An earlier edition of this article incorrectly indicated Jordan’s location in relation to Israel. Jordan is an eastern neighbor. It’s to the west.
– Frog F. Sweis and Vivian Yee
A fatal clash between Israelis and Palestinians has provoked protests and intense outbursts of anger in Europe in the afterlife, leading to anti-Semitic acts, particularly in 2014, when Israel invaded the Gaza Strip.
And with the intensification of the existing confrontation and the new protests, French and German officials are taking steps to ensure that it is repeated.
France has banned a pro-Palestinian demonstration scheduled for this weekend in Paris, prompting intense political debate and a failed legal challenge through the organizers of the protest, and the government has deployed police officers across the country in anticipation of additional protests and violence imaginable.
In Germany, where protesters attacked synagogues this week, burned Israeli flags and marched through the streets shouting insults against Jews, security forces were ready for several demonstrations in Berlin on Saturday and authorities said anti-Semitism would be tolerated.
Felix Klein, a German anti-Semitism official, said: “It is appalling to see how obviously German Jews are guilty here for the Israeli government movements in which they are surely involved.
He referred to Muslim associations to “distance therself from violence against Jews and attacks on their places of worship, to call for non-violence and to exert a descaled influence on the Muslim network in Germany. “
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned rocket attacks on Israel and under pressure that the country has the right to protect itself. On Friday, a member of Macron’s workplace said he had also expressed considerations about civilian casualties in Gaza during a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The ban on the demonstration scheduled for the weekend in Paris has been requested through the French Ministry of the Interior. The police government obeyed, drawing out the “sensitive” external context, such as the threat of “disruption of public order” and acts of violence against Israeli synagogues or interests in the French capital.
“There can be no hate speeches, no anti-Semitic demonstrations in France,” French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said Friday in Lille, who said police will be widely deployed in Paris and elsewhere in France to involve the riots and the French Jewish community. the largest in Europe.
Demonstrations were also planned in major cities such as Marseille, Strasbourg and Lyon.
In 2014, radical protesters on the sidelines of pro-Palestinian protests in France destroyed Jewish businesses, clashed with police and chanted “Death to Jews. “This week, the French government cited these occasions as justification for banning demonstrations.
“We will have to not relive the despicable scenes of 2014 on the streets of Paris,” Trump, Darmanin said, adding that the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation involved many French people and that it “should not be exported” to French territory.
The right-wing and centre-right political parties supported the ban, and Anne Hidalgo, the socialist mayor of Paris, was a “wise decision. “
But the organizers of the demonstration filed an emergency request with the court, arguing that there had been nonviolent pro-Palestinian demonstrations since 2014 and accusing the French government of being too pro-Israeli. On Friday night, the court upheld the ban.
– Aurelien Breeden and Melissa Eddy
There is no undeniable answer to the question “What triggered the violence in Israel?”
But in one episode of the Daily, Isabel Kershner, a New York Times correspondent in Jerusalem, explained the series of occasions that have rekindled violence in the region.
In Jerusalem, almost every square metre of land is in dispute: its ownership and location symbolize more vital and permanent questions about who has the right to claim a sacred people through 3 of the world’s primary religions.
As Elizabeth explains, a long-running legal war to forsod six Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem increased tensions in the weeks leading up to the outbreak of violence.
The still precarious peace has been implemented through the overlapping Muslim holy month of Ramadaan with a month of politically charged days in Israel.
They followed a series of provocative occasions: Israeli forces forbade others from collecting to celebrate Ramadan outdoors at Damascus Gate, a front of the Old City that is regularly a festive gathering place for other young people after breaking the fast daily of the holy month.
The Palestinians were then filmed slaping an ultra-Orthodox Jew, videos that went viral in TikTok.
And on Jerusalem Day, an annual occasion marking the capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, teams of young Israelis marched through the Muslim quarter of the Old City to succeed in the Western Wall, singing “Death to the Arabs” along the way.
