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Pope Deplores Desperate Humanitarian Situation In Gaza Calls For Immediate Ceasefire In Gaza

Pope Deplores Desperate Humanitarian Situation In Gaza Calls For Immediate Ceasefire In Gaza 

Pope Deplores Desperate Humanitarian Situation In Gaza Calls For Immediate Ceasefire In Gaza 

'War isn't close to finished,' Netanyahu says

Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will expand its Gaza ground offensive in the coming days, despite international efforts to halt the fighting.

Speaking to members of his Likud Party, Mr Netanyahu said the war "isn't close to finished".

He spoke after returning from a visit to troops fighting inside Gaza, and as Egypt is floating a proposal to end the Israel-Hamas war.

"We are not stopping. We are continuing to fight and we are expanding the fight in the coming days," Mr Netanyahu said. "There will be a long battle and it isn't close to finished."

The comments come as the Hamas-led Gaza health ministry said 20,674 people have been killed and 54,536 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October.

Christian Church Calls For An End To World Wide Violence And War 25th Dec 2023

Christian Church Calls For An End To World Wide Violence And War 25th Dec 2023

Christian Church Calls For An End To World Wide Violence And War 25th December 2023

'Skies of Bethlehem full of fear,' Archbishop of Canterbury says

The Archbishop of Canterbury has used his Christmas Day sermon to highlight the suffering of children caught up in the Israel-Hamas war.

Referring to Jesus Christ's birthplace, the Most Rev Justin Welby said "the skies of Bethlehem are full of fear rather than angels and glory".

He compared the turbulent conditions of Jesus's birth with the modern-day plight of children in the troubled region.

The archbishop also spoke of children in the UK having to "hide their Jewishness on their way to school" in fear of the "age-old atrocious sin of antisemitism".

In his sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, Mr Welby said: "Today a crying child is in a manger somewhere in the world, nobody willing or able to help his parents or her parents who so desperately need shelter.

"Or perhaps lying in an incubator, in a hospital low on electricity, like the Anglican al Ahli hospital in Gaza, surrounded by suffering and death.

"Maybe the newborn lies in a house that still bears the marks of the horrors of 7 October, with family members killed, and a mother who counted her life as lost.

"Or maybe they're not a newborn, but someone thinking of next term, having again to hide their Jewishness on their way to school in this country, or a playgroup in our own cities, fearful of the age-old atrocious sin of antisemitism."

 

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In pictures: Fighting continues on Christmas Day

Fighting continued today, with Reuters and Associated Press photographers capturing images of the conflict in Gaza and Israel.

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system was pictured from Ashkelon intercepting rockets launched from Gaza.

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Iran appears to have issued a threat to Israel after reports an Israeli air strike killed a top Iranian general in Syria. Meanwhile, Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has highlighted the "pain of grieving families" in a Christmas message.

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Another picture taken in southern Israel showed an Apache helicopter firing a missile in the direction of Gaza.

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Among the rubble in Maghazi camp, Gaza, a photograph was taken of Palestinian man Ibrahim Al-Haj Youssef, who said he lost four of his children and his wife in an Israeli airstrike.

In northern Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu posed for a photo with Israeli soldiers.

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IDF spokesperson declines to comment on 'killing' of Iranian general

A spokesperson for the IDF has declined to comment on reports an Israeli airstrike killed a top Iranian general in Syria.

Sayyed Razi Mousavi, a brigadier-general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, was killed outside the Syrian capital Damascus, reported Reuters, citing three security sources, and Iranian state media earlier today.

In response to a question from a reporter, IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said: "I won't comment on foreign reports, these or others in the Middle East.

"The Israeli military obviously has a job to protect the security interests of Israel."

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said the killing of Mr Mousavi showed weakness on the part of Israel. 

"This act is a sign of the Zionist regime's frustration and weakness in the region for which it will certainly pay the price," Iranian media cited President Raisi as saying.

Foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani told state media: "Iran reserves the right to take necessary measures to respond to this action at the appropriate time and place.

In pictures: Israeli soldiers near Gaza border

Images have emerged of Israeli soldiers near the Gaza border in southern Israel.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will expand its Gaza ground offensive in the coming days.

Speaking to members of his Likud Party, Mr Netanyahu said the war "isn't close to finished".

