The Palestinian-Israeli Issue Tops Global Newspaper Coverage

The Palestinian-Israeli issue tops the coverage of major global newspapers, with notable focus on the future of the war in the Gaza Strip and its political and humanitarian repercussions.

The Wall Street Journal viewed US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza as widely considered a "victory" despite major obstacles, primarily the issue of disarming the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

It quoted analysts as saying that Washington is ready to proceed with implementing the plan even without a clear commitment from Hamas to disarm.

In the same context, former US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said that Trump opposes Israel resuming its major military operations, fearing damage to his credibility linked to ending the war, revealing the US administration's efforts to deploy a force of 10,000 soldiers in Gaza under American command, which will take most of next year to prepare.

The British Financial Times addressed the catastrophic conditions in Gaza amid winter storms, noting the suffering of residents trapped in tents.

It quoted Erika Guevara Rosas, senior researcher at Amnesty International, as saying that scenes of tents flooded with water and collapsed buildings are not the result of weather alone, but the inevitable outcome of the ongoing genocide and Israel's deliberate policy of preventing the entry of shelter and reconstruction materials for the displaced.

On the Israeli side, Haaretz in its editorial said that Benjamin Netanyahu's government passed a series of laws threatening democracy in Israel, considering that these legislations do not address post-war crises in Gaza, but strengthen government control and "make the state more corrupt, indebted, and less democratic."

The newspaper warned that the upcoming elections will be a referendum on "the future of Israel itself, not on the Palestinian issue."

Internationally, Politico reported that the US State Department decided to impose sanctions on two judges at the International Criminal Court, alleging they carried out "political and unlawful" actions against Israel, a step reflecting ongoing US pressure on international institutions to prevent criticism of Tel Aviv.

In other files, the American "Washington Post" quoted David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee, describing the situation in Sudan as a glaring example of the new global chaos and the international system's inability to deal with it.

As for the British Times, it reported that European leaders agreed to grant Ukraine a loan worth 90 billion euros after a grueling summit in Brussels, considered the most tense and decisive in the modern history of the European Union.

The New York Times addressed Trump's escalation against Venezuela, warning of his use of misleading legal justifications, while the British Independent concluded by noting Britain's commitment to confronting violence against women as a threat on the scale of terrorism.