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Beyond Business as Usual in Israel-Palestine
The latest escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict brought important shifts in the status quo, underscoring the necessity of a political settlement.
A peace based on equal respect for both peoples’ rights will take time, however.
- ICG
Steps to lower the temperature are urgent in the interim.
What’s new?
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict experienced a new outburst in April-May 2021, spreading from East Jerusalem to the occupied West Bank and Israel’s mixed cities, and also to Gaza, where Israel and Hamas fought an eleven-day war, their fourth in fourteen years, exacting a high human and physical toll.
Why did it happen?
The absence of a…