3/6/2024–|Last updated: 6/3/202407:22 PM (Mecca time)
International newspapers and websites touched on several topics related to developments in the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, including the settlement plan presented by the American administration that sparked controversy within Israel, and the recognition of the Palestinian state by some countries.
The French website “Media Part” focused on the settlement plan presented by the US administration, and said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again found himself in a major internal and external dilemma, because of this plan.
The website saw that “Netanyahu fell into a trap of his own making, because he personally granted the American party the authority to submit a solution plan. When the plan was announced, he was confused between rejecting it, which would expose him to pressure, or accepting it, which would mean the collapse of his government coalition.”
According to the Wall Street Journal, the US administration is working on two fronts, but it faces pitfalls on both. The first front is stopping the war and the second is reopening the Rafah crossing, adding, through officials, that the negotiations that Cairo witnessed yesterday, Sunday, in this regard, only reached the necessity of continuing the meetings. .
Amos Harel wrote in “Haaretz” that Israel’s failure to make progress in Gaza makes the situation on the Lebanese border worse, and increases the chances of a comprehensive war breaking out with all the destruction it means, indicating that Washington is counting on a truce in Gaza that will lead to a long-term ceasefire. Between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah.
In an article published in the French newspaper Le Monde, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Storhe defended his country’s decision to recognize the Palestinian state “because it is a basic condition without which there will be no peace between Israelis and Palestinians.”
The Norwegian official said that the world cannot wait for the end of the conflict to recognize a Palestinian state, and enumerated the tragedies resulting from the current war in Gaza, adding that “all this war did was bring disaster to Gaza and undermined the security of Palestinians and Israelis alike.”
On the other hand, The Guardian wrote about convoys of commercial shipments outside the relief efforts, which it said obstruct the arrival of humanitarian aid to Gaza, making some goods available in the Strip, but at exorbitant prices, and at the same time, stifling the Israeli incursion into Rafah (south of the Strip). Gaza) vital supply routes.
United Nations figures show – the newspaper adds – that aid shipments of food and medicine have decreased by two-thirds since Israel began its ground incursion into Rafah, but the total number of trucks entering Gaza has increased, according to Israeli officials.
As for the Financial Times, it touched on the harassment that university students in the United States began to face in response to their participation in anti-war activities in Gaza. The newspaper said that companies had begun to impose in-depth examinations on employment applications, drawing attention to the case of a student who was about to obtain a job in an international law firm, but the leak of an internal correspondence that she had sent in her capacity as a student representative prompted the company to withdraw from hiring her, because the correspondent was considered supportive of the Palestinians. .