Stability in the city collapsed after a police raid on the Aqsa mosque complex, an opening that Palestinians saw as an invasion of sacred territory. The Muslim faithful threw stones and officials received them with tear gas, rubber bullets and crippling grenades. At least 21 police officers and more than 330 Palestinians were wounded in the fighting.
Listen to the episode to hear how these clashes became an exchange of airstrikes that brought Israeli forces to the brink of Gaza, and to the breaking point of the war.
Transcript
From the New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. C from The Daily.
In days, the deadliest violence in years has epped between Israel and the Palestinians:
Gaza’s intense rocket chimney retaliated through Israeli airstrikes, with no symptoms of slowdown and . . .
– scored by piles of missiles coming and going between Gaza and the cities of Israel.
A growing number of victims, children, Israeli airstrikes in Gaza –
And now, on the streets of Israel, shocking scenes of collective violence opposite Arabs and Jews.
Today I spoke to my colleague from Jerusalem, Isabel Kershner, about why all this is and how much it can get worse.
It’s Thursday, May 13.
Elizabeth, I know there may not be an undeniable answer to that question, but what has been the cause of this eruption of violence in Jerusalem in recent weeks?
Well, one of the triggers for sure is the case of six Palestinian families facing imminent eviction through Jewish homeowners in which they have lived since the 1950s in a very small, quiet and leafy community in East Jerusalem, not far from the Old City.
Tensions have been emerging in the Sheikh Jarrah community for weeks. Several Palestinian families are in danger of being evicted from their homes. [NON-ENGLISH DISCOURSE] We’re right. We keep resisting, we stay here even if they don’t need us.
This is one he’s been bubbly for years and years.
We don’t see why Arabs are ici. No need problems. But this land is Jewish and belongs to us. We don’t do it with anyone, not the courts or anyone else.
The Israeli government has turned it into a small dispute over personal assets, but it is a long way from that.
So, you’re talking about displaced families and refugees in 1948, the war that surrounded the creation of Israel, and they lost their homes in what has become Israel, and they moved to this component of East Jerusalem when the Jordanians were in charge. The Jordanian government presented them with an option in collaboration with the United Nations Refugee Agency at the time, they said, we’re going to build houses in this neighborhood, a few dozen houses, and you can come and live in them. And we’re going to record them for you and, in return, you give up your refugee status, and the families accepted that and moved into the houses, but in the end, the Jordanian government never registered them in their name.
Then, in 1967, war broke out in the Middle East. Israel after the war of ’67 annexed this territory. But this motion has never been identified internationally. And most countries in the world remain occupied territory. And while there was an agreement between Jordanians and Palestinian families on these houses, the land they feel now is controlled through Israel. Now, a domain basically populated by Palestinians, the land was bought through Jewish acceptance as true in the 19th century. And in the meantime, devotees accepted how true owners have sold the rights to a genuine real estate agency, to others who need to resettle. Jews in this neighborhood. And there’s nothing more to the Palestinian mentality, nothing more provocative than the refugee factor, so it took on much greater proportions. It’s not just about renting or evicting some houses, it suddenly becomes a national problem.
So it’s pretty complicated. But to sum up, these Palestinian refugee families won those homes in the 1950s and said it would be their home forever, but that didn’t happen. It is still true that these houses are legally owned by Jewish owners, and now those Jewish owners are telling those Palestinian families that we need them to leave and partly need them because they need the other Jewish people in those houses in East Jerusalem.
It is ok. And they can do so on the basis of a 1970s law that allows Jewish owners to have assets in the eastern component of the city. But on the other hand, the Palestinians do not have the same recourse to the houses they left behind. west of the city or anywhere else in Israel, which created a massive imbalance. And the case went from district court to the Supreme Court and we were waiting for a final verdict on whether evictions would take a stand on Monday.
So Isabel, how does this legal dispute about those evictions fit into what we see now?How’s that happening?
