New evidence of changing attitudes in Europe emerged on Monday, when Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo blasted Israel’s military tactics.
The Israeli military only has weeks to destroy Hamas before Western governments withdraw their support for the operation in Gaza, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has said.
The Israeli military has but weeks to inflict damage on the Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, before Western governments reduce support for the operation in Gaza, Barak, who also served as Israel’s defense minister, believes.
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“Listen to the public tone, and behind doors, it is a little bit more explicit,” said Barak, 81.
“We are losing public opinion in Europe and in a week or two we’ll start to lose governments in Europe,” Barak told Politico, as reported on Tuesday. “And after another week the friction with the Americans will emerge to the surface.”
AL-JAZEERA: Families of American detainees in the Gaza Strip said that US President Joe Biden has repeatedly shown that he does not give importance to the well-being of their children.
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US officials have been advocating for “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza, but have not publicly threatened to withdraw Washington’s backing.
The far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to stop the war on Gaza, but Barak believes Israel will have to “come to terms with the American demands within the next two or three weeks, probably less.”
“You can see the window is closing. It’s clear we are heading towards friction with the Americans about the offensive. America cannot dictate to Israel what to do. But we cannot ignore them,” he remarked.
CHINA: #China's representative at the United Nations said that his country rejects the forced displacement of Palestinians in #Gaza, and calls for the cancellation of evacuation orders.
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However, the former general believes it would take the Israeli army months, or even a year, to push Hamas out of Gaza. Israel has made the obliteration of the Palestinian resistance group its primary objective following Palestinian fighters’ attack on southern Israel on October 7.
Israel has, thus far, killed over 10,328, including 4,237 children, and wounded nearly 26,000 wounded. Palestinian Ministry of Health reports and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
Palestinian #children light candles during a vigil at the Shifa hospital demanding to stop the Israeli aggression on #Gaza.
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New evidence of changing attitudes in Europe emerged on Monday, when Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo blasted Israel’s military tactics.
“Bombing an entire refugee camp with the intention of taking out one terrorist, I don’t think you can say that is proportional,” De Croo said. “It is a bridge too far.”
Barak served as Israel’s prime minister from 1999 to 2001 and represented Tel Aviv during the US-mediated 2000 Camp David Summit with Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
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