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“Geography and history has dictated that we live in the same neighbourhood ... But I feel a historical responsibility to utilise this opportunity to bring the two states side-by-side, just as our borders are.”

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Greek Prime Minister
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“There is no issue between us that is unsolvable. So long as we focus on the big picture and don't end up being like those who cross the sea and drown in the river. We want to turn the Aegean into a sea of peace. Through the joint steps we will take as Turkey and Greece, we want to be an example to the world.”

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Turkish President
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“Any discussion about the necessity of continuing military assistance to Ukraine must invariably be based on the sole (catastrophic) alternative - a 'frozen conflict'. This 'frozen' state is not in some abstract realm of 'political expediency,' but against the backdrop of a large-scale massacre of civilians, a major war, an enormous number of unequivocal war crimes and crimes against humanity … and the persisting insane desire of the Russian Federation to obliterate Ukraine's agency.”

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Advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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“I want to be clear: without congressional action, by the end of the year we will run out of resources to procure more weapons and equipment for Ukraine and to provide equipment from US military stocks. There is no magical pot of funding available to meet this moment. We are out of money - and nearly out of time. Cutting funding would kneecap Ukraine, putting its forces on the defensive and possibly on the retreat.”

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Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget
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“This comes as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled their homes and have been displaced. While the Israelis are chalking up battle plans for the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the reality is that there is no safe place in Gaza at the end of day 58 of this war. It is worth noting that the Israeli military has not shown huge military achievements or accomplishments, but rather what we have seen is a dire humanitarian catastrophe that has unfolded inside of the Gaza Strip.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from occupied East Jerusalem
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“There should be a complete ceasefire so that the humanitarian aid can help alleviate, even if slightly, the suffering of civilians.”

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Communication Officer at International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC
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“It is self-evident that Beijing is trying to sway Taiwan elections through means including free trips for politicians. They have already made it clear that a so-called 'right choice' has to be made, meaning choosing candidates that the Chinese Communist Party prefers.”

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Minister of the Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC)
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“The footage we are seeing and the growing numbers of children dying, I have serious doubt [Israel] is complying with international humanitarian law. What we are seeing in Gaza is not acceptable.”

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Prime Minister of Spain
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“Firepower and passive defences - minefields, trenches for instance - seem to have neutralised the capabilities of mechanised and airborne forces. If there is a critical development it will be a collapse due to exhaustion - like a boxing match where one fighter simply can't take the blows, but not from a knock-out punch.”

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Professor of geopolitics and weapons systems at the Hellenic Army Academy
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“The winter is just going to reinforce the misery … neither side is going to have a tactical or operational breakthrough. I think they're going to try to push through in the winter. The ground freezes, [they'll] try to make some moves because they're desperate. I don't mean the Ukrainians. I mean the Russians. The soldiers won't want to do it. It will be a disaster. There will be more dead bodies.”

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Colonel who has led special forces detachments in Afghanistan and the Middle East - Vice president for Global Guardian
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“There is no way we are not going back to fighting until the end. This is my policy, the entire cabinet stands behind it, the entire government stands behind it, the soldiers stand behind it, the people stand behind it - this is exactly what we will do.”

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Prime Minister of Israel
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“We have to continue, we have to keep fighting. Ukraine is not going to back down. The issue here is not just Ukraine's security, it is the security and safety of the entire Euro-Atlantic space.”

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Foreign Minister of Ukraine
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“In the event that Israel cannot take Hamas out, the fissure between the two Palestinian political groups will deepen. Hamas would remain standing, a valiant hero for Palestinians for fighting Israel, and the PA [Palestinian Authority] would appear weak, shamed for cooperating with Israel over the years. That would kick off a vicious cycle of a seemingly weak PA inspiring more settler activity in the West Bank, which would erode the group's control of the territory more and more. This could be the beginning of the end of the PA.”

