By Malu Cursino BBC News
A group of UN agencies have called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza as conditions worsen in the territory.
The World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) were among five agencies who described the situation in Gaza as “catastrophic” in a joint statement.
The UN’s plea for a de-escalation of the conflict comes as Israel warns of intensified strikes on Gaza.
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The Israelis traded 1,000+ Palestinian prisoners the last time one of their service members was kidnapped. Releasing the prisoners is likely the key to stopping all this madness.
It seems like Hamas had a limited raid planned, caught the Israelis completely off guard, and did way more damage than they planned. Cooler heads need to prevail. Let the hostages go in a negotiated plan that ends air strikes and reopens Gaza to relief.
I don’t think that will be a realistic option. Doubly so considering most of the planning for October 7th was done by people released in the Shalit deal. Israel has stated that their military goals are killing all senior leadership and hunting down every single person who entered Israeli territory on October 7th.
Israel can probably get most of the hostages back by just stopping the air strikes.
And that’s exactly why they are doing the air strikes and also committing violence on the west bank. They are terrorizing civilians as a bargaining chip.
This way of working should not be supported by western nations.
Especially here in Europe, we are going to become victims of terrorism due to blindly supporting that apartheid state.
We need human corridors and to start sanctioning Israel for war crimes ASAP.
Clearly you know nothing of the region. Just be aware, Hamas has launched thousands of rockets at civilian population centers in Israel. No warnings, no military value, just civilians. They have no intentions of stopping this conflict.
Yeah. Hamas intended to use the hostages for a prisoner swap.