By Malu Cursino BBC News
A group of UN agencies have called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza as conditions worsen in the territory.
The World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) were among five agencies who described the situation in Gaza as “catastrophic” in a joint statement.
The UN’s plea for a de-escalation of the conflict comes as Israel warns of intensified strikes on Gaza.
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The Israelis traded 1,000+ Palestinian prisoners the last time one of their service members was kidnapped. Releasing the prisoners is likely the key to stopping all this madness.
It seems like Hamas had a limited raid planned, caught the Israelis completely off guard, and did way more damage than they planned. Cooler heads need to prevail. Let the hostages go in a negotiated plan that ends air strikes and reopens Gaza to relief.
Releasing the prisoners is likely the key to stopping all this madness.
I don’t think that will be a realistic option. Doubly so considering most of the planning for October 7th was done by people released in the Shalit deal. Israel has stated that their military goals are killing all senior leadership and hunting down every single person who entered Israeli territory on October 7th.
Israel can probably get most of the hostages back by just stopping the air strikes.
And that’s exactly why they are doing the air strikes and also committing violence on the west bank. They are terrorizing civilians as a bargaining chip.
This way of working should not be supported by western nations.
Especially here in Europe, we are going to become victims of terrorism due to blindly supporting that apartheid state.
We need human corridors and to start sanctioning Israel for war crimes ASAP.
Clearly you know nothing of the region. Just be aware, Hamas has launched thousands of rockets at civilian population centers in Israel. No warnings, no military value, just civilians. They have no intentions of stopping this conflict.
Releasing the prisoners is likely the key to stopping all this madness.
Yeah. Hamas intended to use the hostages for a prisoner swap.
I genuinely don’t understand why this is being allowed to happen. Is it money? It’s usually money.
Iran doesn’t want the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Money, religion, pick your poison.
Religion is usually just a front for money
It’s money. They even throw money at influencers now to stop covering Palestinian stories so their genocide can go unrecorded.
They lobbied the US government and military for years and Trumpers see them as the perfect apartheid state and a handbook on how to go forward without anyone who isn’t white or (fake/their version of) Christian basically. Although ironically, they also hate them for being Jewish, but drool at their tech and arms.
Europe is terrified for their Jewish civilians and the optics of not supporting them after WWII. Once Israel went too far, they tried to be levelheaded, but it didn’t work/worked partially.
In the long run, Europe is getting shafted again. They have to keep the peace between their Muslim, Jewish civilians AND their own Nazi extremists.
Terrorism will rise again on all sides and they can’t just shoot innocent people like the US.
Let’s face it. Europe is not the answer to anything that’s not 3 feet away from them. They even have a saying: a-far-from-my-bed-show. They will do just the minimum for optics.
But hey, US gets to play war again huh?
It’s more complicated than that obviously. But I just got up.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Prior to the war, about 500 aid trucks a day were entering Gaza, said a spokesman from ActionAid Palestine.
A significant proportion of those living in the territory - some 1.2 million people - already relied on aid before the recent conflict erupted, according to the UN.
Israel is widely expected to launch a ground offensive into the Gaza Strip, but the timing remains unknown.
The Gaza Strip is a densely-populated enclave bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on one side and fenced off from Israel and Egypt.
Also on Saturday, leaders of the Arab world rejected the forced displacement of Palestinians into the Sinai peninsula.
Speaking at a summit in Cairo, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said the only solution was an independent state for Palestinians.
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