Gaza’s humanitarian zones shrink as IDF presses into areas once deemed safe.
  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    194·
    4 months ago

    The United States and its allies continue to plead for a cease-fire deal, with discussions set for this week.

    Well, conflict only ends when all parties involved want it to end, and based on the content on the linked page, none of the parties involved sound like they’re at the point where that’s what they’re looking for.

    Hamas:

    33 minutes ago

    Hamas rejects latest cease-fire deal

    Hezbollah:

    Hezbollah planned to strike Israeli intelligence, sources tell ABC News

    Israel:

    ‘Whoever harms us – we will harm them,’ Netanyahu says

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday described his country’s preemptive strikes within Lebanon as a “strong action to foil the threats” raised by a potential attack by Hezbollah.

    So I don’t think that this conflict is likely going to end yet.

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      193·
      4 months ago

      Hamas has already agreed to the three-stage permanent ceasefire proposal put forth by the US that passed as a UN resolution. Israel is the party stalling to continue the genocide and the US is enabling that behavior while continuing to send bombs to Israel

    • Antmz22@lemm.eeEnglish
      103·
      4 months ago

      Hamas already agreed to the cease fire. Hamas is refusing to negotiate the already agreed cease fire proposed by the US.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    344·
    4 months ago

    Israel wants (and has always wanted) lebensraum. The Palestinians will continue to be pressed into smaller and smaller enclaves, with Israel controlling more and more of the infrastructure and humanitarian supplies. It is, and has been, slow-motion genocide.

    • Spunky Monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
      293·
      4 months ago

      It’s almost as they are being concentrated in a camp.

      I’ve the strange felling that it reminds me of something, but I really don’t know what it is… 🤔

      • nonailsleft@lemm.eeEnglish
        96·
        4 months ago

        A funny difference is those camps didn’t have an Egyptian at one gate willing to let you out for $5k

        • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          93·
          4 months ago

          Neighboring Egypt’s borders are mostly closed, too. Only a relatively few Gaza residents have been allowed to enter Egypt through the Rafah crossing, including foreign passport holders, the wounded and their companions, and some who have paid exorbitant sums to flee via Egypt. Not wanting a wave of refugees flooding into his country, especially given the prospect that the Israeli authorities might bar them from returning, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi declared Egypt’s “vehement rejection of the forced displacement of the Palestinians and their transfer to Egyptian lands in Sinai.”

          Through intermittent telephone connections, Human Rights Watch researchers have been talking with Gaza residents as they flee from one grim place to another. A 34-year-old man from Gaza City, married with two children, has been telling us of his ordeal. “What the kids witnessed in the last area, they are in shock, they are terrified. They jump at small sounds now. It was so hard for me to get my family from the last place to here. Most of the areas were closed off by the Israeli army.”

          His family lacks clothing and medicine. Humanitarian aid, so far, has consisted of two bags of flour. They have been sleeping on the ground in a tent in Rafah with 10 others, using a shared outdoor toilet serving about 70-80 people. “We are living an animal life,” he said.

          The question for this man now is survival, and he said the only thing he wants is to take his family and leave Gaza. “Gaza is now a graveyard for all its citizens,” he said: “If given a way or a chance I will take my family and my mother and sisters and I will leave without thinking twice. I don’t want to stay here and turn into an animal and fight with others to get water and food.”