Well, smart question, because there are many, many other aspects in this story. And I think one thing we want to see is the time. We had a month that was normal in many ways, had the month of Ramadaan in the Islamic lunar calfinishar. And Ramadan, the lunar calfinishar, is moving. So this year, Ramadan fell from mid-April to now, so it also coincided with a month in the Hebrew calfinishar, and you also have many emotional appointments. You have Memorial Day for fallen soldiers, you have The Day of Indefinition, you come towards the end of the month and you get Jerusalem Day, which is the day when some Israelis, not all, celebrate what they call the reunification of Jerusalem in the 1967 War I mean, it’s a day when Israelis mark the conquest of the eastern component of the city , hitting the Palestinians in the city regularly across the line on what has become occupied East Jerusalem.
They gave it to me.
And it can also be a very provocative day, because a central feature is what they call the flag parade, which is made up of thousands of right-wing, more commonly Jewish youth, who historically walk a very debatable path: through Muslims. a quarter of the old city to reach the Western Wall and, of course, this was also planned to take place on Monday, yes, you guessed it.
Then, on Monday last week it becomes, through the case of evictions and through the calendar, a kind of revolving collision between Palestinian pain and the Israeli birthday party and, apparently, just a kind of powder keg.
And we also had many other activities in the city that are being built to this day. Ramadan is a time when the city is very nervous. It is a time of devout and nationalistic fervor for many other people. And it started with several other possible ignition points. So the police, for example, have prohibited Palestinians from meeting at the Damascus Gate. The Damascus Gate is one of the most beautiful and historic entrances to the Old City from the east side. And there are those steps that go down to a place, a bit like a kind of amphitheater. And each and every night of Ramadan, historically each and every year, the Palestinians come. They meet there. They break their fast. There are cultural events. And it is a kind of general celebration, a festive atmosphere. But for whatever reason, this year the police prohibited anyone from picking up and sitting on the steps. They erected barricades and said that it was public order to allow other people to enter and leave the old town safely. And that created a great tension.
Then it became a battlefield. Every night, police tried to disperse the crowd there and palestinian youth protested. And that would end in clashes.
We also had what was called the TikTok attacks.
What are these?
So there were two 17-year-old Palestinians who recorded themselves for a TikTok video slap an ultra-Orthodox Jew as he sat on the railing, and it went a little viral. And there were one or two more attacks, and other people just looked good.
And that resulted in a lot of young Israeli Jews walking to damascus Gate, singing things, adding death to the Arabs, and in the end, the police acted as a buffer between them and Palestinian protesters at Damascus Gate and organized battles in either. on the police side, so it’s one of the highest voltage currents going up on Monday.
A very volatile scenario is triggered by movements carried out through various teams of other people on the floor in Jerusalem, adding Israeli police.
Right. So we come to Monday morning after all this surge in power, all those other tensions in the city in this very tense month. And we got to the point where we had Laylatul Qadr, which is a very holy day for Muslims at the end of Ramadan when thousands of devotees historically end the night on the grounds of the Aqsa Mosque, which is the third site. the holiest of Islam. And it is probably one of the most controversial sites in the world, because it is also the most sacred position for Jews. They know it as the Temple Mount. And this is the site of two ancient temples. So on Monday morning, which is also Jerusalem Day, there were Jewish teams planning, as they do historically, to stop by the Temple Mount for a visit. And the Muslim devotees, many of whom, as I said, had stayed there overnight, were waiting for them, in a position for what they would see as some kind of invasion of their sacred territory at a very sacred time of year. year. The police prevented the Jewish teams from passing. But what we saw is that the police raided the compound in gigantic numbers.
There are many other sight issues depending on whether they entered just to disperse the crowd or entered to avoid throwing stones through the protesters where it had already begun or if the stones did not begin until after the police arrived. Under the precise circumstances, he ended up with a giant police raid on the grounds of the Aqsa mosque.
And it ended with stone clashes with police who responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, stun grenades, and at the end of the majority component of this confrontation, you have 330 Palestinians on the one hand who were injured, 250 who were cared for in hospitals, and, on the other hand, 21 police officers were injured.
