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SvennoJ 18 hours ago

Main events from January 13th

  • Medical sources told Al Jazeera that Israeli attacks killed at least 45 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip throughout Monday, with many of the attacks focused on Gaza City and northern parts of the territory.
  • Hamas said Gaza ceasefire talks are progressing well, according to a statement issued by the group after a meeting with Qatar’s emir, while the United States indicated that a ceasefire agreement is “on the brink” of being reached.
  • The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reports that another Palestinian detainee has died in Israeli detention.
  • A Palestinian teenager was shot and wounded when Israeli forces stormed the town of Saiir near Hebron, the Wafa news agency reports.
  • Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) said the Israeli military has confirmed that Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, is being held in Ofer prison, a notorious Israeli military detention centre in the occupied West Bank.
  • Lebanon’s Civil Defence said the bodies of 10 victims of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have been recovered.
  • The Hind Rajab Foundation has called on Italy to arrest Israeli Major General Ghassan Alian, who heads the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) office and who it said is currently in Rome.

Hind Rajab Foundation calls on Italy to arrest head of Israel’s COGAT

The Belgium-based advocacy organisation Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has called for the immediate arrest of Israeli Major General Ghassan Alian, who the organisation says is currently in Rome.

HRF said in a statement posted on X that it had filed cases with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and informed Italian authorities about Alian, who heads the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) office.

“Alian oversaw the total blockade of Gaza, weaponizing famine and targeting civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, in acts amounting to genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity,” it said in a statement.

“Alian’s public dehumanization of Palestinians as ‘human animals’ reflects his intent behind these policies.”

Formed just five months ago, HRF has pulled together lawyers and activists from around the world to prepare legal cases, primarily based on social media content shared by Israeli soldiers.

The organisation said Italy was “obliged to act swiftly” given that the ICC had already issued arrest warrants for similar crimes against Israeli officials.



Kamal Adwan’s Hussam Abu Safia held in Ofer Prison, rights group says

An Israeli rights group says Hussam Abu Safia, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital who was detained by Israeli forces during their raid on the facility in Beit Lahiya last month, is being held in a notorious Israeli military prison in the occupied West Bank.

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI), said the Israeli military confirmed in an email that Abu Safia was at Ofer Prison. A lawyer for Abu Safia’s family was told that he would not be allowed to see him until January 29, said a spokesman for PHRI, Ran Yaron, according to The Associated Press.

Colleagues and family have expressed fears over the safety of Abu Safia after troops forced him into a military tank upon his detention. Former detainees have reported harsh conditions at Ofer Prison, including beatings, minimal food rations and refusals of medical care.

Colleagues say the 51-year-old Abu Safia kept Kamal Adwan Hospital operating even as Israeli troops besieged it for about 85 days, starting in October. He became known for his frequent videos, pleading for international help as Israeli fire hit the hospital multiple times during the siege.



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SvennoJ 17 hours ago

ICC chief prosecutor wants Israeli objections over Netanyahu arrest warrant to be rejected

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan has told judges that Israeli objections to the investigation into the war on Gaza should be rejected.

Khan’s formal response was to an appeal by Israel over the court’s jurisdiction after judges issued arrest warrants last year for Netanyahu, his former defence minister and Hamas’s military chief, accusing them of crimes against humanity.

Netanyahu called the arrest warrant “a black day in the history of nations ” and pledged to fight the allegations. Individuals cannot contest an arrest warrant directly, but the state of Israel can object to the entire investigation.

Israel argued in a December filing that it could look into allegations against its leaders on its own and that continuing to investigate Israelis was a violation of state sovereignty.

In his combined 55-page response, Khan said the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC, allowed it to prosecute crimes that take place in the territory of member states, regardless of where the perpetrators hail from. Israel is not a signatory to the Rome Statute.

The judges are expected to render a decision in the coming months.


‘Secretary of genocide’: Gaza protester interrupts Blinken

As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was laying out the Biden administration’s perceived achievements in the Middle East, a protester disrupted his speech at the Atlantic Council think tank.

