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Stopped with our travel trailer on the way to the coast. Was hoping to be able to get the kids some food and go to the bathroom but really only had time to gas up and change a diaper because there is only paid parking. Pretty disappointed to not be able to pull over and get ourselves situated. We will make sure to stop at a Flying J or a Loves next time. Cashier was friendly and let me use a shower room to change a diaper since there wasn't a changing table in the tiny women's restroom

So it's a truck stop. They have a cafe but I've never been there during open hours. I can tell the food the food the have is pretty good. Biscuits and gravy, handmade breakfast burritos you nuke hot, donuts made elsewhere I'm sure but good none the less. And of course all the other assorted sundries that one finds in a travel center. Bathrooms are clean and the staff has always been friendly. When you drive a truck those can be really key factors on where you stop!

A quick stop on the way to Ashland. Very impressed with how clean the convenience store was. Along with the rest rooms! Good service too.

Great food, good selection of products, top notch management. When on road trips I always make sure to stop at truck stops instead of rest areas. This TA is my favorite!

This is actually aTA Travel center. Small. On shore power in some of the parking spaces.

Great soups abundant servings, and the service is warm and friendly. It's one of the few restaurants with a full salad bar.

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Address: 32910 E. Pearl St. Coburg, OR 97408

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These truck drivers have mastered road trips. Here are their pro tips.

Millions of Americans will pile into their cars to visit loved ones this Thanksgiving. With so many travelers sharing the road, the journey can feel like it takes forever, but it doesn't have to be painful. 

"When I'm driving and I'm on the road, I say to myself a lot of times, 'Today is going to be a good day, happy happy joy joy,' " Jenice Turner told USA TODAY. 

With more than 15 years of trucking under her belt and several generations of truckers in her family, she knows what it's like to be on the road all day and how to make the most of it. 

Turner and fellow truckers Monte Wiederhold and Marco Padilla shared their best road trip tips with USA TODAY for the long weekend and holidays.

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Turner founded the Black Women Truck Drivers Facebook group, which has more than 10,000 members, and drives for Trans-United Inc. Wiederhold is president of B. L. Reever Transport, Inc. and a member of Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association . He's been driving since 1978. And Padilla started driving trucks in the Marine Corps in 1976 and is an owner-operator and member of  Western States Trucking Association .

Questions and answers have been edited for length and clarity.

What is the best time to leave to avoid traffic?

Padilla: That all depends on what time I'll be hitting major cities because I don't want to hit San Antonio or Houston or Kansas City at rush hour. There's a lot of variables.

How do you deal with traffic?

Turner: Personally, I go with the flow. If I end up in traffic, I'm good as long as I'm getting down the road. 

I don't let the small things get to me. I know in my mind that this is just a short period of time. I'm going to be out of it in a blink of an eye.

How do I survive a 10-hour drive?

Turner: I always listen to audiobooks. That's why I do. That will make the time go by fast. And it's free now on Libby . It's an app. As long as you have a library card, it's free. 

How often should you stop on a road trip?

Wiederhold : Every driver is different, but most of the time, I'd say guys probably stop every three, four hours. 

You want to stretch your legs.

How can I save on gas for a road trip?

Padilla: Whenever I'm going to leave, I always check each state for the average price of the fuel. Like when I get to Arizona, I'll (only) put in so much fuel knowing that fuel is cheaper in New Mexico.

I was in Texas last week. I paid $4.49 for a gallon of diesel fuel, and three days later, I crossed the state line into California, and it was $6.49 a gallon. With 220 gallons in the tank, that's a $440 difference. 

Wiederhold:  A lot of times with gas, the closer (you are) to the interstate, you're paying for the convenience as opposed to driving five miles into town. My dad probably spent more in gas to get to cheaper gas, but my dad was like, 'That's a principle thing.'

How do people drive around big trucks?

Padilla:  Do not speed, and don't pass trucks on the right.

When I'm driving my truck, on the passenger side by the front tire, these small cars, I can not see them. People don't realize that, but I can not see them because they're hidden. They're so low.

We can't stop (quickly). The load in the trailer will fall over. We have to brake real slow. A lot of times when I'm following other trucks, I always keep a big distance because it will take me a while to react, and some cars think I'm saving that space just for them. And they'll cut right in the middle of me and another truck, and then I have to back off even further because I don't want to hit anybody.

Wiederhold : Don't hang out in blind spots. If you're passing a truck, don't linger beside the truck.

Drive like your life depends on it.

What items should you keep in the car ?

Padilla: You have to take a flashlight with you. You have to take a blanket. It's good to take a thermos and some coffee and water. 

Turner: I have a GPS, and I have a roadmap book.

I have a portable toilet in the back that folds up because sometimes you'll end up in a spot where you really, really have to go and there's nowhere to go.

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How do you stay safe?

Turner: Stop at a truck stop, not a hole-in-the-wall truck stop. Stop at a big-name truck stop like the  TA, the Petro , the Love's , the Flying J, the Pilot . They have them everywhere. You've just got to find them, and they have apps for that.  As long as you are at a truck stop, you are good. The big truck stops are always open, 24/7. 

Sometimes you can't stop at a truck stop. You have to stop at a rest area. Never ever stop and try to park on the side of an interstate or on an off-ramp.

Padilla: In the daytime, most rest areas have workers there cleaning bathrooms, picking up trash. There's a lot of traffic, a lot of people, but at night you need to be careful.

