More details on Israel rejecting a 2 state solution
Netanyahu rejects "international dictates" on creation of Palestinian state
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed "international dictates" on the creation of a Palestinian state in a social media post.
“Israel outright rejects international dictates regarding a permanent settlement with the Palestinians. Such an arrangement will be reached only through direct negotiations between the parties, without preconditions,” he said in the post on X, formerly Twitter, in the early hours of Friday morning local time (around 6 p.m. ET Thursday).
Netanyahu said that his government would oppose any “unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state,” adding that any such move would constitute a “huge reward to unprecedented terrorism” in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attacks and prevent a future peace agreement. The prime minister’s statement was posted after a phone call with US President Joe Biden on Thursday afternoon.
Last month, Netanyahu also publicly rejected calls for Palestinian sovereignty following talks with Biden about Gaza’s future, suggesting Israel’s security needs would be incompatible with Palestinian statehood.
According to a report by the Washington Post on Wednesday, the Biden administration and Middle East partners are working to formulate a “comprehensive plan” for peace, which would include a “firm timeline” for the establishment of a Palestinian state. But many Israeli politicians, including far-right ministers in the government, have publicly rejected that idea.
The only 'solution' acceptable to Israel is to ethnically cleanse 'their' territory. The Netanyahu government needs to go, will only continue to make things worse for everyone in the region.
And direct the blame to Hamas again for the stall in ceasefire negotiations
Talks on a hostage and ceasefire deal are at an impasse. Here’s what we know
Talks on a hostage and ceasefire deal for Gaza appear to be at an impasse. Israel’s top-level delegation has returned from Cairo, and there has been no word from Hamas on its position in recent days.
Hamas made a detailed proposal this month for a four-and-a-half-month ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed it as “delusional” at the time, but indirect talks in Cairo continued as Israel faced pressure from its allies to negotiate, and Hamas faced the prospect of a major Israeli offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians are sheltering.
It's irrelevant at this point. A ceasefire is essential to implement the stipulations of the ICJ. Plus Israel is never going to agree to any deal with Hamas.
Why is Netanyahu holding out? Netanyahu leads the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, including some that are strongly opposed to any compromise that involves releasing Palestinian prisoners or withdrawing from Gaza.
5 dead after power loss at Nasser Hospital, Hamas-run health ministry says
Five patients have died at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis because of failure in the power generators and the oxygen supply system amid an Israeli military raid on the facility, the Ministry of Health in Hamas-controlled Gaza said on Friday. The ministry accused Israeli forces of forcing male patients to relocate without their belongings to the maternity building, "which has been converted into a military barracks."
The ministry had also said two pregnant women delivered children in the hospital “under extremely challenging and inhumane conditions.” In an earlier statement, the ministry said that six intensive care patients and three in nursery incubators could die "at any moment as a result of the cessation of their oxygen" after electrical generators had stopped. “We hold the Israeli occupation responsible for the lives of patients and staff, considering that the complex is now under its full control,” the ministry said.
Hospital raid: Israeli special forces raided Nasser Hospital, Gaza’s largest functioning medical facility, on Thursday after laying siege to the facility for days. The Israel Defense Forces took control of the complex after saying it had “credible intelligence” that Hamas had held hostages at the hospital, and that the bodies of dead hostages may be on the property. The military did not publicly release evidence to support this.
Spokesperson Daniel Hagari said Israeli forces had not found any hostages at Nasser Hospital so far, but were continuing to scan the facility. The IDF said earlier it was continuing its operation inside the hospital, but claimed it would continue to operate in accordance with international law against Hamas.
No evidence, no results, apart from destroying another hospital complex.
And CNN gladly keeps re-iterating IDF lies. I'm sure it's all over Fox news as well
IDF claims it detained more than 20 suspects from October 7 attack amid Nasser Hospital raid
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they’ve detained over 20 suspects from the October 7 attack, as they continue their raid of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. “IDF special forces are continuing to operate against the Hamas terrorist organization in the Nasser Hospital; the troops located weapons inside the hospital and apprehended dozens of terror suspects,” the Israeli military alleged in a statement on Friday.
The IDF did not provide any additional details on the people detained and the nature of their involvement in the October 7 attack by Hamas.
More on the hospital raid: The Israeli military also said it had found weapons inside the facility, including mortar shells and grenades, releasing a low-resolution photograph of the alleged weapons stash. CNN could not independently verify where and when the photograph had been taken.
“The use of hospitals for terrorist activities, firing mortar shells from civilian areas, and for holding hostages are against the international law,” IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said of the findings, according to the statement. The IDF went on to say their operation inside the hospital was still ongoing. CNN has reached out to the Ministry of Health in Hamas-controlled Gaza for comment on the IDF’s allegations.
84% of health facilities in Gaza affected by attacks, UNRWA says
Palestinians inspect Al Shifa Hospital, which was raided by Israeli forces during its ground operation in Gaza City, on November 25.
Eighty-four percent of health facilities in Gaza have been affected by attacks since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said on Friday. In a post on X, the agency released footage showing the destruction of civilian infrastructure in the territory, including one of its health centers.
UNRWA said that in addition to the damage to health facilities, over 70% of civilian infrastructure had been “destroyed or severely damaged,” On Thursday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs detailed the impact of the war on schools and water infrastructure in the strip.
“Some 392 schools (79 per cent of the total school buildings in Gaza) have sustained damage, including 141 schools that sustained major damage or were destroyed,” according to the update. The agency said that 92% of all school buildings in Gaza were being used as shelters for displaced Palestinians.
The update also noted that only 17% of Gaza’s 284 groundwater wells were operational, with 39 wells destroyed and 93 moderately to severely damaged.
"We’re all going to be wiped out," displaced Palestinian woman in Rafah tells CNN
A view of the heavily damaged Al-Huda Mosque after Israeli attacks on Rafah on February 14.
Displaced Palestinian woman Daiana Al-Bukhari told CNN’s Michael Holmes on Friday that people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah were living in dire conditions and she feared they were "all going to be wiped out." Rafah is the last major population center in Gaza that is not controlled by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The city is now the enclave's most populated, with more than a million people sheltering in tents and UN facilities facing severe shortages of essentials.
“The first thing I do, I think [whether] I'll get water today or not … Then I think about food. Will we eat food today or not,” Al-Bukhari said, adding she typically has to queue “for hours” to get bread, a shower, or even to use the toilet.
Al-Bukhari told Holmes she feared for the future of Palestinians in Rafah. “I think we’re all going to be wiped out. Can you imagine 1.5 million refugees in such a small area like Rafah? ... I don't know what's gonna happen. I hope [this] does not happen," 22-year-old Al-Bukhari said. Al-Bukhari’s regular updates on life in Gaza have attracted a large following on social media, including over 70,000 followers on Instagram.
When asked what she would like to tell people across the world, she said to “trust the stories and evidence of Palestinians in Gaza.”
“It’s beyond the politics right now. Palestinians are being murdered. Palestine is being demolished.”
An Israeli airstrike on Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza has killed at least 12 people (2 elderly men, 10 women and children) according to a spokesperson for Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
