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The Jakarta Post HEADLINES WEDNESDAY January 31, 2024 3
War rages in Gaza as mediators
push for new cease-fire
Adel Zaanoun ‘Dire need’ Al Thani, whose government
and Rosie Scammell The Gaza war, now in its helped broker a previous truce
fourth month, has left much in November and who attended
Agence France-Presse/Gaza, of besieged Gaza in ruins and the talks, said “good progress”
Palestinian Territories /Jerusalem sparked a spiraling humani- had been made.
Deadly fighting and bombard- tarian crisis for its 2.4 million Sheikh Mohammed said the
ment rocked Gaza on Tues- people, many of whom face the plan included a phased truce
day as international mediators threats of hunger and disease. that would see women and chil-
pushed for a new cease-fire and Israel has charged that dren hostages released first,
hostage release deal in the Isra- around a dozen staff of the main with aid also entering Gaza, and
el-Hamas war. UN aid agency for Palestinians that an initial deal might lead to
Heavy Israeli strikes and ur- (UNRWA) took part in the Oct. a permanent cease-fire.
ban combat across the besieged 7 attack, leading key donor Hamas confirmed on Tuesday
Gaza Strip killed 128 more peo- countries including the United that it had received the propos-
ple overnight, the Health Minis- States and Germany to suspend al, saying on its Telegram ac-
try in the Hamas-run Palestin- funding. count that it was “in the process
ian territory said. UN Secretary-General An- of examining it and delivering
The epicenter of fighting tónio Guterres, who has pleaded its response”.
has been the southern city of for continued support to meet
Khan Yunis, the hometown of the “dire needs”, will have talks Regional tensions
Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sin- with donors in New York on The deadliest ever Gaza war
war, the alleged architect of the Tuesday, his office said, as in- was triggered by Hamas’s un-
Oct. 7 attack, where vast areas vestigations into Israel’s claims precedented Oct. 7 attack that
have been reduced to a mud- continue. resulted in about 1,140 deaths
AFP dy wasteland of bombed-out in Israel, mostly civilians, ac-
Path to democracy: Female members of the Mandalay People’s Defense Forces (MDY-PDF) head to buildings. cording to an AFP tally of offi-
Troops fighting in city blocks cial figures.
the front line amid clashes with the Myanmar military in northern Shan State on Dec. 10, 2023. The
coup, launched on Feb. 1, 2021, was supposed to put the control of Myanmar firmly back in the hands and tunnels have raided sever-
The US says UNRWA Militants also seized 250
of the military after a 10-year experiment with democracy. Instead, it has plunged the country into al military sites, Sinwar’s office has an “absolutely hostages, of whom Israel says
and “a significant rocket man- around 132 remain in Gaza, in-
civil war, crashed the economy and inspired tens of thousands of young people to join the People’s
Defense Forces (PDFs) and wrest their democracy back by the gun. ufacturing facility”, the Israeli
indispensible role in cluding the bodies of at least 28
military said. trying to make sure dead captives.
From placards to guns:
Army spokesman Daniel Israel’s relentless military of-
Hagari claimed troops in the city
that men, women fensive has killed at least 26,751
had “eliminated over 2,000 ter- and children who people in Gaza, most of them
rorists above and below ground”. women and children, accord-
so desperately need
Myanmar’s democracy
Israeli undercover troops in ing to the territory’s Hamas-run
the occupied West Bank mean- assistance in Gaza Health Ministry.
while killed three alleged mem- Fears have grown that Israel
bers of a Hamas “terrorist cell”
actually get it”. and its ally the US could face a
in a raid on a hospital. widening Middle East conflict
protesters battle junta
The agents, some dressed after months of violence involv-
as medical staff and carrying US Secretary of State Ant- ing Iran-backed groups in Leba-
a wheelchair and baby car- ony Blinken urged UNRWA to non, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
rier as props, shot dead three address the allegations, but Those fears were heightened
men at Ibn Sina Hospital in the also hailed its “absolutely in- after Washington vowed to re-
northern city of Jenin, accord- dispensable role in trying to spond to a drone attack Sunday
Thursday marks three years of junta rule ing to officials and hospital
CCTV footage released by the
make sure that men, women
and children who so desperate-
that killed three US troops in a
remote outpost in Jordan near
ministry. ly need assistance in Gaza ac- the Syrian and Iraqi borders.
The official Palestinian news tually get it”. Tehran has denied any in-
Agence France-Presse “We shouldn’t be an egg In October Mandalay PDF fight- agency Wafa named the three volvement in the attack.
if we want to destroy sol- ers joined a months-long offen- men as Muhammad Jalamnah, Truce talks Washington said the Jordan
Naungcho, Myanmar id rock,” said Mandalay PDF sive by an ethnic rebel alliance that Muhammad Ayman Ghazawi In the latest efforts to broker attack “requires a response”,
Three years ago, young plac- commander Mone Tine, 30, led to the opposition forces gain- and Basel Ayman Ghazawi. a new truce, CIA chief William but White House spokesman
ard-waving Myanmar democ- who before the coup worked ing swathes of territory in northern The Israeli army charged Burns met top Israeli, Egyptian John Kirby also underlined that
racy protesters were hounded at a civil society organization Shan state. that Jalamnah, allegedly “in- and Qatari officials in Paris on “we are not looking for a war
from the streets of Mandalay promoting good governance. Analysts say that offensive has spired” by the Oct. 7 attack, Sunday. with Iran”.
