An attempt to deal with the BIGGEST Roadblock in a Gaza solution….Hamas
It will NOT be easy , if at all possible…
Israel IS becoming increasingly isolated for its actions in Gaza….
Update….
Trump…No Israeli Annexing Gaza…
After Trump talks to the Middle East Countries at the UN in NYC…
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank, imposing the clearest limit yet on his support as Israel nears two years of war in the Gaza Strip.
Until Thursday, Trump had been publicly silent about calls within the Israeli government to take Palestinian territory, potentially derailing decades of efforts to achieve a two-state solution that would enable Israelis and Palestinians to live side-by-side. But with Arab allies of the United States increasingly vocal about their discontent, the president weighed in as he sought regional support for a new peace plan….
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Speaking over video after the United States revoked his visa, the Palestinian leader told world leaders Thursday that his people reject the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and pledged that the militant group would have no role in governing the Gaza Stripafter war ends and must hand over its weapons to his administration. Said Mahmoud Abbas to his people: “The dawn of freedom will emerge.”
Abbas told the U.N. General Assembly that Palestinians in Gaza “have been facing a war of genocide, destruction, starvation and displacement” by Israel. His speech came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to New York to give his own address in person on Friday.
In a short but resolute speech, Abbas lay out his continued vision for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza alongside Israel. That two-state solution has gained traction after a string of countries – including top U.S. allies — announced recognition of a Palestinian statethis past week.
But it also appears further than ever from realities on the ground. Netanyahu’s government has rejected the creation of a Palestinian state.
He says his administration is ‘ready’
Israeli troops control most of the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu says Israel will maintain security control over the territory after Hamas is defeated, and he has rejected giving Abbas’ Palestinian Authority any role in there. Some ministers in Netanyahu’s government have pushed for annexing the occupied West Bank, where Abbas’ authority currently administers small pockets of territory.
“There can be no justice if Palestine is not freed,” Abbas said.
He said the Palestinian Authority is “ready to bear full responsibility for governance and security” in Gaza. He added that “Hamas will have no role to play in governance,” and will have to hand over their weapons to the Palestinian authorities.
Hamas has agreed to step down from power in Gaza but has rejected Israeli demands that it disarm, saying it has a right to resist Israeli occupation….
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Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, has decried Israel’s “war of genocide” and settlement expansion, while condemning Hamas and saying the armed group would hand over its weapons in any postwar settlement in a closely watched speech to the United Nations. Abbas addressed the gathering by video conference after his visa was revoked by the United States ahead of the 80th session of the United Nations general assembly.
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Reinforcing the global schism over Israel’s war in Gaza, UN member states voted 145-5 vote to allow Abbas to address the United Nations remotely after the US barred more than 80 Palestinians from entering the country.“What Israel is carrying out is not merely an aggression. It is a war crime and a crime against humanity that is both documented and monitored, and it will be recorded in history books and the pages of international conscience as one of the most horrific chapters of humanitarian tragedy in the 20th and 21st centuries,” Abbas said on Thursday.
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Rashad al-Alimi, chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council in Yemen, also addressed the UN. He said the policy of containment has given the Houthis time to expand its arsenal. “It has become clear the peace we seek cannot be asked for but must be imposed by force,” he says.
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The Israeli military said it struck military targets linked to Yemen’s Houthis in Sana’a on Thursday, a day after the group claimed a drone attack on a hotel in Israel’s Red Sea resort of Eilat. The Houthi general staff’s control headquarters, security and intelligence compounds, and military camps where among the targets attacked by the Israeli air force, the military said in a statement, Reuters reported.
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Israel has struck houses and tents in central and southern Gaza, crushing families inside and killing at least 17 Palestinians, including 10 children and three women, local health officials said, as international pressure for a ceasefire continued to grow.
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Iranian vice-president Mohammad Eslami said on Thursday that Tehran would continue to pursue its nuclear programme, which he said was open to international scrutiny. “Iran’s path and the Iranian programme are completely transparent, and we will not deviate from it. You know that the most stringent inspections are conducted in Iran,” Eslami, who is also Iran’s nuclear chief, said via a translator.
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Israel will reopen the only crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan to passenger traffic only, starting Friday morning, the Israeli Airports Authority said on Thursday. Israel shut Allenby Crossing last Friday after a driver bringing humanitarian aid from Jordan for Gaza opened fire and killed two Israeli soldiers there. After briefly reopening it on Monday, Israel closed it indefinitely on Tuesday.
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Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal. Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said.
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Slovenia on Thursday said it was banning Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu from entering the European Union country to underscore its defense of international law. The decision was linked to an arrest warrant issued by the international criminal court against the Israeli prime minister, foreign ministry official Neva Grasic said, according to the official STA news agency.
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The Spanish navy vessel set to escort the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza poses no threat to anyone, including Israel, Spanish foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares told Reuters on Thursday. In an interview, Albares added that Spain had accepted Belgium’s request to assist Belgian citizens onboard the flotilla if needed and was holding conversations with Ireland on the same subject.
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President Donald Trump will host Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, for talks Thursday at the White House in the latest sign of warming relations between the United States and the South Asian nuclear power. Sharif was among top officials from eight Arab or Muslim countries who met with Trump on the sidelines of the UN general assembly this week to discuss strategy on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza….