The US is unlikely to pressure Benjamin Netanyahu to comply with truce terms. Europe must take action<\/p>\n
The meaning of the term \u201cceasefire\u201d should be self\u2011evident. Yet Israel\u2019s strikes have killed scores of people in Lebanon since it agreed a truce<\/a> with Hezbollah under pressure from the US, with the two sides trading fire. There was a strike on Beirut<\/a> on Wednesday. Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government would be delighted to resume war with Iran. But it is wary of Donald Trump\u2019s wrath as he seeks an exit from the conflict.<\/p>\n In Gaza, the Israeli military has killed more than 800 people<\/a> since the truce there was declared in October, striking almost every day<\/a>. This, too, is not a true ceasefire<\/a> but a de-escalation, however necessary. Lethal\u00a0Israeli attacks on an engineer and drivers transporting water have intensified the water crisis<\/a> that is fuelling the spread of infectious diseases; M\u00e9decins\u00a0Sans Fronti\u00e8res has called<\/a> the weaponisation of water supplies a campaign of collective punishment. Never mind the estimated $70bn cost<\/a> of reconstruction; homes are still being flattened. Families in tents face a rat infestation. Essential medicines are unavailable. Hospitals and schools lie in ruins. An analysis of the war\u2019s impact on education described<\/a> children feeling \u201clike the living dead\u201d.<\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US is unlikely to pressure Benjamin Netanyahu to comply with truce terms. Europe must take action The meaning of the term \u201cceasefire\u201d should be self\u2011evident. Yet Israel\u2019s strikes have killed scores of people in Lebanon since it agreed a truce with Hezbollah under pressure from the US, with the two sides trading fire. There … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}