Before rest stops, make sure they're well-lighted. Be aware of your surroundings while you're there. Park as close as you can to the actual bathroom area of the rest stop and just be very careful. 

How do you find stops on a road trip?

Wiederhold:  The nicest thing to be able to do is what I call a one-stop shop. When I stop, I'm looking for a place (where) I can get fuel and food, if not the same place, at least off the same exit. Eat a good sit-down meal if you can find it.

How can I eat a cheap road trip?

Padilla: My wife will go shopping and make me food for two weeks, and I put it in a refrigerator in the truck, and I freeze everything. And then I just microwave everything.

I'll have biscuits and gravy. I'll have homemade burritos, She makes me potato wedges and rice, whatever I want, and I just eat in my truck.

How do I find the best restaurants when traveling?

Wiederhold: Don't always fall for 'oh, I see a lot of trucks parks there, so the food must be good.' That is not true. Look for places that have a lot of cars that are local because local people can eat anywhere, and they chose to come to this place.

How do you deal with bad drivers?

Turner: I've had plenty of people flip me off. You've gotta understand, you never know what that person is going through, (if) it's road rage or they're going through something. I try not to look their way. I just keep going forward. I always tell myself, happy happy joy joy."

Keep on trucking: How Love's Travel Stop grew from one store to an international empire

W ATONGA — Harold Wells, 73, has worked for Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores for 51 years, an entire career, after starting out here in one of the late Tom Love's earliest stores.

Al Harper, 70, is still here in Watonga, where he grew up and where he's worked for 24 years in Love's No. 1, the first of what is now nearly 650 Love's Travel Stops and convenience stores catering to casual drivers and professional truckers in 42 states. The company has about 40,000 employees.

Over those decades, Wells and Harper have demonstrated, actually lived out what Love's points to for its success: "humble beginnings, teamwork, work ethic and perseverance."

The Love family, and the family-owned corporation, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary, say those aspects of the company's culture — humble beginnings, teamwork, work ethic and perseverance — have guided its growth since Tom and Judy Love started out in 1964.

Judy Love doesn't say much to the media, but in light of Love's 60th anniversary, she told The Oklahoman:

"When Tom and I opened the first location in Watonga 60 years ago, we couldn’t imagine what this company would become. The journey has been amazing. One thing I know is that we wouldn’t be here without our loyal team members and customers. We are fortunate so I feel that we should help others. That’s why we’ve always given back to many nonprofit organizations."

Dedication and innovation keep longtime Love's employees at work for decades at Love's No 1 in Watonga and at OKC corporate headquarters

Harper said a manager at Love's No. 1 recruited him to take the night shift in 2001, when shoplifters and others were causing the store trouble. It was his second career after 27 years working at a carpet mill until it closed. He said he "got it cleaned up," and has been happy working there ever since.

"I like meeting the people. I told (a supervisor), 'I'll stay here and keep the store going as long as I can,'" the 70-year-old said.

Wells started at Love's in Watonga part time in 1972, when he was working on degrees in math and physics at Southwestern State College in Weatherford, just before it was renamed Southwestern Oklahoma State University. He graduated but stayed with Love's, never looking back.

Wells is Love's manager of retail accounting systems and has lived in Edmond and worked at company headquarters — at suburban 10601 N Pennsylvania Ave. in The Village — for decades. He said every innovation Love's has made over the years has given him something new and exciting to learn. He could have retired 10 years ago, but he's kept at it.

"It's easy to work for a company and believe in what you do," he said, when the company has a reputation like Love's.

Love's Field: A reminder that roots and reputation helped bring the big-hearted Loves big riches

Roots and reputation helped make Love's a top workplace, and helped make the Loves generous billionaires, giving to causes across the state, not just in Oklahoma City.

Love's Travel Stops had $26.5 billion in revenue last year, according to Forbes, making it the ninth-largest private company in the country. Judy Love had a net worth of $10.2 billion, landing her at No. 2 on USA Today's list of "America's richest self-made women."

Symbols abound for "humble beginnings, teamwork, work ethic and perseverance." Add benevolence, and the symbol Jenny Love Meyer keeps in her office makes sense. She's a daughter of Tom and Judy Love, and Love's chief culture officer.

The reminder of what it took to get the family and company where they are? A softball trophy, but a replica, making it a reminder of a reminder:

Love's Field, which opened this year . Love's contributed the lead gift of the $37 million that helped pay for the $48 million field and stadium, earning it naming rights. The trophy is a reproduction of the University of Oklahoma Sooners’ 2023 NCAA championship softball trophy.

“This 44,000 square-foot complex is a nod to Coach (Patty) Gasso and all those who have been instrumental to building the Oklahoma softball dynasty and hopefully an inspiration for the female student-athletes who compete in it. They are our leaders of the future,” Love Meyer said. “Love’s is humbled to stand alongside the more than 1,100 donors who graciously supported this project. The $37 million raised is the largest dollar amount privately fundraised for a female-specific facility project in college athletics history.”

Parallels between Love's No. 1 in Watonga and Love's Field in Norman

Raising Love's Field took years and "a village of dedicated people to complete," Love Meyer said. She said she sees parallels to her parents' success after their beginnings in Watonga and Gasso's success after 30 years of "building a softball powerhouse in Norman, Oklahoma."

