... escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict following a massive Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023. After Palestinian militants killed some 1,200 Israeli civilians and took 253 others as hostages, Israel launched Operation Iron Swords in the Gaza Strip. The operation has proven to be more complex, costly and time-consuming than many predicted at its commencement. Timid hopes that everything could be completed before the onset of the holy month of Ramadan (that is, before March 11, 2024) crashed ...
... and blockade of Palestine by Israel,
mentioned
by UN Secretary General A. Guterres in October 2023. Yet they are all united in extremely negative
assessments
of the humanitarian consequences of the Iron Swords operation by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. The final document of the LAS and OIC summit in Riyadh on November 11, 2023, attended by 57 heads of state, had the most pacifist tone possible, but it clearly condemned Israel’s war crimes campaign and
demanded
“an immediate ceasefire ...
... actions of the Palestinian side, which caused a response that far surpassed the Israeli reprisals in previous years, but in their view, they are generally understandable. Now, the goal is to eradicate Hamas’ military and political presence in the Gaza Strip as a direct threat to Israel’s security and existence. Palestinians, Arab states and the majority in the Global South, for all nuances in their approaches, see the root cause in the waning international attention to the Palestinian problem,...
... on the cusp of the first Middle East war, the number of refugees amounted to hundreds of thousands. But in the year 2023, the number of people plighted amounted to more than 13 million, including more than 5 million people living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip while another 8 million live as refugees in the neighboring countries. With more territories annexed, it could be even more difficult for Palestinians to get back their legal territories.
The flowing of time does not necessarily solve the problem ...
... states has been directed against the Muslim Brotherhood (banned in Russia), with which Hamas originally associated itself. This helps Israel pursue its strategy, which at this stage appears to be aimed at defeating HAMAS in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and depopulating the area. The next stage will be for Israel to push the Palestinians out of the southern part of Gaza, leading to the full annexation of the Gaza Strip. Israel will then gradually settle its own citizens into the newly occupied ...
