#gaza

#gaza

With Washington's stance on Ukraine shifting, debates in Kyiv over Gaza continue to gain momentum. Kyiv, Ukraine At the start of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced support for Israel, while First Lady Olena Zelenska said Ukrainians understand and share the pain of the Israeli people. Billboards across Kyiv lit up the capital with Israeli flags.

United States plans for Gaza amount to a theme park of dispossession for Palestinians, argues Drop Site News Middle East Editor Sharif Abdel Kouddous. Abdel Kouddous tells host Steve Clemons the draconian measures planned for the two million shell-shocked Palestinians in Gaza are an Orwellian labyrinth of biometrics, bureaucracy and a lab for government surveillance all meant to drive them out.

But in the United States, Israel's top ally, then-President Joe Biden cast doubt over the suffering and death count of Palestinians, as provided by the Ministry of Health in Gaza, to push back against calls for ending the brutal Israeli assault. list of 3 itemsend of list What they say to me is I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I'm sure innocents have been killed, and it's the price of waging a war, Biden said in October 2023.

Palestinians still waiting for the Red Cross to turn over the bodies either in Khan Younis or Gaza City. Israel has handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinians to the International Committee of the Red Cross in exchange for the final Israeli captive, whose remains were recovered by Israeli forces earlier this week, closing the chapter on this part of its more than two-year genocidal war on Gaza.

But her dreams of motherhood have been dashed by Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, which ravaged the enclave's healthcare system that saves lives, as well as the fertility centres that plan them. After years of trying, al-Kafarna and her husband turned to in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). Their embryos were frozen in a fertility centre, waiting for the war to end, but the clinic was attacked by Israel.

One was on October 19, when Israeli forces bombed a café - a space to breathe away from scenes of destruction, a place to work or study with a reliable internet connection, a meeting point for displaced friends, a brief chance to enjoy the moment. I could have been there. I was juggling my studies ahead of a musculoskeletal exam for medical school, planning to go to the café for a stable internet connection. But something held me back. I stayed home.

A huge military operation to recover a single Israeli body exposes a grim moral paradox: Precise forensics for the occupier, and mass graves and lost identity for the occupied and bombarded. To retrieve one body, the Israeli military mobilised a fleet of tanks, drones, and what locals described as explosive robots. They turned a neighbourhood into a kill zone, dug up approximately 200 Palestinian graves, and left four civilians dead in their wake.

Just metres from yellow-painted concrete blocks marking the Israeli army's latest redeployment line in eastern Gaza City, Zaid Mohammed, a displaced Palestinian father of four, shelters with his family in a small tent. The so-called yellow line is the demarcation line where the Israeli army withdrew to under the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire that came into effect in October.

Hamas says it has handed over the location of the remains of the last captive in Gaza, Israeli soldier Ran Gvili, as the second stage of the ceasefire begins in the war-ravaged enclave. In a statement on Sunday, a spokesman for Hamas's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said the group handed over the location of Gvili's remains with absolute transparency, and that it fulfilled all our obligations in accordance with the ceasefire agreement.

Israel has spent more than two years attacking Gaza in its genocidal war on the Palestinian enclave. It has destroyed the majority of its housing and infrastructure, and killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, leaving the rest of Gaza's population facing a harsh winter with inadequate food, medicine, and shelter. And yet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for whom the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for war crimes committed in Gaza this week joined US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace,

The US launches a Board of Peace for Gaza, but Palestinians have no seat at the table. A billion dollars buys a seat at the table shaping Gaza's future, and Palestinians aren't invited. As the US moves into phase two of a ceasefire, a so-called Board of Peace promises reconstruction while conditions in Gaza remain unchanged and control stays firmly in outsiders' hands.

CAIRO Israeli forces on Wednesday killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including two 13-year-old boys, three journalists and a woman, hospitals said, on one of the war-battered enclave 's deadliest days since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October. The United States is trying to push the deal forward and implement its challenging second phase. Among the dead were three Palestinian journalists who were killed while filming near a displacement camp in central Gaza, a camp official said.

Donald Trump promised to bring peace to Gaza. And part of that promise was the creation of a board of peace. For months it was unclear who would be on it, but now we know: Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside billionaire businessmen and Tony Blair. Apart from how Putin and Netanyahu who have been accused of war crimes can bring peace, there are other questions.

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The Kremlin says it is seeking to clarify all the nuances of the offer from Washington. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to join United States President Donald Trump's board of peace, purportedly aimed at resolving global conflicts as well as overseeing governance and reconstruction in Gaza. The invitation, which emerged on Monday, was extended as Russia's nearly four-year war on Ukraine continues and a peace deal there remains elusive.

Gaza City, al-Mawasi, Bureij refugee camp and Rafah all come under Israeli air attacks and gunfire. Israeli forces have wounded several Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, firing on civilians and launching air and artillery attacks in the latest near-daily violations of the ceasefire in place since October, as its genocidal war on the besieged enclave continues unabated. Medical sources told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that Israeli drone fire on Sunday injured civilians in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in southern Gaza City.

Sitting in his Gaza City tent, Mahmoud Abdel Aal expresses his frustration and worries, as conditions in the Palestinian enclave remain unchanged since the implementation of a United States-brokered ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. There is no difference between the war and the ceasefire, nor between the first and second phase of the deal: Strikes continue every day, Abdel Aal told the AFP news agency. Everyone is worried and frustrated because nothing's changed.

Israeli attacks have killed at least three Palestinians in Gaza in the latest violations of its tenuous ceasefire with Hamas, a day after the United States announced the start of the second phase of President Donald Trump's plan to end Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinian people in the besieged territory. A 10-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy and an elderly woman were killed in Israeli attacks on Friday,

It was a small extract, but this young girl was begging for life,