LE FIGARO : Le chef de l’État a par ailleurs déploré que la communauté internationale ne soit «pas entendue» par Benyamin Netanyahou et appelle à ne pas «sacrifier» le peuple libanais.
Dans une interview accordée à France Inter, Emmanuel Macron s'est prononcé samedi pour l'arrêt des livraisons d'armes à Israël qui sont utilisées dans le conflit à Gaza. «Je pense qu'aujourd'hui, la priorité, c'est qu'on revienne à une solution politique, qu'on cesse de livrer les armes pour mener les combats sur Gaza», a-t-il déclaré lors d'une émission spéciale sur la radio du service public consacrée à la francophonie, préenregistrée le 1er octobre. » | Par Le Figaro et AFP agence | samedi 5 octobre 2024
Showing posts with label Gaza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaza. Show all posts
Saturday, October 05, 2024
Friday, January 26, 2024
Germany Logs Uptick in Antisemitic Crimes amid Gaza Conflict | DW News
Oldest Holocaust survivor turns 112 amid rise in antisemitism: Rose Girone is the oldest member of a group that numbers 245,000, according to a new survey. »
Friday, January 19, 2024
Netanyahu: 'Israeli Needs Security Control over All Territory West of the Jordan River' | DW News
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Bernie Sanders: Children Are Starving to Death in Gaza
CONGRESS'S RESPONSE:
Senate votes against Sanders resolution to force human rights scrutiny over Israel aid: Senator’s bid to make US military support conditional on whether Israel is violating human rights in Gaza fails by 72 votes to 11 »
Saturday, January 13, 2024
Peter Oborne: ‘I Can’t Forgive Myself’ for Voting for Brexit, but Britain Will Rejoin EU
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Haaretz Columnist Gideon Levy on Israel's Conduct in Gaza | Amanpour & Co
Monday, January 08, 2024
Senator Rubio Destroys Anti-Israel Voices | #shorts
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
En direct, guerre Israël-Hamas : les habitants de Gaza vivent une « catastrophe humanitaire monumentale », dénonce le chef de l’ONU
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Israeli Military Reservist Says He Witnessed "Slaughters and Massacres"
May God protect Rudy. Rudy is so impressive; impressive in every way. – Mark
Bundespräsident: Solidarität auch mit einem „Israel, das sich wehrt“
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Vor seinem Israelbesuch distanziert sich Frank-Walter Steinmeier von der zunehmend schärferen Kritik an Israels Vorgehen im Gazastreifen. Der Bundespräsident bekräftigt das Recht auf Selbstverteidigung.
Die beiden höchsten Vertreter Deutschlands reisen an diesem Sonntag nach Israel. Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier und Bundestagspräsidentin Bärbel Bas führen dort politische Gespräche, treffen aber auch mit Angehörigen der Geiseln zusammen, die von der Hamas bei ihrem terroristischen Überfall auf Israel am 7. Oktober genommen wurden und deren Freilassung langsam vorankommt. Steinmeier sagte vor seinem Abflug, er fahre „gerade jetzt“ nach Israel, um das Land der fortgesetzten Solidarität Deutschlands zu versichern „nicht nur mit Israel als Opfer des Terrors, sondern auch als Israel, das sich wehrt“. » | Von Eckart Lohse | Sonntag, 26. November 2023
Saturday, November 25, 2023
En direct, Gaza : 13 otages israéliens et 7 étrangers, ainsi que 39 prisonniers palestiniens, seront libérés ce soir, affirment le Hamas et le Qatar
LE MONDE : Un peu plus tôt, la branche armée du mouvement islamiste avait annoncé retarder la libération d’otages « jusqu’à ce qu’Israël respecte l’accord », lui reprochant en particulier des manquements dans l’acheminement de l’aide humanitaire. LIVE EN COURS » | samedi 25 novembre 2023
Spanish and Belgian Prime Ministers Call for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza at Rafah Crossing
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Number of Palestinians Killed Is ‘Truly Unbearable’, Says Spanish PM
THE GUARDIAN: Pedro Sánchez says all civilians must be protected in Israel-Hamas war and reiterates call for two-state solution
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has urged Israel to rethink its offensive in Gaza, telling its president and prime minister the number of dead Palestinians is “truly unbearable”, and that the response to Hamas’s terrorist attacks last month cannot include “the deaths of innocent civilians, including thousands of children”.