He spoke after returning from a visit to troops fighting inside Gaza, and as Egypt is floating a proposal to end the Israel-Hamas war.

Israeli soldiers near Gaza border

Images have emerged of Israeli soldiers near the Gaza border in southern Israel.
 
 
 

Hostages' families interrupt Netanyahu in parliament

Family members of hostages interrupted Benjamin Netanyahu during a special session of parliament today, CNN has reported.

They shouted "there is no time" and "now, now, now" while holding posters and signs with the names and photos of their relatives.

Messages written on them included "what if this were your daughter" and "80 days, each minute is like hell".

The prime minister said that he will "shake every tree and turn every stone to bring back all the kidnapped", reported CNN.

Eyewitness: No lights, trees or celebrations in Jerusalem

Nicole Johnston, Sky News correspondent in Jerusalem

While we could hear the church bells ring out across Jerusalem from our position on the roof top of the Austrian Hospice, in the old city, down below, in the narrow lanes, it was sombre and still. 

There is no Christmas celebration in the Christian communities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) this year. They are praying for an end to the war.

Many of the shops are shuttered, and there are no Christmas trees or lights in the streets.

We met Armenian Christian, Hagop Djernazian, who lives in Jerusalem's old city.   

He said: "For the first time, we are not celebrating because of the war in Gaza."

"You can feel the anger within the communities."

He says the number of Christians in the OPT has been steadily falling, especially in the last two years, and there are now less than 8,000 Christians left in Jerusalem. 

"The reason people are leaving is because of the pressure from different Israeli authorities on our churches and communities, the lack of job opportunities and education, and attacks on Christians' holy sites," Hagop Djernazian explained to us.

Israel 'not doing enough' to bring hostages back, opposition leader says

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has said the country is "not doing enough" to bring the hostages back, The Times of Israel reports.

Speaking to politicians in the country today, Mr Lapid said that the hostages needed to be brought back home "now".

"Sinwar can be killed next month as well," he said, adding that "we are not doing enough".

"We need to do everything and we will do everything to bring them back, all of them."

Earlier we reported on comments from Benjamin Netanyahu who said that Israel will not succeed in freeing the remaining hostages held in Gaza without military pressure.

He said: "We wouldn't have succeeded up until now to release more than 100 hostages without military pressure.

"And we won't succeed at releasing all the hostages without military pressure."

In pictures: Displaced Palestinians at refugee camp

The Israel-Hamas war has driven the vast majority of the 2.3 million Gazans from their homes, and the UN says conditions are catastrophic.

Since a week-long truce collapsed at the start of the month, fighting has only intensified on the ground, with war spreading from the north to the full length of the densely populated strip.

Here are some of the images emerging from a refugee camp in Rafah, southern Israel, where Palestinians who have fled their homes have been sheltering...

 

Mohamed Salah highlights 'pain of grieving families' in Christmas message

 

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has shared an emotional Christmas message, saying his heart was heavy this year due to the "brutal war".

The Egyptian footballer urged his followers not to forget those who were suffering, and drew attention to the "death and destruction in Gaza".

"With the brutal war going on in the Middle East, especially the death and destruction in Gaza, this year we get to Christmas with very heavy hearts and we share the pain of those families who are grieving the loss of their loved ones," he posted on X.

"Please do not forget them and do not get used to their suffering. Merry Christmas."

Reports: Iran tells Israel it 'will pay for killing general'

Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), a branch of its armed forces, has said Israel "will pay" for killing one of its commanders, Iranian state TV reports.

Reuters and Tasnim news agency said earlier an air strike outside of Damascus, Syria, killed Sayyed Razi Mousavi, an IRGC member responsible for coordinating the military alliance between Syria and Iran. 

Iran's Revolutionary Guards described him as one of the Guards' oldest advisers in Syria, with the rank of brigadier-general.

"Undoubtedly, the usurper and savage Zionist regime will pay for this crime," the Guards said in a statement read on Iranian state TV. 

There was no immediate comment from Israel's military.

Reports: Israeli strike kills senior Iranian armed forces adviser

An Israeli air strike in Syria has killed a senior adviser in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, according to the Iranian Tasnim news agency.

Security sources told Reuters the strike occurred outside the Syrian capital Damascus.

They said the adviser was responsible for coordinating the military alliance between Syria and Iran. 