So Isabel, what happens after that police raid on the mosque, how do the Palestinians react?
So in the afternoon, we get an ultimatum from Hamas, the ruling Islamic organization in Gaza, saying that if the Israelis do not withdraw all their forces from the mosque compound and from the East Jerusalem domain, the Palestinian domain where the evictions took place. . they were about to happen, anything was going to happen.
And they don’t specify what it’s about. But it’s going to be serious.
Israel will pay the price.
We’ll be back.
So Isabel, what happens Monday at 6 p. m. of Hamas deadline for Israeli security forces to withdraw from East Jerusalem and the mosque?
Well, it’s transparent that the Israelis weren’t going to comply, so we waited until 6 a. m. And behold, 3 minutes after 6:00 a. m. , we are sitting here in our workplace in Jerusalem. And all of a sudden we hear high-volume sirens, incoming rocket warnings. And in a minute . . .
– we heard a series of booms. There is a sense that Jerusalem is under attack.
So that deadline is over, does Hamas send missiles to Jerusalem?
Yes, they’re targeting Jerusalem, one of them was intercepted through Israel’s Iron Dome, the missile defense system. Others, in fact, have fallen into communities and on wasteland in the hills west of Jerusalem. And no one was killed or injured, but there, it was damage to the assets And this was very and obviously it wasn’t going to work without an Israeli response.
And what is that answer?
Well obviously Israel had planned some kind of action from Gaza and it still has what it calls a target bank that it has accumulated and Israel without delay started with airstrikes on Gaza and now Gaza is a very small and overcrowded territory. If Israel says it is targeting army targets with very fast weapons and is taking every imaginable precaution to avoid civilian casualties, inevitably there are civilian casualties too, so from the start, the airstrikes were deadly. There were two young people killed very early. that night And every aspect kept intensifying.
Israel destroys towers in Gaza, multi-story buildings that housed Hamas offices or Hamas type headquarters. And Hamas reissued some other ultimatum and told Israel, if it hits other civilian buildings, we will attack Tel Aviv. A barrage of Salvo rockets began to leave Gaza and hit the suburbs around Tel Aviv. Things just get out of hand. By Wednesday afternoon, two days after the confrontation began, we had at least 53 Palestinians killed, according to Gazan fitness officials, adding 14 young people and more than three hundred injured. And on the Israeli side, there are at least six other people who have been killed and dozens wounded.
Isabel, there is a sense at times like this that Hamas missile attacks, but terribly opposed to Israelis, fail to inflict significant damage on Israel due to the generation used through Hamas and that Israeli counterattacks tend to be much more selective. . and more destructive. And it turns out that the death toll suggests that this has been the case so far, a disproportionate kind of impact.
Look, disproportionate is a term used. I think so, the cases in which Israel has a general air superiority in terms of air force. Hamas rockets are quite inaccurate. Israel has the Iron Dome formula that manages to intercept authorities, say, about 90% of rockets heading to population centers in Israel, but the Gaza Strip is at first very overcrowded, very densely populated. Hamas operates from civilian spaces in Gaza, which makes it very, very, very difficult to avoid collateral damage.
At this point, is it fair to describe what’s here as a war, like a war?
Smells more like war. If we end up with a floor crusade over the appearance of Israeli forces, it will be a war.
And we’re talking about a floor operation?
Well, there’s no confirmation from one. But some arrangements seem to be underway. There are calls from reserves, troops and cars to the border, so that’s not out of the question. But it’s hard to say, I don’t think Israel will rush to a ground invasion because they’re usually very expensive, but it’s a component of tactical warfare to sign that you’re in a position for one, which can also be what it is. it’s happening.
Who are the leaders on all sides of this saying about this moment and how does it end?I realize that this is a delicate factor because Israeli and Palestinian leaders are changing. But what do they say?
