Heartbreaking to read
The sheer scale of suffering described here is devastating. How can the world remain so silent while civilians are crushed from all sides? It feels impossible to look away from this.
Palestinians ‘trapped’ between Israeli settler violence and Hamas atrocities, UN Commission chair tells Arab News
NEW YORK CITY: Two systems of violence — one entrenched in the occupied West Bank and enabled by the Israeli state, the other born of Gaza’s ruin and enforced by Hamas — are closing in on the same population from opposite directions, the chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory told Arab News. “They are trapped,” said Justice Srinivasan Muralidhar, a former chief justice of India’s Orissa High Court who took over as chair of the three-member commission in November. “Trapped from both ends.