city by soldiers in the wake of “We don’t overestimate the left the junta at its weakest since it had “planned to carry out a ter- Israeli Prime Minister Ben- The Israeli-Lebanese border
the military’s latest coup. military and we aren’t afraid seized power. ror attack in the immediate fu- jamin Netanyahu’s office called has seen almost daily exchang-
Last month some of those of them.” On the front lines in Shan state, ture and used the hospital as a the talks “constructive” but es of fire with Iran-backed He-
same protesters faced off Graffiti on the pockmarked “Sugar”, 33, a pseudonym, said hiding place and therefore was pointed to “significant gaps zbollah militants, heightening
against the military again, but walls of a nearby police sta- there was no turning back for his neutralized”. which the parties will continue fears of a wider conflict there.
this time they were operat- tion gives graphic proof of the comrades in the Mandalay PDF. The Palestinian Health Min- to discuss”. Israel has said it is ready for
ing a mortar in northern Shan ebb and flow of battle. “Our battlefield experiences have istry stressed that hospitals Blinken expressed hope for a any attacks but does not seek a
state, firing rounds at a junta On one wall a junta sol- made us into different soldiers. enjoy special protection under deal, telling reporters that “very wider war in the north.
position with swift, practiced dier had scrawled an exple- We are learning from fighting and international law and urged important, productive work has Defense Minister Yoav Gal-
movements. tive against the PDF, the foe fighting while learning,” he said. the United Nations to help end been done. And there is some lant said late Monday that some
The coup launched three the military has been unable “We know we have to sacrifice. Israel’s “daily string of crimes real hope going forward”. units in Gaza were “moving up
years ago on Thursday was to vanquish. We have adapted ourselves and [...] against our people and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh to the north and preparing for
supposed to put control of Nearby were written the have no more fears.” health centers”. Mohammed bin Abdulrahman what’s to come”.
Myanmar firmly back in the words “Spring Revolution”,
hands of the military after a the name given by Myanmar
10-year experiment with de- democracy fighters to their
mocracy. struggle, and a depiction of
Instead it has plunged the the three fingered pro-de-
country into civil war, crashed mocracy salute.
the economy and inspired tens
of thousands of young people Stolen ammo
to join People’s Defense Forces At their bases in the Shan
(PDFs) and wrest their democ- hills the lives of the Mandalay
racy back by the gun. PDF recruits are a far cry from
PDF units range from small home, ticking along to many
teams in the scorching plains of the same rules and regula-
of Myanmar’s heartlands to tions as their military foes.
larger outfits in rugged bor- Every morning the group’s
der regions where more es- flag is raised and a chorus of
tablished ethnic rebel groups assembled fighters reaffirms
have taken them under their their commitment to over-
wing. throwing the junta.
It is impossible to deter- Officers are saluted and
mine how many people have sharp whistle blasts announce
died in the conflict. regular air raid drills and send
But at least 4,400 people fighters scurrying for cover in
have been killed in the mili- trenches.
tary’s crackdown on dissent An administration office
since the coup, according to a hums with activity to keep
local monitoring group. the fighters clothed, fed and
The junta says its oppo- armed.
nents have killed more than Mone Tine would not give
6,000 civilians, and describes details on exactly how many
the PDF fighters as “terror- fighters the Mandalay PDF
ists” working to destroy the has, but said it was in the
country. “high thousands”.
Finding the money to keep
Teachers to fighters operations running is “a big
Years of weathering attacks problem”, he admitted, with
from the junta’s Chinese and the group largely reliant on
Russian-made weapons have donations from a sympathet-
transformed many PDFs into ic population and from mem-
battle-hardened units. bers of the diaspora.
“We have the ability to take For weapons and ammu-
down every soldier in our nition the group looks else-
area,” said Ko Phyo, a former where, including the junta.
teacher who now goes to work “It’s a good feeling to at-
for the Mandalay PDF in cam- tack the military with the am-
ouflage uniform and combat munition that we seized from
helmet. them,” said Mone Tine.
He was speaking from a de- Many of Mone Tine’s fight-
fensive position around 15 ers received combat training
minutes drive from the town from the Ta’ang National Lib-
of Pyin Oo Lwin, a former eration Army (TNLA), an eth-
British hill station now home nic minority armed group that
to the military’s elite officer has long battled the military
training academy. for more autonomy.
“So, before they send a con- Ethnic armed groups in
voy they use heavy weapons northern Kachin and eastern
and air strikes to cause havoc Karen states have also taken
in our positions,” he said from in PDF fighters for training.
his trench on the frontlines. Few expect that the PDF
“That’s the only strategy groups can topple a military
they have.” that has run Myanmar for
For Ko Phyo and his com- much of the country’s 70 plus
rades, teachers, surveyors and years of independence.
students, the latest coup was But their various allianc-
proof the nonviolent struggle es with the ethnic armed
for democracy led for decades groups, some of which have
by Nobel laureate Aung San fought central authorities for
Suu Kyi would never dislodge decades, have undoubtedly
the military from power. shaken the junta.
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