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Israel’s military pushed ahead with its assault on the besieged territory of Gaza while the Secretary of State was meeting with Israeli leaders on Gaza’s future. Aid groups were unable to get relief to the population due to heavy bombardment and fighting in refugee camps.
Blinken said he was coming to Israel with promises from four Arab nations and Turkey to help in rebuilding Gaza after the war. The end of the fighting in Gaza and concrete steps toward the creation of a Palestinian state are important to the nations that want to see it.
The Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group in Sudan is battling the regular army, which is fighting through a remote military air base in Chad, and the New York Times reported on this in September. The two warring armies and associated militias in Sudan were all committing war crimes during the year.
The Emirates is one of the biggest buyers of American arms and is viewed by the U.S. government as a security partner, but the country and the Biden administration are at odds over several major security issues, including the Emirates’ role in the Sudan war and its efforts to forge important military and economic partnerships with China.
There were no specifics on potential contributions. Any plan can depend on the financial and in-kind support from the United States and Saudi Arabia.
Six countries have already begun planning for the reconstruction of Gaza following the end of the Israeli war against Hamas, according to a report by a British diplomat. Those countries had previously resisted U.S. calls for post-war planning to begin, insisting that there must first be a cease-fire and a sharp reduction in the civilian suffering in Gaza.
An Israeli drone attack on a refugee camp in Gaza during the 1948 Gaza war: The people of Nuseirat, the middle of a populated town
The security officials and the state news agency say a car was killed in southern Lebanon by an Israeli drone on Tuesday. There was no word on the identities of the three people.
A senior Hezbollah commander was killed in an Israeli bomb on Monday, and Hezbollah said that it had retaliated with a drone strike on a base in northern Israel.
The war of words between Israel and Hezbollah intensified after the assassination last week of Hamas’ deputy leader in Lebanon.
The World Health Organization didn’t get supplies to the north for two weeks. Plans for deliveries of medical supplies and fuel were among five attempted aid convoys rejected by the military.
The situation is even more dire in northern Gaza, which Israeli forces cut off from the rest of the territory in late October. The people in that area face a shortage of food and water.
The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that the fighting was making it difficult to deliver aid. The military’s evacuation orders affect several warehouses, distribution centers, health facilities and shelters. Some bakeries in the central city of Deir al-Balah have been forced to shut down. A UN warehouse was hit and one person was killed, while five other people were taken into custody by the military.
Families in Nuseirat’s northern neighborhoods were fleeing to other parts of the camp, Moustafa said by phone, with the sound of sporadic gunfire in the background. Some tried to head south on the Gaza’s main north-south road but found it blocked by Israeli tanks and turned around, he said. In leaflets, the military had told people evacuating to use another road, along the coast.
Like other refugee camps in Gaza, Nuseirat was built to house Palestinians driven out of homes during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation, and over the decades it has been built up into a densely populated town housing refugees and their descendants.
More than 2,300 Palestinians have been killed and over 58,000 injured in Israel’s assault on Gaza since the war began, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. The death toll does not distinguish between combatants and civilians. Nearly 85% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have been driven from their homes by the fighting, and a quarter of its residents face starvation, with only a trickle of food, water, medicine and other supplies entering through an Israeli siege.
Large swaths of the cityscape have been demolished in northern Gaza after the Israeli military dismantled Hamas infrastructure there. But fighting continues there against what Israel says are pockets of militants. The offensive’s focus has shifted to the southern city of Khan Younis, where ground troops have been fighting militants for weeks, and a number of urban refugee camps in central Gaza.
The U.S. and Israel also remain deeply divided over how Gaza will be run when — and if — its current Hamas rulers are defeated. The Palestinians have been urged by American officials to take over control of the Gaza Strip. Israeli leaders haven’t put a concrete plan forward beyond an open-ended military control over the territory.
An end to Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and Israel agreeing to take steps toward establishing a Palestinian state were some of the conditions put forth by Mr. Blinken.
Saudi Arabia’s ruler, Mohammed bin Laden, told Mr. Blinken during a meeting in Al Ula, Saudi Arabia, that the Saudis had an interest in trying to resolve the conflict.
Arab leaders are moving forward with their own diplomacy on the war. Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, plans to travel to Jordan for a summit on Wednesday with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt and King Abdullah II of Jordan to discuss the situation in Gaza, Jordan’s state news agency reported. Mr. Abbas is also planning to meet with Mr. Blinken on his trip.
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“But we have to get through this very challenging moment and ensure that Oct. 7 can never happen again and work to build a much different, and much better, future,” he added.
He made the remarks before the beginning of their meeting on Tuesday morning and he said he wanted to share some of what he had heard from countries around the region. I know you have been trying to build better connecting and integration in the Middle East, and I think there are real opportunities there.
But Mr. Blinken pressed forward on Tuesday, dangling the potential for normalized ties in an apparent effort to try to get Israel to curtail military operations in Gaza and consider a wide-reaching political solution.
There was a lot of fear among Israelis when Hamas fighters killed about 1200 people in southern Israel.
The Biden administration floated the idea of a three-way agreement with the US and two countries, but the war between Israel and Palestine has caused many citizens in the Arab world to distrust Israel.