[🇧🇩] Israel and Hamas war in Gaza-----Can Bangladesh be a peace broker?

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West has double standards regarding Palestine: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday censured Western countries for their double standards towards innocent Palestinian people.

"Western countries are showing double standard regarding the Palestinians," she said. The prime minister said this while handing over a cheque of Tk 5 crore in aid of the Palestinian people.

Palestine Ambassador Yousef SY Ramadan received the cheque on behalf of his country at PM's official residence Ganabhaban. PM's speech writer M Nazrul Islam briefed reporters after the call on.

Hasina said that Western countries always talk about human rights and education for all. "But they do not bother about the human rights violation of Palestinians, killing innocent people in there, they kept mum here," she said.

The prime minister appreciated the four NATO member countries who recently recognised Palestine as a state. She mentioned that people of Bangladesh have soft corner for the Palestinian people.

She said that people of Bangladesh could realise the pain and sufferings of the Palestinian people from their heart because in 1971 they had gone through same kind of situation.

"We had witnessed same kind of atrocities and killing of innocent people," she said. She recalled her own experience when she was in captivity in 1971 for nine months.

She also talked about her life in exile after the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. "So we could realise the pain and miseries of the Palestinian people," she said.

She mentioned that in every international forum across the globe she always expressed her concern for the Palestinian people. "In doing so I did not bother about anyone's red eyes," she said.

Ambassador Yousef Ramadan briefly described the miserable situation of his country due to the ongoing Israeli attacks. Ambassador-at-Large Mohammad Ziauddin and PM's Principal Secretary M Tofazzel Hossain Miah were among others present at the meeting.​

 

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Can Bangladesh push for two state solution based on 1947 borders.

United Nations Security Council should push for Two State Solution based on 1947 borders.

 

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Netanyahu prolonging Gaza war: Biden

US president Joe Biden swiped at Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Time magazine published on Tuesday, saying there was ‘every reason’ to conclude the Israeli prime minister...

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Netanyahu prolonging Gaza war: Biden
Agence France-Presse . Washington 04 June, 2024, 22:15

Joe Biden

US president Joe Biden swiped at Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Time magazine published on Tuesday, saying there was 'every reason' to conclude the Israeli prime minister was dragging out the Gaza war to save himself politically.

Biden added that he had a 'major disagreement' with Netanyahu over the post-conflict future of Gaza, and said Israel had engaged in 'inappropriate' conduct during the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack.

More broadly, the 81-year-old pitched his case in the interview as better placed than election rival Donald Trump to secure the United States as 'the world power' on issues ranging from Ukraine to Taiwan and Gaza.

Speaking to Time days before his announcement of an Israeli proposal for a Gaza ceasefire deal that Netanyahu greeted coolly, Biden was asked if he believed the Israeli was dragging out the war for political self-preservation.

'There is every reason for people to draw that conclusion,' Biden replied. Biden admitted that he and Netanyahu, who have had tense relations as the death toll in Gaza has soared, were particularly at odds over the need to create a Palestinian state. 'My major disagreement with Netanyahu is, what happens after Gaza's over? What, what does it go back to? Do Israeli forces go back in?' said the Democrat.

'The answer is, if that's the case, it can't work.' The defence of Ukraine against Russia's invasion has been a cornerstone of Biden's foreign policy, and he argued he was better placed than Trump to continue that in a second term.

Biden said the Russian military had been 'freaking decimated' and added: 'Peace looks like making sure Russia never, never, never, never occupies Ukraine.'

He also lashed out at his Republican predecessor, who threatened to tear up longstanding US alliances and reached out to a number of authoritarian leaders while in power. 'All the bad guys are rooting for Trump, man,' Biden said.

'Name me a world leader other than Orban and Putin who think that Trump should be the world leader in the United States of America.'

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Can Bangladesh push for two state solution based on 1947 borders.

United Nations Security Council should push for Two State Solution based on 1947 borders.

Bangladesh has been pushing for two state solution based on 1967 border by discussing it with United Nation's big players already. Bangladesh has been giving diplomatic support to Palestinian authority to the fullest extent. But Saudi Arabia's dubious role in Palestinian issue is a cause of concern for Palestinians.

