International newspapers and websites have addressed the daily suffering of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in light of the continued Israeli bombing targeting schools and hospitals. They also wrote about what they considered a severe financial and international crisis that will hit Israel.
As the first phase of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza ends, Palestinians living in daily fear of Israeli strikes see a level of futility in this international campaign, The New York Times wrote.
The newspaper added that the Palestinians are able to protect their children from a disease that could lead to disability, but they cannot protect them and themselves from a more urgent and deadly threat, which is the daily Israeli bombing.
For its part, The Guardian published an article by Manar Al-Khudari, a medical student from the Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza, in which she says that Israel is targeting the future of its students by bombing schools in the Strip, but it will not succeed.
Manar was supposed to graduate from the Faculty of Medicine at Al-Azhar University in Gaza in two months, but her studies were suspended because of the war and she, like thousands of others, remains displaced. But she says education in Gaza continues amid the ashes and corpses.
On the other hand, writer Rami Abu Jamous praised – in his regular article on the Orient XXI website – the doctors in the Gaza Strip, who are doing their best, in light of the ongoing war, bombing, overcrowding of hospitals and lack of resources. The writer pointed out that the health situation in the Strip before the war was not very good due to the Israeli blockade, but today it has become worse, as the first target for the Israelis when they enter a city is the hospital.
On another topic, the Israeli newspaper Maariv conducted an interview with the former head of the Israeli Internal Security Service (Shabak), Ami Eilon, in which he said that if he were a Palestinian and someone seized his land, he would fight him without limits, according to his expression, considering that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the two-state solution.
Elon also believed that “the only way to defeat the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is to create a political horizon for the Palestinian people.”
Commenting on the current Israeli government, Elon said: “We have elected a government whose policy is actually led by Ben-Gvir and Smotrich,” referring to Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
As for Haaretz, it called in its editorial not to allow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gamble with Israel’s future with an irresponsible budget, as it put it. The newspaper warned of a severe financial and international crisis that would hit Israel if the government did not find funding sources to cover defense expenses, pay off debts, and rehabilitate the north and south.
She stated that “these costs will reach about 8 billion dollars, assuming that the war does not expand in the north and that a military government is not established in the Gaza Strip.”