Sánchez’s blunt pleas came during a visit to the Middle East with the Belgian prime minister, Alexander de Croo, during which he called for a peace conference and reiterated that the creation of a Palestinian state remained the best way to bring peace and security to the region.
Israel says 1,200 people were killed and 239 taken hostage when Hamas fighters crossed the border from Gaza on 7 October. According to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, more than 14,100 people have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory strikes. (With video) » | Sam Jones | Thursday, November 23, 2023
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has urged Israel to rethink its offensive in Gaza, telling its president and prime minister the number of dead Palestinians is “truly unbearable”, and that the response to Hamas’s terrorist attacks last month cannot include “the deaths of innocent civilians, including thousands of children”.
Sánchez’s blunt pleas came during a visit to the Middle East with the Belgian prime minister, Alexander de Croo, during which he called for a peace conference and reiterated that the creation of a Palestinian state remained the best way to bring peace and security to the region.
Israel says 1,200 people were killed and 239 taken hostage when Hamas fighters crossed the border from Gaza on 7 October. According to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, more than 14,100 people have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory strikes. (With video) » | Sam Jones | Thursday, November 23, 2023
Thursday, November 16, 2023
En direct, guerre Israël-Hamas : l’ONU alerte sur le « risque immédiat de famine » dans la bande de Gaza, où nourriture et eau sont « quasi inexistantes »
LE MONDE : « Avec l’hiver qui approche à grands pas, les abris précaires et surpeuplés, ainsi que le manque d’eau potable, les civils sont confrontés à un risque immédiat de famine », a déclaré dans un communiqué la directrice exécutive du Programme alimentaire mondial, Cindy McCain. LIVE EN COURS » | jeudi 16 novembre 2023
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Tony Blair ‘Discussing Situation’ in Gaza and Open to Role in Effort to End Crisis
THE GUARDIAN: Former UK PM has let it be known he is available to help but his office denies he has been offered specific job
Tony Blair at Downing Street before the Remembrance Sunday ceremony. The former PM has an office in Israel, his spokesperson said. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has let it be known that he is available if needed to help in an effort to end the growing crisis in Israel and Palestine.
His office, however, denied a report in the Israeli press that he had already been offered a specific job.
Blair has built extensive contacts in the Middle East, and he worked as special envoy for the Quartet – the UN, the US, the EU and Russia – after leaving Downing Street in 2007, trying to build the Middle East economy.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, would not reject a role for Blair. Both the EU and UN have Middle East envoys.
Blair has strong contacts with the Gulf states. In an earlier period, he played a role behind the scenes encouraging Hamas to change its stance towards Israel, but he has always been implacably opposed to the direction of the Iranian leadership. » | Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic editor | Monday, November 13, 2023
Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has let it be known that he is available if needed to help in an effort to end the growing crisis in Israel and Palestine.
His office, however, denied a report in the Israeli press that he had already been offered a specific job.
Blair has built extensive contacts in the Middle East, and he worked as special envoy for the Quartet – the UN, the US, the EU and Russia – after leaving Downing Street in 2007, trying to build the Middle East economy.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, would not reject a role for Blair. Both the EU and UN have Middle East envoys.
Blair has strong contacts with the Gulf states. In an earlier period, he played a role behind the scenes encouraging Hamas to change its stance towards Israel, but he has always been implacably opposed to the direction of the Iranian leadership. » | Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic editor | Monday, November 13, 2023
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Arab League Holds Summit: Regional Leaders Gather in Riyadh to Discuss War
Qatar’s emir condemns silence on Gaza »
Friday, November 10, 2023
Uncomfortably Numb: Inside Gaza's Opioid Addiction Crisis | Rewind
Oct 6, 2019 | The Gaza Strip - at points just 10km wide - is a narrow piece of land along the eastern Mediterranean coast. Its Palestinian population is sealed behind a separation barrier and tightly controlled checkpoints.
Gaza is home to more than 1.5 million Palestinians - half of them under the age of 15. Unemployment is among the highest in the world and every day is a struggle to survive. Thousands of young people regularly risk their lives protesting their occupation by Israel along the border fence.
But there is a lesser-known unintended consequence of the occupation: opioid addiction. In 2010, Al Jazeera's Zeina Awad travelled to Gaza and found that more and more young people were turning to prescription drugs to escape from the harsh realities of their lives.