“With little money to invest and a growing family to support, my parents used a $5,000 loan to lease an abandoned service station in Watonga, a small community 60 miles west of Oklahoma City," she said. "That initial willingness to start and grow a business required confidence, innovative thinking, hard work and perseverance, and is why Love’s is where it is today.

"Similarly, when Coach Gasso arrived in Norman in 1994, she organized practices at a local park and needed to schedule practice in between slow pitch softball leagues. And sometimes had to clean up the dugout from festivities the night before.

"She never gave up. From former OU Associate Athletic Director Marita Hynes, Coach Gasso, softball alumni, to current players, and the university, they persevered through all the challenges. That championship mindset is how success is built.”

How Love's started: Tom and Judy Love 'had two small children to feed and bills to pay'

Nobody in the Love family, or among the earliest employees, could have dreamed that Love's, first called Musket Corp., would ever become such a retail juggernaut, with locations popping up along interstate highways like spring dandelions — plus several other ventures catering to, and supporting, the trucking industry, everyday travelers, and fuel supply chain management.

“When my parents opened our first location 60 years ago, they never imagined what Love’s would grow into," Love Meyer said. "They had two small children to feed and bills to pay and had to figure out a way to do that. My dad had the idea to lease an abandoned filling station, and through hard work, finding ways to learn about the business and, as he would say, working with and hiring people smarter than him, they grew it into what it is today.

"We attribute our success to our team members and customers. They’ve helped us grow into what we are today while remaining true to the family-owned and -operated business model that we know sets us apart from competitors. We always say that if our teams take care of customers, we’ll take care of them, and we think that’s been a pretty good standard to live by.”

Love's rolls both ways, with professional drivers and casual customers

If you're a professional truck driver, Love's is a truck stop. If you're not, Love's is a convenience store with fast food. Chances are, trucker or not, you don't know what all drives the family-owned company.

Love's rolls both ways, of course. Two-thirds of fuel sales are to professional drivers, and two-thirds of in-store sales are to casual customers, the company says. But Love's business is more than gasoline, diesel, and road trip snacks and fast food.

This year, the company plans to add up to 25 new locations, update up to 40 older stores, and rebuild four, among other company expansions, said Shane Wharton, Love's president.

“Six decades ago, (the late) Tom Love opened our first service station in Watonga, Oklahoma, and almost immediately started selling household items to make stopping in more convenient for customers,” Wharton said. “Today, as the only major travel stop that is still family owned and operated, we continue with his innovative spirit by adding new products and improving the experience to give customers more reasons to stop in.”

Four generations of Loves are involved with the company, including billionaire co-founder Judy Love . But numerous others have helped build Love's since 1964, Love-Meyer said.

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“While a lot has changed ... the heart of Love’s has not," she said. “We are so grateful for our incredible team members — past and present — whose contributions play a role in shaping our company.

"Growth and innovation of our product offerings, living our core values and culture daily, and dedication to clean places, friendly faces are what this company was started on in 1964. Today, we proudly stand on that foundation and know our best is still ahead of us.”

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Love's went on a buying spree in 2023, its biggest year for mergers and acquisitions.

The company acquired EZ GO from Lawton-based Carey Johnson Oil Co., including six travel stops on Oklahoma turnpikes, five on the Kansas turnpike and 11 convenience stores in Oklahoma and Nebraska.

EZ GO, like Love's, features franchise food and owns and operates Back Forty Barbecue at two locations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Houston-based Musket Corp., owned by Love's, established European operations with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Musket's focus is supplying Love’s Travel Stops with gasoline and diesel and managing the company’s biodiesel program. Subsidiary Musket Europe SARL extends the company's commodity supply and logistics, providing relief for the instability in global fuel supply chains.

Love's also bought OKC-based TVC Pro-Driver, a motor club and commercial driver’s license protection service. It assists drivers and fleets in reducing or dismissing fines, preventing downtime for court, and protecting federal compliance, safety and accountability scores. A subscription provides access to a network of attorneys and discounts on safety solutions, health care and more. Terms were not disclosed.

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Love's continues to expand and enhance services for drivers — professional and casual.

Through awards from the Federal Highway Administration's National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program , Love's-owned Trillium Energy Solutions , which Love's acquired in 2016, plans to add to Love’s electric vehicle fast-charging network with new chargers at 29 locations this year.

For truckers driving Freightliners, which Love's said accounts for about half all trucks on the road, Freightliner ExpressPoint is now available at more than 400 Love’s truck care locations, providing light mechanical warranty repair work for Freightliner trucks through Love’s partnership with Daimler Truck North America. Love's rolled out the service in January and plans to expand it this year.

Love's plans 10 new full-service Speedco locations next to its travel stops, 50 maintenance bays and and about 60 emergency roadside vehicles. Love's has owned Speedco since 2017.

Love family philanthropy seen across Oklahoma, elsewhere

Love's donates 2% of net profits to charity and good causes.

"Many know the story of Love’s...," Love Meyer said last year in Love's first-ever Community Impact Report. "And from those humble roots, he built a family-owned and -operated network of travel stops now approaching 700 locations.

"But it’s important to know that from the start, as he built the business, he cared about the communities where the stores were located. It is this caring, combined with a desire to give back, that is the foundation for charitable giving at Love’s. This is certainly one of the legacies my dad left with us. ... Helping others is nothing new for Love’s."

