The more talk about cease-fire and peace?
The more the hardliners in the Israel government will press attacks…
To REPEAT….
Hamas has turned down the Biden Biden Peace Plan…..
Israel said on Wednesday that it had launched a new operation in central Gaza over the past day, hitting the region with air and artillery strikes and sending in ground troops that have engaged in clashes with Hamas militants. Dozens of people have been killed, according to health workers in Gaza, who warned that the only remaining hospital in the area was inundated with wounded people.
In the past 24 hours, the Gazan health ministry said it had recorded 36 dead and 115 injured without saying how many were combatants. The international aid group Doctors Without Borders said at least 70 bodies, most of them women and children, had been brought to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital since Tuesday. The Israeli military declined to comment on the reports….
Alongside the creeping escalation in fighting, there have been mounting calls from Israeli officials to deal a decisive blow at that border, fueling concerns of a broader regional conflict.
“We are prepared for very intense action in the north,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday on a visit to a military base there.
The Israeli leader vowed to restore security “one way or another,” after the military’s chief of staff, Herzl Halevi, said, “We are approaching a decision point.” He said the army was ready and had gone through training “to move to an offensive.”….
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Iranian-backed Hezbollah, a militant group and political party in Lebanon, has said it does not want a full-blown war, while also asserting that it is prepared for one.
The deputy leader of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that “our decision is not to widen” the conflict, but he added that “if it is imposed on us, we are ready for it.” Hezbollah has also said there will be no deal before a cease-fire in Gaza…..
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Palestinian state recognition …
There are more than 140 countries that recognize aaccording to a list included in a letter last month to the United Nations from Arab and Muslim states.
Many of the countries — including China, India, Malaysia and Russia — moved to recognize a Palestinian state in November 1988, when the Palestine National Council declared an independent state of Palestine.
Before the European countries made their announcements in recent weeks, Mexico was the latest nation to recognize a Palestinian state, doing so in June 2023. Other recent recognitions include Sweden in 2014, Thailand in 2012 and Brazil in 2010….