The Israeli embassy and army invaded Mughraqa, southern Gaza, during the March 11 evacuation of the Gaza Strip as threatened by israel
“They threatened the entire block around us, even the new camp, even the market street — all of it they threatened,” she said. “They dropped leaflets ordering us to leave within three days. So 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. The family have been forced to flee before, including the 10-month-old baby.
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.
“Forced to move again,” the agency said on Thursday. Forced displacement has arisen due to an expulsion order by Israeli authorities of middle Gaza. Over 150,000 people are without places to go, from young children to people with disabilities.
Mr. Hassan said this will be the last time they are displaced. He said that the family lost all of its possessions when it fled.
According to the United Nations, the area now under threat holds six shelters that house 61,000 people who have been displaced from northern Gaza. The original residents of the area are also included.
The Israeli bombardment and the siege of Gaza have decimated large parts of the Palestinian enclave and its infrastructure, leaving millions hungry and exposed to the elements and creating a public health disaster in the making.
Israel has said it is addressing the humanitarian concerns, including those voiced by the United States. A military spokesman, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, said on social media that in an effort to help Gazans understand the evacuation directives, they had published maps divided into grids “in order to preserve your security and safety.”
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 Samir Hassan and his surviving family members fled their home in the town of Mughraqa in the central Gaza Strip weeks ago, they did so under intense Israeli airstrikes, which killed a number of family members, including an uncle, and severely injured his brother.
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“A world where you don’t have global leadership, where the United States is increasingly unwilling to be the promoter of global values, you will get more conflict.”
“The assumption that the U.S. could at least be relied on to have the same policy over several different administrations, that probably belongs to the past,” said Appelbaum.
One reason is that U.S. foreign policy has become much more fickle. Once upon a time, Democrats and Republicans worked together on foreign policy under the notion that “politics end at the water’s edge.”
“What Ukraine really wants is stability and security for its country to prevent another invasion from Russia. Alperovitch said that it’s much more difficult to achieve that in his book, World on the Brink: The United States, China and the Race for the 21st Century.
Ukraine declared independence from Russia shortly after the 1917 Russian Revolution, but didn’t manage to breakaway until the Soviet Union crumbled in 1991.
In the past, I traveled to Gaza dozens of times on my own. Israel’s bombing campaign has made it too dangerous. The military only takes journalists to the territory on brief, chaperoned visits.
The Palestinians should be willing to build hospitals that don’t have a terror maze of tunnels underneath them, and schools thatdon’t have bullets beneath them, rather than Hamas being replaced with them.
They seem to be moving further away from a solution. They fought their first war in 1948. Hamas wants to destroy Israel 75 years later.
Yet this is the fourth Israeli conflict I’ve covered. Israel has never unleashed such a massive bombing campaign in such a densely packed civilian area as it’s doing daily in Gaza — with predictable results — the deaths of thousands of women and children.
At an Israeli military center, I saw a 45-minute video with gruesome scenes of Hamas militants rampaging through southern Israel. Much of the footage is from Hamas militants wearing body cameras, filming themselves as they slaughtered Israeli civilians.
Both wars are happening back and forth. The latest eruption is what we’re seeing. Modern weaponry makes them deadlier, and accumulated hatreds make them harder than ever to resolve.
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The Russia-Ukraine War and the Palestine-Hamas Conflict: Where are we today? Where do we stand in the aftermath of World War II?
“The (Russian) tactics have been to hit civilians, hit sites of industrial production, hit the electricity grid, hit hospitals,” she said. The war in Ukraine has an effect on the system itself.
According to Applebaum, the actions of Russia are part of a broader move by autocratic leaders and extremist groups that reject many of the norms established by Western nations in the aftermath of World War II.
There is evidence relating the deserted Ukrainian towns and villages, the scorched homes, the abducting children and mass graves of communities across the country.
Applebaum said that he believes that the end of a period in history when it was possible to have a discussion about universal values or rules.
Greg Myre, an NPR correspondent, has reported on 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.