This year, in addition to the debut of Love’s Field, the Oklahoma City Zoo’s Expedition Africa and completely renovated Love's Pachyderm Building opened, the new Women’s Center at Mercy Hospital opened, and Love's Planetarium at Science Museum Oklahoma is scheduled to open.

"Our efforts are certainly not limited to Oklahoma and include building meaningful partnerships to transform communities nationwide," Love Meyer said.

Love's gave away nearly $12 million in 2022, according its 2023 Community Impact Report — 46% to youths and education, 20% to health and human services, 25% to civic and community organizations, and 9% to other needs. Recipients included:

• $6.9 million to Children's Miracle Network, which has received nearly $50 million in all from Love's.
• $3.5 million to Science Museum Oklahoma/Love's Planeterium.
• $150,000 to Operation Homefront.
• $100,000 to St. Christopher Trucking Development and Relief Fund.
• $50,000 to Truckers Against Trafficking.

In addition, Love's corporate employees donated $676,000 to United Way of Central Oklahoma and 1,400 volunteer hours to various causes.

Judy Love, as matriarch, has led the way in the Love family's giving.

Recipients include Positive Tomorrows, the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, the University of Oklahoma , Oklahoma State University, Children’s Miracle Network and United Way, as well as out-of-state organizations and groups.

All that giving, and all that innovation, have kept the Loves' reputation growing, and Love's competitive and growing, for 60 years.

“As Love's has expanded its network and offerings over the past 60 years, we’ve been able to stay true to who we are and what we represent, clean places with friendly faces who work hard every day to get customers back on the road quickly," Love Meyer said. "The dedication to helping our customers every day, while innovating and striving to be better, is foundational for Love’s, from our leaders to team members across the nation.”

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What you may not know about Love's truck stops

Here are some things you might not know about Love's, and some more of what the company says to expect in 2024.

• Love’s is growing its Fresh Kitchen concept after customer feedback, offering fresh, healthier and diet-specific food options, including a new omelet bowl, upgraded snack trays, improved mac and cheese bowls, and other items.
• Love's, a top 10 restaurant operator in the U.S., with quick-service offerings from Arby's to McDonald's to Wendy's, will add 20 restaurants this year.
• Love’s will keep expanding its own branded food and snacks including new chip flavors, meat sticks, honey buns, powdered doughnuts and cookies.
• Love's will add RV hookups at 44 locations, ending 2024 with 1,500 hookups at 98 locations, and will double its number of truck washes by adding seven, for professional drivers and RV'ers.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Keep on trucking: How Love's Travel Stop grew from one store to an international empire

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A 54-year-old man was killed Monday morning when the dump truck he was driving collided with a transit van and overturned into a ravine below Interstate 270 in Hyattstown, Maryland.

Traffic was able to get by the crash on Interstate 270 at Maryland Route 109 in Montgomery County but heavy congestion remained.

Rodney Gibson, of Frederick, was driving the dump truck in the southbound lanes at around 10 a.m. when it collided with a 2019 Ford Transit. Gibson’s vehicle hit a bridge abutment and then flipped over into a ravine.

He died at the scene. No one else was injured, according to police.

It’s unclear what caused the dump truck and the van to collide. Police are investigating what led up to the crash.

Officials closed down I-270 for around four hours. All northbound lanes on I-270 reopened just before 2 p.m. In the southbound lanes, traffic was able to get by the crash investigation.

Nearby exit ramps that were closed for most of the day reopened.

Amid the crash investigation, there’s also a closure in both directions of MD-109 underneath I-270, as of 2 p.m.

Police are warning drivers to expect delays in the area.

Police said that HAZMAT units responded to the scene. Reports had indicated the truck may have been carrying fuel, but police did not clarify what prompted the HAZMAT response.

Here’s a map of the area where the crash happened.

Earlier, police had said the crash happened in the northbound lanes but in an update officials said the collision was in the southbound lanes.

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‘If they go into Rafah, I’m not going to be supplying the weapons,’ Biden says.

President Biden said on Wednesday that he had told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel that the United States would halt shipments of some weapons if the Israeli military invaded Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, using his strongest public language to date in his quest to deter a full-scale Israeli assault on the refugee-packed city.

“If they go into Rafah, I’m not going to be supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem,” Mr. Biden said in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett on Wednesday.

The interview was broadcast hours after Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III acknowledged publicly that Mr. Biden’s decision last week to hold up delivery of thousands of heavy bombs was linked to Israel’s plans for a large offensive in Rafah, one of Hamas’s last bastions in Gaza, where more than a million Palestinians have taken refuge.

Israel and Hamas have been at war in Gaza since Oct. 7, when Hamas launched a devastating raid on Israel that left some 1,200 people dead, according to Israeli authorities. Mr. Biden has since struggled to both support Israel in the war on Hamas, and to press to limit civilian casualties. More than 34,000 people have been killed in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to the territory’s health authorities, and Mr. Biden’s pressure on Israel has grown as the numbers have risen.

But in recent days, Israel ordered the evacuation of 110,000 civilians in Rafah, conducted airstrikes against targets on the edges of the city, sent in tanks and seized the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

In the interview, Mr. Biden also acknowledged in a way that he has rarely done that American bombs have killed innocent Palestinians. “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Mr. Biden said.

The president has objected to Israel’s planned Rafah operation out of fear that widespread civilian casualties could be caused by American bombs. He said on Wednesday that he would also block the delivery of artillery shells that could be fired into the urban neighborhoods of Rafah.