There has not been any comment from Israel.

Sky News cannot independently verify these reports.

 
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Netanyahu: Military pressure needed to release hostages

We are receiving more comments from Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been giving a speech in Israel's parliament.

The country's leader has said that Israel will not succeed in freeing the remaining hostages held in Gaza without military pressure.

He said: "We wouldn't have succeeded up until now to release more than 100 hostages without military pressure.

"And we won't succeed at releasing all the hostages without military pressure."

Mr Netanyahu said earlier that Israel would "continue to fight" and is "expanding the fight in the coming days".

 
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Red Crescent accuses Israel of destroying ambulances in raid

An aid organisation has accused Israeli soldiers of raiding an ambulance centre in northern Gaza and destroying the ambulances.

The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) said Israeli troops forced its teams to evacuate the Jabalia facility.

A dozen ambulances left the southern town of Khan Younis this morning to evacuate its teams from the north, PRCS said.

Sky News cannot independently verify these reports.

In the same update, the PRCS said it evacuated 21 injured people from al Ahli hospital and 13 from al Shifa hospital.

They will be transported to hospitals in the southern part of Gaza, it said.

 In pictures: Scenes from Maghazi refugee camp

More scenes are emerging from the Maghazi refugee camp after heavy Israeli bombardment.

At least 106 people were killed, according to Hamas-led Palestinian medical officials in Gaza.

This makes last night's airstrike among the deadliest in Israel's air campaign in Gaza.

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'War isn't close to finished,' Netanyahu says

Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will expand its Gaza ground offensive in the coming days, despite international efforts to halt the fighting.

Speaking to members of his Likud Party, Mr Netanyahu said the war "isn't close to finished".

He spoke after returning from a visit to troops fighting inside Gaza, and as Egypt is floating a proposal to end the Israel-Hamas war.

"We are not stopping. We are continuing to fight and we are expanding the fight in the coming days," Mr Netanyahu said. "There will be a long battle and it isn't close to finished."

The comments come as the Hamas-led Gaza health ministry said 20,674 people have been killed and 54,536 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October.

The ministry added that 250 Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours and 500 wounded.

 Hamas and Islamic Jihad reject giving up power in return for ceasefire - report

Hamas and the allied Islamic Jihad have rejected an Egyptian proposal that they relinquish power in the Gaza Strip in return for a permanent ceasefire, two Egyptian security sources have told Reuters.

Both groups, which have been holding separate talks with Egyptian mediators in Cairo, rejected offering any concessions beyond the possible release of more hostages seized on 7 October.

Egypt proposed a "vision", also backed by Qatari mediators, that would involve a ceasefire in exchange for the release of more hostages, and lead to a broader agreement involving a permanent ceasefire along with an overhaul of leadership in Gaza, which is currently led by Hamas.

Egypt proposed elections while offering assurances to Hamas that its members would not be chased or prosecuted, but they rejected any concessions other than hostage releases, the sources said. 

"Hamas seeks to end the Israeli aggression against our people, the massacres and genocide, and we discussed with our Egyptian brothers the ways to do that," the official told Reuters.

"We also said that the aid for our people must keep going and must increase and it must reach all the population in the north and the south."

"After the aggression is stopped and the aid increased we are ready to discuss prisoner swaps," he added.

Islamic Jihad, which also holds hostages in Gaza, has echoed that stance.

 
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Hamas: Death toll from Israeli airstrike rises to 106

Hamas-led Palestinian medical officials in Gaza have said the death toll from an Israeli airstrike has risen to 106, according to the Associated Press.

Earlier, hospital officials had said 68 people had died.

The announcement makes last night's airstrike in the Maghazi refugee camp among the deadliest in Israel's air campaign in Gaza.

Sky News has not been able to verify this information.

 
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Pope blasts weapons industry

 Pope Francis blasted the weapons industry that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world.

Speaking from the loggia of St Peter's Basilica, the pontiff said he grieved the "abominable attack" of Hamas against southern Israel and called for the release of hostages.

He also called for an end to Israel's military campaign in Gaza and the "appalling harvest of innocent civilians" and urged that humanitarian aid reach those in need.

Francis devoted his Christmas Day blessing to a call for peace in the world, noting that the biblical story of the birth of Christ in Bethlehem sent a message of peace.

