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Diverging Reports Breakdown:
Gaza Hospital Strike Draws New Attention to Israel’s Medical Facility Attacks – The New York Times
Israel says it is forced to strike hospitals it says are used by Hamas for military purposes. Israel’s strikes on a major hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday have drawn new attention to one of the war’s most contentious issues: Israeli attacks on medical facilities. Aid groups and U.N. investigations have accused Israel of aiming to destroy Gaza’s health infrastructure. Israel has rarely launched as powerful an attack on a health complex as the one that damaged the European Gaza Hospital on Tuesday. The Israeli military said it had been targeting a Hamas command center underneath the complex, and Israeli officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to divulge sensitive details said the specific target was Muhammad Sinwar, the senior Hamas commander. In a separate set of attacks, Israeli strikes killed dozens of people in northern Gaza overnight, Palestinian health officials said on Wednesday. The strikes were conducted without warning, the hospital’s director said in a phone interview. Dr. Imad al-Hout denied that Hamas fighters operated inside the hospital complex. Read full article
Middle East Crisis: U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution Calling for a Cease-Fire in Gaza – The New York Times
The U.S. says the cease-fire resolution would have jeopardized efforts to broker a hostage-release deal. The United States is working on a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, along with Egypt and Qatar. This hostage deal would bring an immediate and sustained period of calm to Gaza for at least six weeks. “Any action the council takes right now should help, not hinder, these sensitive and ongoing negotiations,” says Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.N. ambassador to the United Nations. The draft resolution also states that Israel’s army must not carry out an offensive in Rafah under the current conditions, according to diplomats. It was expected to circulate on Tuesday afternoon among Security Council members to start negotiations, the diplomats said. The resolution had been leaked to the media and shared on social media ahead of the vote on Algeria’S resolution, they said. They suggested it had the chance to see that any of the council members, including European allies, had seen it before it was leaked to any of them, including Russia and China. The U.K. abstained from the vote, and 13 of the 15 members of the Security Council voted in favor of the draft resolution, which was put forth by Algerian Ambassador Amar Bendjama. It is the third time the United States has vetoed a resolution that would have demanded an immediate end to fighting in the Israel-Hamas war, and the second time it has done so since the start of the conflict in Gaza. The World Food Program is suspending crucial food deliveries in northern Gaza, where the population was at the brink of starvation, because its staff could not operate safely, a U. n. spokesman said. It said that the World Food Agency was suspending crucial. food deliveries to the north because its. staff couldNot operate safely and that the Council should find a unified voice on the war. Instead, it could extend the fighting between Hamas and Israel, the spokesman said, adding, “Now is the time for action and thetime for truth” Read full article
Israel-Palestinian Conflict: Biden Voices Support for Cease-Fire in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – The New York Times
Israeli military bombarded Gaza and southern Lebanon. Hamas militants fired rockets into southern Israeli towns. President Biden expressed support for a cease-fire during a call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. Biden’s statement fell short of an immediate demand for an end to Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza. The Israeli Army said that Hamas had fired almost as many rockets in eight days — 3,350 — as it did in the 50-day war the two sides fought in 2014. About 90 percent of them were destroyed in midair by the Iron Dome, an antimissile defense system partly financed by the United States. The Biden administration previously avoided the use of the term “cease-fire,” with top officials like Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken talking instead about the need for a “sustainable calm” and others referring to the need of “restraint.” — David E. SangerJim Tankersley and Shashank Bengali As the grinding and increasingly bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas militants moved into the second week, the violence showed no signs of abating. By late Monday, the Israeli bombardment had killed 212 people in Gaza, including dozens of children, and Hamas rockets had killed at least 10 in Israel. But protests and violence have also erupted in the West Bank and Israel, where Arabs have clashed with the Israeli police and Jewish residents. On Sunday, Mr. Netanyahu warned that the current operation would “take time’ to end” The current operation has already settled into a steady if deadly routine, with two main battles being waged: one in the skies above Gaza and another in the tunnels below Gaza. On that occasion, it took three months for Israelis and Palestinians to reach an open-ended cease-fires and reach a peace deal. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said that his country’s armed forces would ‘continue striking at the terrorist targets’ The Israeli military fired artillery shells into Lebanon for the first time since the hostilities began, striking what it said were Palestinian militants who had attempted to fire rockets into Israel. Read full article
A Popemobile Used by Pope Francis Will Become a Mobile Clinic in Gaza – The New York Times
Pope Francis blessed an effort to transform the vehicle he used when he visited the West Bank in 2014 into a mobile health clinic to treat Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip. The clinic will serve only a limited number of Palestinians in Gaza, but Pope Francis’s personal involvement in the project reflected his commitment to Palestinian civilians caught in the crossfire between Israel and Hamas. “The papamobile is a very concrete sign that Pope Francis is concerned with all the suffering of children in Gaza,. even after his death!” Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Sweden said in an email on Monday. The idea to recreate the popemobile as a health clinic came from leaders of Caritas, a Catholic organization. The Swedish cardinal is a contender to become the next pope after Francis. It was donated by President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority. Read full article
Israel’s latest strike on Gaza raises concerns over the normalization of suffering