“I’ve made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet, they’re not going to get our support if in fact they go on these population centers,” the president said, referring to Mr. Netanyahu by his nickname.

In the CNN interview, Mr. Biden said that he had warned Mr. Netanyahu against sending the Israeli military into civilian areas of Rafah. “It’s just wrong,” Mr. Biden said. “We’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells. I’ve made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet that they’re not going to get our support if in fact they go into these population centers.”

— Reid J. Epstein reporting from Washington

Israel shrugs off the U.S. hold on an arms delivery, but some see a new strain in ties.

The Biden administration on Wednesday turned up the volume on strains in the U.S.-Israeli relationship, as the defense secretary acknowledged publicly that President Biden’s decision to hold up delivery of heavy bombs was linked to Israel’s plans for a large offensive in the city of Rafah, in the Gaza Strip.

Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III told a Senate committee that the United States had been clear “from the very beginning that Israel shouldn’t launch a major attack into Rafah without accounting for and protecting the civilians that are in that battle space, and again, as we have assessed the situation, we have paused one shipment of high payload munitions.”

While the president and other administration officials have publicly criticized the Israeli conduct of the war for months, it has often been in muted terms, saving the harshest assessment for private conversations. Mr. Austin’s comments on Wednesday were the bluntest public statement to date that the disagreement carries consequences and a signal of the kind of leverage the United States can use to influence Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza.

The United States and other allies have warned that an all-out assault in Rafah could lead to a humanitarian disaster for hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans living in tents and temporary lodgings there. On Monday, Israeli tanks and troops made an incursion to take control of the border crossing into Egypt.

With the scale and timing of their plans still unknown, Israeli officials have downplayed any dispute with the United States over weaponry and the war in Gaza, while also continuing to negotiate on a potential cease-fire that could lead to the return of Israeli hostages taken during the Hamas-led attack in October.

Experts on the U.S.-Israeli relationship say the pause in delivering the munitions, which the White House confirmed on Tuesday, showed that the alliance had hit a significant divide, with more ruptures possibly to come amid declining American public support for the Israeli war effort.

“It’s pent-up frustration on Biden’s part, which eventually broke,” Chuck Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser in Israel, said on Wednesday. “The administration has been walking a tightrope between its very strong support for Israel and domestic pressure.”

This week in particular, two opposing elements of President Biden’s approach to military support for Israel are converging and competing for global attention.

With his approval of fresh U.S. aid involving weapons and equipment worth $827 million — along with an assertive speech against antisemitism at a Holocaust remembrance service — President Biden has made clear that he remains deeply committed to Israel.

At the same time, he has signaled that there are limits to American aid and patience, suspending delivery of the heaviest of munitions — 1,800 2,000-pound and 1,700 500-pound bombs — over concerns they will be used in a possible full-scale assault on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza.

In public comments, Israeli officials have mostly promoted America’s long-term support and ignored the pause in deliveries of weapons.

Speaking at a conference Tuesday night hosted by a local newspaper, the military’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, described coordination between Israel and the United States as reaching “a scope without precedent,” while insisting that any disagreements were handled “behind closed doors.”

Sidestepping questions about the airing of American frustrations and the potential risk to future arms shipments, he stressed the importance of day-to-day coordination and “operational assistance.”

Israel has a large arsenal to draw on and many options for how to proceed in Gaza that would not necessarily include the bombs Washington has delayed, military analysts said.

Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat, said that the U.S. decision was motivated by skyrocketing American frustration with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as pressure from some Congressional Democrats to more closely supervise Israel’s use of U.S. arms . And, he added, it was an attempt to warn Israel that more consequences could be in the offing.

“The logic behind this is a warning: If you don’t get your act together, there’s a lot more obstructions that could happen,” Mr. Pinkas said.

Aaron Boxerman contributed reporting from Jerusalem.

— Damien Cave reporting from Tel Aviv

A Satellite View of Israel’s New Front in Gaza

Widespread damage, flattened structures and clusters of Israeli tanks were seen in eastern Rafah after Israel’s incursion.

Fighting in Rafah and the closure of Gaza crossings threaten aid, the U.N. says.

The United Nations has warned that Israel’s military incursion into Rafah and closure of border crossings is a major setback for aid operations in the Gaza Strip, with dire implications for its people.

No aid trucks have entered Gaza since Sunday, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as Israel sent tanks and troops into Rafah and blocked the two southern crossings where most aid has entered, at Rafah on the Egyptian border and near Kerem Shalom on the Israeli frontier.

Israel said that the Kerem Shalom crossing reopened on Wednesday, but did not indicate when the Rafah crossing would reopen. The U.N. disputed Israel’s claim.

The fighting in the Rafah area and the closure of the crossings set aid efforts back, at least temporarily, to the conditions of the first weeks of the war, when an Israeli and Egyptian blockade prevented anything from entering Gaza, producing desperate shortages of food, water, fuel, medicine and other supplies. Israel has described the military action it began on Monday as a limited incursion into Rafah that seized control of the border crossing, not the full-fledged offensive it has vowed to carry out, despite warnings from the United States and aid groups that it would be a humanitarian catastrophe.

U.N. officials said the conditions threaten to halt all its humanitarian operations in Gaza.

As many as a million people displaced from other parts of Gaza, more than half of them children, have sought refuge there, living in squalid conditions and relying on international aid efforts.

