Gaza residents flee south as Israels military encircles Gaza City
Leila Molana-Allen:
I have, and Palestinians in the West Bank are saying that they feel like they are being persecuted, as though they were Hamas as well. We`ve seen a huge escalation in raids by the Israel Defense Forces into towns and camps in the West Bank. And not only that, but also airstrikes, which is very unusual in the West Bank.
More than 1,300 Palestinians have been arrested, more than 100 killed by security forces in the past few weeks. And the second issue, of course, is the Palestinian Authority. Now, they are theoretically still the government in Gaza. It`s just that Hamas is the party that runs things there.
Fatah, which is the party that`s in charge in the West Bank side of things, has been called upon now by the Israelis to come back in and run things in Gaza after the war. But they`re very concerned about how that will be seen, if they`re seen as complicit with the Israelis.
So there`s a lot of concern about, after all this devastation, what happens next and what the future is for any Palestinian peace solution or state.
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