International newspapers focused their attention on Israel’s ongoing operation in the northern Gaza Strip and the unprecedented humanitarian crisis it resulted in, in light of the occupation’s deliberate forcible displacement of residents and the destruction of all necessities of life and infrastructure.
The American newspaper The Washington Post said that Israeli raids on northern Gaza killed dozens of people, most of them children and women, as the Israeli attack on the besieged and stricken area entered its third week.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described “the plight of the Palestinians there as unbearable.”
A medical source told Tel Aviv Tribune, yesterday evening, Sunday, that more than 1,000 people were martyred in the Israeli military operation in the northern Gaza Strip 22 days ago.
The French newspaper Le Monde, in turn, spoke about what it called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new war on northern Gaza, and said that he had involved his army in a new phase of the attack on Gaza despite the elimination of the leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Yahya Sinwar.
She stated that Netanyahu’s move led to dire consequences for the population, referring to the severe media blockade imposed by the Israeli occupation army on Gaza, for more than a year, as access to the Strip is still prohibited for the international press.
The British Guardian newspaper quoted Hamish Falconer, the British Minister of State for the Middle East, as saying that Israel’s reputation would be severely damaged if the Knesset moved forward with draft laws that would end all forms of cooperation of the Israeli government with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and ban them.
Falconer added that such a step “would not be in Israel’s interest, at a time when the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has become catastrophic and is getting worse.”
An article in the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post warned of the mass exodus from Israel of elites, experts and specialists in the fields of high technology, medicine and education, which could lead to a spiral of economic collapse.
The newspaper quoted economic expert Dan Ben David as saying that even a year and a half ago – the worst in more than half a century – an increasing number of educated Israelis were giving up and leaving the country, and now this threat has become greater.
In turn, a report by the French website Media Part – from one of the Lebanese-Syrian border crossings that Israel is bombing – said that the wars are throwing Syrian refugees, who are fleeing in the thousands from Lebanon to Syria again, where the war is also continuing.
The article lists the risks and suffering incurred by Syrians fleeing the war in Lebanon as they attempt to cross the border.
He pointed out that more than 176,000 Syrians and more than 63,000 Lebanese have fled to Syria since September 23, according to the Lebanese Crisis Center.
Source : American press + Israeli press + British press + French press
