Sen. Chuck Schumer said a bipartisan group of U.S. senators visiting Israel was having lunch on Sunday when warning sirens went off.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Sen. Mitt Romney waited out a Hamas rocket attack in a Tel Aviv shelter on Sunday, Schumer said in a social media post. Schumer is in Israel with a bipartisan group of senators. He posted a photo of himself with Romey in the shelter. 'While in Tel Aviv today, our delegation was rushed to a shelter to wait out rockets sent by Hamas,' Schumer said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
And I, along with my colleagues here, will lead the effort in the United States Senate to provide Israel with the support required to fully defend itself from this monstrous attack.'More than 6,000 rockets have been launched from Gaza toward Israel since Hamas' deadly incursion on Oct. 7, according to Israel Defense Forces. Many of the rockets have been intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome.Schumer and Romney were joined in Israel by Republican Sen.
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