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Kiwi climate change experts have delivered a mixed verdict on a historic agreement by nearly 200 nations to shift away from fossil fuels - with one concerned...
153 member states voted in favor of the resolution, 23 abstained. Ten states voted against, including the United States and Israel. Text of resolution is the same as that blocked by the US in the 15-member UN Security Council last week. UN: 18 percent of Gaza Strip's infrastructure destroyed since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas.. A high-resolution satellite image taken on November 26 identified 37,379 damaged buildings, said the Geneva-based satellite program Unosat. The impact on civilian infrastructure is obvious.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Israeli military has begun pumping seawater into the Hamas tunnel complex in the Gaza Strip. The paper cited unnamed U.S. officials, adding that the process would likely take weeks. It is an early-stage attempt and is one of several techniques Israel is using to clear or destroy the tunnels. There are also concerns that the seawater could endanger the Gaza strip's fresh water supply. Israel's military announced the recovery of two more people abducted to theGaza Strip.
COP28 Climate Change Conference: Final draft does not contain a clear end to fossil fuels. New draft of the final declaration of the COP28 climate conference in Dubai does not include the clear phase-out of coal, oil and gas demanded by many countries. The 21-page paper simply calls on states to move away from fossil fuels in their energy systems. More than a hundred countries had previously called for a "phase out". Actually, the conference should have ended already, but due to the discrepancies, it went into overtime.
Poll among Palestinians: Hamas increasingly popular, Abbas very unpopular. An overwhelming majority wants Palestinian President Abbas to leave. Only one percent of respondents in the West Bank and 17 percent in the Gaza Strip believe that Israel could achieve its war goal of destroying Hamas. A majority also believes that the Western countries' advocacy of a two-state solution is not really taken seriously. The survey was conducted between November 22 and December 2, 2023, among 1231,<> Palestinians. It has an error rate of four percent.