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Turkiye will continue to increase pressure on Israel, Erdogan tells Palestinian leader Abbas

Turkiye will continue to increase pressure on Israel, Erdogan tells Palestinian leader Abbas
Turkiye’s President Tayyip Erdogan meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ankara on Aug. 14, 2024. (Reuters)
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Updated 14 August 2024
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Turkiye will continue to increase pressure on Israel, Erdogan tells Palestinian leader Abbas

Turkiye will continue to increase pressure on Israel, Erdogan tells Palestinian leader Abbas
  • The two leaders discussed recent developments and the steps to be taken for a lasting ceasefire and peace in Gaza
  • Erdogan also told Abbas that all countries, especially in the Muslim world, should step up efforts to ensure an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Updated 14 August 2024
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ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told visiting Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday that Turkiye will continue to support the Palestinian cause and push the international community to increase pressure on Israel, his office said.
The two leaders discussed recent developments and the steps to be taken for a lasting ceasefire and peace in Gaza, Erdogan’s office said in a post on X.
Erdogan condemned Israel’s war in Gaza, the statement said, accusing some Western countries of remaining silent and continuing to support Israel.
Erdogan also told Abbas that all countries, especially in the Muslim world, should step up efforts to ensure an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
Abbas is set to address an extraordinary session of Turkiye’s parliament on Thursday.
Israel’s assault on Gaza started after the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
Turkiye has denounced the war and has halted all trade with Israel. It submitted a request to join South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide .
Turkiye’s invitation to Abbas came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the US Congress on July 25, which Ankara has condemned.
“We will show that Mr. Abbas has the right to speak in our parliament just as Netanyahu has the right to speak in the US Congress,” Erdogan told members of his ruling AK Party on Wednesday before meeting Abbas.
Erdogan, who has been a staunch supporter of Hamas, said Turkiye had also planned to invite the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran.

Topics: War on Gaza President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkiye Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Ceasefire

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Netanyahu’s approval rating deteriorates at home and abroad

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Updated 10 min 29 sec ago
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Netanyahu’s approval rating deteriorates at home and abroad

Netanyahu’s approval rating deteriorates at home and abroad
  • Netanyahu has failed to negotiate a ceasefire and many Israelis now accuse him of sabotaging talks
  • 74 percent of Jews in the UK view Israel’s overall situation in a negative light
Updated 10 min 29 sec ago
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LONDON: Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval rating has fallen — in Israel and abroad — with British Jews showing “significant disapproval” of the current Israeli leadership.

More than 11 months into the war in Gaza, the death toll among Palestinians is more than 41,000. Farther north, there has been almost daily cross-border fire between Israeli forces and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, raising fears of an all-out Middle East war.

Meanwhile, there are 101 people still being held hostage by Hamas. At least six others are believed to have been killed by airstrikes on the besieged enclave.

Netanyahu has failed to negotiate a ceasefire and many Israelis now accuse him of sabotaging talks.

A new report by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research determined it is failures like these that have contributed to British Jews’ disapproval of the Israeli leadership.

Based on the most recent data, 80 percent either strongly or somewhat disapprove of Netanyahu, while only 12 percent strongly or somewhat approve.

In addition, 74 percent of Jews in the UK view Israel’s overall situation in a negative light, a figure nearly 10 percent higher than Israelis’ view of their country.

This is significantly worse than a year previously, reflecting the crisis of Oct. 7, the extended captivity of the hostages, and the ongoing war in Gaza.

The strictly orthodox, men, and people who voted for right-wing parties in the previous UK election were the most likely groups to view Israeli government policies more positively.

JPR’s executive director, Dr. Jonathan Boyd, said: ‘The Jewish community in the UK holds strong ties and attachments to Israel, and the events of the past year have affected British Jews very deeply.

“In many respects, we can see that they feel closer to Israel now than they did before October 7.

“Still, as this report demonstrates, we are also seeing high levels of disapproval for Netanyahu and even higher levels for the hard-right members of his coalition, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir.

“As much as Israel matters to British Jews, many are expressing clear concern about its current political leadership.”