But he said that Bethlehem "is a place of sorrow and silence" this year.

He took particular aim at the weapons industry, which he said was fuelling the conflicts around the globe.

"It should be talked about and written about, so as to bring to light the interests and the profits that move the puppet strings of war," he said. 

"And how can we even speak of peace when arms production, sales and trade are on the rise?"

War isn't close to finished,' Netanyahu says

Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will expand its Gaza ground offensive in the coming days, despite international efforts to halt the fighting.

Speaking to members of his Likud Party, Mr Netanyahu said the war "isn't close to finished".

He spoke after returning from a visit to troops fighting inside Gaza, and as Egypt is floating a proposal to end the Israel-Hamas war.

"We are not stopping. We are continuing to fight and we are expanding the fight in the coming days," Mr Netanyahu said. "There will be a long battle and it isn't close to finished."

The comments come as the Hamas-led Gaza health ministry said 20,674 people have been killed and 54,536 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October.

The ministry added that 250 Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours and 500 wounded.

 Hamas and Islamic Jihad reject giving up power in return for ceasefire - report

Hamas and the allied Islamic Jihad have rejected an Egyptian proposal that they relinquish power in the Gaza Strip in return for a permanent ceasefire, two Egyptian security sources have told Reuters.

Both groups, which have been holding separate talks with Egyptian mediators in Cairo, rejected offering any concessions beyond the possible release of more hostages seized on 7 October.

Egypt proposed a "vision", also backed by Qatari mediators, that would involve a ceasefire in exchange for the release of more hostages, and lead to a broader agreement involving a permanent ceasefire along with an overhaul of leadership in Gaza, which is currently led by Hamas.

Egypt proposed elections while offering assurances to Hamas that its members would not be chased or prosecuted, but they rejected any concessions other than hostage releases, the sources said. 

"Hamas seeks to end the Israeli aggression against our people, the massacres and genocide, and we discussed with our Egyptian brothers the ways to do that," the official told Reuters.

"We also said that the aid for our people must keep going and must increase and it must reach all the population in the north and the south."

"After the aggression is stopped and the aid increased we are ready to discuss prisoner swaps," he added.

Islamic Jihad, which also holds hostages in Gaza, has echoed that stance.

 
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Hamas: Death toll from Israeli airstrike rises to 106

Hamas-led Palestinian medical officials in Gaza have said the death toll from an Israeli airstrike has risen to 106, according to the Associated Press.

Earlier, hospital officials had said 68 people had died.

The announcement makes last night's airstrike in the Maghazi refugee camp among the deadliest in Israel's air campaign in Gaza.

Sky News has not been able to verify this information.

 
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Pope blasts weapons industry

 Pope Francis blasted the weapons industry that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world.

Speaking from the loggia of St Peter's Basilica, the pontiff said he grieved the "abominable attack" of Hamas against southern Israel and called for the release of hostages.

He also called for an end to Israel's military campaign in Gaza and the "appalling harvest of innocent civilians" and urged that humanitarian aid reach those in need.

Francis devoted his Christmas Day blessing to a call for peace in the world, noting that the biblical story of the birth of Christ in Bethlehem sent a message of peace.

But he said that Bethlehem "is a place of sorrow and silence" this year.

He took particular aim at the weapons industry, which he said was fuelling the conflicts around the globe.

"It should be talked about and written about, so as to bring to light the interests and the profits that move the puppet strings of war," he said. 

"And how can we even speak of peace when arms production, sales and trade are on the rise?"

 

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    Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa killed in Israeli attack

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  • After being injured in an Israeli drone attack earlier today, Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Samer Abudaqa died from his wounds, the news network has announced. Ambulances had attempted to reach him but were unable to due to the roads being blocked by the debris from an Israeli bombing, media outlets reported.

Samer Abudaqa Al Jazeera Arabic Journalist Killed And Colleague Wael Dahdouh Wounded In Israeli Attack In Khan Younis Southern Gaza

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    After being injured in an Israeli drone attack earlier today, Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Samer Abudaqa died from his wounds, the news network has announced. Ambulances had attempted to reach him but were unable to due to the roads being blocked by the debris from an Israeli bombing, media outlets reported. “It is with heavy hearts that we share the devastating news of the loss of our dedicated Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Dakka during the recent coverage in Gaza,” Mohamed Moawad, Al Jazeera’s managing editor, announced on the social media platform X. “His unwavering commitment to truth and storytelling has left an indelible mark on our team. Samer, whose lens captured the raw and unfiltered reality of life in Gaza, was not just a skilled professional but a compassionate soul who understood the power of visual storytelling

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Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa killed in Israeli attack in Gaza

Al Jazeera Arabic cameraman killed and colleague wounded in an Israeli attack in Khan Younis.

Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa killed in Israeli attack in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera 15 Dec 2023

Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Samer Abudaqa has been killed and his colleague Wael Dahdouh was wounded in an Israeli attack in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Cameraman Abudaqa and correspondent Dahdouh were reporting at Farhana school in Khan Younis when they were hit by an Israeli strike on Friday.

Rescue teams were unable to immediately reach Abudaqa and others at the site due to Israeli bombardment. “Rescuers just managed to retrieve the cameraman Samer Abudaqa’s body,” a spokesperson for the media network said. Dahdouh was hit by shrapnel on his upper arm, and managed to reach Nasser hospital where he was treated for minor injuries.

Witnesses said earlier there was heavy shelling in the area around the school.

Many Palestinians from the central and northern parts of Gaza have sought shelter in Khan Younis since the war began in October. Many have now been pushed further south towards the strip’s southernmost city of Rafah after Israel intensified its military operations in Khan Younis. The attack comes amid violent clashes between Palestinian fighters and the Israeli army in locations across Gaza. Residents reported fighting in Shujayea, Sheikh Radwan, Zeitoun, Tuffah, and Beit Hanoon in north Gaza, east of Maghazi in central Gaza and in the centre and northern fringes of Khan Younis, according to the Reuters news service.

In late October, Wael Dahdouh lost four of his family members in an Israeli air raid.

His family had been seeking refuge in Nuseirat camp in the centre of Gaza when their home was bombed by Israeli forces, killing his wife, Um Hamza, his 15-year-old son, Mahmoud, his seven-year-old daughter, Sham, and his grandson, Adam, who died in hospital hours later.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said it was “shocked” at the attack. “We condemn the attack and reiterate our demand that journalists’ lives must be safeguarded,” it said in a post on X. An IFJ report published last week found that 72 percent of journalists who died on the job this year were killed in the Gaza war.

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We are deeply shocked to learn that journalist @WaelDahdouh and camera operator Samer Abu Daqqa have been injured while covering an earlier Israeli attack on a school. We condemn the attack and reiterate our demand that journalists' lives must be safeguarded.
‘A professional, strong team’

The two journalists have worked together with Al Jazeera Arabic since before the war.

“[Samer] and Wael make up a very professional, strong team on the ground, documenting everything and bringing all the facts and live pictures of what the Palestinian people have been going through,” Hani Mahmoud said.

“But particularly with this war, given its intensity in scale and magnitude and the sheer amount of destruction, they have been at the forefront of covering every little detail that one might have forgotten about,” he added.

Jodie Ginsberg, the president of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said Palestinian journalists in Gaza felt abandoned by the international community.

“The role of journalists in such a situation is absolutely vital – particularly in Gaza where we’ve seen the kinds of institutions that traditionally also help with the kinds of documentation about the impact, like the UN officials, have left – so we’re really only left with the Gazan journalists doing this very important documentation work,” she told Al Jazeera.

“The international governments’ failure to push for an end to this conflict is increasingly creating a real sense of abandonment amongst the community and particularly amongst the journalist community in Palestine and the region,” Ginsberg said.

 
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 Ben Gurion Canal topographic map

Ben Gurion Canal topographic maps

Ben Gurion Canal compared to the Suez Canal

The Ben Gurion Canal Project is a proposed canal project through the state of Israel. It would connect the Gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean Sea. David Ben Gurion, for whom it would be named, is considered the Founding Father of Israel and was the first Prime Minister of Israel.

The canal would rival the Suez Canal, which runs through Egypt and has had many disturbances in its history, such as the Israeli blockage through the Suez Canal and Straits of Tiran, Closure of the Suez Canal (1956–1957), Closure of the Suez Canal (1967–1975), and the 2021 Suez Canal obstruction. It would be slightly more than 50% longer than the 120.1 mi (193.3 km) Suez Canal, at around 182 mi (292.9 km).

