Akbar Shahid Ahmed is HuffPost's senior foreign affairs reporter, based in Washington, D.C. A native Pakistani, Akbar has reported from across the Muslim-majority world, Europe and elsewhere. In 2022, he won a Boell Transatlantic Media Fellowship to spend the fall focused on reporting in Poland and Lithuania. In 2019, he became the first-ever Pakistani journalist to secure a press credential to report from Israel and Palestine. Akbar has previously written for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Gen
with a vicious, unprecedented offensive against Israeli communities. Now the flare-up is expected to mostly play out in occupied Palestinian territory — specifically in Gaza, the coastal enclave from which Hamas militants launched their Oct. 7 attack.. Many international officials and national security experts believe Israel will soon launch a ground invasion of Gaza with the stated goal of exacting revenge upon the territory’s ruling party, Hamas, and other armed Palestinian groups.
“During the darkest hours of our presence in Gaza we never envisaged a scenario where 2 million civilians could possibly live through heavy bombing, deprived of water, food, electricity medicines,” Fabrizio Carboni, the regional director for the International Committee of the Red Cross,Ghada Kord, a freelance journalist in Gaza, told HuffPost she already feels like she’s in a nightmare.
Meanwhile, fleeing Gaza is almost impossible. The region’s southern neighbor Egypt is reluctant to open the Rafah crossing into its territory — which both theThe total disruption of life in the strip has already limited residents’ access to vital supplies. “It’s a difficult humanitarian situation that’s unthinkable,” Okal told HuffPost. “Thousands of people are on the streets with no shelter, no power, and very soon will run out of water.”
Additionally, regular Gaza residents have little say over the battle strategy of Hamas, which has tightened its control over the strip, declining to hold elections andin retribution for Israeli airstrikes — a tactic that could lead to an even bloodier escalation — and its sophisticated military bulwarks throughout the strip will likely ensure any direct clash with Israeli forces is prolonged.
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