In the underground tunnels between Egypt and Gaza - where lifelines including food and clothes are smuggled into the blockaded strip - Al Jazeera found that a dangerous drug, Tramadol (or Tramal as it is known in Gaza), was also slipping through. The dangerously addictive painkiller is illegal without a prescription, but a growing number of Gazans were getting hooked on it and going to extreme lengths to get it.
"I buy fake prescriptions," Khaled al-Jarah, a long-term drug user, told Al Jazeera at the time. "If I don't get this prescription there are other ways to get the pills. Dealers bring in boxes of them through the tunnels."
Psychologist Dr Samir al-Zaqout treats addicts at Gaza's Community Mental Health Programme, one of the few places they are able to go for help.
"Most of the addicts are between the ages of 18 and 30 ... Those who are supposed to build our future are the most affected," he told Al Jazeera at the time. "If the number of cases I have seen are 150, there are hundreds of others that I have not seen and who would never seek the help of a doctor. Why? Because we live in a traditional society that fears the stigma attached to mental illness. And addiction is not just considered to be a mental health issue. It's seen as even more serious."
Almost a decade on, Rewind returned to Gaza where Dr al-Zaqout told us that most users are still reluctant to come forward to be treated at the facility. "People don't go to therapy or to a psychologist because they are afraid to do so on two counts: they're scared of the Resistance labelling them as collaborators; and they're also afraid of the associated stigma within society," he said.
With Gaza's political and humanitarian situation deteriorating further in recent years, and with a new upsurge of violence at the border, the painkiller problem has also worsened. Although authorities clamped down on Tramadol, other drugs, including Lyrica and Fioricet, have gained popularity. "Now it is smuggled to Gaza through all ports and, consequently, the Strip has been drowned with drugs," said Dr al-Zaqout.
Please note well that my posting of this documentary is NOT a political statement. I am in no way familiar with the actual problems in Gaza, since I have never been there. Having spent many years in the Arab world in years past, I am very familiar with the Middle East; but it is my belief that many of the problems which Gazans face are problems which are peculiar to Gaza itself, especially because of its unique situation and circumstances.
I should like to remind all my visitors and followers once again that I strive to bring you balance, and in three languages. My posts should in no way be understood to mean that I endorse the sentiments expressed therein. – Mark
Gaza is home to more than 1.5 million Palestinians - half of them under the age of 15. Unemployment is among the highest in the world and every day is a struggle to survive. Thousands of young people regularly risk their lives protesting their occupation by Israel along the border fence.
But there is a lesser-known unintended consequence of the occupation: opioid addiction. In 2010, Al Jazeera's Zeina Awad travelled to Gaza and found that more and more young people were turning to prescription drugs to escape from the harsh realities of their lives.
In the underground tunnels between Egypt and Gaza - where lifelines including food and clothes are smuggled into the blockaded strip - Al Jazeera found that a dangerous drug, Tramadol (or Tramal as it is known in Gaza), was also slipping through. The dangerously addictive painkiller is illegal without a prescription, but a growing number of Gazans were getting hooked on it and going to extreme lengths to get it.
"I buy fake prescriptions," Khaled al-Jarah, a long-term drug user, told Al Jazeera at the time. "If I don't get this prescription there are other ways to get the pills. Dealers bring in boxes of them through the tunnels."
Psychologist Dr Samir al-Zaqout treats addicts at Gaza's Community Mental Health Programme, one of the few places they are able to go for help.
"Most of the addicts are between the ages of 18 and 30 ... Those who are supposed to build our future are the most affected," he told Al Jazeera at the time. "If the number of cases I have seen are 150, there are hundreds of others that I have not seen and who would never seek the help of a doctor. Why? Because we live in a traditional society that fears the stigma attached to mental illness. And addiction is not just considered to be a mental health issue. It's seen as even more serious."
Almost a decade on, Rewind returned to Gaza where Dr al-Zaqout told us that most users are still reluctant to come forward to be treated at the facility. "People don't go to therapy or to a psychologist because they are afraid to do so on two counts: they're scared of the Resistance labelling them as collaborators; and they're also afraid of the associated stigma within society," he said.
