Ipse related to Palestine

Samuel Zbogar

Inserted 1 day ago

“Gaza doesn't exist any more. It is destroyed. Civilians are facing hunger, despair and death. There is no reason for this war to continue. We need a ceasefire now. We need to bring hostages home now.”

Aljazeera

Slovenia’s UN Ambassador

Read the Background

11 Dec 2024 8 2

António Guterres

Inserted 1 week ago

“Malnutrition is rampant … Famine is imminent. Meanwhile, the health system has collapsed. Gaza now has the highest number of children amputees per capita anywhere in the world, with many losing limbs and undergoing surgeries without even anaesthesia. The blockade of aid is not a crisis of logistics but rather a crisis of political will and of respect for fundamental principles of international humanitarian law.”

Aje

Secretary-general of the United Nations

02 Dec 2024 6 2

Hani Mahmoud

Inserted 1 week ago

“The Israeli military has deliberately targeted law enforcement and those who work in protecting and securing delivery of aid into Gaza since the beginning of the war. This has created a power vacuum, throwing the whole Strip into lawlessness. There is no law or order, creating mayhem across Gaza. The suspension of UNRWA's operations of delivery of aid to a much needed population is a byproduct of ongoing attacks on UNRWA, its facilities and partners - the World Central Kitchen was attacked yesterday. Employees do not feel safe in the facilities or on the ground, moving trucks from one area to another.”

Aje

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Deir el-Balah

01 Dec 2024 6 2

Inger Ashing

Inserted 1 week ago

“There are not strong enough words to express the grief and outrage at loss of staff member Ahmad Faisal Isleem al-Qadi, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. This war has been the deadliest on record for the killing of UN and aid workers with at least 337 reported killed since October 2023. Violence against civilians and humanitarian workers is unacceptable and it must stop. There must be a ceasefire. There must be accountability.”

Aje

Chief executive of Save the Children

30 Nov 2024 7 2

Khalil Sayegh

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“The ceasefire [Israel-Hezbollah] could make Hamas even less popular in Gaza, by proving the failure of its gambit that its attack on Israel would rally other militant groups to the fight. It's a moment where we can see the Hamas messaging become weaker and weaker, as they struggle to justify their strategy to the public.”

France24

Palestinian analyst

27 Nov 2024 4 3

Stephane Dujarric

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Armed looting has become systematic and must end immediately. It is hindering life saving aid operations and further endangering the lives of our staff. However, the use of law enforcement operations must be lawful, necessary and proportionate.”

Aje

Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

19 Nov 2024 2 2

Moeen Mahmood

Inserted 4 weeks ago

“It's utterly shocking and outrageous that children who need essential treatment are being blocked by Israel from leaving Gaza. Israel's denial of urgent medical evacuations defies reason and humanity.”

Aje

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) country director in Jordan

14 Nov 2024 3 2

Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Inserted 1 month ago

“Words cannot express the plight of the Palestinian people. The actions taken by Israel against the Palestinian people are undermining efforts to achieve lasting peace. It is only with justice that we will be able to establish lasting peace. The world cannot turn a blind eye on the Israeli violence.”

Aljazeera

Secretary-General of the Arab League

11 Nov 2024 4 2

Philippe Lazzarini

Inserted 1 month ago

“Without intervention by member states, UNRWA will collapse, plunging millions of Palestinians into chaos.”

Timesofisrael

Head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA

06 Nov 2024 2 1

Osama Hamdan

Inserted 1 month ago

“A meeting was held with the brothers in the Fatah movement at a generous Egyptian invitation. They discussed various national issues, especially the war on Gaza and pathways for national action.”

Timesofisrael

Senior Hamas spokesperson

04 Nov 2024 3 2

Juliette Touma

Inserted 1 month ago

“Who is going to replace UNRWA? When this brutal war finally comes to an end, who will provide education to 400,000 children who go to UNRWA schools, who? What is the plan? We don't have any answer to that. Israel's ban on the agency will take place in 90 days. It is a race against time for member states around the world to work with Israel to not implement this ban. Even other UN agencies who have education within their mandate cannot manage teaching on this level or of this scale. We are the only UN agency in the world that runs 700 schools … In the absence of a political solution for Palestinian refugees, there is no alternative to UNRWA. It's easy to talk. The question is what are you going to do about the ban and how are you going to fill the void? You meaning the State of Israel.”

