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How long can Israel’s government dismiss the pressure? The US defense secretary is in town after a week where Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu, for the first time in ten weeks of war, pointedly aired their differences publicly over the way Israel is conducting its ground operation in Gaza and the plan for what happens next.
We will ask about the mounting pressure from allies and the mounting domestic pressure after last week’s killing of three escaped hostages by Israeli forces.
For the first time Saturday, a rally for those abducted by Hamas clearly turned into an anti-Netanyahu protest. The voice of an interest group or a turning point for a nation and the legacy of its dominant figure of the past quarter century?
“Our army doesn’t know how to observe open-fire regulations.” The bitter accusation comes from the father of slain hostage Alon Shamriz.
The state of Israel is getting an earful from the Pope. On Sunday, he suggested that Israel’s military was employing terrorism tactics when first a mother who had gone to the bathroom in the compound of the church of the Holy Parish in Gaza and then her daughter were shot dead. The church blames an Israeli sniper. Israel’s government insists it does not shoot unarmed civilians.
Israel’s military organized a press tour Sunday of a large tunnel, wide enough to drive a car in, that it says stretches for four kilometres, part of the so-called Gaza Metro that is the target of the current operation.
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Lila Paulou and Juliette Brown.
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