Route

Starting from the southern end at the Gulf of Aqaba, by the port city of Eilat in Israel on the Israeli and Jordanian border, through the Arabah Valley for about 100 km between the Negev Mountains and the Jordanian Highlands and veers west before the Dead Sea basin (the Dead Sea is 430.5 metres (1,412 ft) below sea level), and heads through a valley in the Negev Mountain Range, then heads north again to get around the Gaza Strip and connect to the Mediterranean Sea

Arabah Valley by the Gulf of Aqaba

Arabah Valley by the Gulf of Aqaba

Arabah in 1959

Southern Israel Gulf of Aqaba, Eilat, Israel, and Aqaba, Jordan

Arabah valley in 1959

NASA photos

1963 US feasibility study

In July 1963, H. D. Maccabee of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, under contract to the United States Department of Energy, wrote a memorandum that explored the possibility of using 520 buried nuclear explosions to help excavate a canal through the hills in the Negev Desert. The document was classified until 1993.

See also

Ben Gurion Canal Project - Wikipedia

 

The Ben Gurion Canal Project

A competitor to the Suez Canal is being planned to cut across Israel and connect the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea.

This canal would give the U.S. and Israel control over a key chokepoint in the world for military ships, grain exports, energy and other commodities.

The planned route of the canal goes right through northern Gaza, and many analysts believe that Gaza is being destroyed and wiped out right now to make way for the construction of this canal, which would bring in billions of dollars a year for Israel (and grant Israel control over its access).
 
An alternative to the Suez Canal is central to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians – Middle East Monitor

An alternative to the Suez Canal is central to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians

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 A "Welcome to Egypt" sign can be seen across the Suez Canal on 30 March 2021 in Ismailia, Egypt. [Mahmoud Khaled/Getty Images]
A "Welcome to Egypt" sign can be seen across the Suez Canal on 30 March 2021 in Ismailia, Egypt 
 

I hate conspiracy theories and fake news. They degrade my profession as a journalist and incite fear, hate and tribulation with the deliberate intention of causing a public backlash. Naturally, there have been all sorts of speculation and rumour around the war in Gaza and the 7 October surprise Hamas attack on the occupation state.

It has been said that the attack was two years in the planning in Gaza, a tiny patch of land riddled with Zionist infiltrators and spies who cajole, bribe and threaten ordinary Palestinians to betray their comrades.

So the question many are asking, with some justification, is why there was such a catastrophic intelligence failure which meant that the attack caught the Israeli military sleeping on the job. In terms of access to eavesdropping technology and defence there is probably no better-equipped military in the world other than in the US, and the Americans maintain secret supply bases in the Zionist state. Israel’s Mossad has earned itself a reputation of being among the finest intelligence gatherers and infiltrators in the world. And yet 7 October saw Hamas fighters breach security fences, invade a music festival and local kibbutzim, and fly in on paragliders without a single challenge. How did this happen?

Some of Israel’s most brutal attacks on innocent Palestinians are made citing “national security” and Israel’s alleged right to defend itself. If it was being attacked by another nation state, fair enough. But an attack by people living under Israel’s brutal military occupation provides no such legal defence. It doesn’t exist.

READ: 41 children killed in West Bank since 7 October, charity says

A good contact and friend of mine who watches the region’s events closely told me simply: “Follow the money.” And that is how, after being nudged and pointed in a variety of directions with annoyingly vague clues, I found myself pouring over a network of paper trails that led to the National Archives, where British secrets lie unseen for at least 30 years and in some cases much, much longer.

By the time they surface, it’s usually far too late to do anything as the guilty have taken their secrets to the grave, but some disclosures do explain the terrible behaviour of governments and rogue politicians. Many of my colleagues are waiting with bated breath for the March 2030 deadline to pass to find out how the Iraq war came about, and if our suspicions about former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s role are as bad as we believe.

The Ben Gurion Canal Project

The Ben Gurion Canal Project

This particular paper chase, though, took me to the origins of the Suez Canal, which opened with a grand ceremony on 17 November 1869, 154 years ago this month. Today, 10 per cent of the world’s cargo ships sail through this strategic route between the Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea, heading to and from the Indian Ocean and connecting Europe and Asia.

