In 2024, the Middle East saw a series of tragic events that claimed tens of thousands of lives, provoked massive new waves of migration, caused large-scale damage to infrastructure, as well as the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu claims that it was thanks to him that the reformatting of the region began. About 65% of Israeli citizens think so as well. The degree of self-adoration of the nation in certain Israeli pro-government media is off the charts.

For the population of the Gaza Strip, 2024 will be remembered for genocide and ethnic cleansing. Every day there were reports of new civilian casualties. Israel does not pay any attention to the condemnation of its actions from the international community. At least 45,317 Palestinians have been killed and 107,713 injured by the end of the year. More than 10,000 people are missing.

Israel is realising its plans to seize new territory

Israel is preparing to resume its settlement policy in the north of the region. It is besieged by the Israeli army and it being total cleansed – literally – of the remaining Palestinians there. The Israel Defence Forces have created unbearable conditions, forcing people to leave their homes, which the Israeli army is razing to the ground. According to various sources, about 150-200 thousand people have left the north of Gaza.

In the West Bank of the Jordan River, Israel is consistently realising plans to seize more and more territory of the Palestinian Authority. In December, billboards appeared there, which read in Arabic: “There is no future in Palestine”. It is clear for whom it does not exist. In 2024, 736 people died at the hands of Israeli settlers and the army in the West Bank and more than 10,000 people were imprisoned. Residents are trying to protest, but Israeli settlers, the police and the army, on top of the Palestinian security forces, have begun to counter them. Their involvement in the suppression of the resistance has increased public distrust and jeopardised the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority.

The Israeli invasion of Lebanon last year resulted in destruction, surpassing 2006 Lebanese-Israeli war levels. More than 4,000 people were killed and over 16,500 were injured. The damage amounted to over $8.5 billion.

Israeli aggression has further exacerbated Lebanon’s economic problems. According to the World Bank, the national currency has depreciated by 90% since 2019. At least 44% of the country’s population lives in poverty.

The outgoing administration of J. Biden claims the ceasefire agreement reached to be his great US foreign policy victory. However, it is actually only being implemented by the Lebanese side. The Israeli army, with the connivance of the United States, violates it almost daily.

Syria has become fragmented as a result of the rapid fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.........

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