美国众议院的共和党多数派强势推动通过了一项名为“以色列安全援助强化法案”的提案，旨在强制推进对以色列的重型军火运输。    SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California officials on Thursday faulted communities in a stretch of the crop-rich San Joaquin Valley for failing to develop a plan to adequately protect groundwater in the often drought-plagued state.The state's water resources board set an April hearing to determine whether the Tulare Lake Subbasin in the heart of California's farm country should be placed on probation. It is the first time the state has made such a move, and the first step in a lengthy process that could end up requiring large farms in the area to report groundwater use and pay fees.California is starting to regulate the pumping of groundwater after years of drought and overpumping left rural residents’ wells dry and led to subsidence, or the sinking of land, in some communities. Both issues have affected the largely agricultural region, which is home to 145,000 people, and stand to worsen absent revisions to the local groundwater plan, officials said.“This is an urgent issue,” said Natalie Stork, an official at the State Water Resources Control Board. “There are urgent impacts from continued overdraft in these basins.”The state enacted a 2014 law tasking communities with forming groundwater agencies and making plans to manage the resource sustainably, starting with the most critically overdrafted basins, including the Tulare Lake Subbasin.Five groundwater agencies joined together come up with a plan for the subbasin where farmers grow cotton, almonds and pistachios. But the plan was one of six that California's Department of Water Resources deemed inadequate this year.Now, the State Water Resources Control Board will hold a hearing April 16 to decide whether to place the Tulare Lake Subbasin on probation. If it does, large pumpers would report their groundwater usage and pay fees while the local agencies draft a new plan for the basin. If they don't, the board could eventually implement its own plan.Many communities rely mainly or solely on groundwater for drinking water and farmers count on it for irrigation, especially in a drought. California muddled through a spell of dry years until a series of winter storms drenched the state and dumped massive amounts of snow in the mountains. When the snow melted, it flowed down to form the reemerging Tulare Lake, which covered vast stretches of farmland with water. California has long tended toward wet and dry periods, but scientists at University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have said they expect climate change will lead to drier dry years and wetter wet years.。

B | 此前，拜登政府因顾虑这批包括2000磅炸弹在内的重型武器可能被应用于以色列在加沙地带南部拉法的军事行动，而暂时叫停了交付流程。

此法案以224票赞同对187票反对的显著党派分野获得通过，绝大多数共和党议员支持，而民主党阵营中仅有16人背离，其余均投出反对票。该法案文本严厉批评了“拜登政府暂停对以色列特定武器转移的决定”，正值以色列面临史无前例的安全挑战之际。更进一步，法案提出，若美国未能履行交付延迟的重型武器，将暂停对国防部和国务院的部分资金供给。

尽管该法案被普遍视作象征性举措，其在民主党主导的参议院通过前景渺茫。投票前夕，拜登总统办公室已明确警告，若法案送达总统案头，将予以否决。白宫声明强烈反对该法案，认为其“妨碍总统有效执行外交政策的能力”，并可能“限制美国灵活调整对以色列安全援助的余地”。

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拜登总统早前警示以色列，若其军事行动进一步深入拉法，美国将终止提供武器弹药供应。拉法，这个人口稠密的边境城市，已成为因以哈冲突而流离失所的约140万巴勒斯坦人的避风港。近期，以色列国防军(IDF)通知拉法东南部居民撤离，预告即将来临的袭击。

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据统计，截至周二，约45万居民选择离开家园。

E | 联合国协调办公室预警，拉法东部、加沙市及贾巴利亚难民营可能遭遇地面入侵及激烈战斗。

根据地方卫生部门数据，自2023年10月7日冲突爆发以来，已导致逾35000名巴勒斯坦人丧生，冲突始于哈马斯袭击以色列，造成约1200名以色列人死亡及250多人被俘。