The military admitted to having the fault in 2 deadly strikes in central Gaza
Fossilization of a Palestinian Enclave in Gaza by Israel’s War on Hamas: Samir Hassan and his Family fled
She said they had threatened the entire block around them, a new camp, and even the market street. “They dropped leaflets ordering us to leave within three days. We had to come here.
At the Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, a mother of five said that she and 20 members of her extended family had arrived there the previous day. It is the fourth time the family, including a 10-month-old baby, have been forced to flee since the war began.
But Israel has routinely used 2,000-pound bombs — one of the biggest and most destructive supplied by the United States — in densely populated areas in southern Gaza where civilians were told to move for safety, according to an analysis of the visual evidence by The New York Times.
Many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have had to flee for their lives because of Israel’s war on Hamas.
Mr. Hassan said that this would be the last time they were displaced. The family lost everything the first time it fled, he said.
The area now under threat, roughly nine square kilometers, has six shelters housing about 61,000 displaced people, mostly from northern Gaza, according to the United Nations. That is in addition to the 90,000 original residents of the area.
The public health disaster in the making is the result of the Israeli bombardment and siege of Gaza, which decimated large parts of the Palestinian enclave and left millions hungry and exposed to the elements.
The United States voiced some of the humanitarian concerns Israel was addressing. The military published maps to help Gazans understand their instructions, which were in order to protect their safety, it was said on social media.
They settled in a tent in the nearby Nuseirat area, where tens of thousands of Palestinians forced by Israel’s air and ground offensive had also fled and were finding what shelter they could in overcrowded schools, ramshackle tents or even out in the streets.
When a number of his family were killed by Israeli airstrikes in the central Gaza Strip weeks ago, and his brother was badly wounded, Samir Hassan and his family fled their home in the town of Mughraqa.
Two bitter wars with a long history and no solution in sight: Israel’s failure to destroy a Palestinian state and the Palestinians
The United States is becoming unwilling to be the promoter of global values, which will lead to more conflict.
“If we assume that the U.S. can at least be depended on to have the same policy over several different administrations, it probably belongs to the past,” said Appelbaum.
U.S. foreign policy has become more unpredictable. Once upon a time, Democrats and Republicans worked together on foreign policy under the notion that “politics end at the water’s edge.”
“For Putin, it’s really not about whether he can capture a village and keep it occupied,” said Alperovitch. “From day one, his goal has been to control the country of Ukraine so as to prevent it from becoming part of the Western alliance.”
After 1917 the Russian Revolution, Ukraine regained its independence from Russia, but only after the fall of the Soviet Union.
In the past, I traveled to Gaza dozens of times on my own. Israel’s bombing campaign has resulted in it being too dangerous. Journalists have only been taken on brief, chaperoned visits by the military.
“Look, we need a new administration in Gaza,” said Erel Margalit, a leading Israeli high-tech entrepreneur who heads Jerusalem Venture Partners. He was in the Knesset with the Labor Party, who supports a Palestinian state.
In some ways, the Israelis and Palestinians seem to be moving further from a solution. They fought their first war in 1948. The leading Palestinian group, Hamas, wants to destroy Israel.
This is the fourth conflict that I’ve covered. Israel never unleashed a large bombing campaign in such a populated area as it’s doing in Gaza, where thousands of women and children have been killed every day.
I saw a video at a military center that showed Hamas militant rampaging through southern Israel. Much of the footage is from Hamas militants wearing body cameras, filming themselves as they slaughtered Israeli civilians.
The wars went back a long time. What we’re witnessing is just the latest eruption. They are more prone to death due to modern weaponry, and have more difficulty in resolving their hatreds.
Source: 2 bitter wars with a long history and no solution in sight
The Russian-Ukraine Conflict: A Battle for Universal Values and the Land-Satisfaction of the Early 1915-1920 War
She said that the Russian tactics have been to hit civilians, industrial production, hospitals and the electricity grid. “The war in Ukraine is really an attack on those laws, on that system itself.”
Applebaum believes that Russia’s actions are part of a larger movement by authoritarian leaders and extremists that rejects many of the rules established by the West in the aftermath of World War II.
The evidence is the deserted Ukrainian towns and villages, the scorched homes, the abducted children and mass graves in communities across the country.
“I think we’ve reached the end of a particular period in history when it was even possible to talk about some kind of universal values or rules,” said Applebaum.
Greg Myre is an NPR reporter and has covered many wars, and he has reported from the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Israel-Hamas fighting this year. As the year winds down, he offers this look at where these wars stand and the prospects for finding a permanent solution.
