The parties in this conflict seem to NOT want to end it…..
Not free hostages or POW’s….
Not stop the suffering , deaths and destruction…..
American IS keeps supplying the ammo…..
Iran seems to NOT want to become a direct target….
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Israeli planning authorities on Wednesday formally signed off on Nahal Heletz, a new Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, one of several set to be authorized in the coming months. In June, Bezalel Smotrich, a powerful far-right government minister and settler leader, pushed for measures that would expand settlements, which much of the international community views as illegal, in exchange for agreeing to release hundreds of millions in frozen Palestinian revenues. Mr. Smotrich, a core member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, has said Israel ought to rule the West Bank indefinitely without granting its Palestinian residents equal rights. Mr. Smotrich also opposes a cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza, and last week the White House sharply rebuked him for making what it called “ridiculous charges” against a U.S.-brokered proposal.
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Israeli forces have conducted 40 attacks in Gaza over the last 24 hours, hitting infrastructure and militants “who posed a threat” to Israeli troops, the military said on Wednesday. Gaza’s Ministry of Health said that 36 people had been killed and 54 others were wounded over the same time period, bringing the total death toll since Oct. 7 close to 40,000 people. The Health Ministry does not distinguish between combatants and civilians. Israel’s military said last month that it had killed or apprehended 14,000 combatants in the enclave since the war’s start, but it did not say how it had arrived at that number, or how it had distinguished combatants from civilians. Critics of the war contend that Israel is too quick to identify any man killed as a fighter.
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Diplomats called for a cease-fire at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday focused on an Israeli airstrike on Saturday that hit a school compound in northern Gaza where more than 2,000 displaced Palestinians had sought shelter. The Gaza Civil Defense emergency service said more than 90 people were killed in the strike at Al-Tabaeen school in Gaza City. Diplomats, who also called for a hostage release, said the war must stop to end human suffering and to prevent a wider war. “Ten months since the start of the war, the threat of further regional escalation is more palpable, and chilling, than ever,” said the U.N.’s top political chief, Rosemary DiCarlo.
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Iran sharply criticized three European leaders who had called for restraint in the crisis with Israel, saying Tehran reserved the right to defend its sovereignty. Nasser Kanaani, a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said in a statement on Tuesday that the they had ignored Israeli “crimes and terrorism” against Palestinians and in the Middle East. On Monday, the leaders of Britain, France and Germany had urged Iran and its allies not to retaliate for the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran because it could disrupt efforts to reach a cease-fire in Gaza…
The ‘talks’ that have achieved NOTHING…..
The warring parties all have incentives to upend the planned talks in Doha on Thursday, described by President Joe Biden’s aides as a “final stage” bid to end a war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and to secure the release of hostages captured by Hamas on Oct. 7. There are 115 hostages still held in Gaza, Israeli officials say; more than 40 are already dead.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure from members of his far-right cabinet to reject what they call a “surrender deal,” and he has been accused by his critics, including some hostage families, of extending the war for his own political survival…
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Looming over the negotiations are threats by Iran and Hezbollah — still seething over the twin assassinations of Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh and top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr — to strike back against Israel and reestablish deterrence. Haniyeh, seen as a more pragmatic voice within the movement and a key negotiator, has been replaced as political chief by Yehiya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza and an architect of the attack on Oct. 7, when militants killed some 1,200 people in southern Israel.
Diplomats fear it could make the group more inflexible and less willing to compromise. “The trajectory of this crisis and future of this region now rests in hands of Iran; Hezbollah; Sinwar and Benjamin Netanyahu,” Aaron David Miller, a Middle East expert who has advised multiple Democratic and Republican administrations, said Tuesday on X. “It’s as a depressing thought as one might imagine.”…
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