Aje

Spokeswoman for UNRWA

04 Nov 2024 6 1

Rachael Cummings

Inserted 1 month ago

“We are seeing the apocalypse now unfolding in the north of Gaza. While Israel continues to issue forced displacement orders, it is not safe to move. People are being constantly bombarded with aerial attacks and of course, we know that the food and the water is not sufficient. The convoys of food and water are being denied into the north … It is absolutely catastrophic.”

Aje

Humanitarian Director - Save the Children International

03 Nov 2024 5 2

Samah Jabr

Inserted 1 month ago

“To understand the effect of weaponised starvation, it is essential to consider the broader social and psychological framework within which it occurs. Ignacio Martín-Baró, a prominent figure in liberation psychology, posited that trauma is produced socially. This means that trauma is not merely an individual experience but is embedded within and exacerbated by the social conditions and structures surrounding the individual. In Gaza, traumatogenic structures include the ongoing siege, the genocidal aggression, and the deliberate deprivation of essential resources such as food, water, and medicine. The trauma they result in is compounded by the collective memory of suffering during the Nakba (the mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1947-8) and the continuous displacement and systemic oppression of the occupation. In this environment, trauma is not just a personal experience but a collective, socially and politically ingrained reality.”

Aljazeera

Head of the Mental Health Unit within the Palestinian Ministry of Health

02 Nov 2024 6 2

Philippe Lazzarini

Inserted 1 month ago

“Today, I must inform you that the Agency is under such physical, political, and operational attack - unprecedented in UN history - that implementation of its mandate may become impossible without decisive intervention by the General Assembly. The consequences for Palestinians, for Israel, and for the region will be grave. These bills will not terminate the refugee status of the Palestinians, which exists independently of UNRWA's service provision. They will severely harm their lives and future. Today, even as we look into the faces of children in Gaza, some of whom we know will die tomorrow, the rules-based international order is crumbling in a repetition of the horrors that led to the establishment of the UN, and in violation of commitments to prevent their recurrence.”

Aa

Head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA

30 Oct 2024 7 1

Sami Abu Zuhri

Inserted 1 month ago

“The movement has confirmed it is open to any deal or ideas that ends the suffering of our people in Gaza and achieve a permanent ceasefire, and the occupation's withdrawal from all of Gaza Strip.”

Timesofisrael

Hamas official

29 Oct 2024 4 2

Sam Rose

Inserted 1 month ago

“There are hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in buildings under the safety of a UN flag and if that protective status of the buildings is taken away then of course we can't in any way pretend to guarantee that safety. The way that Unrwa operates is different to other UN agencies. We're not just distributing aid or providing water - we're running a health system, we're running an education system. Other UN agencies work on policy, they work on normative issues, they provide support to member states or government. They are not in the business of running health services, or education services.”

Bbc

Director of planning for the UNRWA

29 Oct 2024 4 1

Mads Gilbert

Inserted 1 month ago

“How can they be watching these horrible attacks on healthcare workers? We need an additional factor to understand why this has been allowed to go on, and that is actually that the Palestinian people are defined as under-humans. We would never have allowed this to happen, for example, in Ukraine. Almost 250,000 people in the northern part of Gaza have now no healthcare, and that in itself is part of the genocide.”

Aje

Norwegian physician and humanitarian advocate

26 Oct 2024 5 4

Hisham Sakani

Inserted 1 month ago

“This is the 14th time the hospital comes under Israeli fire. Our doctors are now in Israeli detention, their families were killed. It is a catastrophic situation as patients and the wounded are left on the floor without any medical attention. We are facing grave dangers and here I am once again sending an SOS to the whole world. We pray to God almighty our plight comes to an end and Israeli massacres ceased. The entire population north of Gaza Strip are now without any medical service after all the hospitals have been destroyed and forced out of operation.”

Aje

Kamal Adwan Hospital spokesperson

26 Oct 2024 2 3

Hussam Abu Safia

Inserted 1 month ago

“There is a very large number of wounded people, and we lose at least one person every hour because of the lack of medical supplies and medical staff. Our ambulances can't transfer wounded people. Those who can arrive by themselves to the hospital receive care. But those who don't just die in the streets.”

