bans funding for Unrwa, drawing condemnation from a number of members of Congress as well as aid organisations.

The bulk of the bill provides $60bn in military aid to Ukraine, whose stock of ammunition supplies is rapidly dwindling. But it also sets aside $14bn in aid to Israel which Biden in a statement said, “will provide Israel with what it needs to protect its people against Hamas terrorists”.

While it earmarks $1.6bn in humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in Gaza, it specifically prohibits funds from going to the UN Agency for Palestinian Relief (Unrwa), in response to Israeli allegations that members of the agency have ties to Hamas.

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