An escalation in fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon is dimming prospects for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, with both sides using the situation to their advantage.
Palestinians inspect the site of Israeli strikes on houses, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Oct 2, 2024. this week, and diminishing already dim prospects for a ceasefire a year into a war that has shattered the enclave.
Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Sep 11, 2024. late on Tuesday, provoking an Israeli promise of a"painful" response, some Gazans welcomed the salvo visible in the skies overhead as a sign Tehran was fighting for their cause.
"The most dangerous thing isn't that the media attention is going somewhere else, it is the fact that no one in the world is now talking about a deal or a ceasefire, and that frees Israel's hand to continue its military offensive and plans in Gaza," he said.Inside Gaza there has been no sign of a let-up in Israel's offensive against Hamas. On Thursday, local medics reported at least 99 Palestinian deaths in the past 24 hours.
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters that the US remained focused on securing a ceasefire though Hamas had for weeks"refused to engage". Israel's escalated campaign against Hezbollah"is putting the ceasefire in Gaza on the back burner, given that the focus is now on trying to dismantle as much of Hezbollah's military arsenal as possible", she said.
In Lebanon, nearly 1,900 people have been killed and more than 9,000 wounded in Lebanon in nearly a year of cross-border fighting, with most of the deaths occurring in the past two weeks, according to Lebanese government statistics.The casualty figures are still a fraction of those in Gaza, where the health ministry says at least 41,788 Palestinians have been killed and 96,794 wounded since Oct 7 last year.
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