Aje

Director of the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital

24 Oct 2024 6 5

Farhan Haq

Inserted 1 month ago

“Civilians are trapped under rubble. The sick and wounded are going without life-saving healthcare. Families lack food. Their homes have been destroyed. They have no shelter. And nowhere is safe.”

Aje

Spokesman for the UN

23 Oct 2024 3 3

Rami George Khouri

Inserted 1 month ago

“The US-backed Israeli refusal to negotiate a permanent two-state resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict pushed Sinwar, Hamas and smaller fighting units to focus on armed resistance. This culminated in the October 7 attacks last year. The rhetoric of Western leaders after Sinwar's death reflects their refusal to admit this reality. They continue to deny that those who politically challenge or militarily engage Israel act as resistance groups waging a battle for justice for Palestinians and others in the region who suffer the consequences of Zionist settler-colonialism. This biased deficiency has defined Western political elites for decades as they fail to acknowledge that Israeli concerns are not superior to Palestinian ones and the Israel-Palestine conflict has two parties whose mutual rights to sovereignty and security must be achieved for a meaningful peace to be established.”

Aljazeera

Public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut

22 Oct 2024 9 4

Philippe Lazzarini

Inserted 1 month ago

“The smell of death is everywhere as bodies are left lying on the roads or under the rubble. Missions to clear the bodies or provide humanitarian assistance are denied.”

Aljazeera

Head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA

22 Oct 2024 2 3

Achim Steiner

Inserted 1 month ago

“It's quite clear from this socioeconomic assessment, that the level of destruction has set back the state of Palestine by years, if not decades, in terms of its development pathway. Even if humanitarian aid is delivered each year after the war ends, the Palestinian economy will not return to its pre-crisis levels for at least a decade.”

Aljazeera

Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme

22 Oct 2024 3 3

Trita Parsi

Inserted 1 month ago

“There are diplomatic solutions to this crisis, but they have to center on the de-occupation of Palestine, since that is the root cause of the conflict. The main obstacle to such an outcome is Washington's refusal to sincerely push Israel to end its occupation. If the United States fundamentally changes its approach, these diplomatic solutions will become politically viable.”

Rferl

Iranian-born Swedish writer and activist, and co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

19 Oct 2024 6 3

Marwan Al-Homs

Inserted 1 month ago

“The health system is currently under destruction and annihilation. Our wounded and injured patients are unable to find treatment, and they are dying without any intervention. Hospitals cannot provide care due to the overwhelming number of casualties and the high death toll. Our hospitals have no capacity for injuries, intensive care units are filled with severe cases, and we are forced to work on a priority basis. The neonatal units are overcrowded, with no space for any newborns or premature infants. Any patient requiring care is postponed, and some cesarean sections have been delayed until a bed becomes available for an infant in need. Our wounded, injured, and sick individuals, as well as our medical staff, civil defence teams, and the Palestinian people, cannot find food; they have nothing to eat.”

Aje

Director of field hospitals in the Gaza Strip’s Ministry of Health

18 Oct 2024 7 2

Ramzy Mardini

Inserted 1 month ago

“Hamas has been fighting this war for a year in a very closed space, so it is already decentralized to the limit, fighting in very small units of a dozen or less fighters who have a lot of autonomy. Mr. Sinwar's death is unlikely to affect those operations since he had lost the ability to direct them, anyway.”

Nytimes

Associate at the Pearson Institute at the University of Chicago who studies rebellions and civil wars

18 Oct 2024 3 2

Helena Cobban

Inserted 1 month ago

“The Israeli killing of Haniyeh and Sinwar are the sort of decapitation attempts that fading colonial powers use. Colonial powers try to delegitimise national liberation movements as 'terrorists' and in the name of 'fighting terrorism' they inflict horrible violence. Like the French in Algeria or the French and US in Vietnam. But Palestinian resistance to occupation is wider than any set of individuals and Hamas is not just in Gaza. It is certainly more popular among Palestinians throughout the whole of West Asia than the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas.”

