ANALYSIS “Israel’s message [with attacks on Iran] is that there is no political solution for anything in the region. By striking Iran they want to sabotage the US-Iran negotiations as well as the international wave of support for concrete measures on Palestine.”
For now, at least, that sense of diplomatic momentum that might halt the war in Gaza has gone. Even governments that have become more openly critical of Netanyahu’s war in Gaza will be reluctant to press for its end while missiles from Tehran are killing people in Tel Aviv.
In Gaza many people were oblivious to the war and all the diplomatic manoeuvring it had set off, because one of the longest communications outages of the war had plunged much of the territory into isolation.
Phone and internet networks were down from Wednesday because of damage to key fibre-optic cables, the UN said. “Since April, Israeli authorities have denied more than 20 requests to carry [urgent repair] work,” the UN aid coordination office said.
“Famine worsens, the siege intensifies, and the dead are everywhere,” Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif wrote in a post on X, saying Gaza was “immersed in complete isolation from the world”.
For now, at least, that sense of diplomatic momentum that might halt the war in Gaza has gone. Even governments that have become more openly critical of Netanyahu’s war in Gaza will be reluctant to press for its end while missiles from Tehran are killing people in Tel Aviv.In Gaza many people were oblivious to the war and all the diplomatic manoeuvring it had set off, because one of the longest communications outages of the war had plunged much of the territory into isolation.Phone and internet networks were down from Wednesday because of damage to key fibre-optic cables, the UN said. “Since April, Israeli authorities have denied more than 20 requests to carry [urgent repair] work,” the UN aid coordination office said.“Famine worsens, the siege intensifies, and the dead are everywhere,” Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif wrote in a post on X, saying Gaza was “immersed in complete isolation from the world”.