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Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting tour in the US continues with a meeting with Donald Trump in Florida.
At the same time, the number of people killed in Gaza is approaching 40,000 people.
“The human suffering is unacceptable,” the Prime Ministers of Australia, New Zealand and Canada write in a joint statement and call for a ceasefire.
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Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Florida. He received a warm welcome from the former president who met him on the steps outside Mar-a-Lago.
Yesterday, the Prime Minister met President Joe Biden and the Democrats’ new presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
At a press conference afterward, Harris said a “straightforward and constructive” tone was maintained during the conversation and that she is “deeply concerned” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the number of dead Palestinians in Gaza is approaching 40,000, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The prime ministers: Israel must listen
In a joint statement calls on the Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza on Friday. The call is directed at both Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas.
“Israel must listen to the concerns of the international community. Protecting civilians is of the utmost importance and a requirement under international humanitarian law,” the statement reads.
“Human suffering is unacceptable. It cannot continue,” write the prime ministers.
The prime ministers are behind the cease-fire plan that Joe Biden put forward in May and which was then approved by the UN Security Council. They also express great concern about further escalation in the region and condemn Iran’s attack on Israel in mid-April.
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WHO delivers vaccine to Gaza
The World Health Organization WHO is to deliver over a million doses of polio vaccine to the Gaza Strip, writes Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a debate article in The Guardian.
That after high concentrations of the contagious virus were found in Gaza’s sewage system.
“Without immediate action, it is only a matter of time before the disease reaches the thousands of children who have been left unprotected,” writes the WHO director.
Last week, the United Nations reported that it was seeing a massive increase in the number of cases of swine pox, stomach flu and hepatitis A in Gaza. The spread of infection is due to the very difficult sanitary conditions in Gaza, where, among other things, sewage flows into the streets.
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An injured girl receives care. She was the only survivor of her family after an air raid on Gaza this week.
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Details: Israel wants to change ceasefire plan
Since US President Joe Biden’s proposal for a permanent ceasefire, divided into three phases, US officials familiar with the negotiations between Israel and Hamas have said an agreement is close.
However, Hamas has repeatedly accused Benjamin Netanyahu of dragging his feet.
On Friday reports Reuters that Israel, according to their sources, wants to make changes to the plan.
Israel wants to be able to control Palestinians who have been forced to flee to the southern parts of Gaza before returning to northern Gaza, according to Reuters sources. That when Israel fears that the civilian population will support Hamas in the north, writes Reuters.
Imprisoned Hamas leader dead
A Hamas leader from the occupied West Bank died on Thursday evening after being transferred to a hospital from an Israeli prison, reports include AP.
Mustafa Muhammad Abu Ara was arrested in October last year. He then had serious health problems, according to a Palestinian organization that looks after the interests of Palestinian prisoners.
According to the organization, the 63-year-old was subjected to “torture and starvation”. Palestinian authorities have long accused Israel of exacting revenge on Palestinian prisoners, TT writes. This has been rejected by Israel, which claims to follow international law.