Topic: Gaza

While several world leaders have tried to dissuade Israel from going in, Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear Wednesday that the government’s special war cabinet had made up its mind.

The Gaza war postponed the meeting between Xi Jinping and Bibi Netanyahu, but it indicates a Chinese thrust towards a bigger role in resolving the Israel-Palestine issue.

At Al-Shifa and Nasser Hospitals, medical supplies have run out. Doctors are on 12-hour plus shifts even as they themselves face psychological stress & trauma, say surgeons.

Days after US vetoed a Brazil-led resolution for humanitarian pauses in Israel-Gaza conflict, its own resolution called for aid access, and stop to arming Hamas.

The UN has warned that lack of fuel in Gaza, which Israel continues to block, would put Gaza’s healthcare system completely out of service. Death toll is 6,546, including 2,704 children on Day 19, says Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.

Leaders of Palestinian groups discussed steps to be taken by 'Axis of Resistance' to achieve 'all-out victory' against Israel & stop 'brutal attack on people of Gaza, West Bank'.

There’s no reason to believe that any other kind of war in Gaza might have been more humane. The idea that war can be civilised by law has tranquillised our imagination.

Fellow academics have variously called me a Zionist sympathiser who takes Israeli money, promotes the so-called ‘Jewish agenda,’ and whitewashes Israeli actions.

Trucks of aid began moving into Gaza from Egypt on Saturday but the agencies say they are far from enough. Around 1 million people are homeless, many have been wounded and food and clean water is in short supply.

The message to Gaza comes as thousands of soldiers stand ready at the border ahead of a ground incursion, which the IDF says will fully dismantle Hamas.