“You will forever be known as ‘secretary of genocide’; you have the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people on your hands,” the protester shouted.

Blinken has defied rights groups by certifying that Israel is not blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza. His department has approved billions of dollars in military aid to Israel to fund the Gaza offensive, which UN experts have described as a genocide.

Blinken suggests October 7 attack aimed to derail Israel-Saudi Arabia deal

The top US diplomat says he was scheduled to travel to the Middle East days in October 2023 to close the “remaining gaps” in an agreement that would establish formal relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. But then Hamas’s October 7 attack happened.

“The timing of Hamas attack was no accident,” Blinken said.

“Israel’s growing integration in the region, the prospect of normalisation with Saudi Arabia, posed an existential threat to Hamas’s power, its ambitions to dominate the Palestinian political landscape, its raison d’etre – which is the rejection of two states and the destruction of Israel.”

Netanyahu, whose government receives billions of dollars in US aid and diplomatic support from Washington, has repeatedly rejected the two-state solution, pledging to never allow the establishment of a Palestinian state.


He's right the Abraham accords played a major role, wrong about Hamas not wanting a 2-state solution. The Abraham accords side-lined the two state solution.

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SvennoJ 17 hours ago

Gaza ceasefire to be divided into three stages: Israeli media

Israel’s Channel 12 is reporting that the proposed Gaza ceasefire that appears about to be finalised would be divided into three stages:

  • Israel would release 50 Palestinian prisoners, 30 of them serving life sentences, in exchange for each Israeli female soldier. It would also release 30 Palestinian prisoners from certain categories including minors, the sick and women in exchange for civilians held captive in Gaza. Israel would also withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor, a narrow band of land between Gaza and Egypt, at the end of the first phase of the deal.
  • The second stage, to begin on the 16th day of the agreement, would require further negotiations focusing on the release of all civilians and remaining soldiers.
  • The third stage would address long-term arrangements, including discussions on establishing an alternative government in the Strip and plans to rehabilitate the enclave.

The news outlet also reported that Israel agreed to return one million Palestinian refugees to the northern Gaza Strip with security checks to be carried out by an international body.

Sullivan noted that Biden laid out a framework for a deal in June, one that was endorsed by the UN Security Council, and it remains “the operative framework for a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza”.

“It is the deal that the parties right now are working off of to try to close,” he said.

The framework includes the release of Palestinian prisoners and Israeli captives as well as “a surge of humanitarian assistance”, Sullivan said.

“Since June, we’ve had multiple efforts to close the deal. We’ve come close and haven’t been able to get across the line. There have been some details, particularly around the formulas with respect to prisoner releases, formulas around the exact distance of Israeli forces,” he said.

“Those details we have been hammering away at week after week, month after month, and now in the last period, just over the course the last several weeks, accelerated that effort to try to bring this to a close.”


Israel killed more than 10,000 Palestinians since Biden’s initial ceasefire proposal

On May 31, 2024, US President Joe Biden announced the framework of a ceasefire deal in Gaza, saying at the time that Israel had agreed to a “comprehensive” proposal.

This framework is reported to still be largely on the table during current ceasefire negotiations, which appear to be on the brink of success.

At the time, the death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza in this war stood at about 36,500 people. As of today, 46,583 Palestinians have been killed, meaning that more than 10,000 people have been added to the toll since Biden announced the plan for a ceasefire.



SvennoJ 17 hours ago

‘Broad’ support in Israel for Gaza ceasefire: US ambassador to Israel

US ambassador to Israel Jack Lew is the latest high-level official to express optimism about a possible ceasefire deal.

Speaking to Israel’s Army Radio, Lew said that there is “broad support” in Israel for a deal and that Netanyahu, despite some resistance from his government coalition, believes he can push it through.


Gaza ceasefire deal looks set to ‘happen very soon’: Ex-Israeli official

Alon Liel, the former director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, says a ceasefire deal in Gaza “looks as if it’s going to happen very soon”.

