Gaza War: Pictures, Videos, Breaking News
Posted By admin on September 3, 2015
JABALYA Refugee Camp, Northern Gaza -- Children that are left behind are usually taken on by extended family members, but the scars prove hard to heal. The trauma of losing a limb, or a loved one, is likely to endure long after the smell of explosives and decomposing bodies begins to fade.
One year into the cease-fire agreement that ended last summer's 50-day war in the Gaza Strip, Israel and Hamas appear to be advancing toward a series of understandings -- an agreement, even -- that would practically end the siege on the Gaza Strip and bring long-term quiet to the area. The agreement talks are being mediated by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who three months ago stepped down as the longtime envoy of the international Quartet.
Daniel Sobelman
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy Schools Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
How can the international community allow Israel to continue to invade Gaza, over and over again, and inflict such massive pain and devastation on the Palestinians with total impunity? Is there any moral basis left to Israel's prosecution of this uneven "war" and to the international community's inaction?
Three years ago, the United Nations issued a report predicting that the Gaza Strip would be uninhabitable by 2020. Thanks to Israel's recent attack, this warning appears to have arrived sooner than expected.
Rubble. That's been the one constant for the Awajah family for as long as I've known them. Four months ago, their home was demolished by the Israeli military -- and it wasn't the first time that Kamal, Wafaa, and their children had been through this.
Jen Marlowe
award-winning documentary filmmaker, author
If donors want to finally contribute to a just and lasting peace, then they need to take a more balanced approach that includes inviting Hamas into the political process and holding Israel accountable for its actions.
Alaa Tartir
Program Director, Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network; PhD researcher, London School of Economics (LSE)
When donor countries meet to rebuild Gaza for the third time in six years, one thing should be clear: Money alone will not fix it.
Jan Egeland
Secretary General, Norwegian Refugee Council; Former Special Advisor, UN Secretary General for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (2006-2008)
The Gaza war has unveiled my displaced status. Most of my American friends seem helpless in the face of my predicament, yet some are provoked in ways that are mysterious to me.
While I can humanly and psychologically understand why fear pushes many Israelis to the right, I cannot help feeling, along with many of my friends, that the country is moving so far away from our ideals and values that we are becoming strangers in our own land.
Carlo Strenger
Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
The Arab-Israeli conflict has been there my whole life, but this latest war has been more destabilizing than any other, disrupting any effort to manufacture the illusion of individuality, the illusion that we are not only subjects of history and nationhood.
Palestinian soccer clubs and non-governmental organizations have called on European soccer governor UEFA to this week shy away from awarding Israel the right to host the 2020 UEFA European Championship.
James Dorsey
Senior fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
On Tuesday morning, my cousin Adele Raemer who lives on Kibbutz Nirim along the Gaza Border, heard the all-too-familiar "Tzeva Adom," red alert, with the usual explosions following ten seconds later.
Gil Troy
American presidential historian, McGill professor, author of eight books on US history, working on a book about Clinton and the 1990s
Israel believes if it squeezes hard it will win. Israel's intention is clear: weaken Hamas and never give them the credit of ending the siege. To pursue this goal, Israel is killing more children, women, and elderly, completely destroying whole parts of Gaza and its infrastructure.
Taghreed El-Khodary
Editor at Fanack.com; Fmr. correspondent for the New York Times in Gaza (2001-09)
Returning Gaza to the Stone Age has not stopped Hamas, the Islamist militia in control of the territory, from inflicting significant political and psychological damage on Israel.
James Dorsey
Senior fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Wars inevitably spark change. That is no truer than in the war in Gaza, no matter what Hamas and Israel say.
James Dorsey
Senior fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
The campaign to pressure FIFA to sanction Israel was part of a broader Israeli Palestinian move to gain recognition of Palestinian statehood through membership in international organizations and isolate Israel in the wake of the breakdown in April of US-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
James Dorsey
Senior fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
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