Stalemate in negotiations and famine in Gaza. What do the media write about the conflict between Israel and Palestine?
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The United States and Israel have withdrawn negotiating teams that were trying to reach a truce in Gaza. The Palestinians are suffering from mass starvation, and Europe is increasing pressure on Israel over the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. What the foreign press writes about this is in the Izvestia digest.
The Washington Post: While Gaza is starving, Israel dreams of expanding its territory
The food shortage situation in the besieged territory is so serious that doctors and humanitarian workers helping the starving are barely able to stand on their own. They are either deprived of food or experiencing food shortages due to more than four months of blockade. According to the UN, one in three Gazans goes without food for several days.
The Washington Post
The devastation of the Gaza Strip has never been an official policy of [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu or the Israeli army, but the rhetoric of many prominent Israeli officials calling for de facto ethnic cleansing of Gaza has become the central theme of the genocide case against Israel, which is being considered by the International Court of Justice, the highest judicial body of the United Nations. These calls were repeated at the far-right conference held in the Knesset on Tuesday. The conference participants called Gaza an ideal place to solve Israel's housing problem, as has long been the case with settlements in the West Bank, and called for the return of Jewish settlers to the enclave.
Little humanitarian aid has been received in the Territory since the collapse of the brief ceasefire in March. Israel has accused UN agencies and humanitarian organizations of allowing Hamas to use aid for its needs, and has restricted food supplies through a US-backed initiative known as the Gaza Humanitarian Fund, which critics say does not provide even close to an adequate level of support and creates situations that have led to that unarmed, desperate Palestinians were shot by security forces.
Ynet: Israel does not admit its guilt in the humanitarian disaster in Gaza
According to the IDF, about 800 trucks with food and basic necessities are waiting in the Gaza Strip, while the UN and humanitarian organizations cannot pick them up due to disagreements with Israel. Amid criticism and accusations from around the world that Israel is starving civilians in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces invited journalists to inspect trucks parked on the Gaza side of the border near Kerem Shalom.
Ynet
Officials said that in recent weeks, Israel has been under increased pressure from the European Union and warnings of possible sanctions. As a result, the Government decided to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid through Jordan and Egypt, as well as fuel supplies to critical UN facilities.
Israel also reopened the northern Gaza border crossing at Zikim after it was closed and humanitarian aid confiscated by armed men. A security official said he was aware of the disturbing footage from the sector, but "Israel is not to blame for the disaster." The Hamas Ministry of Health said that 70,000 children are experiencing signs of malnutrition, and 113 people have died of starvation since the start of the war, two of whom have died in the last 24 hours. On Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said that its daily investigations had not revealed any cases of famine in the Gaza Strip. However, the media refute Israel's claims, as footage of starving people has spread around the world.
Le Monde: France recognizes Palestine as a state
French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to recognize the state of Palestine due to the crisis in negotiations and the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. He stressed that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas condemned the militant attack on Israel on October 7, promised to restore control of the Palestinian Authority and demilitarize Hamas. Macron hopes that in September, when an official statement on the recognition of Palestine will be made from the rostrum of the United Nations, other countries will follow.
Le Monde
French Consul General in Jerusalem Nicolas Kassianidis delivered the letter to Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, July 24. In the footage of the meeting, the 89-year-old leader's face showed no emotion. Neither the suffering that his people have endured in Gaza, nor the relief that this is prompting France to act. In his letter to the head of the Palestinian Authority, Emmanuel Macron promised: in September, "France will fully recognize Palestine as a state."
On this day, the President of the Republic is to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Recognizing Palestine will allow France to "make a decisive contribution to peace in the Middle East," Macron wrote in his letter. This symbolic and political gesture was a response to a letter from Mahmoud Abbas sent on June 10 to Emmanuel Macron and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. In it, the Palestinian leader condemned the massacre committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and called for the demilitarization of the country.
The New York Times: The United States and Israel are curtailing negotiations with Hamas
The Israeli government and President Trump's envoy to the Middle East said on Thursday they were withdrawing groups that negotiated a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip with Hamas, potentially jeopardizing hopes for the return of some of the last surviving Israeli hostages and relief for the besieged Palestinians. Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff said the latest response to the deal proposal from the remaining Hamas leaders demonstrated "a lack of desire to achieve a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip."
The New York Times
However, Israeli officials issued a different statement, saying that the withdrawal of the negotiators did not mean the end of negotiations. In Jerusalem, three officials with knowledge of the negotiations said there had been no disruptions or failures, but the delegation returned to discuss the details before further negotiations.
Hamas said it was working on a "permanent ceasefire agreement." Officials from a number of countries believe that the withdrawal of Israel and the United States from the negotiations could be a tactical decision. In recent months, Netanyahu has made a number of demands for the governance of Gaza after the war, including the laying down of arms to Hamas and the transfer of control of the territory to Israeli security forces. The Prime Minister also spoke about the so-called "voluntary migration" of Gazans, which would give the Israeli military the opportunity to control the territory for an indefinite period of time. According to some Israeli officials, such an occupation could last for years.
The Washington Post: Democrats demand to investigate the death of an American in the West Bank
The Palestinian authorities claim that Israeli settlers are to blame for his death. Sayfollah Kamel Musalle, 20, from Tampa, was killed on July 11 while visiting his family in the occupied West Bank. Democratic senators are calling on the Trump administration to investigate the death of a US citizen. In a letter addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday, the senators condemned what they called "a culture of impunity when it comes to incidents in which civilians, including Americans, are killed in the West Bank."
The Washington Post
Since the start of the war between Israel and the Gaza Strip in October 2023, three more Palestinian-Americans have died in the West Bank. Members of Congress from the Democratic Party have spoken out against the wave of settler violence, arguing that the victims are U.S. citizens.
The main author of the letter, Senator Chris Van Hollen (Democrat from Maryland), openly criticized settler violence and the Israeli government's response to it. His office released responses to similar requests sent to former President Joe Biden's administration, which indicated that officials provided little information about the deaths but promised to discuss the matter with the Israeli government. At a Senate hearing this month, Van Hollen criticized the Trump administration's decision to lift sanctions imposed by the Biden administration on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, whom the U.S. government considered extremists at the time.
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