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Lecturer at Birzeit University in the West Bank
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“I'm confident that the United States will continue to provide support because it is in the security interest of the United States to do so and it's also in line with what we have agreed. I urge allies, and allies are also committed to continue to deliver support.”

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Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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“This decision is to be applauded since freedom of movement has been recovered through the order. We wanted to point out the injustice imposed on sub-Saharan citizens not only in their desire to reach destinations but also in damaging the circular migration in ECOWAS space for the sake of another geographic space of the European Union.”

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Coordinator of Alarm Phone Sahara, an Agadez-based NGO helping migrants in the Sahel and Sahara
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“It's unlikely to happen, given the messages coming from the Israeli side. I also think a ceasefire is not the same as putting out the fire to the original spark - the original point of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. If they are just extending the truce for a few days, and resuming the carnage, it doesn't seem like an effective way to move forward. It's not moving forward at all.”

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Professor at Northwestern University in Qatar
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“For every Palestinian prisoner [the Israelis] release, there seems to be a continued disregard for the freedoms of Palestinians they continue to detain, a continuous disregard for Palestinian life as they continue to kill people in very violent and endless raids in the occupied West Bank.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Ramallah in the West Bank
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“Israel has no good options after its bad war ends. This may be its last chance to pull away from the brink, stop the war, embrace US President Joe Biden's vision of a two-state solution, impractical as it is today, and accept America's red lines for Gaza: no to reoccupation, no to ethnic cleansing and no to shrinking its territories. But Netanyahu, along with his fanatic coalition, who've long taken America for granted, have once again ignored - read rejected - America's advice to the detriment of both sides.”

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Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera
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“We said that we are ready for this state to be demilitarised, and there can also be guarantees of forces, whether NATO forces, United Nations forces, or Arab or American forces, until we achieve security for both states, the nascent Palestinian state and the Israeli state. A political resolution which calls for a Palestinian state based on the June 4, 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, has remained out of reach.”

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President of Egypt
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“The negotiations on the release of our hostages are advancing and continuing constantly. The start of the release will take place according to the original agreement between the sides, and not before Friday.”

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Israeli National Security Adviser
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“Only this morning, from the Qadoura family in Jabalia, 52 people have been wiped out completely, killed. I have the list of the names, 52 of them, they were wiped out completely from grandfather to grandchildren.”

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Foreign minister in the Palestinian Authority government based in the West Bank
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“There is no oxygen to supply the patients. All those on artificial respiration have died. We speak out to the free world. The Indonesian hospital has become a cemetery, not a hospital.”

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Head of the nursing department of the Indonesian Hospital
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“The enemy's UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) were launched in many groups and attacked Kyiv in waves, from different directions, at the same time constantly changing the vectors of movement along the route. That is why the air raid alerts were announced several times in the capital.”

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Head of Kyiv’s city military administration
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“He's [Benjamin Netanyahu] very vulnerable, more than he's ever been in his political career given that he presided over the greatest intelligence security failure in Israel's history. Prime ministers have fallen for far less than that.”

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Expert on Palestinian-Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC
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“With winter fast approaching, unsafe and overcrowded shelters, and the lack of clean water, civilians are facing the immediate possibility of starvation.”

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Executive director of the World Food Programme
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“Doctors, nurses, ambulances and other hospital staff must be permitted to do their work and patients must be protected. Hospitals only lose those protections if it can be shown that harmful acts have been carried out from the premises. The Israeli government hasn't provided any evidence of that.”

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Human Rights Watch United Nations Director
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“The tanks are in front of the hospital. We are under full blockade. It's a totally civilian area. Only hospital facility, hospital patients, doctors and other civilians staying in the hospital. Someone should stop this. They bombed the (water) tanks, they bombed the water wells, they bombed the oxygen pump as well. They bombed everything in the hospital. So we are hardly surviving. We tell everyone, the hospital is no more a safe place for treating patients. We are harming patients by keeping them here.”

