
After Al Shifa raid, Erdogan in Germany, Musk's tweets, Biden and Xi, David Cameron returns
MuQtar Mustafa
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<p>For Israelis, it's a long-eyed target. For Palestinians, it's a symbol of their suffering. After days of laying siege to Al Shifa hospital, Israeli soldiers moved in overnight on Tuesday, after years of claiming that Hamas operated a command centre on the grounds of Gaza's largest medical centre.</p> <p>Now it's on to the next objective, with many parts of northern <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/gaza-strip/" class="gtm-add-suggested-tag">Gaza</a> laid to waste. <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/israel/" class="gtm-add-suggested-tag">Israel</a> has now dropped leaflets telling Palestinians to evacuate four specific neighbourhoods of Khan Younis. In the last 24 hours, Israel's ground operation has netted the bodies of two <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/hostages/" class="gtm-add-suggested-tag">hostages</a>: a 65-year-old woman and a 19-year-old female soldier, a reminder that there's more than 200 still believed to be held.</p><p>Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/germany/" class="gtm-add-suggested-tag">Germany</a> has welcomed <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/turkey/" class="gtm-add-suggested-tag">Turkey</a>'s president for a long-planned state visit, one that shows up opposing views on the eruption in the <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/middle-east/" class="gtm-add-suggested-tag">Middle East</a>. </p><p>The EU's executive arm has joined IBM and halted advertisements on <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/elon-musk/" class="gtm-add-suggested-tag">Elon Musk</a>'s <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/social-media/" class="gtm-add-suggested-tag">social media</a> platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The last straw was Musk's seeming endorsement of a tweet from a far-right account claiming that members of the Jewish community were stoking hatred against White people.</p><p>What this world certainly needs is a healthy dose of de-escalation. So even if they didn't issue a joint statement, many found reason to at least exhale when <a href="https://w
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After Al Shifa raid, Erdogan in Germany, Musk's tweets, Biden and Xi, David Cameron returns
MuQtar Mustafa