Op-Ed by Emily Thompson
So much is happening around the world, but two major crises hold center stage: Gaza and Sudan. In both places, many civilians are being displaced due to war and solutions seem distant.
Gaza
The current humanitarian crisis taking place in Gaza has many people around the world worried. Numerous demonstrations in support of Palestinians have taken place over the last several weeks and protesters have called for more humanitarian aid and a ceasefire to allow for this aid to reach the Palestinian civilians caught in the crossfire.
Of the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza, approximately 800,000 have fled to the southern region where they are being sheltered in tents and provided care by the UN and the Red Cross.
Their situation is untenable for the long term and talks are already underway in the Gulf region, Egypt, Europe, and the United States over what can be done the day after.
Without a doubt numerous ideas are being bounced around but the common denominator is that the Palestinians – without Hamas ruling over them – can finally take their future into their own hands.
While today, Gaza looks mostly in ruins, with a serious European-type Marshall Plan and billions of dollars in aid, this strip of land could literally become a
paradise. That is, unless the Palestinian Authority which is widely seen as corrupt, takes over.
Steps must be taken to avoid this at all costs. Perhaps there is a way for the international community to step in and take charge until the Palestinians can hold elections and vote in a leader who can and will indeed turn Gaza into a paradise and beacon of hope for the Palestinian people.
With so much to lose, the Palestinians are now on the threshold of a new state – if only they can find the right leader. PA President Mahmoud Abbas is aging, and he is polling in low numbers. Widely unpopular in the West Bank and Gaza, Abbas stands little chance of winning an election – which is why he has not held one
in many years.
Once Israel destroys Hamas, which it has vowed to do repeatedly, the Palestinians will be given the chance to rebuild and return to their homes. But this time, Gaza must be ruled by leaders who care about the Palestinian people and want to see this narrow strip of land full of life and hope – not death and despair.
This dream will rely on cooperation of the Israelis, but it will also require the resolve of the international community to stand by their commitments to assist the Palestinian people.
Sudan
Fighting has taken place for seven months now between the Arab Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group, and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), the official army, completely destroying parts of Khartoum, and claiming more than 10,000 lives, according to an Economist report.
The RSF and its allied militias are engaged in an effort to eradicate the non-Arab Masalit tribe from West Darfur, in what many are calling a genocide and ethnic cleansing.
According to the UNHCR, “Within Sudan, 4.5 million people have been internally displaced since April, when the war began, while 1.2 million have fled to neighbouring countries like Chad, Egypt, South Sudan, Ethiopia and the Central African Republic (CAR). The overwhelming majority of the refugees (in some cases, as in the CAR, nearly 90 per cent) are women and children.”
Food aid for more than half a million refugees who have fled from Sudan to Chad “will run out next month without extra funding,” a World Food Programme official said, according to Reuters.
Officially, over 362,000 people have crossed into South Sudan since the start of the conflict in Sudan.
Many tribal leaders and their families are being targeted and RSF fighters have been reported to be moving house to house, killing people one by one.
This continuing and unfolding tragedy requires a solution but as long as Sudan remains in a state of civil war, little can be done for those who remain and even less for those who have been displaced.
For the time being, the UN must focus its efforts on reaching the millions of Sudanese who are in dire need of food, medicine, and shelter.
Both conflicts, in Gaza and Sudan, will need a new set of thinking as well as leadership, in addition to massive amounts of humanitarian aid. This is the moment that human rights groups together with the UN can make a difference.
Image: Anthony Freda Art
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1000s got killed in this harsh war.
Every 10 minutes a child is dying this has to be stopped we all want it here. Even the war between Russia and Ukraine has not benefited anyone till date and their war will not benefit either, only problems will be created.
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I don't really understand, why the fight? A lot of innocent souls are been lost already and it is heartbreaking. Something needs to be done to stop the war. I mean why can't the entire world live in peace? Most there be a fight
Under Darfur lies a pool of oil that has been sought by maniacal political, military, and economic means for decades. The indigenous people are unavailed of requisite assets to defend themselves from those weapons, or to develop themselves the vast mineral wealth beneath their homeland.
We humans will never support a war where human lives are lost in war.
The humanitarian crises in Gaza and Sudan are indeed dire and require urgent attention and action from the international community. The loss of lives, displacement of people, and destruction of infrastructure are heartbreaking, and it is crucial to address these conflicts and their root causes to bring peace and stability to the affected regions.