“Rafah is the epicenter of humanitarian operations in Gaza,” António Guterres, the U.N. secretary general, said on Tuesday. “Attacking Rafah will further upend our efforts to support people in dire humanitarian straits as famine looms.”

Before the war began last October, about 500 aid trucks and additional commercial trucks a day carried supplies into Gaza, home to some 2.3 million people. Even after deliveries resumed, they were a fraction of the prewar level, as Israel kept most crossings closed, insisted on close inspection of every load, and barred some supplies.

After intense international pressure on Israel, including from the United States, the average rose to more than 200 humanitarian aid trucks a day in second half of April and the first days of May, according to the United Nations, still well below what aid agencies said was needed and what the Biden administration had called for. No commercial trucks have entered Gaza since the war started in October.

For months the United Nations and aid groups have also struggled to gain access and safe passage for their staff to work in Gaza, despite intense negotiations with Israel.

Now, U.N. officials say that the limited progress they had made is in jeopardy.

“We are managing the whole aid operation opportunistically as opposed to holistically — if there is something we can grab we will grab it,” said Stéphane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, in an interview on Wednesday.

“We want the ability to work without being in the middle of a conflict zone and people we are trying to help being terrified,” he added.

A day earlier the leader of the U.N.’s humanitarian office for the Palestinian territories, Andrea De Domenico, said from Jerusalem in a video briefing with reporters that fuel would run out in days, cutting off communications, shuttering hospitals and halting distribution of food and other essential aid.

Gaza’s electrical grid stopped working early in the war. The only power available now comes from generators, making fuel essential.

The presence of Israeli tanks and fighting around Rafah’s border had made it impossible for the U.N. to access fuel in storage facilities in the area, Mr. De Domenico said. He added that people are fleeing Rafah to areas where there was no shelter, clean water and drainage.

“It is impossible to improve the situation existing in the new displacement sites without the entry of supplies and without the fuel to transport them to the location where the people are concentrating,” said Mr. De Domenico.

If the area around the Rafah crossing becomes a battle zone, U.N. officials said, it would be nearly impossible to deliver and distribute the aid.

— Farnaz Fassihi

What we know about the weapons the U.S. sends to Israel.

President Biden has paused a shipment of bombs to Israel to prevent them from being used in the assault on the city of Rafah. Administration officials said that 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs are being withheld and that the administration is reviewing whether to hold back future transfers.

The United States is by far the biggest supplier of weapons to Israel, and it accelerated deliveries after the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks. It’s hard to determine just how much Israel has received, but here is a closer look at what we know.

What happened after Oct. 7?

Since Oct. 7, the United States has sent tens of thousands of weapons to Israel . For the most part, it accelerated supplies that were already committed under contracts, many of which were approved by Congress and the State Department long ago, according to Bradley Bowman, a military expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.

“What the U.S. started to do almost immediately was send an extraordinary flow of weapons,” Mr. Bowman, a former U.S. Army officer, said.

According to a report by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies , there were so many arms shipments to Israel that a senior Pentagon official said the Department of Defense sometimes struggled to find sufficient cargo aircraft to deliver them.

Pete Nguyen, a Pentagon spokesman, said in an email that recent assistance has included precision-guided munitions, artillery ammunition, medical supplies and “other categories of critical equipment.”

He added that “the United States has surged billions of dollars in security assistance to Israel since the Oct. 7 attacks.”

How much has been made public?

Lawmakers and news media have recently criticized the lack of public information about the sales. The Defense Department so far has only published two news releases, on Dec. 9 and 29, about the approval of emergency military sales to Israel, while it lists much of the military equipment sent to Ukraine in a regularly updated fact sheet .

As laid out in those news releases, the aid sent to Israel from Oct. 7 to Dec. 29 included 52,229 M795 155-millimeter artillery shells, 30,000 M4 propelling charges for howitzers, 4,792 M107 155-mm artillery shells and 13,981 M830A1 120-mm tank rounds.

But the State Department can legally refrain from telling Congress and the public about some new arms orders placed by Israel since Oct. 7 because they fall below a certain dollar amount.

The Washington Post reported that the United States had approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel since Oct. 7.

What did they send?

One sale approved in late October allows for the sale to Israel of $320 million in kits for converting unguided “dumb” bombs into GPS-guided munitions , on top of a previous, $403 million order for the same guidance kits.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies compiled a list of news reports and official information available about the weapons delivered. According to the reports, that included air defense systems, precision-guided munitions, artillery shells, tank rounds, small arms, Hellfire missiles used by drones, 30-mm cannon ammunition, PVS-14 night vision devices and disposable shoulder-fired rockets.

The Pentagon leased its two Israeli-made Iron Dome antimissile batteries back to Israel, according to the website Breaking Defense.

The U.S. also gave Israel access to the U.S. military stockpiles in Israel for immediate needs. An American official said that Israel’s recently requested munitions from those stockpiles have included bombs ranging from 250 to 2,000 pounds, and that many have been 500-pound bombs.

How is it funded?

The military aid to Israel is funded under a 2016 agreement known as a memorandum of understanding that committed the United States to giving Israel $38 billion in weapons over 10 years.

Additionally, President Biden last month signed an aid package that will send about $15 billion in additional military aid.

