Xinhua News Agency published a commentary on Israel’s killing of Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar, who planned and executed the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. It quoted several analysts who all predicted that the war between Hamas and Israel will continue. “Analysts believe that Sinwar’s death is unlikely to mark a turning point for peace in Gaza, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will continue, with the regional situation possibly worsening further.”
Yonatan Freeman, an international relations scholar at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said that Sinwar’s death might weaken the fighting resolve of some Hamas militants, but Hamas as a whole will continue to fight against Israel.
Mohamed Elmasry, an expert from Doha Institute in Qatar, stated that unless the root causes of the Gaza war are addressed, the cycle of violence may persist. “As for the root causes, they are well known, including Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land, the apartheid system established by Israel, and the blockade of Gaza, among others.”
A new bulletin jointly released by the International Labor Organization and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics on October 17th shows that since the new round of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict began a year ago, the poverty rate in Gaza has reached nearly 100 percent. Ruba Jaradat, Regional Director of the ILO for Arab States, stated that the losses caused by the war in Gaza are not limited to casualties, severe humanitarian disasters, and material destruction, but have fundamentally altered Gaza’s socioeconomic structure, while also severely impacting the economy and labor market of the West Bank.
Source: Xinhua, October 18, 2024
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