 

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Bangladesh has been pushing for two state solution based on 1967 border by discussing it with United Nation's big players already. Bangladesh has been giving diplomatic support to Palestinian authority to the fullest extent. But Saudi Arabia's dubious role in Palestinian issue is a cause of concern for Palestinians.

Saudi Arabia will do what is in its national interests. They also know two state solution is the only answer to the problem.

 

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Israel bombs Gaza as mediators to discuss truce, hostage plan

Israel’s military pounded central Gaza with heavy air strikes on Wednesday as US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators planned to resume talks on a truce and hostage release deal...

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Israel bombs Gaza as mediators to discuss truce, hostage plan
Agence France-Presse . Bureij, Palestinian Territories 06 June, 2024, 00:09

Israel's military pounded central Gaza with heavy air strikes on Wednesday as US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators planned to resume talks on a truce and hostage release deal.

Tensions were high in annexed east Jerusalem where thousands of police were deployed to guard Israel's annual 'flag march' that has sparked clashes between Jews and Arabs in previous years.

The Israel-Hamas war, raging in Gaza since the Palestinian group's October 7 attack, has revived a global push for Palestinians to be given a state of their own.

Slovenia on Tuesday became the latest country to recognise a state of Palestine, breaking with the long-held view of Western powers that Palestinians can only gain statehood as part of a negotiated peace with Israel.

This follows the same move made last week by Spain, Ireland and Norway.

Their action, which has infuriated Israel, means that 146 out of the 193 UN member states now recognise a Palestinian state.

They include most Middle Eastern, African, Latin American and Asian countries, but not the United States, Canada, the majority of western Europe, Australia, Japan or South Korea.

In April, the United States used its veto at the UN Security Council to prevent a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member state.

Urban combat and shelling rocked Gaza's southern city of Rafah near the Egyptian border, the last area hit by the Israeli ground invasion launched in northern Gaza in late October.

But fighting has also flared again in central areas, where the army said 'troops have started targeted operational activity in the areas of Bureij and eastern Deir al-Balah, both above and below ground'.

'The activity started with a series of air strikes on terror targets, including military compounds, weapons storage facilities and underground infrastructure,' it said.

'During the strikes, several Hamas terrorists were eliminated.'

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Israel’s strike on UN school in Gaza kills 27

The Israeli military said Thursday it had carried out a deadly strike on a UN school in Gaza that it said housed a Hamas compound, with the militant group saying the attack killed at least 27 people.

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Israel's strike on UN school in Gaza kills 27
Agence France-Presse. Palestinian Territories 06 June, 2024, 11:46

Palestinians take to the road in Al-Maghazi as they flee their displacement camps due to heavy Israeli bombardment of the central Gaza Strip on June 5, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. | AFP Photo

The Israeli military said Thursday it had carried out a deadly strike on a UN school in Gaza that it said housed a Hamas compound, with the militant group saying the attack killed at least 27 people.

The military said it 'eliminated' several 'terrorists' after its jets 'conducted a precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside an UNRWA school in the area of Nuseirat', in central Gaza. UNRWA is the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.

Hamas's media office said the strike killed at least 27 people and wounded dozens more, calling it a 'horrific massacre... that shames humanity'.

Gaza's bloodiest ever war was sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,194 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.

Militants also took 251 hostages, 120 of whom remain in Gaza, including 41 the army says are dead.

Israel's ensuing bombardment and ground offensive have killed at least 36,586 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry.

Israel has faced growing diplomatic isolation over its conduct of the war, with cases against it before two international courts, and several European governments recognising a Palestinian state.

Israel has frequently accused Hamas and its allies in Gaza of using schools, health facilities and other civilian infrastructure as operational centres -- charges the militants deny.

UNRWA, which coordinates nearly all aid to Gaza, has been in crisis since January, when Israel accused about a dozen of its 13,000 employees in the territory of being involved in the October 7 attack.

Its chief, Philippe Lazzarini, said last week that Israel 'must stop its campaign against UNRWA' in an opinion article published by the New York Times.

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Israel pounds Gaza refugee camp

Israeli forces bombarded a Gaza refugee camp on Friday after a deadly strike on a UN-run school there, as the war sparked by Hamas’s unprecedented attack on...

