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What Israelis, Palestinians, US and others say about ‘the day after’ the Gaza war

What Israelis, Palestinians, US and others say about ‘the day after’ the Gaza war

AS the conflict in Gaza nears a three-month milestone, Israelis, Palestinians, Americans and others have begun talking more openly about what comes next once the war is over. None of the plans being discussed will satisfy the desires of all of the parties but they do provide a framework for any negotiations that might emerge. Hamas killed 1,200 people and abducted 240 by Israel's count in a cross-border rampage from Gaza on October 7. More than 22,000 Palestinians have died since Israel's counterattack in Hamas-run Gaza, Palestinian health officials say. ISRAEL Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday became the…
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Gaza conflict forces reordering of Biden’s policy priorities

Gaza conflict forces reordering of Biden’s policy priorities

MATT SPETALNICK, HUMEYRA PAMUK and PATRICIA ZENGERLE U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January determined to focus his time and energy on the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn at home and big challenges such as China, Russia and Iran abroad. But after a Gaza conflict that required intensive behind-the-scenes U.S. diplomacy, his aides are having to reorder their priorities as they seek to stabilize an Israel-Hamas ceasefire, craft a reconstruction aid plan for the Palestinians and prevent a recurrence of what became Biden's first foreign policy crisis. The focus, one U.S. official said, is on "what would come next,…
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Gaza conflict intensifies with rocket barrages and air strikes

Gaza conflict intensifies with rocket barrages and air strikes

NIDAL al-MUGHRABI and RAMI AYYUB PALESTINIAN militants fired more rockets into Israel's commercial heartland yesterday as Israel kept up a punishing bombing campaign in Gaza and massed tanks and troops on the enclave's border. The four days of cross-border violence showed no sign of abating and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the campaign "will take more time". The violence has also spread to mixed communities of Jews and Arabs in Israel, a new front in the long conflict. Synagogues were attacked and fighting broke out on the streets of some communities, prompting Israel's president to warn of the danger…
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