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« Reply #315 on: 09:00:20, 28/04/24 »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news


News in the Middle East moves fast. One moment it is all about unprecedented missile and drone attacks between Iran and Israel. The next the headlines return to the fighting and suffering in Gaza.

But policymakers, analysts and military leaders are still absorbing the extraordinary exchange of fire just days ago between two old adversaries, one that arguably came a small technological failure away from triggering a devastating international conflict.

It is worth considering how close they came to the edge and how deep the abyss that lay before them. This was the first time Iran and Israel had attacked each other directly.

Some analysts say the Iranian attack was the largest combined missile and drone assault ever - bigger than anything Russia has levelled against Ukraine. It was certainly the first external bombardment of Israel since Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles in 1991.

Most of the 300-plus Iranian drones and missiles were shot down or failed en route. But I watched from our office in Jerusalem as the night sky was lit up by Israeli air defences trying to bring down the ballistic missiles flying overhead. All it would have taken is for one GPS guidance system to fail for a missile to land in an urban area at huge civilian cost.

"I don't think people realise how close we were that weekend," one senior Western security official told me. "It could have been a very different story."
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« Reply #316 on: 09:34:51, 28/04/24 »
The Iranians and the Israelis knew exactly what they were doing ,does anyone think it’s strange that 300 missiles/ drones didn’t kill anyone and only caused minimal damage , the American defence department publicly said there would be an attack from Iran so you have to ask yourself why didn’t Israel launch a pre emptive strike ?.

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« Reply #317 on: 11:45:59, 28/04/24 »
imo America is trying to keep hostilities in check.
Is that what we are trying,when the Holocaust Memorial is covered up.? DISGRACEFULL.
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« Reply #318 on: 12:43:43, 28/04/24 »
To protect it? :-\
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« Reply #319 on: 07:58:09, 29/04/24 »

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Rafah[size=0.75rem]IMAGE SOURCE,Image caption,
More than half of Gaza's population has been displaced to Rafah.




By George Wright
BBC News


Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the US is the only country that can stop Israel from attacking Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than a million people are taking refuge.[/size]

Mr Abbas, who runs parts of the occupied West Bank, said any attack could see Palestinians flee Gaza.

Israel has consistently vowed to carry out an offensive in Rafah.

US President Joe Biden "reiterated his clear position" on Rafah to Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu in a call on Sunday.

The US has repeatedly said it cannot support a large-scale Israeli military operation in Rafah without seeing a credible plan to keep civilians out of harm's way.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Saudi capital Riyadh earlier, Mr Abbas - whose Palestinian Authority is not present in Gaza, which has been under Hamas rule since 2007 - urged the US to intervene.

"We appeal to the United States of America to ask Israel to stop the Rafah operation because America is the only country capable of preventing Israel from committing this crime," he said, adding that only a "small strike" on Rafah would force the Palestinian population to flee the Gaza strip.

"The biggest catastrophe in the Palestinian people's history would then happen."

More than half of Gaza's population is in Rafah and conditions in the overcrowded southern city are already dire, with displaced people there telling the BBC there was a lack of food, water and medication.

While the White House did not elaborate on what specifically Mr Biden's latest comments to Mr Netanyahu were regarding the planning offensive in Rafah, national security spokesman John Kirby told the ABC network that Israel had agreed to listen to US concerns and thoughts before going in.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Riyadh where he will hold talks with Mr Abbas at the start of a new Middle East tour.


US doctor describes witnessing starvation in northern Gaza
  • World Central Kitchen to resume food aid in Gaza
  • Meanwhile, the indirect negotiations continue.
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    « Reply #320 on: 08:03:56, 29/04/24 »
    And yet the hostages haven’t been released

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    « Reply #321 on: 08:04:17, 29/04/24 »
    The USA could air drop the supplies off where the Palestinians are sheltering,  the prevarication is just not good enough. >:(
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    « Reply #322 on: 08:05:04, 29/04/24 »
    And yet the hostages haven’t been released


    Not the civilians fault.  They are pawns.
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    « Reply #323 on: 08:10:37, 29/04/24 »
    The people voted hamas in just like the Germans voted hitler in . Release the hostages and you have a better chance of peace , sow the wind and reap the whirlwind

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    « Reply #324 on: 08:36:12, 29/04/24 »
    They should release the hostages,  I'm only astonished that they haven't been found.
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    « Reply #325 on: 08:56:38, 01/05/24 »
    All that's necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

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    « Reply #326 on: 09:49:27, 01/05/24 »
    'I could not protect her': A dad mourns his child killed in the Channel. ???


     Yes you could, France is a safe country you put that child at risk and are responsible for her death, no one else.

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    « Reply #327 on: 09:57:16, 01/05/24 »
    Sadly true.
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    « Reply #328 on: 09:05:40, 02/05/24 »
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news


    Israel accused of possible war crime over killing of West Bank boy

    A family photo of eight-year-old Adam, who was shot by Israel's military, posing in a hallway wearing a bow tie and a waistcoat[size=0.875rem]Image caption,
    Adam, eight, was shot in the head as he ran away from Israeli armoured vehicles[/font][/color][/size]




    Isobel Yeung, Josh Baker and Sara Obeidat
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    In the early afternoon of 29 November last year, several Palestinian boys descended on to their street in the occupied West Bank, where they often played together.[/size]
  • Minutes later, two of them lay dead from gunshots fired by Israeli soldiers - Basil, 15, and eight-year-old Adam.
    As part of an investigation into the conduct of Israel's security forces in the West Bank, which has been under military occupation for more than half a century, the BBC has pieced together what happened on the day the two boys were killed.
    Mobile phone and CCTV footage, information about the movements of Israel's military, witness testimony and detailed investigation of the scene, including taking measurements, combine to reveal evidence suggesting serious human rights violations.
    The evidence we found has prompted Ben Saul, UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, to say the death of Adam appears to be a "war crime".
  • Another legal expert, Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, described the use of lethal force as “indiscriminate”.
    The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the circumstances of the deaths were “under review” but said “live fire is used only in order to remove immediate threats or for arrest purposes, following arrest protocols after exhausting other options”.
    With violence having surged in the West Bank in the months since Hamas's attack on Israel from Gaza on 7 October, the BBC has also found evidence of Palestinian homes being vandalised with graffiti, Palestinian civilians threatened with weapons and told to leave the territory for neighbouring Jordan, and the possible mutilation of the body of a Palestinian gunman.
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    « Reply #329 on: 09:13:01, 02/05/24 »
    There is no control of soldiers - both sides


    The manner in which reckless killing is happening is becoming savage.


    Deplorable.

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