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China is guilty by investing in infrastructure, providing free education … and forcing tourists to pay to enter Xinjiang’s most sacred mosque.
Given the complete mess Washington has made in the region over decades, maybe even Israel will find value in greater Chinese engagement.
- A senior Canadian official said ‘the situation on the ground makes it so that we can’t’ export any equipment that could have a potential military use
- Israel slammed the decision, with Foreign Minister Israel Katz saying it ‘undermines Israel’s right to self-defence against Hamas’
Democrat Chuck Schumer’s remarks are the most strident criticism yet by a senior American official of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza.
Hamas delegation on Sunday arrived in Cairo for the talks, billed as a possible final hurdle before an agreement that would halt fighting for 6 weeks but by early evening there was no sign of the Israelis.
The move is seen as a step towards achieving peace in the Middle East by reforming the Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza once the war with Israel is over.
Observers say China is in a good position to act as arbitrator in the Israel-Gaza war. So what’s stopping it?
According to the document, Israel would maintain security control over all land west of Jordan, including the occupied West Bank and Gaza – territories where the Palestinians want to create an independent state.
The deaths came with international concern mounting about unrest in the West Bank since Hamas’ October 7 attack on southern Israel sparked the Gaza war.
PM Netanyahu insisted he would seek ‘complete victory’, despite mounting calls to hold off on sending troops into the Gaza city packed with refugees.
Despite international alarm over the potential for carnage in a city crammed with over half of Gaza’s 2.4 million people, the Israeli PM says ‘we’re going to do it’, while Hamas warns such an offensive would threaten talks about the release of hostages.
Aid groups have warned of a high death toll if Israeli forces storm the crowded Gaza city, the last refuge for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Hamas proposed a ceasefire of 4½ months, during which all hostages would go free, Israel would withdraw its troops from Gaza and an agreement would be reached on an end to the war.
Obstacles have long impeded the two-state solution, which envisages Israeli and Palestinian states alongside each other.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he told the United States that he opposes a Palestinian state in any post-war scenario.
The war already is the longest and deadliest between Israel and the Palestinians since Israel’s establishment in 1948, and the fighting shows no signs of ending.
Blinken reiterated Washington’s long-standing position that a Palestinian state must stand alongside Israel, “with both living in peace and security”.
Deputy Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri had long expected the Israeli drone strike that security sources said killed him in Beirut on Tuesday.
Comments by far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotricha appear to underscore fears in much of the Arab world that Israel wants to drive Palestinians out of land where they want to build a future state.
Israel’s prime minister is taking heat for what’s been termed inaction on securing a new prisoner exchange deal, weeks after a brief ceasefire ended.
He was Kuwait’s emir for just three years but spent decades in top posts through the House of Sabah’s tumultuous rule of the oil-rich state.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan also met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the besieged enclave’s post-war future.
The coup directly preceded Qatar’s spectacular shift to liquefied natural gas, powering its ascent to heavyweight status on the diplomatic world stage.
Some Hamas fighters are surrendering, in a sign that the militant group’s network is falling apart, according to Israel’s army chief.
The US has imposed a visa ban against anyone “undermining security” in the West Bank including “extremist Israeli settlers”.
The US Secretary of State also called for a further extension of the truce deal, which has seen hostage and prisoner swaps, as well as aid deliveries.
Ten hostages held in Gaza would be freed in return for 30 prisoners released from Israeli prisons on Tuesday in the first exchanges under the truce extension, according to a Hamas source.
During a trip to the Rafah border crossing with his Belgian counterpart De Croo, Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez also called for a lasting ceasefire in Gaza.
Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole neighbourhoods have been erased. What happens when the war ends?
Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas started a four-day truce on Friday with the first batch of hostages to be released later in the day. Here’s what to expect.
