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SvennoJ on 14 August 2024
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Gaza needs a ceasefire now: UNRWA

The United Nations agency providing relief to Palestinians has said that despite many hurdles, it continues to offer support to people in Gaza.

“With the help of partners, our colleagues distributed food & supplies to families sheltering in a school that was recently hit,” said a post on X from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

“Schools, shelters and people living in them face immense danger daily. Gaza needs a ceasefire now.”


Netanyahu will lose more than Sinwar if there is a Gaza ceasefire: Professor

Menachem Klein, professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University, says the Israeli army is trying to solve the “problem” of having a high number of wounded soldiers by drafting the ultra-Orthodox.

“Not only the military soldiers fighting in Gaza face a problem, but the whole society is exhausted and suffers from post-trauma,” he told Al Jazeera from West Jerusalem. “This explains much of the Israeli public disregard about the heavy casualties the Israeli military inflicted and the war crimes it implemented in the Gaza Strip.”

Klein said the Gaza ceasefire talks not only represent an issue of negotiations between Israel, Hamas and mediators, but a power struggle within Israel.

“My reading is that at this point, the person that faces more losses than Sinwar by agreeing to ceasefire is Netanyahu,” he said about the Hamas and Israeli leaders.

“If Netanyahu makes a deal, he will be domestically seen as surrendering to pressure from Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and the General Staff of the army. I’m afraid he’s ready to take a gamble and face the risk of Hezbollah and Iran’s retaliation.”

 
Netanyahu approves departure of delegation to Doha

Israel’s prime minister has approved the departure of the Israeli delegation to Doha “as well as the mandate for conducting the negotiations”, his office says.

Ceasefire talks are set to take place in Qatar’s capital on Thursday involving delegations from Israel, Qatar, the US and Egypt, an official briefed on the talks told Reuters.