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14,000 Gaza amputees will get rapid prosthetic limbs using UK tech

A man with an above-the-knee amputation is fitted with a new prosthetic limb at a Jordanian field hospital in Khan Yunis.
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14,000 Gaza amputees will get rapid prosthetic limbs using UK tech

A man with an above-the-knee amputation is fitted with a new prosthetic limb at a Jordanian field hospital in Khan Yunis.
  • Program involves UK-based companies Koalaa and Amparo, both of which have developed easy-to-fit sockets for upper and lower limb prosthetics
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LONDON: A Jordanian-led initiative to equip thousands of victims of the war in Gaza with prosthetic limbs has started, Sky News reported on Tuesday.

Two mobile clinics entered the war-ravaged territory on Monday with the aim of helping 14,000 amputees. The estimated cost of each fitting is around £1,000 ($1,321).

The program involves UK-based companies Koalaa and Amparo, both of which have developed easy-to-fit sockets for upper and lower limb prosthetics.

Using advanced British-designed technology, the doctors aim to fit a functioning prosthesis every hour.

Each fitting will be registered digitally, allowing for remote follow-up procedures with specialist doctors based in Amman or around the world.

“Medical estimates indicate that over 14,000 people have been injured and lost one or more limbs,” Jordanian Brig. Gen. Mustafa Al-Hiyari told Sky News.

“Our project is distinguished not only by the large number (of prosthetics provided) but also by its speed; as specialists will declare, a prosthetic limb would be installed in less than an hour.

“Those who cannot reach the hospital, the equipped vans will go to them,” the Jordanian Armed Forces member said.

Most of the amputees from the war cannot leave Gaza for treatment elsewhere, and the conflict has displaced about 90 percent of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million.

The top UN humanitarian official for Gaza told the UN Security Council on Monday that more must be done to protect civilians.

“Time is slipping away as a man-made humanitarian crisis has turned Gaza into the abyss,” Sigrid Kaag, the UN senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza, said.

Kaag said humanitarian operations are impeded by lawlessness, Israeli evacuation orders, fighting, and operating conditions for aid workers. She cited Israeli denials of access, delays, a lack of safety and security, and “poor logistical infrastructure.”

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Hundreds of Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode, security source says

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Hundreds of Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode, security source says

Hundreds of Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode, security source says
  • A Hezbollah official said the detonation of the pagers was the “biggest security breach” the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel
  • The security source added that devices were also exploding in the south of Lebanon
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BEIRUT: Hundreds of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, including fighters and medics, were seriously wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, a security source told Reuters.
A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of the pagers was the “biggest security breach” the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel.
A Reuters journalist saw ambulances rushing through the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut amid widespread panic. Residents said explosions were taking place even 30 minutes after the initial blasts.
Groups of people huddled at the entrance of buildings to check on people they knew who may have been wounded, the Reuters journalist said.
The security source added that devices were also exploding in the south of Lebanon.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which has been exchanging fire with Hezbollah since last October in parallel with the Gaza war.

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Qatar says Gaza truce mediation efforts ‘ongoing’

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Updated 17 September 2024
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Qatar says Gaza truce mediation efforts ‘ongoing’

