The Israel-Hamas war

The Israel-Hamas war|The negotiations  

Analysis: No easy road for Biden – must take risks  

 

Joe Biden needs to be prepared to take political risks if he is serious about not wanting the Israel-Palestine conflict to return to the status quo that prevailed before the Hamas attacks on October 7. That's what Aaron David Miller, former Middle East analyst at the US State Department, and Daniel C Kurtzer, former ambassador to Egypt and Israel, write in an analysis in Foreign Affairs.  

 

They believe that there is no easy path for Biden, but that pushing for a two-state solution is, after all, worth the risks.  

 

The Guardian's David Smith writes in an analysis about the background to Biden's reluctance to support a resolution for a cease-fire in Gaza. He writes that the president has a long personal relationship with Israel and has met with every Israeli prime minister since Golda Meir in 1973. At the same time, he notes that the Democratic Party now seems to be going in a different direction than the president - and that he may ultimately be forced to go against his instincts to save his political skin before the presidential election: 

 

"As more Democrats support a cease-fire and conditions for military support, the president may find himself not leading, but following," he writes. analysis David Smith: Biden risks falling out with his own party www.theguardian.com

 

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The Israel-Hamas war|The attacks  

Analysis: The destruction in Gaza worse than Aleppo and Mosul  

 

Israel's military operation in Gaza is probably unprecedented in the 21st century, reports the Washington Post, which made an extensive analysis of, among other things, satellite images and data on airstrikes.  

 

The information they obtained indicates that the destruction in Gaza was both faster and more extensive than during the battles for Aleppo in Syria in 2013-2016 and Mosul in Iraq in 2017. It also shows that Israel has repeatedly carried out airstrikes near hospitals, which according to the court-martial must be protected. 

 

Israel's military IDF writes in a comment to the Washington Post that it - in response to the barbaric attacks in Israel on October 7 - works to fight Hamas, and believes that, unlike the terrorist group, it follows international law and tries to minimize civilian casualties. 

 

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Hospital staff in Gaza: Israel ran over bodies and shot doctors  

 

Doctors at the Kamal Adwan Hospital accuse Israel of committing multiple abuses during the eight-day military operation at the hospital last week, CNN reports.  

 

Doctors and nurses testify, among other things, that the IDF soldiers used bulldozers to dig up buried bodies and then ran over them. 

 

- The bodies were hit before our eyes. We shouted and shouted at them but it was in vain, says nurse Asmaa Tanteesh.  

 

Doctor Abu Safiya testifies that several doctors at the hospital were shot by Israeli soldiers after being released from questioning about links to Hamas. He himself was shot after he followed the soldiers' orders to attend to an injured man outside the hospital, he says. 

 

- They shot at me and laughed.  

 

CNN has been in contact with the IDF, which has not commented on the allegations. Instead, it is stated that 80 terrorists were arrested during the operation at the hospital, some of whom participated in the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on October 7. 

 

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"Never seen a worse economy for diplomacy"  

 

It is "clearly insufficient" that the resolution on Gaza that the UN Security Council adopted yesterday does not contain any call for a ceasefire. This is what the former politician and diplomat Jan Eliasson, who has, among other things, been chairman of the UN General Assembly, tells P4 Extra. 

 

Middle East expert Anders Persson tells Svenska Dagbladet that "it is difficult to imagine a more watered-down resolution" than the one that was finally put forward, where the Security Council calls for more humanitarian aid to be allowed in.  

 

During Saturday, Israel's attacks on Gaza continued and they will continue to do so in the future, says Persson, who cannot see a "clear path towards a ceasefire". Nor does Jan Eliasson place any great hope for a diplomatic solution in the near term.  

 

- I have to say that I have almost never seen a worse economic situation for diplomacy, both parties seek military victories, he tells P4 Extra.