So on Wednesday night we heard a very strong comment from President Mahmoud Abbas: he heads the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and is a great rival of Hamas. And essentially I was telling Israel, finish your occupation. And we’ve heard more about Hamas. Ismail Haniyeh, a major Hamas politician, ends a recorded speech for a Hamas-affiliated television channel.
[NON-ENGLISH DISCOURSE]
He reported on being contacted through Egypt, Qatar, the United Nations to communicate about some kind of paintings towards the ceasefire.
[NON-ENGLISH DISCOURSE]
But he said that, as in his opinion, Israel had started this, that it was Israel’s duty to begin to finish it.
[NON-ENGLISH DISCOURSE]
On the Israeli side, we hear we’re not done yet. The defense minister said Wednesday that there is no end date. And the day before, the Prime Minister also said, it may take some time.
So it turns out that in the leaders’ component, there is no desire to temporarily end this.
That’s right, it turns out that on both sides they don’t rush to finish this, and that could help them.
how?
On the Palestinian side, Hamas operates in a vacuum with the elderly and weak Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas is seeking to resettle using its motto to lead the resistance and protect Jerusalem, which is at all times a demonstration. crying on the Palestinian side. And on the Israeli side, you have a very specific scenario because Prime Minister Netanyahu is being tried lately for corruption, he has not been able to form a government after 4 elections in two years, and his rivals were looking to form an election coalition to do so. I’ve noticed that it got rid of the workplace for the first time in 12 years and I don’t think we know how that’s going to happen, but one way or another, you’d probably be taking credit for this period, because this is not the right time to replace the government.
Isabel, we started this verbal exchange by talking about the case of deportation to East Jerusalem which, in the eyes of many people, ignited the fuse that now has this war as a conflict What happened to that decision?
The resolution was due to be filed on Monday. On Sunday, after the government spent weeks saying it was a genuine personal estate dispute, the attorney general nevertheless intervened and called for a postponement of the case so that he could examine the documents, get involved and express his opinion. And the judges gave him a month, postponing the verdict for at least 30 days. This is a case in which the Israelis intervened to verify and calm a situation. But, of course, it was too little and too late.
Therefore, this resolution was delayed, though not so long ago, and finally, when it comes out, it will certainly influence the course of this confrontation that has either in recent weeks, but it turns out, and perhaps a little ironic, that the Israeli government has called this case an eviction by genuine real estate dispute when it can simply be said that the full story of the Israeli-Palestinian clash is , in the end, a dispute over genuine properties, on earth and more. The concept of the house.
Maybe you’ll see it that way. I mean, with all the security and national and devout facets of this one-century conflict, at the end of the day, it’s about who rules the territory where and who has the right to call home. Yes.
Isabel, as always, thank you very much.
Gracias.
The Times reports that as the confrontation spreads, rival crowds of Jews and Arabs are carrying out violent attacks in several Israeli towns and villages, one of which occurred in a tel aviv suburb, where dozens of Jewish extremists took turns hitting and kicking an Arab motorcycle. while his body lay motionless on the ground. Another happened in northern Israel, where an Arab mob hit a Jew with sticks and stones, leaving him in critical condition.
On Wednesday night, the United Nations warned that the confrontation could soon escalate to, I quote, an “total war. “And Biden’s leadership has sent a high-ranking American diplomat to the Middle East to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and urge both sides to disqualify.
We’ll be back.
Here’s what you want to know today. In a closed-door vote Wednesday, House Republicans overthrew Rep. Liz Cheney as the third-largest leader of her party for her resolve to denounce former President Trump, her role in the January 6 capitol, and her lies about fraud in the 2020 election.
I’ll do everything in my power to keep the former president from approaching the Oval Office again.
After the vote, Cheney said he has no regrets and promised that he would continue to talk about Trump and seek to break his control over the Republican Party.
We have noticed the danger it continues to cause with its language, we have noticed its lack of commitment and commitment to the Constitution and I think it is fair.