Egypt owns, controls and operates the canal now, but it was once owned by French investors who held half of the canal company’s stock with Egypt’s ruler Sa’id Pasha holding most of the balance. In 1875, a cash crisis forced Sa’id’s successor, Isma’il Pasha, to sell the country’s shares to Britain. The Suez Company operated the canal until Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser tore up the concession in 1956 and transferred the canal’s operation to the state-owned Suez Canal Authority. There then followed the Suez Crisis, also known as the second Arab-Israeli war.

On the same day that the canal was nationalised Nasser also closed the Straits of Tiran to all Israeli ships. The crisis saw the UK, France, and Israel invade Egypt. According to pre-agreed plans prepared by Britain and France, Israel invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on 29 October 1956, forcing the Egyptians to engage its troops. This gave the excuse for the Anglo-French alliance to declare the fighting to be a threat to stability in the Middle East and enter the war, officially to separate the two forces but, in reality, to regain control of the Suez Canal and bring down the Nasser government.

What does it have to do with 7 October 2023? Well, it just so happens that Gaza is slap bang in the middle of the proposed path of a major second canal in the region.

READ: Only 27% of Israelis believe Netanyahu is suitable to head government

Gaza is currently being bombed to oblivion by the deranged Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu who wants to deliver The Ben Gurion Canal Project. Yes, Tel Aviv already has a name for the canal which was first proposed back in the Sixties. It would connect the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and would even be named after the first prime minister of Israel.

The canal would rival Egypt’s Suez Canal, causing a major financial threat to the country and this major trade artery. Remember the global trade disaster caused the huge container ship Ever Given got stuck in the famous canal in 2021? The Straits of Tiran and Suez Canal remained formally closed to Israeli vessels from the creation of Israel in 1948 and the Nakba until the Suez Crisis in 1956. When all land trade routes were blocked by Arab states, Israel’s ability to trade with East Africa and Asia, mainly to import oil from the Persian Gulf, was severely hampered. There have been other obstructions involving Israel forcing its closure in 1956-7 and 1967-75.

If it goes ahead, this new canal will be almost one-third longer than the 193.3 km Suez Canal, at around 292.9 km and an estimated cost of between $16 and $55 billion. Whoever controls the canal will have enormous influence over the global supply routes for oil, grain and shipping. With Gaza razed to the ground, it would enable the canal planners to literally cut corners and reduce costs by diverting the canal straight through the middle of the territory.

Around 12 per cent of the world’s trade passes through Suez on 18,000 ships a year, so you can imagine that a lot of countries will be lining up for a share of the deal. The Suez Canal is worth a staggering $9.4 billion to Egypt, which has enjoyed record-breaking revenues this year.

The only thing stopping the newly-revised project from being revived and rubber-stamped is the presence of the Palestinians in Gaza. As far as Netanyahu is concerned they are standing in the way of the project; a project which may earn him forgiveness in Tel Aviv for the intelligence and military shortcomings on 7 October. However, his treacherous sleight of hand will never by forgiven or forgotten by the people of Palestine given the horrors which have descended upon Gaza in the past few weeks.

READ: No evidence of Hamas seizing aid entering Gaza: US envoy

If this is all being done in the name of potential business deals then it compounds the political and diplomatic disgrace of the shameless Western governments who are complicit in the Palestinian genocide.

The biggest shame, though, belongs to Egypt. Already on the verge of bankruptcy due to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s profligacy, the emergence of a new canal would have a devastating impact on the Egyptian economy and its people. Heartless dictator Al-Sisi may come to regret putting his trust in Tel Aviv and Western governments above the interests and welfare of two million Palestinians in Gaza.

None of the Middle East leaders, Netanyahu, Biden and Sunak et al in the West emerge from the carnage in Gaza with any degree of integrity intact. Together, they are guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, or at the very least are complicit in such awful crimes leading to genocide.

This didn’t all begin on 7 October; the bombing of Gaza is simply the latest stage of Israel’s slow genocide of the people of Palestine, which has now got up to speed again with the full backing of the Western sponsors of the apartheid state. If they think that killing innocent children and women will bring peace, they are deluded.

Unbridled neoliberal capitalism has destroyed many countries and killed millions of people, and peace and security have rarely been the result. I hope that the evil people responsible will burn in Hell for what they have done to the children of Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and numerous other countries around the world. The survivors need freedom and justice now.

