The French newspaper Le Monde confirmed that more than 12,000 sick and wounded people in the Gaza Strip, according to World Health Organization figures, face the risk of death due to the inability to evacuate, as the number of evacuations has decreased significantly since May, when the Israeli army took over the Gaza Strip. At the Rafah crossing, south of the Gaza Strip.
Le Monde pointed to the collapse of health institutions in Gaza, which have been under Israeli attack for more than 14 months, with the besieged Strip lacking food, medicine, and medical equipment.
In The Guardian newspaper, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), wrote an article saying that the agency may have to stop its work in the occupied Palestinian territories next month, and this means paralyzing the humanitarian response in Gaza, and depriving millions of Palestinian refugees of basic services. In the West Bank.
Lazzarini believes that the efforts made by the Israeli government to dismantle a United Nations agency were met with public condemnation and intense anger, which turned into largely political stagnation.
In addition to the humanitarian file in Gaza, international newspapers and websites shed light on developments in the situation in Yemen and Syria.
Amos Harel said in an analysis in the Haaretz newspaper, “The United States hopes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will find it difficult to back down after the first round of negotiations on the Gaza deal.” He continued that the two American administrations, the outgoing and the incoming, are exercising all their influence with the aim of imposing an agreement between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), before the presidential rotation in a month.
The writer comments that “despite the optimism about the possibility of concluding a deal this time, Netanyahu and his far-right partners in the government certainly do not want the war to end.”
Regarding the issue of Yemen, writer Avi Ashkenazi acknowledged in his article in Maariv newspaper that Israel “failed to confront the Houthis, was not prepared intelligence-wise and politically, and did not develop a real plan to repel them, as happened in the north with Lebanon.”
The writer believes that Tel Aviv “must take a real decision to act decisively not only in Yemen, but also against those in charge of the Houthi and intelligence activities, because they are not based in Sanaa but in Tehran,” according to the Israeli writer.
On the issue of Syria, the New York Times said that the way forward for the Syrian economy begins with easing sanctions, after years of conflict destroyed the energy sector, struck the currency, and stifled growth. The newspaper commented that although “Bashar al-Assad’s collapse in Syria was shockingly rapid, rebuilding the devastated economy he left behind will be painfully slow.”