And the company operating the main pipeline closed because of a cyberattack said pipeline operations had begun to resume. The pipeline shutdown had generated fears of fuel shortages and caused panic purchases in several states, Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
Today’s episode produced through Austin Mitchell, Soraya Shockley, Robert Jimison, Annie Brown and Daniel Guillemette; edited through M. J. Davis Lin with the help of Phyllis Fletcher; designed through Chris Wood and composed of original music by Rachelle Bonja and Dan Powell.
I’m Michael Barbaro, see you tomorrow.
GAZA CITY – The taxi loaded with everything the circle of relatives would want for Eid al-Fitr, a party dinner and biscuits and new clothes that Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, even before Friday’s attack through the floor forces, had remodeled in a while. explosions and fear.
In his 4 suitcases, al-Hatu’s circle of relatives – mother, father, son and daughter – had made sure to pack kaak stuffed with date paste, cookies historically shared between friends and circle of relatives Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
But they also brought enough clothes and food for several days, no one knew when it would be to go home. Until then, in an attempt to escape the airstrikes, they would stop by to stay with another woman on Al Mughrabi Street, a five. -minute drive.
Everyone agreed: they would feel safer if they were all together,” said the son, Mohammed al-Hatu, 28.
They were still unloading the white Skoda sedán from their transit home some time before noon on Wednesday when he attacked the first drone.
M. al-Hatu’s sister had already dragged a suitcase inside. M. al-Hatu, who dressed up with another, staggered into the entrance of the building, bleeding and collapsed.
On the street, his father, Said al-Hatu, 65, and the driving force of the taxi were dead. A few yards away, his mother, Maysoun al-Hatu, 58, lives but seriously injured.
“Save me, ” he pleaded with Yousef al-Draimly, a neighbor who had rushed down the stairs, and he said, “I want an ambulance. Save me. “
An ambulance arrived, but Ms. Al-Hatu was unable to do so.
Less than a minute after the first attack, a moment when a drone exploded in the street, killing two other men: a laundry employee on the block and a passerby. He had to have his leg amputated.
On Thursday, the first day of Eid al-Fitr, and the fourth day of the worst confrontation between Israel and Palestinian militants in years, Gaza City was silent with fear, when it was full of terror: the sudden outbreak of Israeli airstrikes, the whistling of rockets from militants heading towards Israel, the cries of others looking at each other Fix the last groans of the dying
– Iyad Abuheweila and Vivian Yee
Palestinian militants fired some 1,800 rockets from Gaza into Israel this week, more than in previous clashes, according to Israeli officials, who on Thursday expressed their astonishment at the length of the dam and the diversity of some of the rockets.
Israel’s Iron Dome’s anti-missile formula has shot down many rockets and many others have reached places where they can cause little damage, but some of the uns guided rockets reached populated areas, blew up buildings and cars, and killed seven others in Israel.
The complicated arsenal of rockets is the main weapon of Hamas, the militant organization that controls Gaza. Other teams there, such as Islamic Jihad, also have them. Israeli intelligence estimates there are 30,000 rockets and mortar shells stored in Gaza.
Before this week, Hamas was believed to have rockets with a diversity approaching a hundred miles, and many others with a shorter diversity. The largest cities in Israel, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, as well as its main airport, Ben Gurion Airport, are less than 65 kilometres from Gaza. The airport closed incoming passenger flights due to danger, with flights diverted to Ramon Airport to the southeast.
But rockets were also fired at Ramon, more than 110 miles from Gaza’s nearest component. A Hamas spokesman said the rockets opposed to the airport were of a new type that can only travel 250 km, putting all israel within Gaza’s diversity. It may simply not be verified and the number of new rockets to be sent to the organization was unclear.
In the past, many of the rockets fired from Gaza were smuggled in from Egypt or smuggled together, but in recent years, they have peaked in Gaza, with Iran’s technical assistance that Hamas has brazenly acknowledged.
