Qatar’s position as a major mediator has its roots in the early 2000s-then the country developed relations with all Islamists linked to the Muslim Brotherhood
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Europeans must oppose the expansion of Israel’s land offensive into densely populated southern Gaza, currently home to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons
Showing solidarity and respecting human dignity means not to close down the space for debate and reflection about the possibility of genocide
It will take years for Israelis to recover from this attack, even from a psychological perspective: the reality of secret services’ failure is too difficult to digest
Giving Israel a blank check, which is what Europeans might do now, can have dangerous and counterproductive outcomes
While the UAE boasts of having prevented Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank, Israel’s occupation and Netanyahu’s aggressive settlement policy plays no role
While the deal has been welcome, official statements have also stressed this development should be a catalyst for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace-making
With the stakes made even higher by the coronavirus, now is the time for concerted international engagement with Israel, the PA, and Hamas, to address the deeply entrenched political obstacles that have kept Gaza perpetually on the edge of collapse
The coronavirus continues to represent a significant danger to an already fragile Gaza Strip. It threatens to exasperate a manmade socio-economic and humanitarian crisis. For Hamas, this will require it to balance its competing roles as both resistance movement and de facto government of the Strip, writes Hugh Lovatt.