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Surgeon at the Al Shifa hospital
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“Shifa hospital now isn't working, no one is allowed in, nobody is allowed out, and if you are wounded or injured around Gaza area you can't be evacuated by our ambulance to Shifa hospital, so Shifa hospital now is out of service.”

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Doctor at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip
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“This is a humanitarian catastrophe that has proved the failure of the international community and the UN Security Council to put an end to Israel's gross violations of international humanitarian laws, and prove the dual standards adopted by the world. We are certain the only cause for peace is the end of the Israeli occupation and illegal settlements, and restoration of the established rights of the Palestinian people and the establishment of the state on 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

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Saudi Crown Prince
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“It's totally a war zone, it's a totally scary atmosphere here in the hospital. It's continuous bombardment for more than 24 hours now, nothing stopped, you know, it's all from the tanks, from the street, from the airstrike.”

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Senior plastic surgeon at Al Shifa hospital
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“The extensive Israeli bombardment of Gaza, including the use of high-impact explosive weapons in densely populated areas ... is clearly having a devastating humanitarian and human rights impact. The attacks must be investigated ... We have very serious concerns that these amount to disproportionate attacks in breach of international humanitarian law. Any use by Palestinian armed groups of civilians and civilian objects to shield themselves from attack is in contravention of the laws of war. But such conduct by Palestinian armed groups does not absolve Israel of its obligation to ensure that civilians are spared.”

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UN high commissioner for human rights
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“There are violations by Hamas when they have human shields. But when one looks at the number of civilians that were killed with the military operations, there is something that is clearly wrong. It is also important to make Israel understand that it is against the interests of Israel to see every day the terrible image of the dramatic humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people. That doesn't help Israel in relation to the global public opinion.”

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Secretary-general of the United Nations
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“The mere idea of the PA getting back into Gaza on the back of Israeli fighter jets and tanks razing it to the ground is so obviously foolish. Abbas & co must be delusional to think that Israel is spending blood and treasure in order to hand over both the West Bank and Gaza to their incompetent regime. In fact, the Israeli government is making no secret of its plans to maintain overall control of the strip, indefinitely.”

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Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera
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“Our forces must not shed blood to give the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority wrapped in a bow.... Only full Israeli control and a complete demilitarisation of the strip will restore security.”

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Lawmaker in Netanyahu's religious-nationalist coalition
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“The US side tried to convince Turkish officials to put more pressure on Hamas and make it release the captives. But the Turkish position was very clear on this matter. They said that the prisoner release should be mutual, where Hamas releases captives and Israel releases Palestinian prisoners. Turkey also asked for an unconditional ceasefire and said there should be an international mechanism to observe the ceasefire, which Ankara would be the guarantor for. But we haven't heard anything about a ceasefire from Blinken. He has been using the phrase humanitarian pause and the Turkish side has told him that this is not enough.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist
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“One of the keywords that we heard from the Palestinian president is that [the Palestinians] are seeking a 'ceasefire'… and demanding that the US seek a 'ceasefire'. That's one of the key differences… the US has said they will continue to look for humanitarian pauses… they are not seeking a ceasefire.”

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Al Jazeera correspondent reporting from Ramallah
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“I'm here to discuss Ukraine's accession path to the EU. The EU's financial support to rebuild Ukraine as a modern, prosperous democracy. And how we will continue to make Russia pay for its war of aggression.”

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President of the European Commission
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“China regards Europe as a comprehensive strategic partner and an important pole in a multipolar world. It is hoped that Germany will push the EU to uphold the principles of marketisation and fairness, and work with China to safeguard fair market competition and free trade.”

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President of the People's Republic of China
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“The conflict had reached a transitional phase where both sides hold the initiative in different parts of the front. Overall, Ukraine's offensive in the south has either culminated or is about to. My sense is that the artillery advantage that Ukraine had for much of its offensive is now going to recede, and that Ukraine's ammunition availability is going to be constrained. Russia will also be forced to conserve ammunition, but will now increasingly benefit from the influx of supply coming from North Korea.”

