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Sat 21 Dec 2024 5:10 pm - Jerusalem Time
International newspapers: Gaza patients face death risk, Netanyahu does not want to end the war
The French newspaper "Le Monde" confirmed that more than 12 thousand patients and wounded in the Gaza Strip, according to figures from the World Health Organization, are facing the risk of death due to the inability to obtain medical evacuation, as the number of evacuations has decreased significantly since May, when the Israeli army took control of the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip.
Le Monde pointed out the collapse of health institutions in Gaza, which has been under Israeli attack for more than 14 months, with the besieged sector lacking food, medicine and medical equipment.
In the Guardian, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), wrote an article saying that the agency may be forced to stop its work in the occupied Palestinian territories next month, which would paralyze the humanitarian response in Gaza and deprive millions of Palestinian refugees of basic services in the West Bank.
Lazzarini argues that the Israeli government's efforts to dismantle a UN agency were met with public condemnation and outrage, which largely turned into political deadlock.
In addition to the humanitarian file in Gaza, international newspapers and websites highlighted developments in the situations in Yemen and Syria.
“The United States hopes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will find it difficult to back down after the first round of negotiations on the Gaza deal,” Amos Harel said in an analysis in Haaretz. He added that both the outgoing and incoming American administrations are exerting all their influence to force an agreement between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), before the presidential rotation in a month.
The writer comments that "despite the optimism about the possibility of concluding a deal this time, Netanyahu and his far-right partners in the government certainly do not want the war to end."
On the subject of Yemen, writer Avi Ashkenazi acknowledged in his article in the Maariv newspaper that Israel “failed to confront the Houthis, was not prepared intelligence-wise and politically, and did not develop a real plan to repel them, as happened in the north with Lebanon.”
The writer believes that Tel Aviv "must make a real decision to act decisively not only in Yemen, but also against those responsible for the Houthi activities and intelligence, because they are not based in Sanaa but in Tehran," according to the Israeli writer.
On Syria, the New York Times said that the way forward for the Syrian economy begins with easing sanctions, after years of conflict devastated the energy sector, battered the currency, and stifled growth. The newspaper commented that although “the collapse of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was shockingly rapid, rebuilding the shattered economy he left behind will be painfully slow.”
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International newspapers: Gaza patients face death risk, Netanyahu does not want to end the war