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Israel pounds Gaza refugee camp
Agence France-Presse . Palestinian Territories 08 June, 2024, 00:48

Members of a United Nations investigation team visit a school run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees which was hit during an Israeli army strike the day before, in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip on Friday, amid the on-going conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. | AFP photo

Israeli forces bombarded a Gaza refugee camp on Friday after a deadly strike on a UN-run school there, as the war sparked by Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel entered its ninth month.

The conflict has killed thousands, laid waste to much of the Gaza Strip, uprooted most of its 2.4 million population and put them at risk of starvation.

Efforts to mediate the first ceasefire since a week-long pause in November appear to have stalled, only a week after US president Joe Biden offered a new roadmap.

Hamas has yet to respond to Biden's proposal, while Israel has expressed openness to discussions but remains committed to its goal of destroying the Palestinian Islamist group.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, said at least 37 people were killed in Thursday's Israeli strike on the UN-run school in Nuseirat camp.

The Israeli military said its fighter jets killed nine 'terrorists' in three classrooms where about 30 militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad were hiding.

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said hundreds of displaced Gazans were sheltering at the school, which was 'hit without prior warning'.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres described the strike as 'horrific', while Egypt's foreign minister Ahmed Abu Zeid condemned what he called the 'deliberate bombing of an UNRWA school'.

'Israeli violations of Palestinian rights continue day after day, in full view of the civilised world,' Zeid said on X.

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Israel kills 210 Gazans to rescue four hostages

Abbas calls for emergency UNSC session on 'bloody massacre'

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Israel kills 210 Gazans to rescue four hostages
Abbas calls for emergency UNSC session on 'bloody massacre'

Israeli tank manoeuvres near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Israel, June 8, 2024. Photo: Reuters/Amir Cohen
Israeli forces rescued four hostages held by Hamas since October in a raid in Gaza today while over 200 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes in the same area, according to Hamas officials, in one of the bloodiest Israeli assaults of the war.

It was not immediately clear if the hostage rescue and the Israeli air assault were part of the same operation but both took place in central Gaza's al-Nuseirat, a densely built-up and often embattled area in the eight-month-old war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian territory's ruling Islamist group.

An Israeli military spokesperson said the hostage rescue operation unfolded under fire in the heart of a residential neighbourhood, where he said Hamas had been hiding captives among Gaza civilians under guard by armed militants.

Israeli forces returned fire, including with airstrikes, added the spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari. An Israeli special forces commander was killed during the operation, a police statement said.


Israel named the rescued hostages as Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41. They were taken to hospital for medical checks and were in good health, the military said.

They were all kidnapped from the Nova music festival during the raid by Hamas-led Palestinian groups on Israeli towns and villages near Gaza on Oct 7.

Since then, Israel's bombardment and invasion of Gaza has killed at least 36,801 Palestinians, according to an updated tally by the territory's health ministry today.

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D-8 urges world to up pressure on Israel

An alliance of mostly Muslim-majority countries including Turkey, Egypt and Iran on Saturday demanded full Palestinian membership of the United Nations and greater...

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D-8 urges world to up pressure on Israel
Agence France-Presse . Istanbul 09 June, 2024, 01:02

An alliance of mostly Muslim-majority countries including Turkey, Egypt and Iran on Saturday demanded full Palestinian membership of the United Nations and greater international pressure on Israel amid the Gaza war.

The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, which also includes Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria and Pakistan, called for an immediate ceasefire in the devastated Palestinian territory, where Israel has been battling Hamas militants for more than eight months.

Foreign ministers from the group meeting in Istanbul called on the United States to lift its veto on full Palestinian UN membership and on all countries to "exert diplomatic, political, economic and legal pressure" on Israel.

They also urged states to ensure Israel complies with the International Court of Justice's decisions, withdraws from the southern Rafah governorate and guarantees the safe entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Denouncing an "ongoing genocide and grave violations of international law", the group called on states to contribute to and join legal proceedings against Israel at international courts.

The eight countries also demanded an end to arms and ammunition deliveries to Israel and that all measures be taken to protect Palestinian civilians, rejecting any attempted forced displacement.

They advocated a two-state solution based on 1967 borders with east Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital and a guarantee mechanism to protect a future settlement.

The Gaza war was sparked by Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack on southern Israel which resulted in the deaths of 1,194 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.

Militants from Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups also took 251 hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza, including 41 the army says are dead.

Israel's retaliatory military offensive has killed at least 36,801 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry.​