“The feeling is that there is no choice this time,” he told Al Jazeera, speaking from Tel Aviv.

“We have to go along with it because the international pressure, or to be more exact – the American pressure – has doubled. It’s two presidents now working on it – it’s Biden and Trump together, putting the pressure … and it looks very effective on our right-wing government.”

There is a “big change” in Israel’s mood in recent weeks, and internal politics don’t appear to be an obstacle to completing a deal, Liel added.


Trump ‘driving’ Israel-Hamas ceasefire push

Israel and Hamas are closer than ever to reaching a ceasefire deal, progress that is largely due to the intervention of US President-elect Donald Trump, says Mohamad Elmasry, professor of media studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

“The main difference here is the new variable that has entered the equation and that is Donald Trump … he is clearly the one driving this ceasefire,” Elmasry told Al Jazeera.

“There’s going to be a lot of hooting and hollering from the Biden administration about how they pushed this ceasefire through, assuming it comes to fruition, but the reality is this has been pushed by Trump,” he added.

Elmasry said Trump has been “very hard” on Netanyahu in recent days, citing a video Trump shared on his Truth Social platform of academic Jeffrey Sachs blasting the Israeli prime minister for his foreign policy vision.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/08/trump-video-crude-reference-netanyahu

“I think everyone now is fairly optimistic that we’re going to get across the finish line,” said Elmasry.


With the foreign policy appointments Trump made I doubt this ceasefire push is actually going to lead anywhere. It's another publicity stunt, but at least there should be some desperately needed aid coming in, hostages coming out and fewer massacres in Gaza. Meanwhile the situation in the West Bank keeps escalating.

The (limited) captive exchange might be close to getting over the finish line. I'm very doubtful the war will actually end. The destruction in Southern Lebanon didn't end with the US/France brokered ceasefire and it remains to be seen if Israel will actually withdraw from Lebanon by the 26th.

It feels more like a ploy to further downplay the 'genocide' label and call further military strikes and occupation part of a 'special military operation'. Turning the Westbank more into Gaza (infrastructure destruction), turning Gaza more into the Westbank (oppression policy)...

The Global South will need to step up as the West certainly isn't going to address the root causes of the cycles of violence.



SvennoJ 17 hours ago

Gaza ceasefire talks under way in Qatar: Report

A round of ceasefire talks has begun in Qatar amid growing hopes that a deal is within reach, Reuters is reporting, citing an official briefed on the negotiations. A source quoted by AFP said today’s meetings “are aimed at finalising the remaining details of the deal”.

The source added that the heads of Israel’s intelligence agencies, the Middle East envoys for the incoming and outgoing US administrations and Qatar’s prime minister are due at the talks.

“Mediators will hold separate talks with Hamas,” the source said.


A three-stage ceasefire deal?

Israeli media have leaked details of the potential ceasefire deal which will reportedly be implemented in three stages:

  • In the first stage, 33 Israeli captives being held in Gaza will be released. In turn, Israel will free 50 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for each female soldier, and 30 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the remaining civilians being held captive.
  • The reports also say Israel will completely withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor – the strip of land between the borders of Gaza and Egypt – at the end of the first phase of the deal.
  • The second stage will start 16 days into the ceasefire and will focus on negotiations to release the remaining men and soldiers held in Gaza.
  • The third stage of the deal will address long-term arrangements, including discussions on establishing an alternative government in Gaza and plans to rebuild it.
  • Other details about the reported deal focus on security, with checks said to be carried out by an international body, and Israel allowing one million Palestinians back in the northern Gaza Strip.


Gaza ceasefire at its closest point: Qatari Foreign Ministry

While the ministry’s spokesperson, al-Ansari, declined to provide details on the contents of ongoing negotiations, he said all the main issues have been “ironed out”. “All we can say is that today we are the closest than at any time in the past to a deal,” he told reporters.