I so much dislike the fact that people who are innocent are the ones dying
It is so unfair
I feel bad!
this war should stop immediately.
So much is really happening around the world and which is terrifying. Only if there can be peace all around the world
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Is the Masalit the people persecuted by the Janjaweed militia in order to drive them from the mineral rich region they inhabited when Darfur was subjected to genocide to enable Khartoum to extract the profits of mineral development without benefiting the people endemic to Darfur?
What a horrible demonstration of murder for profit. The very concept suggests the USA is involved, in yet another exchange of blood for oil.
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The world await the solution to this constant problems surrounding the world around and making the world a less better place to live in
Which of the >4000 Palestinian children killed so far in Gaza by the IDF's indiscriminate bombing were party to the atrocities committed on Oct. 7th? Is the fact that Hamas were created, trained, and funded by Israel being met with policy changes to prevent rogue Israeli government agents from using proxies to slaughter Israelis? How much more attention is being accorded to that treason than to slaughtering innocent children, since preventing Israelis from being murdered by traitors is of critical import to Israelis, while slaughtering Palestinian children will not save a single Israeli life?
I'd appreciate direct and substantive answers to the specific questions I did ask, rather than extraneous rhetoric without relevance to those queries.
Thanks in advance.
I hope you rethink, again, your position, because the more than 1M children in Gaza did not attack you, and they are being killed in droves. Blowing them up will not make you safer. If you blew up my neighbors, or my kids, I would never stop trying to kill you. What is happening in Gaza is creating hordes of enemies that will want to bathe in your blood, as you would hate them if they killed your children.
Bibi's policies are terrible for Israel, and you have not answered my specific questions regarding those policies, despite my specifically requesting you do.
You have been deceived by institutions that have been developed for the purpose for centuries. We are preyed upon by exploiting our inherent socialization that prevents us from conceiving of psychopathic enmity. Only by suspending our natural biases and objectively considering the actions of our enemies can we perceive the deliberate intention to destroy the felicity and prosperity of humanity so that Machiavellian manipulators can aggrandize to themselves our wealth and property.
Bibi is using the conflict in Gaza to prevent being tried in court for his alleged crimes. If he has funded, trained, and planned Hamas' actions, he shares the blame for them, and they have been arms of Israeli government policy.
Outside of claims Hamas killed Israelis, there are numerous claims the IDF has done so, including by survivors of those attacks. There is also the public policy Israel has to destroy kidnappers even if doing so also kills their hostages.
I do not find Palestinian civilians in any way liable for acts committed by an organization funded by Israel (no matter if someone else also funded it), and apparently facilitated by the IDF in letting them enter Israel to commit those acts, that created a political environment favorable to the accused criminal government of Netanyahu. Particularly not Palestinian children, and every just legal jurisdiction in the world today prohibits blowing up children when they are in harm's way. The Geneva Conventions specifically prohibit such acts. No justification for blowing up innocent civilians used as human shields is codified in international law, and no just jurisdiction would claim, or try to enact such law.
I see that Israel is being said to make such claims. I cannot verify this is true, but I cannot verify it because I do not speak Hebrew, and do not believe the lying news services that make these claims. If it is true that Israel is trying to claim it is lawful to blow up children, hospitals, and refugee camps because there are bad guys there, that claim is a lie, and those making that claim need to be tried for war crimes against humanity and hanged if they actually do so.
Israel, nor the USA, has any right to commit war crimes because someone else did, and solely and fully is guilty of any such crimes it commits regardless of any rhetoric or acts others may take.
https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/netanyahu-money-to-hamas-part-of-strategy-to-keep-palestinians-divided-583082
https://archive.is/4I6HM
P.S. I asked myself:
Can an Israeli and a Palestinian communicate linguistically?
in the german wiki it says about Israel:
In a way, Israel then would be to Palestine what Austria and Switzerland would be to Germany, no?
Where would peace be the best solution, other than in these closely neighbouring countries?
To see if you can trust your government one indicator would be if the language of the neighbor is being forbidden as just naturally spoken or where actions can be detected that the language shall be eliminated from the public realm.
Israel continues to give up land today, in Gaza, as it has across Palestine since before Golda Meir attained to political power. Gaza today is exactly the example of how Israel gives up land.
Israel bulldozes indigenous villages, removes them from the maps, and builds atop their ruins Israeli settlements.