#gaza

#gaza

Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation with 1994 security assurances from Russia, has killed or maimed tens of thousands of combatants and civilians. Efforts by President Donald Trump to end this war have failed, with an emboldened Vladimir Putin escalating hostilities in Ukraine, while the credibility of NATO, flying drones into Poland and Romania and recently violating Estonia's airspace.

Alia Zaki, a WFP communication consultant, tells The Art Newspaper that the idea for the exhibition came when colleagues saw one of Muhanna's works, painted on a WFP aid box, around a year ago. "At the time those parcels and the food that WFP was providing was more or less the only way that people in Gaza had access to food," says Zaki from Copenhagen, where the exhibition is currently showing.

President Donald Trump's 20-point plan for ending the war in Gaza reads more like a joint U.S.-Israeli diktat to Hamas. Almost every provision involving Israel, other than mutual prisoner releases, is left to that country's judgment and discretion. The plan even calls for Westerners to rule Gaza, perhaps for many years, with little to no genuine Palestinian input. Yet chances are strong that Hamas will accept this proposal, perhaps with a caveat to clarify some points.

The streets of Gaza no longer hum with the familiar sounds of everyday life. Since October 7, 2023, they have resonated with the sounds of destruction, followed by a silence so profound it feels almost physical-an absence that suffocates words before they can even form. Trapped within Gaza's crumbling walls, we live inside a storm in which language itself has broken down. Simply put, we are losing our very ability to speak. I don't mean that metaphorically. It's all too real.

Last week, as the Israeli military continued to annihilate the Gaza strip, a 24-hour general strike rocked the Italian peninsula. Demanding an end to Italy's complicity in the genocide, half a million people abandoned their workplaces, schools, and universities in over 80 cities across the country, inspired by a single slogan: " Blocchiamo tutto." ("Let's block everything.") The precise number of participants will remain a matter of contention, but the scale and efficacy of the September 22 strike exceeded all expectations.

The proposal envisions a temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee that would oversee the territory's affairs. But it does not detail how the panel will be formed or who will select its members. Moreover, the plan says that Trump and Toni Blair, the United Kingdom's former prime minister, would lead a board of peace that would supervise the governing committee. But the roadmap does not explain the nature of the relationship between this board and the Palestinian committee.

News of a ceasefire plan to bring Israel's two-year-long campaign of genocide in Gaza to an end has been gaining traction, according to reports, and is expected to feature when United States President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the White House on Monday. Trump's 21-point plan would end Israel's war on Gaza, which has killed at least 66,055 people and wounded 168,346 since it began in October 2023. Thousands more are believed to be dead and trapped under the rubble.

As I write this, Israel is razing Gaza City to the ground in the latest stage of what many respected international human rights organizations and scholars have called a genocide. There aren't as many images coming out of Gaza City as there should be because the Israeli military is still not allowing foreign reporters free access to Gaza and has murdered many of the journalists in the ground. In August, Al Jazeera's team in Gaza City were deliberately targeted by Israel.

Civilians in Gaza have sustained injuries of a type and on a scale more usually seen among professional soldiers involved in intense combat operations, research has found. A study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that some types of wounds such as burns or injuries to legs were more common among civilians in Gaza than among US soldiers fighting in recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Global Sumud Flotilla said it was attacked during the night by "unidentified drones and communications jamming". It said that "at least 13 explosions" were heard on and around several flotilla boats, while drones or aircraft dropped "unidentified objects" on at least 10 boats. No casualties were reported but there was damage to the vessels and "widespread obstruction in communication", it added.

Our five-plane aerial convoy was part of a Jordan- and United Arab Emirates-led effort to air-drop food into the Gaza Strip, to mitigate the disastrous humanitarian conditions that its population is facing almost two years into the war. Once we received permission, we flew over Israel and out to the Mediterranean Sea. And then, as we descended to 2,000 feet, I was able to see my home for the first time in 20 years.

Micheál Martin warns that situation in Gaza is 'very, very bleak'. The Israeli government has "clearly had genocidal intent from day one", Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said. Mr Martin addressed the UN High Level Conference on Palestine yesterday, in which he said peace in the region "seems further away than it ever has". Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest news

On the first day, I started off thinking I've never seen anything like this, and then in the following days I've seen more. I've lost count of the number of amputations I've done, Dr Saya Aziz, an anaesthesiologist, told Al Jazeera.

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