Israel-Hamas, Russia-Ukraine, Myanmar strife: Wars the world is carrying into 2024
Vladimir Putin condemned Israel's incessant bombing of Palestine's Gaza Strip, he also promised to intensify the offensive in Ukraine that started over a year ago. Ukraine's increased commination comes at a time when the United States is struggling to send aid ahead of their Presidential Polls in 2024. Meanwhile, despite the United Nations Security Council's resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue bombing the densely populated Gaza Strip ‘with or without international support’.
Israel's aerial bombing campaign and ground offensive have killed over 18,000 Palestinians in Gaza till now. However, the purview of war and deadly conflicts in 2023 has not limited itself to just Israel-Palestine, and Russia-Ukraine. The idea of war plagues regions that are in countries stretching both the globe and the alphabet from Afghanistan all the way to Yemen.
Coups and violence across Africa upended life in nations there. Myanmar in Southeast Asia faces what some experts describe as a slow-burning civil war. Drug-trade-fueled violence continues in Central and South America.
Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan remain suspicious of each other. North Korea's atomic arsenal continues to grow. And Iran now enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels.
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