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Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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“The Chinese leadership is divided into two camps regarding the country's overall strategy. A Chinese State Council-based group is advocating economic development, while a national security group is pushing for an aggressive stance on the world stage. Although the national security wing holds sway over policymaking, the Chinese government would probably act cautiously in the immediate future. Addressing economic problems stemming from declining foreign investments, local government debt, rising youth unemployment and weak domestic demand would likely absorb Beijing's attention. China's economy could face devastating consequences if Beijing pursues policies that could scare away foreign investors and businesspeople, including from Taiwan.”

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Taiwan National Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General
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“The bombings on Gaza must stop immediately … the path of oil and food exports to the Zionist regime should be stopped. People of Gaza have mobilised the public's conscience by their patience. Look at what's happening in the world. In the UK, France, Italy, and the US, many people came out to the street and chanted slogans against Israel and the United States. They have lost their credibility and really, there is no remedy for them as they cannot justify Israel's attack. The world of Islam shouldn't forget in the case of Gaza it was the US, France, and the UK that stood against the oppressed people of Gaza, it wasn't just the Zionist regime.”

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Iran’s Supreme Leader
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“We have had very preliminary talks about what the future of Gaza might look like. I expect that it will be the subject of a good bit of diplomatic engagement moving forward.”

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US State Department spokesperson
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“Domestic opposition to a destructive war would be substantial, but at the same time, my take is that it would not be enough to entirely constrain or deter Hezbollah from acting if its intervention is of sufficient importance for itself and the broader resistance axis of which it is a key part.”

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Beirut-based analyst with the Century Foundation think tank
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“So how will the situation develop? As hard and risky as it is to make such a bold claim, I think the US has reason to believe that no state actor will join in the fighting in Gaza. Unless there is a major escalation of force or a move for total expulsion of the Palestinians from the Strip. The current, geographically limited “war” should thus not turn into a wider regional conflagration, a message that will have been made clear to all countries through diplomatic channels and intermediaries who have contacts with both sides.”

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Strategic analyst and consultant
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“Southern European countries, like Italy and Greece, are concerned about the ramifications of a wider regional war involving Iran that could create a massive refugee crisis. American and European leaders are firm supporters of the Abraham Accords normalising relations between Israel and some Arab countries. The current war in Gaza jeopardises the ongoing peace process in the Middle East at a time when the West needs to confront Russia in Ukraine and deter China over Taiwan.”

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International security expert from King’s College London
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“We've gone from 14,000 (artillery) rounds per month to 20,000 very quickly. We're working ahead of schedule to accelerate that production capacity up to 85,000, even as high as 100,000 rounds per month. And I think the Israel situation is only going to put upward pressure on that demand.”

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General Dynamics' chief financial officer
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“There is so much going on in the world and geopolitics in the wars that you're seeing and what just happened recently in Israel and Gaza. At the end of the day, when you put all this together, I think the impact on economic development is even more serious.”

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World Bank President
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“The Iranians are facing this dilemma of whether they are going to send Hezbollah to the fight in order to try to save their arm in the Gaza Strip or maybe they are going to let go of this arm and give it up. This is the point where the Iranians are calculating their risks.”

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Former Israeli intelligence official and a negotiator during the first and second intifadas
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“Our working assumption is that Hamas has prepared the battlefield, that there are various dimensions of warfare ready for us - specifically tunnels - and that Hamas, at least in the first and the intermediate stages, will fight and will inflict heavy casualties on (Israeli forces).”

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Israeli military spokesman
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“The humanitarian situation in Gaza - already precarious - has reached catastrophic levels. I am confident that this delivery will be the start of a sustainable effort to provide essential supplies - including food, water, medicine and fuel.”

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United Nations humanitarian chief
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“One of the reasons Hamas moved on Israel ... they knew that I was about to sit down with the Saudis. Guess what? The Saudis wanted to recognize Israel.”