Qatar says Gaza truce mediation efforts ‘ongoing’
  • Months of behind-the-scenes negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States have failed to halt the fighting
  • Recent mediation in Doha and Cairo has been based on a framework laid out in May by US President Joe Biden
Updated 17 September 2024
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DOHA: Qatar’s foreign ministry said Tuesday efforts to forge a Gaza truce were “ongoing,” after several rounds of talks aimed at ending the now 11-month war ended without a breakthrough.
“The efforts are still ongoing and channels of communication remain open... the goals and visits and meetings are ongoing,” ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari told reporters.
Months of behind-the-scenes negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States have failed to halt the fighting between Hamas and Israel, apart from a one-week truce beginning in late November.
Recent mediation in Doha and Cairo has been based on a framework laid out in May by US President Joe Biden and a “bridging proposal” presented to the warring parties in August.
The US State Department said Monday Secretary of State Antony Blinken would visit Egypt this week to “discuss ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire,” his tenth trip to the region since the Gaza Strip war began on October 7.
After in-person talks last month in Egypt and Qatar broke up without a final agreement, Washington indicated that mediators were preparing to present another adapted framework for a ceasefire.
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Monday Washington was working “expeditiously” on a new proposal.
Ansari declined to comment Tuesday on whether any further proposal had been relayed to Israel or Hamas.
“When it comes to the possibility of a deal taking place anytime soon, of course we remain hopeful at every juncture,” he said.
“I can’t comment on the prospects of a deal taking place right now but I can tell you that we remain hopeful and we continue with our efforts.”
Hamas said its delegation met Qatari and Egyptian mediators in Doha last week to discuss a truce and potential hostage and prisoner exchange, again without indicating that any breakthrough had been reached.
Pressure inside Israel for a deal has intensified after authorities announced the deaths of six hostages at the start of September after their bodies were recovered from a Gaza tunnel.
But in the face of the external calls for an agreement, both Israel and Hamas have publicly signalled deeper entrenchment in their negotiating positions.
On Tuesday Israel announced an expansion of its war aims, widening its fight against Hamas in Gaza to focus on Hezbollah along its northern border with Lebanon.
The October 7 attack by Palestinian militants on southern Israel that sparked the war resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Militants also seized 251 hostages, 97 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 33 the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel’s retaliatory military offensive has killed at least 41,252 people in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry, which does not provide a breakdown of civilian and militant deaths.

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Palestinian poll finds big drop in support for Oct 7 attack

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Palestinian poll finds big drop in support for Oct 7 attack

Palestinian poll finds big drop in support for Oct 7 attack
  • Poll suggests 57 percent of Gazans think Oct 7 was incorrect decision
  • Slight dip in Hamas support, but group still most popular
Updated 17 September 2024
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RAMALLAH: A majority of Gazans believe Hamas’ decision to launch the Oct. 7 attack on Israel was incorrect, according to a poll published on Tuesday pointing to a big drop in backing for the assault that prompted Israel’s devastating Gaza offensive.
The poll, conducted in early September by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR), found that 57 percent of people surveyed in the Gaza Strip said the decision to launch the offensive was incorrect, while 39 percent said it was correct.
It marked the first time since Oct. 7 that a PSR poll found a majority of Gazan respondents judging the decision as incorrect. It was accompanied by a drop in support for the attack in the West Bank, though a majority of 64 percent of respondents there still thought it was the correct decision, the poll found. PSR’s previous poll, conducted in June, showed that 57 percent of respondents in Gaza thought the decision to be correct.
More than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military offensive that has laid waste to the Gaza Strip since last October, according to the Gaza health ministry.
Israel launched its assault after the unprecedented Hamas raid which killed 1,200 people and resulted in another 250 being abducted, according to Israeli tallies.
PSR said it surveyed 1,200 people face-to-face, 790 of them in the West Bank and 410 in Gaza, with a 3.5 percent margin of error.
PSR polls since the Oct. 7 attack have consistently shown a majority of respondents in both Gaza and the West Bank to believe the attack was a correct decision, with support generally greater in the West Bank than Gaza.
PSR said the poll released on Tuesday marked the first time since Oct 7. that its findings had shown simultaneously in the West Bank and Gaza a significant drop in the favorability of the attack and in expectations that Hamas will win the current war.
Overall, the poll found a majority of 54 percent of respondents in Gaza and the West Bank thought the decision was correct.
In August, the Israeli military accused Hamas of mounting an effort to falsify the results of PSR polls to falsely show support for Hamas and Oct. 7, though the military said there was no evidence of PSR cooperating with Hamas.
PSR said it had taken the allegation seriously and investigated it. PSR said on Tuesday its analysis of the data did not flag any inconsistencies that would arise when data is arbitrarily altered, and that a review of quality control measures “convinced us that no data manipulation took place.”
Support for Oct. 7 did not necessarily mean support for Hamas or killings or atrocities against civilians, PSR said, adding that “almost 90 percent of the public believes Hamas men did not commit the atrocities depicted in videos taken on that day.”
The poll showed a drop in the number of respondents in Gaza who said they support Hamas to 35 percent from 38 percent. But the Islamist movement remained more popular than Fatah, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, in both in Gaza and the West Bank.

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