Qatar ‘open to all options’ that respect Palestinian self-determination: Al-Ansari

Asked about the prospect of an Arab coalition being sent to Gaza after the war, the Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson reiterates the Gulf state’s position that Israel’s occupation of the territory “must end” and that Palestinians “must have their rule and say in their territories”.

“We are open to all the options that will lead to a suitable solution where the Palestinians will have their own say and rule in their land,” Majde al-Ansari said.


Hamas in communication with Palestinian factions about ceasefire deal’s progress

Hamas leaders have conducted a series of consultations with leaders of Palestinian factions, informing them about progress made in the ongoing negotiations in Doha, according to a statement from the group’s chapter in the occupied West Bank.

During these discussions, faction leaders expressed satisfaction with the course of the negotiations, emphasising the need for national readiness for the upcoming phase and its requirements, it said.

The Hamas leadership and its various factions agreed to continue communications until a ceasefire deal is finalised.

They also expressed hope that this round of negotiations will conclude with a clear and comprehensive agreement, the statement said.



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SvennoJ 17 hours ago

‘Netanyahu to turn to centrists if Ben-Gvir, Smotrich quit over ceasefire deal’

As we reported earlier, Israel’s far-right Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir has threatened to quit the government if it agrees to a ceasefire deal and urged Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to join him.

We spoke to Alon Liel, the former director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, about Ben-Gvir’s latest threats. Here’s what he said:

“At this stage, what is clear is that these two ministers – Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, and maybe some others – will vote against the deal. But it’s also clear that there will be a majority for the deal.

“The question for now is if they will resign, [and] leave the government as a result.

“I don’t really think they have such an option because the parties from the centre will back Netanyahu for the deal. So it all depends on Netanyahu. Because if Netanyahu will feel he is losing his real allies in the coalition and again withdraw from the deal – this is one option but I don’t think it’s realistic.

“I think he will pass the deal without them, and if they leave the government, he will try to strengthen the government with more members of parliament from the centre. So my guess is that they will vote against but not leave the government.”


Israeli cabinet to approve Gaza deal despite opposition from Ben-Gvir, Smotrich: Minister

Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter says National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich “know well that their votes will not be decisive regarding the deal to return the abductees”.

“We are in decisive moments regarding the return of the abductees, and we, the cabinet members, will ensure their return to their families,” Dichter said.


Israel’s Netanyahu meeting with Smotrich: Reports

PM Netanyahu is now meeting far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, according to Israeli media reports, as negotiations for a ceasefire with Hamas advance.

Netanyahu is trying to persuade Smotrich not to resign from the government over a potential deal, according to Israel’s Walla news site.

Earlier today, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir urged Smotrich to resign alongside him if Israel agrees to a ceasefire, in a last-ditch bid to thwart a potential deal.


Israel’s Health Ministry gearing up for possible return of captives: Report

The Times of Israel reports that Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis, the head of the Israeli Health Ministry’s public health division, has said the ministry is preparing for the return of 33 captives as part of the first phase of a potential ceasefire.



SvennoJ 17 hours ago

Eleven killed in Gaza City, Khan Younis

Despite the latest ceasefire push, Israel is continuing deadly attacks in Gaza, killing at least 11 people in raids across the enclave today, according to our colleagues on the ground.

The latest attacks took place in a residential block in Gaza City, killing eight people, and a home near Khan Younis, killing three, our team reports.


Aftermath of Israeli attack on Khan Younis home


Journalist Mohammed al-Talmas dies of injuries after Israeli strike on Gaza City

Al-Talmas succumbed to his injuries following Israeli bombardment of Gaza City yesterday, Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent is reporting.

Since Israel’s war on Gaza began, more than 170 Palestinian journalists have been killed in the enclave, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. Gaza’s Government Media Office says more than 200 have been killed.



Israeli attack kills 2 in Gaza City’s Shati camp: Report

Israeli bombardment has hit a group of Palestinians in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, according to the Wafa news agency. The attack killed at least two people and injured others, it reported.