On Sunday, Israel struck Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, the last major hospital providing care in northern Gaza. One patient, a girl, died during the evacuation because staff were unable to provide urgent care, Gaza’s ministry of health said. This is the same hospital that caused so much controversy when it was bombed on Oct. 17, 2023, with both sides trading blame on who actually bombed it. How is it that something that was considered an atrocity 18 months ago, something that Israel had to strongly deny, is now so common that it barely gets media attention? The U.N. report from late last year found that between October 2023 and June 2024, Israel carried out at least 136 strikes on at least 27 hospitals and 12 other medical facilities, killing many doctors, nurses, medics and other civilians. The World Food Program recently said that all bakeries in Gaza have shut down due to a severe lack of fuel and flour. The Israeli military has repeatedly said it does it does “everything possible to limit civilian casualties in Gaza” On March 3, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he cut off Gaza aid to “everything possible’ to limit the civilian casualties, including children and women and children’s health care, he said. The Palestinian Red Crescent said their vehicles were clearly marked and accused Israel of killing them “in cold blood” The Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said the military did not “randomly attack an ambulance” but that “several uncoordinated vehicles were identified advancing suspiciously toward Israeli military troops without headlights or emergency signals,” prompting them to shoot. The owner of the phone is then heard reciting his final prayers, asking for acceptance from God and asking for forgiveness from his mother for choosing this profession. The video shows the medics driving slowly with their emergency vehicles’ lights flashing, logos visible, as they pulled up to help an ambulance that had come under fire earlier. Read full article
Israel attacks on Gaza hospitals ‘destroyed local healthcare’: UN Report
A UN Human Rights Office report condemned Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza. The 23-page report concluded that since the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, against Israel, the conduct of hostilities in Gaza had “destroyed” local healthcare. The report said deliberately directing attacks against hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are, provided they are not military objectives, would be war crimes. It also warned that a systemic pattern of rights abuses against civilians could constitute crimes against humanity. The Israeli military did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the report. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said the report’s findings pointed to “blatant disregard for international humanitarian and human rights law” The Israeli government said its military had taken extensive measures to mitigate civilian harm and minimize disruption, including providing aid and evacuation routes, and setting up field hospitals. Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza has killed more than 45,500 Palestinians, according to Palestinian health officials, and turned the enclave into a wasteland. The war was triggered by a Hamas attack on southern Israel in Oct. 2023,. in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken to Gaza as hostages. Read full article
Israel Says It Destroyed Syria’s Navy, Part of Wave of Post-Assad Attacks – The New York Times
U.N. envoy calls on Israel to halt its “very troubling” military operations in Syria. Israel says it is striking Syrian military sites to keep them out of “the hands of extremists.” The rebels who toppled the Assad government began laying out their plans while rival groups fought fierce battles for territory. The rebel alliance forming an interim government in Syria confirmed the appointment of Mohammed al-Bashir as prime minister, according to SANA, Syria’s state-run news agency. A Syrian volunteer rescue group says it has finished searching for detainees at ‘the infamous Sednaya Prison’ on the outskirts of Damascus and had found no hidden cells. The White Helmets says thousands of people remain missing, the group said in a statement. the United Nations special envoy for Syria says de-escalation is needed and that Israeli movements and bombardments into Syrian territory “need to stop. This needs to stop,” Geir Pedersen tells reporters in Geneva. The Israeli military confirmed it had struck Syrian navy facilities overnight, and that it has conducted more than 350 airstrikes in the past 48 hours on military assets belonging to the Assad regime. Targets included anti-aircraft batteries, airfields and weapons production sites in Damascus, Homs, Tartus and Latakia, to the Israeli military. The U.S.-backed rebels are “violently attacking” Turkish-backed fighters in the vicinity of Kobani, a monitoring group says. The fight illustrates how, even as rebels try to build a government after taking Damascus, armed groups with competing interests are still fighting for territory and power, pitting the United States and Turkey against each other, in this case, a collapsed regime and an independent Syria. reports say the Syrian military says Israel has conducted hundreds of strikes in Syria since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. Israel has characterized its operations as defensive, saying its military was striking suspected chemical weapons stockpiles. Read full article
Updates: Deadly new attack on Lebanon’s capital as Hezbollah hits Tel Aviv
Israel again attacks central Beirut, with at least five killed and 24 wounded in an air strike. Hezbollah mulls over US-backed ceasefire in Lebanon. Read full article
Global Perspectives Summary:
Global media portray this story through varied cultural, economic, and political filters. While some focus on geopolitical ramifications, others highlight local impacts and human stories. Some nations frame the story around diplomatic tensions and international relations, while others examine domestic implications, public sentiment, or humanitarian concerns. This diversity of coverage reflects how national perspectives, media freedom, and journalistic priorities influence what the public learns about global events.
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Sources:
- Gaza Hospital Strike Draws New Attention to Israel’s Medical Facility Attacks – The New York Times
- Middle East Crisis: U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution Calling for a Cease-Fire in Gaza – The New York Times
- Israel-Palestinian Conflict: Biden Voices Support for Cease-Fire in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – The New York Times
- A Popemobile Used by Pope Francis Will Become a Mobile Clinic in Gaza – The New York Times
- Israel’s latest strike on Gaza raises concerns over the normalization of suffering
- Israel attacks on Gaza hospitals ‘destroyed local healthcare’: UN Report
- Israel Says It Destroyed Syria’s Navy, Part of Wave of Post-Assad Attacks – The New York Times
- Updates: Deadly new attack on Lebanon’s capital as Hezbollah hits Tel Aviv
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