Israel/Palestine Thread

They wouldn't have a choice in the matter, unless they wanted to attack UN Peacekeepers and make their situation worse.

Let me remind you that Gaza is not Israeli land.

They are not on the Russian's payroll maybe??

According to President Higgins:

"I am personally in favor of the secretary-general of the UN using Chapter Seven procedure, by which, whether or not the Security Council agrees, and even if there's a blockage, the right exists for the secretary-general to seek to put together an international defense of a corridor," 

Therefore, and if accurate, a US veto would be meaningless.

Stop digging. You're not doing yourself any favours.

Pro-Israelis don't do facts - its very confusing for them. Just like the IDF and the Israeli Govt. Hasbara is all they have.

Seems Israel has gotten very comfortable with committing Genocide and just does not want to stop. And it couldn't care less about the hostages - but then it hasn't for over a year now. Proof? the deal on the table is one that Israel already agreed to some time back before then promptly pulled the plug on it.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Qatari counterpart, Mohammed al-Thani, said in a statement that mediation efforts were "encountering resistance and delay from Israel regarding the cease-fire proposal," adding that "the Palestinian displacement project will not happen under any pretext." Al-Thani also called on the international community to "press Israel to stop the war."

"It's too early to say whether Netanyahu will now act resolutely to reach a deal or once again drag his feet, preferring to expand the war and prevent any shakeups of his government.

But some in the government think he hasn't yet slammed the door on any chance of moving forward with a partial deal in some form. As evidence, they note that he has yet to ask the ministers to vote against a partial deal, and has thereby avoided torpedoing the understandings the mediators have reached to date.

Moreover, he has refrained from doing so even though he has said publicly that the proposal for a partial deal, which he supported until recently, is no longer relevant despite Hamas' positive response to it"

Jonathan Lis

Pope Leo is now sticking the boot into Israel and 500 UN staff call for Israel's campaign to be described as the Gaza Genocide.

• Over 500 UN staff members at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk have asked him to explicitly describe the Gaza war as an unfolding genocide, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
  
• Pope Leo XIV called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and demanded that Israel stop the "collective punishment" and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.

Remember all the posts here on the excruciating pains the IDF went to minimise civilian casualties? And when challenged they defended it to the hilt? I do.

"The IDF issued a warning on Wednesday to residents of Gaza City on the social media platform X ahead of Israel's planned operation to take control of the city… issuing a map showing 19 zones outlined in blue to which people in Gaza City are to go, in the vicinity of the refugee camps in the central Strip, and in the Muwasi area of dunes in the south.

But a closer inspection of the map, with the help of two mapping specialists, Adi Ben-Nun of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Prof. Yaakov Garb from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, shows that several of these areas have been designated by the IDF as places where civilians would be in danger"

Nir Hasson

Settlers gonna settle

Israeli settlers installed four prefab mobile homes next to the Palestinian village of Umm al-Kheir, where an Israeli settler shot and killed Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen last month. According to the master plan of the area, the site is considered part of the nearby settlement of Carmel, but it lies beyond the settlement's perimeter fence and is not near the settlement's other homes.