Gaza death toll rises

At least 61 Palestinians have been killed and 281 others injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The latest killings brought the total death toll since October 7, 2023 to 46,645, the ministry said.

Israel’s war on Gaza also injured at least 110,012, the ministry said.


Aftermath of Israeli attack on makeshift tents in Deir el-Balah


Palestinian fisherman killed by Israeli forces off Gaza’s Deir el-Balah

An Israeli gunboat has shot and killed a Palestinian fisherman off the coast of western Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

The victim is one of at least 200 fishermen to be killed by Israeli attacks since the start of the war, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture. Thousands of other fishers have been forced to abandon the enclave’s waters, said the ministry.


Two Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on a tent camp: Report

Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that two people have been killed in Israeli shelling that targeted a tent camp sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip.



SvennoJ 17 hours ago

Israeli forces raid West Bank’s Balata camp, arrest 13: Report

The raid in the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, is ongoing, according to the Wafa news agency. Israeli forces have deployed snipers on rooftops, searched homes, carried out field interrogations and rounded up 13 people, Wafa reported.

They have also carried out raids and arrests in several villages in Tulkarem governorate, Wafa reports.


Israeli forces make 18 more West Bank arrests

Israeli forces have carried out more raids in the occupied West Bank, carrying out field interrogations and arrests in the governorates of Salfit and Hebron, according to the Wafa news agency.

The Israeli forces have rounded up 15 people, including three brothers, from villages in Salfit, while arresting three more in the town of Halhul, north of Hebron, said Wafa.

They have also set up checkpoints and blocked roads leading into Hebron and nearby towns, according to Wafa.

Since the Gaza war broke out, Israeli forces have waged near-daily raids in the occupied West Bank, killing at least 845 people and making more than 14,000 arrests, often without formal charges.


Israeli forces arrest 35 Palestinians in occupied West Bank: Prisoners’ groups

At least 35 Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank since yesterday evening until this morning, according to the Commission of Detainees and ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

The arrests were made in the governorates of Nablus, Salfit, Jenin, Tulkarem and Hebron, their joint statement issued on Telegram said.



SvennoJ 12 hours ago

Lebanon’s PM-designate Nawaf Salam officially resigns from ICJ

The International Court of Justice has confirmed that Salam left his post as the president of the tribunal after being appointed as prime minister-designate in Lebanon.

As ICJ president, Salam read out the court’s ruling in May ordering Israel to “immediately halt its military offensive” in Rafah in southern Gaza.

The Israeli military ignored the top UN court’s decision and pushed on with a campaign that devastated the southern Gaza city, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering.

The ruling was part of South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians, which the ICJ is still litigating.

The UN Security Council and General Assembly will choose Salam’s successor.

Salam is currently consulting with Lebanon’s political forces to form a new government after lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president last week.

The new Lebanese government will oversee a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Aoun had promised that the state would confront Israel’s “aggressions” in the south of the country.


Israel blows up homes in south Lebanon

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that the Israeli military is carrying out large explosions in the villages of Meiss el-Jabal and Kfar Kila, destroying civilian homes.

The Israeli military has been launching daily attacks in Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire it reached with Hezbollah in November.

The deal stipulates that all Israeli forces must withdraw from Lebanon by January 25, but there have been growing concerns that Israel may not honour the deadline.


Macron to work on ‘full implementation of ceasefire’ during Lebanon visit: Elysee

The visit is set to be the first by a foreign head of state since Joseph Aoun was elected president last week.

In a statement, the Elysee Palace said the trip will be “an opportunity to work on the full implementation” of a ceasefire reached by Hezbollah and Israel in late November.

The 60-day agreement is set to run out at the end of the month. Hezbollah recently said it would continue fighting if Israel does not fulfil its agreement to withdraw troops from southern Lebanon by then.

Lebanon and the UN peacekeeping force stationed in the south of the country have accused Israel of repeated violations of the ceasefire.

