The world tide has begun to turn against the expected Israeli military move into N0rth Gaza…..
In fact efforts are about trying to stop the suffering of the One Million Palesttians who have had their city and homes demolished and by Israeli military pounding….
There IS a mass exodus out of the area, but ALL of the inhabitans cannot escape the area….
President Biden is signalining he wants to flying to Tel Aviv to talk to Israeli PM DIRECTLY…..
This while the US moves a second Aircraft carrier into the region and a pledge to provide BILLIONS in military aid to Israel….
The American President IS looking at Iran talking tough and a effort to get Israel and Saudia Arabia together is on hold due to the conflict…
Israeli President Netanyahu is NOT a well like leader in Israel right now despite the headlines on a possible military occupation of Gaza which could cost Israel even more problems…
No mention of the hostages recently….
The Gardian…
Officials from the United States, Egypt and Middle Eastern countries sought to ease what Israeli officials have called the “siege” of Gaza, which has led to dire shortages of food, water, gasoline and other essentials in the blockaded territory.
Video images on Sunday showed lines of trucks idling on the road to Gaza in the Egyptian city of Arish, about 30 miles from the border they were not allowed to cross.
After days of acute water shortages in Gaza, Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, said on Sunday that Israel had agreed to restore water to a pipeline that served a southern part of the enclave.
As Israeli troops massed on the border, more than two million Gaza residents endured a panicked countdown to the expected start of a ground invasion of northern Gaza…..
The Israeli public is pissed at their Prime Minister…….
The prime minister’s approval rating hovered at about 27 percent before the bloodshed. Apparently aware that he does not have the public legitimacy to lead Israel into war, Netanyahu late on Wednesday night established an emergency war cabinet with Benny Gantz, a former IDF chief of staff who leads a center-right opposition party.
Aside from a video clip posted to social media, Netanyahu waited 70 hours before addressing the nation. Two days later, a host on Channel 12 insistently asked Yossi Shelley, director general of Netanyahu’s office, “Where are all the ministers?” Shelley deflected, first seeming to blame the victims of one of the biggest massacres, concertgoers at a desert music festival, for the government’s failure to respond to the public clamor.
“The party made a not insubstantial contribution to the chaos,” Shelley said. Then he compared identifying and tallying the dead and the hostages to “standing in line at the supermarket. It doesn’t matter how many shop assistants there are — sometimes it’s impossible to deal with everyone.”
Perhaps the most infuriated group in Israel is the families of hundreds of people believed to be held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The government said it will not take hostages into consideration for how it prosecutes the war against Hamas absent specific information about exactly where the captives are held. Families of American and French dual-citizen hostages have such little confidence in Israel’s government that they have begged Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron to rescue their loved ones. On Tuesday, three families held press conferences warning Netanyahu. “If we don’t get the attention we need,” said Uri David, whose daughters, Ta’ir and Odaya, are missing, “this country will tremble.”….
Lebanon….
The chief fear for many Lebanese is that they could soon be the second front of Israel’s war against its Islamist militant enemies, after Hamas’ brutal onslaught against Israel a week ago that killed more than 1,300 people. While most eyes are focused on an expected retaliatory ground assault against Hamas in Gaza, Israeli forces have also declared a 4-kilometer-wide closed military zone on Lebanon’s southern border, where they have exchanged fire with Hezbollah, a Shiite political party and militant group based in Lebanon.
One person close to Hezbollah said the Golan Heights — Syrian land occupied by Israel to the southeast of Lebanon — was shaping up into an especially dangerous flashpoint, saying Hezbollah has moved elite units there in the past few days.
Finger on the trigger
For now, this border fighting appears contained, but Iran’s flurry of regional diplomacy is heightening the anxiety that Tehran could be about to commit its proxies in Hezbollah headlong into the war. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned on Saturday that if Israel doesn’t halt its military campaign in Gaza, then Hezbollah, a key player in the Tehran-orchestrated “axis of resistance,” is “prepared” and has its “finger is on the trigger…..”