Palestinian Authority would face many challenges in a post-Hamas Gaza Unpopular and incompetent, the West Bank’s leaders have little to offer in a ‘day after’ scenario, despite Antony Blinken’s hopes The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023
Gaza could see return of PA in case of a ‘political solution’, says Abbas Israel seeks to destroy Hamas, raising the question of who would run the Palestinian territory after the war. Al Jazeera · Nov 5, 2023
What happens to Gaza the day after the war ends? A reformed Palestinian Authority or a multinational force have been mooted as solutions for security in the territory, but both proposals have met resistance The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023
Blinken meets Abbas in the West Bank in the latest stop on his diplomat push on the Israel-Hamas war U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has traveled to the occupied West Bank for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the American's latest bid to ease civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2023
Labour will work for a Palestinian state A ceasefire now would embolden Hamas to widen the conflict, says the shadow foreign secretary. But Labour promises real work towards a two-state solution The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2023
Can Marwan Barghouti, the ‘Palestinian Mandela’, bring peace to Gaza? Hamas has said that the group would only release all 240 Israeli hostages held in Gaza if Israel agrees to free all Palestinian prisoners. Among those locked up is Marwan Barghouti, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004 for deadly attacks against Israelis. For many Palestinians, their “Nelson Mandela” is a… France 24 · Nov 4, 2023
‘Arrested, tortured and insulted’, say workers returned to Gaza by Israel A Gaza worker returning to the enclave says he and co-workers were tortured, others report arrests by Israel. Al Jazeera · Nov 3, 2023
Live updates | Israeli troops tighten encirclement of Gaza City as top US diplomat arrives in Israel Israeli troops have tightened their encirclement of Gaza City as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel to press for a humanitarian “pause” in the fighting with Hamas and for more aid to be allowed into besieged Gaza The Independent UK · Nov 3, 2023
The Israel-Palestine conflict is at bend point On the Israel-Palestine issue, the two-State solution alone can bring peace and a one State solution is a no-State non-solution The Hindu · Oct 30, 2023
How this Israel-Hamas conflict is like nothing that’s happened before The long history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is filled with bloodshed, dislocation and trauma. But even by those relative standards, the current conflagration stands out. For one thing, it’s especially brutal. Not since the Holocaust have as many Jews been massacred at one time as were on October 7, when… The Times of India · Oct 30, 2023
Palestinian PM: we will not run Gaza without solution for West Bank Mohammad Shtayyeh calls for a ‘comprehensive, peaceful vision’ and ceasefire in Gaza The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2023
Thousands of Gaza workers go ‘missing’ in Israel amid wartime mass arrests Israel has so far refused to release information about Gaza workers who have disappeared, human rights groups say. Al Jazeera · Oct 28, 2023
Israel’s war on Gaza in 10 explainers The big picture on a rapidly escalating conflict that now threatens to blow up into a regional conflagration. Al Jazeera · Oct 28, 2023
‘It will be slow, very hard’: can Israel achieve its aims in Gaza invasion? Divisions among Israeli leadership and US doubts are complicating what are already ‘fiendishly difficult’ objectives The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2023
Al Jazeera · Oct 27, 2023 As the UN votes on the Israel-Gaza war, Palestine can only observe As a non-member observer, Palestine can speak at UN meetings but can’t vote on resolutions about the situation in Gaza.
The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2023 Palestinian foreign minister promises cooperation with international courts on visit to The Hague The Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister says he fully supports an International Criminal Court investigation into alleged crimes in the Palestinian territories and by Palestinians who target Israelis
France 24 · Oct 26, 2023 'US should pressure Israel to stop war in Gaza,' Abbas spokesman tells FRANCE 24 In an interview with FRANCE 24 on Day 20 of the Israel-Hamas conflict, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on the Biden administration "to pressure Israel to stop this war". Nabil Abu Rudeineh also said that the current conflict was "an opportunity for us, for the Israelis,…
The Conversation · Oct 25, 2023 Israel-Hamas war: six key moments for the Gaza Strip Once again, the Gaza Strip is at the epicentre of violence in the Middle East. This tiny 41km-by-13km band of territory on the Mediterranean, sandwiched between the often hostile neighbours of Israel and Egypt, has faced repeated rounds of violence in recent history – but the current war is the…
France 24 · Oct 25, 2023 ‘The trauma will take years to overcome’: Hamas attack rattles Israeli support for peace The deadly fighting between Israel and Hamas has brought the long-festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict back to the fore, fueling international calls to revive a dormant Mideast peace process. But are pleas for peace still audible amid all the trauma? FRANCE 24 spoke to Israeli peace activists and former government officials about…
The Conversation · Oct 24, 2023 Understanding the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 5 charts Understanding the current war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza requires context and history. These charts aim to show changes in the region that have occurred over time to put some of the events in perspective.
The Conversation · Oct 24, 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict: what young Palestinians think about four key issues that affect their lives On the eighth day of the current intensification of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, I saw a tweet that said that there would be more uproar in the west if “2.2 million golden retrievers [were] being bombed to extinction in an inescapable cage” instead of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
The Independent UK · Oct 24, 2023 Aid truck numbers arriving in Gaza ‘wholly inadequate’, says UK minister MPs have warned further help is needed to prevent a ‘humanitarian catastrophe’.
The Conversation · Oct 23, 2023 Israel-Palestine conflict: How sharing the waters of the Jordan River could be a pathway to peace When the Israeli government cut off supplies of water to the Gaza Strip following Hamas’s brutal attack, it put the role of water within human conflict into particularly sharp relief.
The Hindu · Oct 22, 2023 A massive intelligence failure in Israel The scale and complexity of the attack on October 7 indicated that Hamas had been planning it meticulously for months
France 24 · Oct 22, 2023 Avaaz campaigner: 'Neither Hamas nor Fatah can claim to represent the Palestinian people' Two weeks into the Israel-Hamas war, Fadi Quran, campaigns director for Avaaz, an NGO coordinating activists worldwide, is calling for a ceasefire in the interest of children on both sides.