Israel regularly receives arms from the Defense Department and from American weapons makers directly, which included the unguided and guided bombs that Israel has bought from the United States over the years and dropped on Gaza in recent months, and also fighter jets, air defense missiles and helicopters.

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. military aid to Israel has amounted to $216 billion since Israel’s founding in 1948.

John Ismay contributed reporting.

— Emma Bubola

E.U. employees in Brussels demand a cease-fire and protest the bloc’s stance on the war.

In a rare public show of dissension, European Union staff members and others staged a demonstration outside E.U. headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday to protest the civilian casualties caused by Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip and the bloc’s stance on the war.

About 250 people held a silent march and a mock funeral, placing flowers over three “bodies” painted with fake blood to symbolize European values they said were being trampled by the European Union’s passivity in the face of civilian casualties in Gaza. Most of those interviewed said they were E.U. employees but declined to give their names for fear of workplace retaliation.

The European Union, speakers at the event said, should be demanding a cease-fire and using its leverage to attain it.

“We’re here today because we want to mourn everything that our institutions are facing,” said Faryda Hussein, an E.U. staff member, at the beginning of the march. “For months, we’ve been trying to put pressure internally and externally on our leadership.”

It is unusual for E.U. staff to protest openly because of their contractual obligations to remain impartial and loyal to their institutions. They have held a few smaller protests during the war, but none that have generated as much attention.

Manus Carlisle, an E.U. employee and one of the protest’s organizers, emphasized that the actions did not contradict the institution’s values.

“I want to make it really clear that we are impartial,” he said. “That’s why we’re calling for a complete cease-fire. We are not backing one side over the other.”

But the demonstration clearly reflected opposition to Israel and its conduct of the war. Last autumn, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, angered some E.U. member states, taking what they saw as a pro-Israel stance on her visit to Israel.

Similarly, many employees of the U.S. State Department have objected to the American approach to the war, saying the Biden administration should be much tougher on Israel and press harder for a cease-fire.

At the protest on Wednesday, Marta Guffanti, an Italian staff member of the European Parliament, held a sign with the Palestinian flag that read, “Free Now.”

“It’s very important for us to be here today and manifest and show our presence and our beliefs, especially because personally, I think that the E.U. institutions are not doing as much as they could,” she said.

The demonstrators carried a banner with the words “R.I.P. Never Again,” a pointed use of a phrase commonly used by Jews to refer to the Holocaust. Another banner read, “All eyes on Rafah.”

“We are delighted that European Union officials are mobilizing, which contrasts with the great passivity of the European Commission,” said Gregory Mauzé, of the Belgian-Palestinian Association, which also took part in the protest.

— Sarah Hurtes

Israel presses on with its operation near the Rafah crossing as Gazan officials warn of a rising death toll.

Israel pushed on with its operation in the area of the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday as it continued to pound other parts of the Gaza Strip. Local health authorities warned of a “significant increase” in the death toll because of the intense Israeli bombardment.

Israel’s seizure of the crossing, Gaza’s only official portal to Egypt, has helped choke off aid, at least temporarily, and it remained closed for a second day. Humanitarian officials have warned that the closure was exacerbating the extreme hunger and health crisis in the enclave.

The Israeli military characterized the campaign around the crossing as a limited operation, and did not provide further details about what it called Wednesday “targeted raids.”

Hamas responded defiantly, vowing to combat any challenge to what it called “Palestinian-Egyptian sovereignty” at the crossing, though at least some residents of Rafah were not hearing exchanges of fire.

Israel’s air force said it had struck “over 100 terror targets” across the entire territory in the past 24 hours, including military structures and launching areas for rockets. The Gaza health ministry said Israeli bombardment since Tuesday had led to “a significant increase in the numbers of dead and wounded,” particularly in Rafah.

It did not provide specific numbers for those killed in Rafah, but said Israeli forces killed 55 people and injured 200 more across the entire territory in the preceding 24 hours.

“A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry said in a statement.

The Israeli move into Rafah came the day after the military called on some 110,000 people to evacuate part of the city, which has become home to roughly a million people displaced from elsewhere in the enclave, mostly living in vast tent encampments. That order has led to the closure of some health facilities whose staff members fled, the health ministry said.

Scott Anderson, an official with UNRWA, the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, said no aid had entered the Gaza Strip since Israel’s seizure of the crossing.

“The Rafah crossing area has ongoing military operations — there have been continued bombardments in this area throughout the day,” he said in a statement posted online. “No fuel or aid has entered into Gaza Strip and this is disastrous for the humanitarian response.”

Majdi Ahmed, 31, spent Wednesday with eight people in a tent in the western part of Rafah, which was not included in Israel’s evacuation order this week.

Since Israel’s incursion began, Mr. Ahmed said, he and the others in the tent had been listening to explosions and watching bombs fall, including one that he said had struck Rafah’s municipal offices. But he said it did not sound like Hamas was putting up much of a fight.

“Everyone here can hear the strikes on Rafah,” said Mr. Ahmed, who worked as a taxi driver in Jabaliya in northern Gaza before war. “We don’t hear fire exchange though. It is more like a one-sided thing to me.”

He said that several families fleeing the eastern part of Rafah had sent up their tents since the day before, but some had also fled the area to seek safety elsewhere in Gaza, fearing that Israel would soon push into the rest of Rafah.

But Mr. Ahmed and his family stayed put.