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President of the United States
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“From a risk perspective, Biden is now tied to whatever the Israelis decide to do in Gaza. Biden is wagering that consoling, negotiating with and aiding Israel give him the most influence shaping their actions.”

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Director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
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“It doesn't matter if there's a commission of inquiry or not, or whether or not he [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] admits fault. All that matters is what 'middle Israelis' think - which is that this is a fiasco and that the prime minister is responsible. He will go, and his entire establishment along with him.”

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Research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
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“Russia and China, like most countries of the world, share the desire for equal, mutually beneficial cooperation in order to achieve universal sustainable and long-term economic progress and social well-being, while respecting the diversity of civilization and the right of each State to its own development model. As for the Northern Sea Route, Russia does not just offer its partners to actively use its transit potential, I will say more: we invite interested states to participate directly in its development, and we are ready to provide reliable ice breaker navigation, communication and supply. Starting next year, navigation for ice-class cargo ships along the entire length of the Northern Sea Route will become year-round.”

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President of Russia
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“Despite the fact that in the current geopolitical conditions, the possibilities for keeping contact and developing relations are very limited, it cannot but cause satisfaction that our ties with many European countries are maintained and developed. One of those countries is Hungary.”

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President of Russia
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“In this ward as you can see, there are children who are attached to ventilators, and now we have been asked to evacuate the hospital, where should we evacuate these children?”

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Intensive care doctor on a children's ward at the Kamal Edwan hospital in the northern Gaza strip
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“Residents of Gaza City, I call upon you again: Hamas is trying to prevent your evacuation. We will enable it southward. Leave Gaza City and all the surrounding areas for the sake of your personal security.”

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Chief Israeli military spokesperson
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“There are thousands - if not tens of thousands - of people who have flocked to the hospital. They are sleeping on the ground, in the corridors, between patients' beds. People are absolutely terrified. They think this is the safest place and everything around them confirms that. Unless there is respite there is going to be a public health catastrophe at the hospital.”

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Surgeon at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City
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“Israel's primary goal for a ground invasion would be to perform a very public demonstration of power and might that [PM Benjamin] Netanyahu might be able to present to an Israeli public that is increasingly calling for his resignation. [Netanyahu is] very keen that before there can be any de-escalation, the public perception is restored to one that views Israel as this overwhelming power and the Palestinians as a weak power.”

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Managing director of International Interest, a political risk firm focusing on the Middle East
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“The eradication of Hamas is not just a lofty goal - but nearly impossible. [It's] a complete impossibility because it's not like you can distinguish fighters from civilians. Of course, Israeli secret services have identified many of them. But in a situation where you're fighting, it's very difficult.”

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Strategic analyst and consultant
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“Israel's goal for a ground invasion is to destroy Hamas infrastructure and eliminate altogether [its] military capabilities to [ever again] launch anything that we saw on Saturday.”

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Expert on Israel at the Chatham House think tank
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“There are severely ill people whose injuries mean their only chances of survival is being on life support, such as mechanical ventilators. So moving those people is a death sentence. Asking health workers to do so is beyond cruel.”

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WHO spokesperson
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“Humanitarian aid to Gaza? No electrical switch will be lifted, no water hydrant will be opened and no fuel truck will enter until the Israeli hostages are returned home. Humanitarian for humanitarian. And nobody should preach us morals.”

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Israeli Energy Minister
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“Without electricity, hospitals risk turning into morgues. The human misery caused by this escalation is abhorrent, and I implore the sides to reduce the suffering of civilians.”

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International Committee of the Red Cross regional director
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“You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers, in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms and how the terrorist kills them. It's not a war, it's not a battlefield. It's a massacre. It's something that we used to imagine from our grandfathers, grandmothers in the pogrom in Europe and other places.”

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Israeli Major General
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“International humanitarian law is clear: the obligation to take constant care to spare the civilian population and civilian objects remains applicable throughout the attacks.”

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UN high commissioner for human rights
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