Aje

Co-author of “Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters”

18 Oct 2024 12 3

Ibrahim Dalalsha

Inserted 1 month ago

“Hamas's remaining leadership is still unlikely to withdraw its demand for a permanent truce or to accept permanent Israeli occupation of parts of Gaza. Hamas's new leadership might be more willing than Mr. Sinwar to hand over power to a technocratic Palestinian government, in order to ensure the group can survive at least in some form in Gaza. It could also show more flexibility in the negotiations over the hostages, perhaps agreeing to exchange more hostages for fewer Palestinian prisoners. And it might also tolerate a temporary Israeli presence in Gaza as long as Israel nominally promised to withdraw permanently in the future. You could find a weakened, more pragmatic leadership in Hamas that would make some tactical compromises, though not on the strategic issues. They won't say: 'Yes, we'll do whatever you want, Mr. Netanyahu.' But for the sake of their own physical survival, they may make more compromises than the man who initiated the whole war.”

Nytimes

Director of the Horizon Center, a political research group in Ramallah, West Bank

17 Oct 2024 10 2

Fuad Khuffash

Inserted 1 month ago

“Mr. Sinwar's death would deal the group a crushing blow but would not necessarily change its main negotiating positions. Hamas is a group built on individuals. If you lose someone of Sinwar's stature, it's not always easy to find someone quickly with the same strength. But Hamas will continue according to the same principles - if they don't stiffen their position. Whoever replaces this leader will continue his ideological line.”

Nytimes

Palestinian analyst close to Hamas

17 Oct 2024 5 3

Roxane Farmanfarmaian

Inserted 1 month ago

“Some of the possible leaders who might take Yahya Sinwar's place are more hardline than he was. Others include more pragmatic figures such as Khaled Meshaal, the former head of Hamas's political directorate, who is more of a negotiation expert. Since Hamas may have lost its military leader it will probably choose another military leader rather than a political one at this stage, as the fight is not over.”

Aje

Lecturer on international relations of the Middle East at the University of Cambridge

17 Oct 2024 5 3

Mohamad Elmasry

Inserted 1 month ago

“We know that violence breeds more violence. This genocide will breed even greater levels of resistance - these are just basic facts. While also suffering losses, Hamas has been able to recruit thousands of new members since the start of the war. So the resistance is not going anywhere anytime soon unless the root causes of this conflict are addressed, and the root causes are well known. They're the Israeli illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, the apartheid system that Israel has set up, the siege on Gaza, and the continued injustices. Once those things are addressed there can be a peaceful resolution - but until then, there will be resistance.”

Aje

Associate Professor and Chair in the Media and Cultural Studies and Journalism programs at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

17 Oct 2024 7 2

Joyce Msuya

Inserted 1 month ago

“The atrocities in Gaza must end, but this cannot happen through words; it must happen through action - urgent, unequivocal action. The world has seen the images of patients and displaced persons, sheltering near Al-Aqsa Hospital, burning alive, while others, including women and children, are suffering the excruciating pain of severe life-changing burns. Given the abject conditions and intolerable suffering in north Gaza, the fact that humanitarian access is nearly non-existent is unconscionable. The level of suffering in Gaza defies our ability to capture it in words, or even to comprehend its scale.”

Press

Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

16 Oct 2024 5 2

Philippe Lazzarini

Inserted 1 month ago

“Gaza has become a kind of wasteland that is now almost unliveable. There is a real risk today … that we enter a situation where famine or acute malnutrition is unfortunately again a likelihood.”

Aje

Head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA

16 Oct 2024 4 2

Tania Hary

Inserted 1 month ago

“I'm most concerned by how the plan seems to say that if the population is given a chance to evacuate and they don't, then somehow they all turn into legitimate military targets, which is absolutely not the case.”

Apnews

Executive director of Gisha - Israeli organization dedicated to protecting Palestinians’ right to move freely within Gaza

13 Oct 2024 6 3

Tareq Abu Azzoum

Inserted 2 months ago

“The situation in the Jabalia refugee camp is realistically very catastrophic. Witnesses tell us that the army has been actively operating in the heart of the camp and the border towns in the north of the Strip until now. The military and the humanitarian situation are getting much worse there day by day. Humanitarian supplies are not allowed to be transferred to the north of Gaza. The UN said no new food entered northern Gaza since the beginning of October, and this will certainly lead to a new wave of starvation there. People say they are running extremely low on food in the camp and going through days without any water source.”

