Israel's military pushed deeper towards the most populated areas of Gaza City on Tuesday (Sept 23), a stark reminder for Gazans that Western powers' recognition of a Palestinian state does not mean an end to the horrors of war as tanks approach.
00:06Portugal formally recognized the state of Palestine.
00:19The day after Western nations lined up to recognize Palestinian statehood at the United Nations in New York.
00:25Mohammed Khalil Harab was burying the son he lost hours before in an Israeli strike on Gaza.
00:32A stark reminder on Tuesday of the contrast between diplomacy and the horrors of war.
00:37As Israel's tanks approached the most populated areas of Gaza.
00:42My son, I lost my son, the dearest of my children. As you can see, we don't know where to go.
00:50Israeli fire killed more than 20 people across the strip as of Tuesday morning.
00:55According to local health authorities, the health ministry said hospitals would run out of fuel in the coming days, further endangering lives.
01:03Yet some displaced Gazans welcomed the landmark diplomatic shift, which is opposed by Israel and its close ally the United States.
01:10Rouhi Abu Daff said, it's a good thing we have a state, an entity, to live in dignity at least.
01:19In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinians gathered to celebrate.
01:23The two-state solution, meaning a state of Palestine alongside Israel, was the bedrock of the US-backed peace process begun by the 1993 Oslo Accords.
01:34But the process has all but died. Israel's right-wing government has declared there will be no Palestinian state.
01:39Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the war will not stop until the military eliminates Hamas, which launched an October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that killed about 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies.
01:54Israel's military has since killed more than 65,000 Palestinians in Gaza, local health authorities say.
02:01A UN Commission of Inquiry last week was the latest body to accuse Israel of committing genocide.
02:07It also cited aid blockages that have created areas of famine and mass displacement like the stream of people on Tuesday along the coast road.
02:15Israel called the findings scandalous and fake. Israeli bombardment has destroyed much of the Gaza Strip and displaced nearly everyone there at least once.
02:26For Abu Mohran Salma, camping out by the roadside, Monday's milestone would be the latest of a string of failed promises, dating back to Israel's foundation.
02:36From 1948 until now, not one resolution taken for Palestine, Gaza and our people and how we live. Not one decision was carried out. It's nothing. The country's recognition is for nothing. Our hope is for God to stop the war and that's it.
03:06The country's recognition is for God's sake. The, the country's recognition is for God's sake and for us, and the country's recognition is for God's sake and the country's constituency.
03:17Our permanent means for us to do every day, and that's what we will be the best to do.
03:24We are available for God to keep us on our website.
03:27We are available for God to come as to God of the people who are unenc intuitive, and that's what we are doing.
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