... in extremely negative
assessments
of the humanitarian consequences of the Iron Swords operation by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. The final document of the LAS and OIC summit in Riyadh on November 11, 2023, attended by 57 heads of state, had the ... ... settlement by founding an independent Palestinian state (within the borders as of June 4, 1967 with the capital in Eastern Jerusalem), prescribed by resolutions of the UNSC, which would exist side by side with Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government ...
... unprecedented in its scale and brutality, and the equally unprecedented Israeli retaliation, which claimed lives of many thousands of Palestinians to result in a major humanitarian catastrophe, shocked the world community. However, interpretations of ... ... their view, they are generally understandable. Now, the goal is to eradicate Hamas’ military and political presence in the Gaza Strip as a direct threat to Israel’s security and existence. Palestinians, Arab states and the majority in the Global South,...
... in the Middle East
History suggests that the stalling of negotiation could make the problem itself bigger and bigger, and more and more complicated. In 1949, on the cusp of the first Middle East war, the number of refugees amounted to hundreds of thousands. But in the year 2023, the number of people plighted amounted to more than 13 million, including more than 5 million people living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip while another 8 million live as refugees in the neighboring countries. With more territories annexed, it could be even more difficult for Palestinians to get back their legal territories.
The flowing of time does not necessarily solve the problem ...
