The group of over two dozen students from universities such as UPenn, MIT, Cornell, Colombia, Brandeis, Temple, and Johns Hopkins is spending a week visiting the Israeli communities devastated by the attack.
The cramped living conditions, soaring food prices, and poor sanitation are further intensified by severe restrictions on the entry of essential supplies into the coastal strip.
The decades-old Israel-Palestine issue that escalated after the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel compelled world powers to push diplomatic efforts to contain the conflict and stop it from spreading as the war poses a major risk to the global economy by disrupting supply chains as well as
Hezbollah has been firing rockets at northern Israel on a daily basis since October 7, when Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis in communities near the Gaza border.
The UN Human Rights Office has verified the deaths of 300 Palestinians from October 7 to December 27, including 79 children, in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since the attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in southern Israel.
Israeli soldiers operating in Gaza uncovered evidence tying the Indonesian Hospital to Hamas and its October 7 attacks, the Israel Defence Forces announced on Monday night.
Israeli officials, according to reports, have also promised to conduct a thorough probe and pinpoint the lapses that literally opened the doors for Hamas and let their fighters into its southern kibbutzes.
The decades old Israel-Palestine issue has been a matter that has kept the world divided at large. Although almost all major nations have advocated for a two-state solution, it was never other than the Oslo Accords (1993), that the two parties ever came close to any agreement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed grief over the deaths of Israeli soldiers who were killed over the weekend amid the ongoing war with terror group Hamas, Times of Israel reported.
Before the current Hamas war, Palestinian Arabs flooded the neighborhood each morning--building, pouring concrete, laying stone and tiles. Now most of the houses stand half-finished, waiting for somebody to finish the job.