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JERUSALEM 鈥?An alarming spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence and sharp responses by both sides are testing the Biden administration as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken plunges into a cauldron of deepening mistrust and anger on visits to Israel and the West Bank this week.What had already been expected to be a trip fraught with te stanley cup nsion over differences between the administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus new far-right government has grown significantly more complicated over the past four days with a spate of deadly incidents. Blinkens high-wire diplomatic act begins on Monday after he completes a brief visit to Egypt that has been almost entirely overshadowed by the deteriorating security situation in Israel and the West Bank.U.S. officials say the main theme of Blinkens conversations with Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will be de-escalation. Yet Blinken will arrive in Israel just a day after Netanyahus Security Cabinet announced a stanley cup nz series of punitive measures against Palestinians in response to a stanley fr weekend of deadly shootings in which Palestinian attackers killed seven Israelis and wounded five others in Jerusalem. Those shootings followed a deadly Israeli raid in the West Bank on Thursday that killed 10 Palestinians, most of them militants.The violence has made January one of the bloodiest months in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem in several years. While Blinkens trip has been planned for several weeks and will follow visi Ynbk Congress members pensions questioned
SALT LAKE CITY 鈥? A Utah school district that came under fire for taking away stanley water bottle $2 school lunches from some 40 students whose parents owed money on food accounts are vowing to make systemic chan stanley quencher ges to ensure it never happens again.Salt Lake City School District child nutrition department director Kelly Orton on Tues stanley ca day night delivered a brief, preliminary report to the school board pinning the incident on violations of agency procedure and a failure to notify parents that their childrens lunch accounts were empty or in the negative. We took food trays away and embarrassed students, and for that I am sorry, Ortons report says. No child will have their meal tray taken away ever again. To avoid that happening again, Orton said theyve created new communication guidelines for kitchen managers. The district also plans to notify parents when their balance is at $10, when its empty, and then every day after as it accrues a negative balance.The incident occurred Jan. 28 at Uintah Elementary when students trying to buy lunch had their meals thrown away, angering parents and stirring outrage around the country. The district put a cafeteria manager and a district supervisor on paid leave as the investigation got underway last week.The report didnt indicate whose decision it was to toss the lunches.The children who had their meals thrown out were given milk and fruit, a standard practice when students dont have lunch money.Parents criticalSeveral dozen parents attended the meeting, and so