 The US is asking Israel to transition to low intensity warfare on Gaza. Now this does not seem to stop the Israeli bombardment or the rising death toll. What is the latest from this brutal war? It's been 8 months since the war between the Sudanese army and the rapid support forces began. What impact has it had on the country? This is the daily debrief. These are your stories for the day. And before we go any further, if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit that subscribe button. The death toll from the brutal bombardment of Gaza has crossed 19,000 as Israeli atrocities continue unabated. Meanwhile, the US has conveyed to Israel that it should transition to low intensity warfare. Although it's very unclear what that means, since US weapons are contributing to the intense bombardment. Meanwhile, there are reports that ceasefire talks are once again happening in Qatar. We go to Abdul for the latest. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. Another week comes to an end with the brutal bombardment of Gaza continuing by Israel. The death toll has crossed 19,000, even as noises are being made. There's some discussion, of course, about the possible ceasefire, but very early days yet. So first of all, could you take us through what the humanitarian condition is? What is happening on the ground? Well, in the last few days, in fact, the attacks have become much more brutal. If you see what is happening to the Kamal Adwan Hospital, there are reports coming that Israeli troops basically bulldozed the people who were taking shelter inside the hospital without considering whether there are people inside those tents or not. And apparently, scores of people have been basically buried alive, as per the reports coming in the media. There are also reports about other incidents of bombing of the houses, bombing of even shelters. Basically, in fact, on two consecutive days on Thursday and Friday, there were reports about how Israeli forces have basically attacked the shelter homes, both through the airstrike and through the ground offensive, killing innocent civilians. Though some reports claim that some of them were killed on a point blank, but of course, it is not confirmed. But these are the reports which are coming from the ground. Amidst all that, as you rightly pointed out, the overall death toll has crossed 19,000 now. And every minute, the number is increasing. Amidst that, of course, the humanitarian situation when it comes to Gaza is becoming bad to us. Every day we say the same thing, primarily because every day the situation is becoming bad. There are reports coming of starvation among children. The UN agencies have confirmed it that there are several cases of children dying because of hunger. Some of the children are forced to share whatever food they are getting with their peer. And then there are reports also about how some of the children, in fact, have basically have developed some kind of positions, complications, which is difficult to cure in future, even if there is some restoration of quote-unquote normalcy. So overall situation in the Gaza Strip, both in terms of the Israeli attacks and in terms of humanitarian situation is basically worse, has become worse in the last few days. On Friday, another Palestinian journalist, Al Jazeera journalist was killed. This basically, the overall number of journalists killed has crossed, is basically touching 100 now. Then there are reports coming from different sections of the media that Israeli forces are taking random Palestinian people under captivity and kind of staging some kind of fake surrender. And of course treating them in a very inhuman brutal ways. So all those videos have come out in public. And so this is overall the situation when it comes to the situation in Gaza. There are talks about ceasefire, resuming, but this is yet too early to say anything about it. And Abdul Ahmad, we also know that the US is saying that it is asked Israel to switch to what is called low-intensity warfare. It seems kind of difficult to understand what this means. What is the context of this argument even? Well, given the fact that there is a growing criticism of the US role in the war, the fact that most of the Palestinians who have been killed in the name of fighting Hamas are basically civilians, particularly children. And the elderly, all this basically has created a massive public, basically resentment against the US role, both in the West Asia and in the United States as well, apart from the other parts of the globe. This basically kind of creates a situation where Biden administration is fighting to some kind of image saving. So this is what basically US says about low-intensity war is basically another way of saying of avoid civilian casualties, which it has been saying for last many weeks now. Of course, without any meaning to it, of course, because the amount of weapons supplied to the Israelis which are used in bombing Gaza has increased. In fact, it has not gone down. And when the Jack Sullivan was there in Israel and also in the region, basically he did not say anything about the possibility of ceasefire. In fact, he said that whatever Israel is doing, the US will continue to support it in whatever way possible. In fact, Israelis have completely denied US attempts to kind of think of a post-war scenario where how the Gaza will be administered. And apart from as per the reports which is coming in the media, Israel is completely denying any possibility of ceasefire now or any possibility of sharing, sorry, any possibility of letting the Palestinians govern Gaza as well. So though US is claiming on one side that it wants the Gaza to kind of go back to the Palestinian authority to be governed after the war. So the primary point is that despite the fact that what US is saying, it is not able to convert its rhetoric in act because Israel is not listening to what US is saying, even if it is saying something in the private. At least in public, it has not said anything which can give any hope about saving Palestinian lives or about kind of creating a situation for the ceasefire in Gaza. Abdulla and finally, could you also tell us a bit about what the regional dynamics right now are. We know that of course, while the war, there have been many attacks by some of the regional resistance forces as well. Well in the last few days, again, the situation on the northern Israeli border with Lebanon has become tense, very tense in fact as per the reports even on Saturday morning there were exchange