Some hopeful participants had even begun calling World War I “the War to End All Wars.” But the Treaty of Versailles, signed on June 28, 1919, would not achieve that lofty goal. On 27 October, internet and mobile phone services in Gaza were almost completely cut off. [272] The IDF launched a large-scale ground incursion into northern Gaza. Clashes between Hamas and the IDF were reported near Beit Hanoun and Bureij. [273] The Israeli invasion of Gaza was confirmed after Israel said its units were still in Gaza the next day. [274] Hamas leader Ali Baraka said the invading Israeli forces suffered heavy casualties and loss of equipment due to an ambush. [275] Two days later, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), described as "deeply concerning" reports from the Palestinian Red Crescent that the al-Quds hospital had received an urgent evacuation warning along with a notice that it was "going to be bombarded". He reiterated that it was "impossible to evacuate hospitals full of patients without endangering their lives". [276] [277] Israeli airstrikes targeted the area around the hospital, filling parts of the building with smoke and dust, prompting staff to give breathing masks to some patients. [278] Around 14,000 civilians were believed to be sheltering in or near the hospital. [278] Associated Press reported that Israeli airstrikes also destroyed roads leading to the Al-Shifa hospital, making it increasingly difficult to reach. [279] Later in the day, Hamas said that Palestinian militants clashed with Israeli tanks in Salah al-Din Street in Gaza and forced them to retreat. [280] The Institute for the Study of War also stated that Israel withdrew from the road. [281] In response, Mouin Rabbani, a Middle East analyst, stated, "Israeli forces have invaded Shifa Hospital and been inside it for 12 full hours – having refused any independent party to accompany them – and now we're supposed to believe that there were Hamas militants in there being pursued by the Israeli military but they somehow left their weapons behind?" [339] Political analyst Marwan Bishara stated, "It's kind of baffling. Why would Hamas leave the guns and not anything else?" [340] Jeremy Scahill stated, "I've seen more guns in the homes of ordinary Americans than in this purported Hamas Pentagon under al-Shifa Hospital." [341] 16 November How many more women should be separated from their babies? How many more women will die before mums in Northern Ireland get the support they need? Our field hospital staff rushed to the emergency section as they saw a number of Palestinians carrying wounded persons, and as our staff got to the emergency room, they got hit again and about seven of our medical staff there were wounded,” he said. “Many other Palestinians were unfortunately killed and injured.”

The relative calm and peace that Northern Ireland is now experiencing is to be highly commended. It is of course a very fragile peace. However, many things have built on small beginnings and we should not lose sight of that. At the same time let’s not be complacent and continue to struggle to defeat the plans of detrimental forces in our society. A civilian authority has to cooperate in two goals – one is to demilitarize Gaza and the second is to deradicalize Gaza. I have to say, the Palestinian Authority has unfortunately failed on both counts. After exhuming and carbon-dating the skeletons, researchers from the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Center for Human Evolutionary Studies have published their findings in this week’s Nature , reporting that the remains are estimated to be from between 9,500 and 10,500 years ago, making it the earliest scientifically dated evidence of organized human violence among scavenging humans. ( Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) A statement released by the Qatari Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called for an international investigation into Israeli raids on medical facilities in the Gaza Strip. The humanitarian situation in Gaza has been termed a "crisis" and a "catastrophe". [436] [437] As a result of the Israel's siege and Hamas's hoarding of resources, Gaza faces shortages of fuel, food, medication, water, and medical supplies. [436] [438] The siege resulted in a 90% drop in electricity availability, impacting hospital power supplies, sewage plants, and shutting down the desalination plants that provide drinking water. [439] According to WHO, 27 out of 35 hospitals in Gaza have been shut down by 23 November 2023. [440]According to Kosovan law, government authorities are not allowed to enter Orthodox properties, including churches and monasteries, without first receiving permission from the Serbian Orthodox church. They came from the other side of the creek,” Rombena recalls. “They walked, they came in groups with all the clansmen, with weapons like bows and arrows and high-powered ammunition. It is not clear if Netanyahu was responding to any specific report. The Washington Post article saying Israel, the US and Hamas were close to reaching an agreement was published online in the last few hours, after Netanyahu’s press conference.

Uma residents stand outside a medical clinic built by the International Committee of the Red Cross as part of a peace treaty between warring tribes. Photograph: Helen Davidson/The Guardian As of 21 November, over 15,000 Palestinians and Israelis en toto have been killed in the Israel–Hamas war, including 53 journalists (46 Palestinian, 4 Israeli and 3 Lebanese) and over 100 UNRWA aid workers. [429] [430] Over 14,500 Palestinians (the majority of whom were women and children) in the Gaza Strip have been killed according to the Gaza Health Ministry. [431] A further 200 Palestinians were also killed in the West Bank by Israel military and settlers, and four Israelis have been killed by Palestinians in the West Bank in the same period. [432] Casualties have also occurred in other parts of Israel, in southern Lebanon, and Syria. [433] Both Israelis and Palestinians have described this as an existential conflict, and identify the other side as genocidal. Both senior Israeli ministers and Hamas leaders have called each other Nazis. And the death toll continues to mount, above all in Gaza, where most of the population appears to be in constant motion even though nowhere is safe. Hamas released 17 hostages, including 14 Israelis and three Thai nationals. [386] Israel also released 39 teenage Palestinian prisoners. [387] 27 November World War I took the lives of more than 9 million soldiers; 21 million more were wounded. Civilian casualties numbered close to 10 million. The two nations most affected were Germany and France, each of which sent some 80 percent of their male populations between the ages of 15 and 49 into battle.At the dawn of World War I, aviation was a relatively new field; the Wright brothers took their first sustained flight just eleven years before, in 1903. Aircraft were initially used primarily for reconnaissance missions. During the First Battle of the Marne, information passed from pilots allowed the allies to exploit weak spots in the German lines, helping the Allies to push Germany out of France. AS the songwriter Paddy McAloon sang: “Once more the sound of crying is number one across the earth.” Despite that victory, Russia’s assault forced Germany to move two corps from the Western Front to the Eastern, contributing to the German loss in the Battle of the Marne. The gunmen fled to a nearby monastery where they barricaded themselves and traded gunfire with Kosovo police for hours, with at least three assailants shot dead. While the timing of recent developments in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories may have been unexpected, the events themselves were inevitable. This is because permanent conflict punctuated by periodic carnage is inscribed into the very DNA of the Israeli-Palestinian relationship as it has existed for nearly 75 years.

Support for a two-state solution has, almost inevitably, decreased in both the West Bank and Gaza by approximately the same amounts, 69 percent and 67 percent, respectively. Similar large majorities report an increase in commitment to the rather hazy language of “the restoration of historical Palestine as a final resolution,” which could be taken to mean many things but does not suggest a commitment to two states. Over 70 percent in both areas say the ideal solution would be a single Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.”

‘Pallywood propaganda’: Pro-Israeli accounts online accuse Palestinians of staging their suffering

Members of APP’s NI Peer Support group, who have been campaigning hard for an MBU, tell us about the distress of being separated from their babies, and how this has stayed with them, in some cases for many, many years.