That was, in part, because he had paid $7,500 to secure passage through the border crossing for his wife and child this week, and he wanted to see if that would still be possible with the crossing under Israeli control. But they also stayed because Mr. Ahmed said the idea of seeking safety somewhere else seemed pointless.

“I tend to believe this is a safe area,” he said. “Even though I know nowhere is safe.”

— Liam Stack and Abu Bakr Bashir

With pressure rising for a cease-fire, Netanyahu meets with the C.I.A. director.

Negotiators from Israel and Hamas were in Cairo on Wednesday amid a renewed international push on a proposed deal for a cease-fire, though Israeli officials said that major gaps remained between the sides.

In a sign of the growing urgency, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with William J. Burns, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, on Wednesday afternoon in Israel, according to an Israeli official who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks.

Mr. Burns has been shuttling across the region in recent days in an attempt to clinch a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas that would see the release of hostages held in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.

The Israeli delegations arrived on Tuesday, hours after Israeli tanks and troops went into the southern Gaza city of Rafah and seized control of the border crossing with Egypt, disrupting the flow of humanitarian aid into the enclave.

The most substantive sticking point in the talks centers on a phrase that appears in both the Israeli- and Hamas-approved proposals: a path to a “sustainable calm.”

In Hamas’s revision, that phrase is clearly defined as a permanent end to the war and a complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip. Mr. Netanyahu has consistently opposed any deal that explicitly calls for a permanent cease-fire, saying Israeli forces would not stop fighting in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed and the hostages are released.

Hamas’s revised proposal, Mr. Netanyahu said on Tuesday, was “very far from Israel’s core demands.” In his statement, he added that “military pressure on Hamas is an essential condition to secure the release of our hostages.”

Mr. Netanyahu, who is under pressure from the United States and other allies to agree to a cease-fire , said that while he had sent a midlevel delegation back to the talks, “in tandem, we continue waging the war on Hamas.”

A White House spokesman, John F. Kirby, said on Tuesday that the negotiations were at a “sensitive stage” and that “there should be no reason why they can’t overcome those remaining gaps.” Analysts said Israel’s incursion into Rafah might either ratchet up the pressure on Hamas to make a deal or sabotage the talks.

The Israeli military said it had gone into the city to destroy Hamas infrastructure used in an attack that killed four Israeli soldiers over the weekend near another border crossing, this one from Israel into Gaza.

The move did not appear to be the full ground invasion of Rafah that Israel has long been threatening and its allies working to avert. The Israeli military called it “a very precise” counterterrorism operation.

Last week, President Biden paused an arms shipment to prevent U.S.-made weapons from being used in a long-threatened assault on Rafah, administration officials said on Tuesday night Washington time, an indication of the growing rift with Israel over the conduct of the war. The decision to delay the delivery of 3,500 bombs was the first time that Mr. Biden has used his power to curtail arms to influence Israel’s approach to the war since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack.

Peter Baker contributed reporting from Washington and Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem.

— Aaron Boxerman and Julian E. Barnes reporting from Jerusalem and Washington

Israel reopens a Gaza crossing that is an important aid route.

Israel said on Wednesday that it had reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing into the Gaza Strip after closing it days earlier because of an attack by Hamas. But the United Nations said it was too soon to tell how quickly the humanitarian aid that is critical to stemming a hunger crisis in Gaza would begin to flow again.

Kerem Shalom has been the main aid conduit for more than two million people in Gaza who face what humanitarian workers say is a serious food deficit. Two senior American officials said recently that famine had already begun in parts of Gaza, caused largely by strict controls on aid imposed by Israel since Oct. 7, when Hamas led a deadly attack on Israel, and by the difficulty of distributing food, fuel and medicine within the enclave.

Israel launched an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Monday night and closed the crossing with Egypt there. That crossing is still shut, but on Wednesday, facing calls by the United Nations and several governments to avoid making a dire situation even worse, Israel said it would reopen Kerem Shalom.

Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the U.N. humanitarian office in Geneva, said the United Nations was checking to see how quickly aid shipments could resume. “We can only confirm once a drop has been made and pickup on the other side has begun,” he said. Earlier, COGAT, the Israeli agency responsible for coordinating aid deliveries into Gaza, said that aid trucks were arriving at the crossing and would go into Gaza after inspection.

Juliette Touma, the communications director for the main U.N. agency aiding Palestinians in Gaza, known as UNRWA, said that “no supplies have come in yet” through Kerem Shalom.

The amount of aid going into Gaza each day has fluctuated since Oct. 7, but U.N. data shows that overall the number of trucks flowing through Kerem Shalom and Rafah is down about 75 percent from before the war. Part of the problem is that commercial imports have also virtually stopped.

Aid experts also say that the number of aid trucks entering Gaza, which this month is an average of 180 per day through the two main crossing points combined, is inadequate to address the hunger crisis. Achieving that, they say, would require many more trucks, an influx of aid workers, training of Palestinian medical personnel to treat people suffering from malnutrition, the restoration of medical facilities and, above all, an end to the military conflict.

In addition to the southern crossing points, COGAT said on Tuesday that 60 trucks had passed through the Erez crossing into northern Gaza, which Israel reopened under pressure from the Biden administration after an Israeli airstrike last month killed seven aid workers .

But Ms. Touma said that supplies were not coming through Erez on a regular basis, and that overall “much more” aid needs to go into Gaza.

— Matthew Mpoke Bigg

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