With Gaza's political and humanitarian situation deteriorating further in recent years, and with a new upsurge of violence at the border, the painkiller problem has also worsened. Although authorities clamped down on Tramadol, other drugs, including Lyrica and Fioricet, have gained popularity. "Now it is smuggled to Gaza through all ports and, consequently, the Strip has been drowned with drugs," said Dr al-Zaqout.
Please note well that my posting of this documentary is NOT a political statement. I am in no way familiar with the actual problems in Gaza, since I have never been there. Having spent many years in the Arab world in years past, I am very familiar with the Middle East; but it is my belief that many of the problems which Gazans face are problems which are peculiar to Gaza itself, especially because of its unique situation and circumstances.
I should like to remind all my visitors and followers once again that I strive to bring you balance, and in three languages. My posts should in no way be understood to mean that I endorse the sentiments expressed therein. – Mark
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
Israel-Hamas War: Crown Prince of Iran Tells Piers Morgan Regime "Is The Godfather of Terrorism"
I warned of the dangers of Islam to the West many years before even 9/11. One of the biggest problems is Islam's insistence on there being no separation of politics and religion, no separation of mosque and state. I have said it before, many times, and I will say it again: oil and water simply do not mix. The real problem will never be solved because Western politicians and the Western mainstream media simply skirt around the real problem. – @ Mark Alexander
Arab States Intensify Pleas for Gaza Cease-fire as Public Anger Mounts
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Citing deepening fears for regional stability, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries are beseeching the U.S. to push Israel to end its military campaign in Gaza.
A rally in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 27. | Khalil Mazraawi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Facing growing anger from their own people, Arab countries are intensifying their appeals to the United States to pressure Israel to implement an immediate cease-fire in Gaza or risk sabotaging the security of the entire Middle East.
Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt have all implored American officials, including Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, to get Israel to halt its military assault.
“The whole region is sinking in a sea of hatred that will define generations to come,” the Jordanian foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, warned at a news conference this weekend.
As unrest spills into the streets and fear spreads that Iran-backed militias in the region will enter more directly into the conflict, some Arab leaders are worrying for their own security, said Elham Fakhro, an associate fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Program.
“Long-term resentment among the Arab public is fuel for extremist groups,” she said. “The region is already walking a delicate balance,” she added. “This is what drives Arab governments to use their available leverage to call for a cease-fire.” » | Vivian Nereim, Reporting from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Facing growing anger from their own people, Arab countries are intensifying their appeals to the United States to pressure Israel to implement an immediate cease-fire in Gaza or risk sabotaging the security of the entire Middle East.
Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt have all implored American officials, including Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, to get Israel to halt its military assault.
“The whole region is sinking in a sea of hatred that will define generations to come,” the Jordanian foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, warned at a news conference this weekend.
As unrest spills into the streets and fear spreads that Iran-backed militias in the region will enter more directly into the conflict, some Arab leaders are worrying for their own security, said Elham Fakhro, an associate fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Program.
“Long-term resentment among the Arab public is fuel for extremist groups,” she said. “The region is already walking a delicate balance,” she added. “This is what drives Arab governments to use their available leverage to call for a cease-fire.” » | Vivian Nereim, Reporting from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Tuesday, November 07, 2023
Nine Countries Have Recalled Their Ambassadors from Israel due to War on Gaza
Nov 7, 2023 | Since Israel began its bombardment of Gaza, 9 countries have withdrawn their ambassadors, or severed ties.
They've called for an immediate ceasefire and for humanitarian aid to enter the strip unhindered.
NATO member Turkey is among those that pulled their ambassador out. So did Israel's neighbour, Jordan, that said Israel is committing "war crimes".
The latest to join the list are South Africa and Chad. Bolivia was the first to sever ties entirely with Israel - saying its decision was a "condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive taking place in the Gaza Strip”.
Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports from the Occupied East Jerusalem.
For in depth analysis, Marwan Bishara is Al Jazeera's Senior Political Analyst.
They've called for an immediate ceasefire and for humanitarian aid to enter the strip unhindered.
NATO member Turkey is among those that pulled their ambassador out. So did Israel's neighbour, Jordan, that said Israel is committing "war crimes".
The latest to join the list are South Africa and Chad. Bolivia was the first to sever ties entirely with Israel - saying its decision was a "condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive taking place in the Gaza Strip”.
Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports from the Occupied East Jerusalem.
For in depth analysis, Marwan Bishara is Al Jazeera's Senior Political Analyst.
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