In articles and reports published in international newspapers and websites, writers and journalists called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being behind the faltering prisoner exchange negotiations.

“Gaza has become a defining moment in the moral history of the United States and the international community,” Michelle Nunn wrote in an article on The Hill, calling for an immediate ceasefire. The writer adds that what she called "stupid bombs" that caused a lot of death and destruction in Gaza were manufactured by America and given to Israel.

In the same context, an article in Foreign Affairs magazine refuted the boast of Israeli leaders that they have the most moral army in the world. Writer Avner Gvaryahu - a former soldier who worked in the West Bank - said that the claims of Israeli leaders to respect conflict protocols and their efforts to reduce the number of civilian casualties, do not actually exist, adding that the opposite is true.

As for the French “Media Part” website, it published an analysis in which it described the Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu, as “a lover of eternal and useless negotiations.” The analysis explained that the faltering negotiations to exchange prisoners these days are not only due to disagreements over the details, but rather to Netanyahu’s calculations and political problems. Interior, as well as the nature of his extremist government coalition, and his volatile parliamentary alliances, as the French website confirms.

An investigation in the Financial Times shed light on the crisis that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is going through, describing this crisis as the worst in the agency’s history, and that it threatens not only the residents of Gaza but also Palestinian refugees in the entire Middle East.

According to the newspaper, the refugee camps in Lebanon appear to be the most fragile, and it quotes the official of the Lebanon branch as saying: For the Palestinians there, the agency is a lifeline with all its branches and complexities.

Source: Al Jazeera