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SvennoJ on 18 January 2024
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Another round of "We break it, you fix it" (on our terms)

Israel's President Isaac Herzog outlines vision for region after Gaza war

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog Thursday outlined a broad vision for the region after the Gaza war, including rebuilding the enclave, a dialogue between Israel and Palestinians, and normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

“We should see on the horizon a coalition of nations who are willing to commit to rebuilding Gaza in a way that, number one, enables the safety and well-being of Israel. Number two, enables the safety and well-being of the Palestinians and brings a future - a different future - to Gaza,” he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

He also said he believed normalization with Saudi Arabia was key to exiting the war into a new geopolitical environment. “It’s delicate, it’s fragile, it will take a long time, but I think it will provide the opportunity to move forward in the region towards a better future,” Herzog said. “It is a game-changer.”



These stories would be more believable if the timing wasn't so suspicious. But it's likely just CNN that thinks now is a good time with Nassar in the news.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/middleeast/freed-israeli-hostage-says-held-in-gaza-hospital-intl/index.html

Freed Israeli hostage says she was held in Gaza hospital with dozens of others

From CNN's Tara John and Jennifer Griffiths

It has been more than 50 days since Hamas militants released Sharon Aloni Cunio and her twin 3-year-old daughters, but she remains haunted by her time as a hostage — most of which she says was spent in a Gaza hospital — and longs for her husband who remains captive in the Palestinian enclave.

“I’m both mother and a father right now,” she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday. Though when her children are out of sight, she watches videos and listens to voicemails of her husband, David Cunio, “to feel connected to him — but I’m pretty much depressed.”

She told Cooper that while her family had become separated in the chaos of the attacks, the four of them had been reunited in captivity when militants hid them alongside dozens of other hostages being held at Nasser hospital in southern Gaza.

In an account that potentially backs up US and Israeli assessments that hospitals were used to shelter hostages, Aloni Cunio said there were three rooms at Nasser hospital each holding between 10 and 12 captives and that they were tended to by a male nurse every other day.


The IDF was about to storm Nassar Hospital, retreats for some reason and now CNN launches a story that hostages were inside Nassar Hospital. (50+ days ago) Does that mean the IDF is going to go back to the hospital.

Is the story confirmed by the other hostages she was with:

Aloni Cunio said there were three rooms at Nasser hospital each holding between 10 and 12 captives and that they were tended to by a male nurse every other day. “He knew who we are, he went along with it,” she said.

CNN cannot independently verify Aloni Cunio’s account.

Does CNN ever try...

every report of a hostage death in captivity makes her only more determined to secure the release of David and the other 104 hostages Israel believes to still be in alive in Gaza. “Everything needs to be done in order to make a deal and bring them home,” she said, adding that she wants David to know that she is fighting for him.

Hopefully Israel will cease hostilities and make a deal soon before more hostages die.


Death toll in Gaza Strip rises to 24,620

The Palestinian Ministry of Health says that the number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has increased to at least 24,620 with 61,830 wounded. “The Israeli occupation committed 15 massacres, killing 172 and wounding 326 during the past 24 hours,” the ministry said.

Recent updates

  • Israeli bombing on Gaza City kills Wael Fanouneh, news director of al-Quds TV.
  • Hepatitis C is spreading among children, adults and the elderly for the first time in overcrowded Rafah, according to doctors.
  • Meanwhile, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees says the southern city’s pre-war population of 300,000 has now jumped to about 1.2 million as displaced Palestinians seek shelter in overcrowded camps and tents.
  • The Israeli army bombards Meiss el-Jabal, a town in southern Lebanon, with internationally banned white phosphorus shells, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
  • More than 300 Palestinian sports clubs and dozens of major Palestinian civil society organisations are calling for a ban on Israel from the Olympic Games in Paris this year.


Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, outside a morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza

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‘Worst nightmare’: Giving birth in Gaza

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/1/17/trauma-replaces-joy-for-mother-giving-birth-during-israels-war-on-gaza

Natalia Kanem, executive director of the UN Population Fund, has told Al Jazeera in Davos that women are often giving birth in the streets of Gaza with no proper medical attention amid the Israeli bombardment. “My representative in Palestine has told us this is the worst nightmare that he’s ever experienced. The situation where we have over 180 women struggling to deliver and give birth each and every day with the health system collapsing,” she said.

Kanem said that there were “only a couple of places left where you can do an emergency Cesarean section”. “How are we to provide for women during labor and childbirth under circumstances where humanitarian aid is not coming into Gaza?” she asked.

Birzeit University condemns bombing of Israa University in Gaza

Birzeit University, one of the top universities in the occupied West Bank, has condemned the Israeli blowing up of Israa University in Gaza. Israa is the latest higher education institution to be completely destroyed by Israel during its war on the Palestinian territory.

Birzeit University also accused Israel of stealing more than 3,000 rare artefacts from the national museum on Israa’s campus. In a post on X, it also said it reaffirmed “the fact that this crime is part of the Israeli occupation’s onslaught against the Palestinians”. “It’s all a part of the Israeli occupation’s goal to make Gaza uninhabitable; a continuation of the genocide being carried out in Gaza Strip,” it added.