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We are counting the minutes and even the seconds for the implementation of the ceasefire on the ground,
said Rami Morjan, a university chemistry professor displaced from northern Gaza City to central Deir al-Balah We are used to the last hours being difficult and dangerous,
We are very worried about permanently losing our lands that we bought and paid everything for,
We see and expect that the coming hours before the ceasefire will be bloody and harsh,
said Dr Raed Musleh, 52, an internal medicine doctor, himself homeless and displaced in the southern city of Khan Younis, where he said medics lacked medicines to treat the wounded The coming hours will be very difficult if Israel continues this pace of bombing—which has already killed 77 people since the agreement was announced,
There has to be a negotiated suspension or removal of those plans to contain UNRWA,
The world must pressure Israel to halt their aggression immediately. This ceasefire deal was called 466 days too late, 46,000 people have been murdered by this senseless war,
No one truly understands the weight of the final moments before the end of a war,
wrote Ahmad Bassiouni, a young Palestinian from Gaza City, in a post on Facebook at the beginning of the week Yesterday was a bloody day, and today is bloodier,
said Zaher al-Wahedi, head of the ministry’s registration department We were expecting that the occupation would intensify the bombing, like they did every time there were reports on progress in the truce (negotiations),
said Mohammed Mahdi, who fled his home a few months ago and is sheltering in Gaza City Hamas has reneged on parts of the agreement reached with the mediators and Israel in an effort to extort last-minute concessions
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement, Since the ceasefire agreement was announced, Israeli occupation forces have killed 73 people, including 20 children and 25 women,
agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP, We succeeded in the past year through our political power in preventing this deal from going through,
Israelis must decide what relationship they want with the Palestinians. That cannot be the illusion that Palestinians will accept being a non-people without national rights,
Iran’s air defences are in shambles. Their main proxy, Hezbollah, is badly wounded, and as we tested Iran’s willingness to revive the nuclear deal, we kept the pressure with sanctions. Now Iran’s economy is in desperate straits.”
The generational memory doesn’t go back to the founding of the state or the six-day war, or the Yom Kippur war, or to the intifada even. It starts with this war, and you cannot ignore the impact of this war on future policymakers. Joe Biden is the last president of his generation whose memories and knowledge and passion to support Israel go back to the founding story.”
Jack Lew, the strongly pro-Israel outgoing US ambassador to Israel, said Hamas had been able to recruit almost as many new militants than it had lost, a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war”.
He underlined the futility of continuing the war by admitting I don’t like any of these words.”
Sullivan recalled meeting a voter in Ohio, and talking to him about the liberal democratic order, and the man turned to him and said What is the outcome of all of this? I think it is too early to predict. Even when good things happen, there are bad things around the corner. That’s true across foreign policy. It’s especially true in the Middle East,
You’re kind of relieved that hopefully there is no more killing. People get to rest and breathe again. And maybe it’s just the beginning of something better. But at the same time: at what cost? With all the loss, the pain and everything, you can’t celebrate or enjoy the news,
