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Israel’s Final Solution for Gaza

Israel’s Final Solution for Gaza

History & Context

Hamas is agreeing to release all hostages and end the war. Israel refuses.

Hamas negotiators worked with Qatari and Egyptian mediators to respond to all issues in the last U.S./Israeli ceasefire draft, focusing on food aid to Gazans and a permanent end to the war. Western media has reported verbatim claims from Netanyahu and U.S. envoy Witkoff that Hamas “is the obstacle to a hostage release deal."
Internal Israeli politics

The political and legal survival of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is dependent on continued war and yielding to the demands from far-right ministers to annex Gaza and the West Bank. Their intention is to erase Palestine.
Palestinian oil and gas reserves

Oil and gas resources in the West Bank and offshore Gaza, and control of Gaza’s maritime zone, could provide Palestinians with economic independence and strategic strength. Israel sees this as a threat to its own strategic and economic ambitions.
Israel continues to arrest large numbers of Palestinians, most without charge

Palestinians held in Israeli prisons now number over 10,000, subjected to systematic torture and extra-judicial killing. Israel’s targeting of attorneys, activists and doctors in Gaza is evidence of the intention to destroy medical infrastructure and civil society in Palestine.
Israeli hegemony = U.S. regional influence

Despite growing international support for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and recognition of the State of Palestine, unconditional U.S. support for Israel has been an effective block on meaningful political or economic steps to hold Israel accountable for its crimes in Gaza.
An aggressive Israeli lobby in the U.S. and a powerful pro-Israel evangelical voting bloc drive U.S. policy on Israel

The Israeli lobby in the U.S. finances much of the Congress and helps drive U.S. policy on Israel. As do the 80 million evangelicals who make up 25% of the nation’s adult population, 80% of whom voted for Trump in 2024. Many U.S. evangelicals believe Israel’s occupation of all the Holy Land will usher in the “second coming of Jesus.”

Fight for Geopolitical Superiority in the Middle East

The U.S. support for Israel’s assaults on Gaza and the West Bank are part of the drive for U.S. regional influence through Israeli hegemony.

World In Brief

Expectations are low for the Trump-Putin summit tomorrow at the U.S. Air Force Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. The Ukrainian defense forces centre suggested that Putin might to justify Russia's invasion of Ukraine by trying to convince Trump that Ukraine is not a real state.

In their horror over Israel's actions in Gaza, more than a dozen British MPs are pushing Prime Minister Keir Starmer to expel the Israeli envoy, impose an arms ban, deliver immediate aid to Gaza, support war crimes probes, and suspend trade preferences.

The worst cholera outbreak in years has hit Sudan, with nearly 100,000 suspected cases and over 2,470 deaths. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says the water shortages make hygiene impossible, increasing the risk.

Despite words of condemnation of Israel's actions, the EU's first proposal to restrict Israeli access to some limited EU funds because of its intentional starving of Palestinians in Gaza has stalled. Germany is among those blocking the move.

The typically cool climates of Norway, Sweden and Finland changed dramatically in July with temperatures of 20-30 degrees Celsius. Scientists say that global heating from fossil fuels made the heatwave at least 10 times more likely.

BREAKING As starvation in Gaza continues to spread, more than 100 humanitarian organizations, including Oxfam and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have signed a joint letter calling on Israel to stop the "weaponization of aid" into Gaza. They say they've been told they are "not authorized" to deliver aid, and risk being banned if they "delegitimise" the state of Israel or do not provide detailed information about Palestinian staff, and have not been allowed to deliver a single truck of lifesaving supplies since 2 March.

Responding to user queries as to why it had been briefly suspended from X, Elon Musk's chatbot Grok explained: " “My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the U.S. are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B’Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. U.S. complicity via arms support is widely alleged."

There is international outcry at reports that Israel is in talks with South Sudan about transferring Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to that war-torn East African country. Human rights experts, and Western and Arab countries alike, say it would mean transferring them from one war-ravaged land at risk of famine to another.

After Israeli PM Netanyahu and his cabinet announced their decision last week to seize full control of the Gaza Strip, Israel has bombarded Gaza City relentlessly, causing massive destruction. While the UK, EU, Australia, Canada and Japan issued a statement demanding "immediate, permanent and concrete steps" to facilitate the entry of aid to Gaza, they have themselves taken no action to facilitate the entry of aid.

A young woman from New Zealand and her 6-year-old son 3 weeks ago joined the growing list of foreigners facing interrogation, detainment and often deportation at the U.S. border. Despite Sarah Shaw being a legal resident of Washington state, ICE confiscated her phone and transported the mother and son to an immigration processing center in south Texas, many states away from her home.

In advance of the Trump-Putin summit on Friday in Alaska, German Chancellor Merz has organized a video call for other European leaders and Trump with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, who will attend in person in Berlin.

U.S. National Guard troops have started arriving in Washington DC, one day after Donald Trump took control of the city's police force. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke of the troop deployment as an "authoritarian push."

In Spain, thousands have been evacuated as wildfires rage, as temperatures in some areas surged above 40C.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine will not agree to cede the Donbas to Russia as part of any agreement, because Moscow would simply use it from which to start a future invasion.

Israel has intensified its bombing of Gaza, killing at least 89 Palestinians in the last 24 hours. Fifteen of those were waiting for food. Five more Palestinians have died from starvation.

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The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City

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Nuclear

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