Mona El-Naggar
Israeli airstrikes and Gaza bombings have stopped all vaccines and tests against the coronavirus in the Palestinian enclave and increased the threat of civilians piling up in shelters for security reasons, UN officials said.
In an interview with Zoom on Friday, when the sound of Israeli explosions shook its headquarters, the heads of operations of the Palestinian United Nations relief company in Gaza and the head of the World Health Organization’s office in Gaza said they feared a serious build-up in Viral Infections. It would be a side effect of the death and destruction of the last wave of hostility.
The number of others in Gaza with health problems due to the Covid-19 “just stated, and then this coup came,” said the head of the UN aid agency Matthias Schmale. “It’s a dark situation. “
He said uninstented Gazans rushed to schools through his agency, known as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, because Israelis had not deliberately attacked those buildings, in fact, by making anti-aircraft shelters. could mass stations. “
Last month, Covid’s severe and critical cases peaked in Gaza, which fitness experts attributed to the proliferation of the highly communicable variant of the coronavirus that was first known in Britain. .
SAcha Bootsma, the WHO official, said that before vaccines stopped, another 38,000 people in Gaza had won at least one dose of the vaccine, representing less than 2% of the two million inhabitants. administered in 3 hospitals in Gaza, and the AstraZeneca vaccine given in smaller gyms.
But now Mrs Bootsma said: “People don’t dare fitness facilities. We are involved in this having a major negative impact. “
By contrast, more than 60% of the Israeli population has won at least one dose of Pfizer-BioNTech or Modern vaccines, and more than 55% are fully vaccinated, according to Oxford University’s Our World in Data project. has slowed significantly in recent months.
As a component of Covax, foreign collaboration to deliver vaccines to the world’s poorest regions, Gaza is expected to get enough vaccines for 20% of its population, authorities said.
But deliveries, aired at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport and then shipped by land across the border to Gaza, were suspended indefinitely because air service in Israel was reduced due to hostilities. As they continue soon, it is unclear when the problems of the Gaza crossing can be reopened.
“The biggest challenge now is that borders are closed,” Schmale said. “Even if there was a delivery, we couldn’t get supplies. “
Rick Gladstone
The Arab world has widely condemned Israeli bombing of Gaza and Israeli police raids this week on the grounds of Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites. Leaders have spoken out, protests have taken place, social media is on fire.
But at the government level, the condemnation so far is largely rhetorical Since 2014, when Israel introduced a seven-week offensive in Gaza, the region’s considerations have changed, with new fears about Iran’s influence and the development of popularity through Israel’s true Arab nations.
Even countries that normalized relations with Israel last year (United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco) have brazenly criticized Israeli policy and called on Palestine and the defense of Jerusalem. The escalation of violence has put pressure on these governments, who had argued that their closest relationship with Israel would help curb Israeli movements opposing the Palestinians.
“I have not noticed any Arab state that has not rhetorically expressed its support for the Palestinians, and it would be very difficult for them to say something else,” H. A. Hellyer, Middle East policy specialist at Carnegie Endowment in Washington. “But what they’re doing about it is very different. “
Hamas, the militant Islamist organization that controls Gaza, is not to the liking of the governments of the Sunni Arab world, but its strong message that it fires rockets at Israel to protect Jerusalem has touched sensitive fiber, said Khaled Elgindy, director of Palestine’s program at the Center. East Institute. Gaza is one thing, he said, but “Jerusalem is vital to the Arab League and to transparent stakeholders, such as Jordanians and Saudis,” who are the guardians of Islam’s holy sites.
Egypt and Jordan, which have long had diplomatic relations with Israel, are actively committed to defusing the conflict, but will also have to be wary of the wrath of national public opinion. Qatar, which has Hamas’ budget in Gaza, has also tried to mediate; his foreign minister held talks with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and U. S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
The Arab League is pushing for an emergency debate at the UN Security Council, which the United States has postponed until at least Sunday. The Arab League will have to stay ahead of the Jerusalem debate, analysts agreed, and not give the floor to Hamas.
– Steven Erlanger