OPINION: Like the fabled phoenix, Gaza will rise from the ashes

The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor.

A plan to join the Red Sea with Mediterranean — an alternative to the Suez Canal

Many decades ago, the Americans proposed to use nuclear weapons to blast a waterway through the Negev Desert. But the plan never progressed. This is why it did not — and why there is some talk about the ‘Ben Gurion Canal’ again as Israel pushes to destroy Hamas in Gaza

 

The Suez Canal through Egypt along with the proposed Ben-Gurion Canal through Israel occupied territory. (Wikimedia Commons)

It has been speculated that one of the reasons behind Israel’s desire to eliminate Hamas from the Gaza Strip and completely control the Palestinian enclave is to give itself the chance to better explore a dramatic economic opportunity that has been talked about for several decades, but for which peace and political stability in the region is an essential prerequisite.

The idea is to cut a canal through the Israeli-controlled Negev Desert from the tip of the Gulf of Aqaba — the eastern arm of the Red Sea that juts into Israel’s southern tip and south-western Jordan — to the Eastern Mediterranean coast, thus creating an alternative to the Egyptian-controlled Suez Canal that starts from the western arm of the Red Sea and passes to the southeastern Mediterranean through the northern Sinai peninsula.

Gaza Conflict and the Shadow of the Ben Gurion Canal Project

 Gaza Conflict: Is the Ben Gurion Canal Project a Factor? (bnn.network)

Gaza Conflict and the Shadow of the Ben Gurion Canal Project

Gaza Conflict and the Shadow of the Ben Gurion Canal Project

Tel Aviv, Israel – The landscape of the Middle East is once again the backdrop for heightened speculation as recent attacks in Gaza bring into focus the potential ramifications for the Ben Gurion Canal Project—a strategic endeavor steeped in historical significance. The unfolding events have prompted a closer examination of Israel’s strategic and economic objectives and how these may be driving the tension in the region.

Historical Context: Ben Gurion Canal Project

This ambitious project aims to chart a course from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, echoing the historic initiatives such as the Suez Canal, which has long been a pivotal maritime route since its completion in the 19th century. The proposed Ben Gurion Canal not only signals Israel’s aspirations to claim a stake in global trade dynamics but also reflects the ongoing quest to expand its geopolitical influence, a narrative that has been part of the region’s history since Israel’s establishment in 1948.

A Rivalry Revived

The Ben Gurion Canal, if completed, would challenge the supremacy of the Suez Canal, potentially diverting commerce and reshaping economic currents. The strategic move can be seen as a continuation of the historical tensions that saw Israel and Egypt at odds during the Suez Crisis in 1956, where control over this critical passageway was a central issue.

Economic and Military Ambitions Amidst Historical Shadows

The canal project, with American and Israeli support, resonates with the historical patterns of military and economic alliances in the region. The potential storage of nuclear weapons in the Negev Desert could be interpreted through the prism of Israel’s longstanding policy of maintaining a qualitative military edge, which has historical roots in the country’s defense doctrine since its early years.

Security Concerns and Legacy of Conflict

The recent attacks by Hamas have cast a spotlight on Israel’s intelligence and defense capabilities—areas that have been honed in the shadow of historical conflicts and the constant threat of regional adversaries. These recent incidents have put the spotlight back on Israel’s preparedness and the delicate balance of power that it has sought to maintain in a historically volatile region.

Geopolitical Chess Moves

The involvement of regional powerhouses like Saudi Arabia, with its oil-based influence, and Egypt, with its control over the Suez Canal, adds layers of complexity reminiscent of past Arab-Israeli conflicts. These nations have been central to the historical ebb and flow of Middle Eastern geopolitics, often finding themselves in the midst of the region’s persistent state of flux.

A Unified Response to a Historical Cycle of Conflict

The Gaza conflict, persisting through decades, continues to call for a concerted response from Arab and Muslim nations. The potential influence of the Ben Gurion Canal Project on this conflict underscores the enduring nature of geopolitical strategies that have long shaped the history of the region.

Intersecting Paths of Progress and Peril

As the world watches the latest developments, the intricate connections between the Ben Gurion Canal Project and the longstanding Israel-Palestine conflict become apparent. These events are unfolding in a region where history is not just remembered but is a living force that continually informs and shapes the present geopolitical narrative.