of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli forces in which some of the Israeli soldiers have been apparently injured, though the reports are not confirmed. Of course, when it comes to Houthis, they continue to block the Babel Mandab in the Red Sea and continue to target the ships which are heading to Israel as per their declaration earlier. Apart from that, I think we have already talked about it how the US bases all across the region have come under attack and those attacks have not gone down. Apart from these physical targeting of Israel and US which basically is seen as a supportive to the war in Gaza, there are also basically increasing, you can say frustration among the Arab governments in the region who have basically expressed much stronger resentment against the US failure to basically create any situation, pressurize Israel to put an end to its brutal war in Gaza. Thank you so much for that roundup. We'll come back to you for our next story. It's been 8 months since war broke out between the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary rapid support forces. Millions are displaced and a massive humanitarian crisis is underway. Now it's important to remember that the Sudanese left and the popular neighborhood resistance committees had warned that the generals who had ruled Sudan for years were not to be trusted. However, the international community made them a key part of the so-called transition to democracy until internal conflicts led to the war. Over the months you've seen reports of human rights violations from both sides including ethnic cleansing in Darfur. We go back to Abdul for details. Abdul, 8 months since the war began in Sudan, quite an extremely brutal war, one that has been massively underreported actually considering the amount of humanitarian, the number of deaths, the humanitarian crisis that is taking place right now in the country. The war continuing between the armed forces and the rapid support forces, former allies, citizens committees had warned that these generals could not be trusted and the same thing happened. So first of all, could you maybe take us through where, you know, what is happening as regards to the battle itself? What is the kind of military position, especially now that there are talks about some kind of negotiations taking place? Exactly. In fact, the regional East African forum, which is basically called IGAD, basically has basically claimed that there is an attempt to kind of create some kind of ceasefire in Sudan. Though there have been no official confirmation about it, neither the Sudanese army nor the RSF has confirmed it so far. But of course, they have acknowledged that there is a talk going on. And they have, I think, given a two weeks time for kind of building confidence, building measures to be taken by both the sides so that there can be a ceasefire. But despite the talks of ceasefire, the war continues. In fact, a few days back, there had been blasts inside capital Khartoum and of course the war in the Darfur and other remote areas continue where the RSF is basically considered to be stronger vis-à-vis the Sudanese army. So it seems that overall situation when it comes to war has gone down despite the fact that it has been eight months and there were claims in the beginning that RSF will not have enough resources to continue the war for long. It seems they have enough resources and they continue to basically continue to kind of spoil any chances of peace in Sudan. And that has basically led to a very bad humanitarian situation in the country. The country has already become the largest in the world in terms of displaced people. More than 6 million Sudanese have been displaced. Some of them have also gone out of the country, become refugees. But most of them remain inside and those who remain inside are living in a very bad condition because of course the humanitarian agencies are not able to take care of their basic needs and that has basically created a situation of a massive outbreak of different kinds of epidemics among the people in Sudan. And so all these things are happening at a time when of course the attention is basically divided between what is happening in Gaza and what is happening in other parts of the world. But despite the fact that the attention is divided, the fact remains that Sudanese war is one of the most brutal wars in the recent decade in Africa. Abdul in this context also wanted to ask you specifically about the situation in Darfur. You mentioned that the RSF is much stronger there. We did have reports talking about ethnic cleansing there as well. So what exactly is happening over there? Well, the reports of course, most of the reports are not very clear about it. But this has been a kind of history of the region. If you see RSF, in fact, before the RSF there were Sudan, when the Umar al-Washir was there in power, there were reports of how militias were used to kind of ethnically cleanse some of the people in the region who were considered to be separatists and so on and so forth. But this similar kind of, you can say, situation, those same militias which were used by Umar al-Washir basically now is basically, by and large, is the part of the RSF which basically creates things that kind of fighting against the state means fighting against the common people living in the region and that basically leads to attack on villages, attack on the towns, attack on the different localities which are considered to be now, ironically, supporters of Sudanese military. So the fact that because the situation in Darfur is so complex where it is no one in a position to say which group, loyalties lies to which group. Basically there, because of the kind of chaos which is created in Sudan has basically created a fertile ground for different kinds of cross fighting against forces considered to be loyal to the opposite force and that is exactly what is happening. So it is very difficult to say exactly who is killing whom but the primary fact remains that there are reports that RSF is basically carrying out ethnically cleansing against the people in the region which are considered now claiming that these people are basically supporters of Burhan and supporters of the Sudanese army. Abdul, thank you so much for the update. We'll come back to you next week with more questions. And that's all we have in this episode of Daily Debrief. We'll be back soon with another episode. In the meanwhile, do visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on all the social media platforms.