Aje

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza

12 Oct 2024 7 2

Husam Abu Safiyeh

Inserted 2 months ago

“We have seven cases in intensive care … all these cases are very severe and they all need intensive surgical or medical care. Moving or transporting these patients puts their life in serious danger, it is not possible to transfer them. In addition, there is no facility in Gaza that has capacity to take them as they are all overrun with their own similar cases.”

Theguardian

Director of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya

10 Oct 2024 3 2

Marwan Bishara

Inserted 2 months ago

“If you observe the correlation between what is happening in Palestine and what's happening with the cause of Palestine around the world, you will notice that the better it gets for the cause in terms of popular movements, and government recognition, the worse it gets for Palestine. Israeli aggression, bolstered by the United States, has been so severe that the rise in popular support and official recognition has yet to yield significant improvements. And that's a horrific fact in international relations. The fact that the entire international community, the United Nations, recognise the Palestinian right to self-determination in their own homeland, while Israel and the United States continue to deny them that.”

Aje

Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera

10 Oct 2024 5 3

Khalil al-Hayya

Inserted 2 months ago

“Not abiding by international law and international humanitarian law and not stopping Israel's aggression against our people and the people of the region will lead to more insecurity and instability in the region and globally.”

Aje

Hamas official

06 Oct 2024 4 1

David Satterfield

Inserted 1 month ago

“It [the polio campaign in Gaza] got through for two reasons, because the specter of an outbreak of polio carries a message around the world, which would have redounded negatively upon Israel. Point one. Point two, the sewage flows from Gaza, moved North up the coast to Ashdod, to Ashkelon, and eventually to the Tel Aviv beaches. Israel has a significant non or inadequately vaccinated population, the ultra-Orthodox. Israel recognized it was not just a reputational threat, it was a genuine health threat to Israel and Israelis, and they showed they could do it.”

Carnegieendowment

Former United States Ambassador to Türkiye

30 Sep 2024 8 2

Mohammed Abu Mughaisib

Inserted 2 months ago

“Gaza's healthcare sector is still gradually deteriorating. Some hospitals are partially damaged. Number of patients is huge. There's a big issue with medical supplies. All international medical NGOs are suffering from delays in supplies entering Gaza. The situation is getting worse and worse. We have three hospitals partially functioning in the south of the Gaza Strip which are overwhelmed with trauma patients as well as normal patients. There is one hospital in the middle area which is run by the government and serves more than one million people who are sheltering there [in central Gaza]. In the pediatric ward, for example, there are 40 beds for 200 children who are lying on the floor.”

Aje

Deputy medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza

30 Sep 2024 3 2

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“Gaza doesn't exist any more. It is destroyed. Civilians are facing hunger, despair and death. There is no reason for this war to continue. We need a ceasefire now. We need to bring hostages home now.”

“Armed looting has become systematic and must end immediately. It is hindering life saving aid operations and further endangering the lives of our staff. However, the use of law enforcement operations must be lawful, necessary and proportionate.”

“It's utterly shocking and outrageous that children who need essential treatment are being blocked by Israel from leaving Gaza. Israel's denial of urgent medical evacuations defies reason and humanity.”

“Without intervention by member states, UNRWA will collapse, plunging millions of Palestinians into chaos.”

“A meeting was held with the brothers in the Fatah movement at a generous Egyptian invitation. They discussed various national issues, especially the war on Gaza and pathways for national action.”

“The movement has confirmed it is open to any deal or ideas that ends the suffering of our people in Gaza and achieve a permanent ceasefire, and the occupation's withdrawal from all of Gaza Strip.”

“Civilians are trapped under rubble. The sick and wounded are going without life-saving healthcare. Families lack food. Their homes have been destroyed. They have no shelter. And nowhere is safe.”

“The smell of death is everywhere as bodies are left lying on the roads or under the rubble. Missions to clear the bodies or provide humanitarian assistance are denied.”

“Gaza has become a kind of wasteland that is now almost unliveable. There is a real risk today … that we enter a situation where famine or acute malnutrition is unfortunately again a likelihood.”

“I'm most concerned by how the plan seems to say that if the population is given a chance to evacuate and they don't, then somehow they all turn into legitimate military targets, which is absolutely not the case.”

“Not abiding by international law and international humanitarian law and not stopping Israel's aggression against our people and the people of the region will lead to more insecurity and instability in the region and globally.”

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