Today's (4/23/24) Washington Post on page A-14 is a powerful article re the US State Department's report of human rights in Israel, Gaza and West Bank done by its own department. A must read for any one interested in this part of the world.
My own hope re this deadly conflict is that one day all sides involved will agree to a two party state. Please, please read this Washington Post. HERE

Human rights is about hope, a change in behavior, fewer deaths and justice for all so that torture and disappearances will be removed from this earth of ours. Human rights reporting is usually solid and believable. Often human rights groups can make mistakes but for the most part they usually are right with their research and reporting.

Hope for both sides is to find a way to get to security and peace for both. So often in the dialogue of the world re security and human rights, human rights is always in last place. Hopefully, this report on the Gaza and the West Bank will move all sides to a two state solution.

Just speaking this way must be backed up with a realistic plan with all the nations that can be organized into a working committee needs to come together and provide vision and financial support that one day there will be a two state solution and peace has come to both sides. Naive perhaps, but both vision and hope have to be present as well as a firm commitment to head in that solution. Such a vision would save lives and homes and hospitals and set an example that difficult things and changes can still be done in this century by governments that work for the people, all the people.