In a recent complaint to the UN Security Council, Lebanon detailed more than 800 Israeli attacks by land and sea since the agreement was reached.



SvennoJ 12 hours ago

US stresses need for ‘political horizon’ for Palestinians

Blinken says countries in the region will be reluctant to invest in the reconstruction and future of Gaza without a “political horizon” to resolve the broader conflict.

“There’s a very strong and widely held belief in the region and beyond that dealing with the threat posed by Hamas militarily may be necessary, but it’s insufficient,” he said. “And absent a political dimension, what we’re looking at ultimately is an enduring insurgency that will bleed and drain Israel and a perpetual war.”

Blinken criticises Israeli policies towards Palestinians

Despite providing billions of dollars to Israel and voting against several UN resolutions aimed at ending the Israeli occupation, the US has issued a rare criticism of Israeli policies towards Palestinians.

Blinken said Israel must acknowledge that Palestinians will never accept “being a non-people without national rights”.

“Israelis must abandon the myth that they can carry out de facto annexation without cost and consequence to Israel’s democracy, to its standing, to its security,” he said.

Blinken added that establishing “time-bound” conditions for Palestinian statehood will allow other countries to provide the security forces and financial support for the Gaza “day after” plan.

The top US diplomat also criticised Israel for withholding Palestinian taxes from the PA, the “unprecedented growth in illegal outposts” in the occupied West Bank and the rise in settler violence.


Blinken calls for new path, defends old US policies

Concluding his farewell remarks on the Middle East, the US secretary of state cited a 2021 documentary that asked children in Gaza what they want to be when they grow up.

One girl wanted to become a doctor to treat people injured in war; a boy wanted to be a pilot to fly people out of the besieged territory and help them see the world; and another dreamed of becoming an engineer to help rebuild homes. “I know Israeli girls and boys have very similar dreams,” Blinken said in a solemn tone.

Still, Blinken’s State Department approved billions of dollars in weapons that helped kill 17,800 Palestinian children in Gaza.

Blinken called for “another path” in the region away from war and violence, but he failed to acknowledge that the Biden administration has provided Israel with a seemingly bottomless supply of bombs to carry out horrific atrocities against Palestinians.

And while leading rights groups and UN experts have accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, Blinken described the suffering of Palestinians without assigning responsibility for it.

He said Palestinians are “caught in the crossfire” between Israel and Hamas – as if Gaza was devastated by street fighting, not the tonnes of US-supplied explosives that Israel dropped in Gaza’s civilian infrastructure and residential buildings.

Moreover, Blinken painted a rosy picture of the Middle East pre-October 7, saying that the region was seeing further “integration” – a codeword for Israeli-Arab diplomatic and economic deals that have sidelined Palestinians.

In reality, 2022 and the first half of 2023 saw an uptick of deadly violence and settler attacks against Palestinians and a growth in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have described Israeli policies against Palestinians as apartheid well before Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.

While absolving the US of responsibility for Israel’s actions when it comes to Palestinians, Blinken tried to take credit for the spoils of the war, including the weakening of Iran’s so-called “axis of resistance”.

But for many rights advocates, the “strategic gains” that Blinken outlined will never overshadow the US-backed campaign of destruction and starvation that killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.

That was demonstrated during Blinken’s remarks at the Atlantic Council, with many protesters interrupting his speech and reminding him that the atrocities in Gaza will always be part of his legacy.


A protestor interrupts Blinken during a speech at the Atlantic Council, January 14, 2025


CNN's take

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/politics/antony-blinken-post-war-gaza-plans

Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered his most detailed picture yet of his long-awaited plans for post-war Gaza on Tuesday as he stressed the importance of not leaving a power vacuum in the decimated enclave.

Blinken presented the “core elements” in a speech at the Atlantic Council just days before his term as top US diplomat comes to an end. Although he said the plans would be handed over to the incoming Trump team, there is no evidence that the new administration intends to follow through with them.

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