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The Middle East risks an all-out war, Iran also comes into play

2024-04-07 09:47:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

The Middle East risks an all-out war, Iran also comes into play

Six months after Hamas attacks on Israel, war, disease, hunger and death are ravaging Palestinians in Gaza, the BBC reports. 

Israel is deeply divided as its prime minister struggles to keep his promise of total victory. The United States, Israel's most essential ally, has turned against the way it is fighting the war.

With Iran vowing revenge for Israel's killing of a top Iranian general in Syria and months of cross-border conflict with Iran's ally Hezbollah in Lebanon, the risks of an all-out war in the Middle East are rising.

Statistics record the horrors of the last six months. More than 33,000 Gazans, most of whom were civilians, have been killed, according to the health ministry. According to Save the Children, 13,800 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed and over 12,009 injured. 

More than 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, were killed by Hamas on October 7 and 253 people were taken hostage in Gaza. Israel says that of the 130 hostages still there, at least 34 are dead.

A UN team reported in March that it had "clear and convincing information" that the hostages had been subjected to sexual violence "including rape, sexualised torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment". He said he had "reasonable grounds" to believe violence against the hostages was continuing.

Israel denies accusations that it is guilty of genocide. To many of its citizens and supporters it is grotesque and offensive to claim that the state created after Nazi Germany killed six million Jews in the Holocaust is itself committing genocide.

Palestinians, on the other hand, see the accusations from a different perspective, shaped by years of military occupation by Israel. Many Palestinians believe that Israel has already created a state that denies them the most basic rights./ CNA 





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