Pattern seen in large-scale Israeli attacks that ‘derail’ ceasefire negotiations
The only thing that can really calm tensions in the region, according to the United States, is a ceasefire deal in Gaza. But every time we get closer to any sort of negotiations for a ceasefire, there is some sort of large-scale Israeli attack that completely derails these discussions.
A couple of months ago, our reporting had cited this when there was some movement in the talks and Hamas had released a statement saying that continued Israeli aggression all over the Gaza Strip was something that needs to stop, if they were going to take these talks seriously.
But Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of being the one who is not coming to the table and offering up concessions.
‘No coping mechanism’ for horror in Gaza
It’s hard to talk about coping in these difficult conditions.
I don’t know what words are available in the English language to describe the level of horror that people have to deal with, have to endure, every single day of their lives.
We have seen some of the events and some of the scenes are heartbreaking, horrifying, and it’s hard to imagine that people are actually coping. There is no coping mechanism here.
What’s going on here is people are forced to accept and acquiesce with these conditions. To accept them as part of their life. It’s a form of punishment of the people because of what happened. And that’s what the Israeli military keeps talking about – punishing the entire population of Gaza for October 7.
Civilians are dying in record numbers. More women, more children.
Israeli military attacks on schools in Gaza
The Israeli military’s attack at dawn in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood, which has killed more than 100 people so far, is just its latest assault to target a school in the Palestinian enclave in recent days.
Medics were ‘horrified’: Red Crescent on school strike
Palestine Red Crescent spokeswoman Nebal Farsakh has said that the paramedics in Gaza were “shocked” and “horrified” by the scenes at al-Tabin school.
Speaking from Ramallah, she told Al Jazeera that there were so many bodies that the medics had difficulty organising how to begin triage and helping the wounded.
“They had to walk between the bodies and pieces of victims to try and locate injuries and to try and find survivors,” she said. “Then they had to take these survivors to hospitals that are already overcapacity, where doctors and nurses are exhausted, and there is not enough medicines or medical supplies to treat this number of injuries.”
