Posted on Oct 15, 2023
Newsday - What are the diplomatic options to stop the Israel-Gaza war? - BBC Sounds
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More than 2,000 lives are estimated to have been lost since Saturday when war broke out between Israel and Hamas militants.
Israeli soldiers have retaken territory up to the boundary with Gaza but Hamas has continued firing rockets into Israel, targeting the coastal city of Ashkelon.
Meanwhile, waves of strikes by the Israeli military continue over Gaza - with two high-ranking Hamas officials now reported dead. In response, Hamas have threatened to execute civilians its fighters took hostage in Israel.
Newsday spoke to human rights lawyer Zaha Hassan – the senior legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team during their bid for UN membership in 2011 – about the possibility of a diplomatic solution to end the violence.
"The underlying political issues need to be addressed. It's going to take the international community coming together to solve this issue once and for all. Israel controls everything between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River... We need to think about equal rights and equal treatment for all who live in that small sliver of land," she says.
Israeli soldiers have retaken territory up to the boundary with Gaza but Hamas has continued firing rockets into Israel, targeting the coastal city of Ashkelon.
Meanwhile, waves of strikes by the Israeli military continue over Gaza - with two high-ranking Hamas officials now reported dead. In response, Hamas have threatened to execute civilians its fighters took hostage in Israel.
Newsday spoke to human rights lawyer Zaha Hassan – the senior legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team during their bid for UN membership in 2011 – about the possibility of a diplomatic solution to end the violence.
"The underlying political issues need to be addressed. It's going to take the international community coming together to solve this issue once and for all. Israel controls everything between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River... We need to think about equal rights and equal treatment for all who live in that small sliver of land," she says.
Newsday - What are the diplomatic options to stop the Israel-Gaza war? - BBC Sounds
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Any diplomatic resolution kinda walked out the door with the attack on Israel.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"WASHINGTON — As Israel presses ahead with what it promises will be a “crushing” assault on the Gaza Strip, the Biden administration has carefully avoided making public calls for restraint or a halt to hostilities.
Horrified by the brutal, deadly offensive that Hamas militants launched Saturday against Israelis, President Biden has been forceful and unrelenting in condemning the Gaza-based group and in supporting Israel, acknowledging the traumatized nation’s outrage and desire for revenge.
In most of the long string of clashes between Israel and Palestinian or other Arab groups over recent decades, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the U.S. has urged de-escalation and a return to calm.
But as Israel ordered 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza City to evacuate their homes and seek safety in the southern Gaza Strip ahead of the anticipated Israeli land incursion, U.S. officials cited the importance of international law but did not cast doubt on Israel’s plans. Some human rights organizations say the forced evacuation of noncombatants under siege could constitute a war crime.
“No country can tolerate having a terrorist group come in, slaughter its people in the most unconscionable ways and live like that,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Friday at a news conference in the Qatari capital of Doha. “What Israel is doing is not retaliation, it is defending the lives of its people.”...
"WASHINGTON — As Israel presses ahead with what it promises will be a “crushing” assault on the Gaza Strip, the Biden administration has carefully avoided making public calls for restraint or a halt to hostilities.
Horrified by the brutal, deadly offensive that Hamas militants launched Saturday against Israelis, President Biden has been forceful and unrelenting in condemning the Gaza-based group and in supporting Israel, acknowledging the traumatized nation’s outrage and desire for revenge.
In most of the long string of clashes between Israel and Palestinian or other Arab groups over recent decades, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the U.S. has urged de-escalation and a return to calm.
But as Israel ordered 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza City to evacuate their homes and seek safety in the southern Gaza Strip ahead of the anticipated Israeli land incursion, U.S. officials cited the importance of international law but did not cast doubt on Israel’s plans. Some human rights organizations say the forced evacuation of noncombatants under siege could constitute a war crime.
“No country can tolerate having a terrorist group come in, slaughter its people in the most unconscionable ways and live like that,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Friday at a news conference in the Qatari capital of Doha. “What Israel is doing is not retaliation, it is defending the lives of its people.”...
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