For all that Israel claims this week’s operation a necessary success, look at the bigger picture of Israel-Palestinian conflict, and the past few days have changed nothing 📧 Read the Dispatches newsletter from AliBunkallSKY
Military action, however “targeted”, always affects the innocent. Israel might insist it is only going after terrorists, but operations like these can look, and feel, like collective punishment.an estimated 18,000 people crammed into barely half a square kilometre, has been left in a mess.
Having lived through repeated raids of his home city already, what course in life will he now take? What chance of him growing old? The pursuit of further settlement expansion under this current right-wing Israeli government is leading towards annexation, not peace. But for a few timidly worded statements of condemnations by foreign governments, there is really little pressure for them to stop. Depressingly, in the face of this reality, there is also little incentive for the Palestinian militants to lay down arms.
Much of the minority Yazidi population in Iraq, around 550,000, was forced to flee their homes, mainly around the Mount Sinjar area. The women were taken to captivity in Iraq and Syria, tortured, raped and forced to work for Islamic State. The UN team investigating the massacre concluded that there was “clear and convincing evidence that genocide was committed”.but also small pockets in Syria and Turkey.
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