![]() “The New York Times has extensively covered the Israel-Hamas war with fairness, impartiality, and an abiding understanding of the complexities of the conflict," Danielle Rhoades Ha, the Times’ senior vice president for external communications, said in a statement. Hundreds of protesters led by a group of media workers calling themselves “Writers Bloc” gathered outside the publication’s Manhattan headquarters, with many of them entering the building’s atrium for a sit-in and vigil that lasted more than an hour. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the lobby of The New York Times today, accusing the media of betraying a bias toward Israel in its coverage of the war and demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. The Associated Press, Yasmeen Persaud and Madison Lambert ![]() Development Program, said a 12% GDP loss at the end of the year would be “massive and unprecedented.” By comparison, he said, the Syrian economy used to lose 1% of its GDP per month at the height of its conflict, which began in 2011, and it took Ukraine 18 months of fighting to lose 30% of its GDP. And if the conflict lasts a third month, Palestinian GDP will drop by 12%, with losses of $2.5 billion and more than 660,000 people pushed into poverty.Īl Dardari Abdallah, the assistant secretary-general of the U.N. projects, the Palestinian GDP, which was $20.4 billion before the war, will drop by 8.4%. If the war continues for a second month, the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for West Asia. The gross domestic product shrank 4% in the West Bank and Gaza in the war’s first month, sending over 400,000 people into poverty - an economic impact unseen in the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine or in any previous Israel-Hamas war.Īt least 45% of all housing in the Gaza Strip has also been damaged or destroyed by Israeli bombardment, according to the assessment released today by the U.N. report paints a stark picture of the collapsing Palestinian economy after a month of war and Israel’s near total siege of Gaza. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Tokyo this week that it was clear that “Gaza cannot be continued to be run by Hamas,” but that “it’s also clear that Israel cannot occupy Gaza.”Ī U.N. Netanyahu in an interview with ABC News this week had said that Israel would have “the overall security responsibility” for Gaza for an indefinite period after the war. I wish it will take little time,” he said. I didn’t set a timetable, because you know, it can take more time. But we seek to give it, and us, a better future and the entire Middle East - and that requires defeating Hamas,” Netanyahu said in the Fox interview. “We don’t seek to govern Gaza, we don’t seek to occupy. Netanyahu did not give an estimated expected time for the military offensive against Hamas in Gaza. Nothing will stop that,” Netanyahu said in an interview on Fox News. “We’re going to continue until we eradicate Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview Thursday, “we don’t seek to govern Gaza, we don’t seek to occupy” but that he is committed to destroying Hamas. In the U.S., a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed that nearly half of Democrats disapprove of how President Joe Biden is handling the conflict, signaling a deep divide within his party over the war.Ī senior United Nations official accused both sides of war crimes as Israel’s ground assault and aerial bombardment fuel growing international outrage. Israeli President Isaac Herzog told NBC News in an interview Thursday that “There is no real proposal that is viable from Hamas’ side on this issue.” Talks were progressing well, he was told, but one official said, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” There have been some signs of movement with hostage negotiations, NBC News’ Keir Simmons reported. 7 and subsequent Israeli bombardments of the Palestinian enclave. Tens of thousands of people have left northern Gaza for southern Gaza since the Hamas terror attack on Oct. The Israel Defense Forces said there are “tactical, local pauses for humanitarian aid for Gazan civilians.” “The fighting continues and there will be no cease-fire without the release of our hostages,” the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. ![]() The United States said Thursday that Israel will implement four-hour humanitarian pauses in parts of the northern Gaza Strip, which Israel’s military said was not a cease-fire. ![]()
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