International

Gaza to be put under ‘total blockade’. The situation “is going to get much worse” in the coming days, with the possibility of an Israeli ground operation coming to a head, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, Marwan Bishara, says.

“We are in the midst of a very dramatic situation,” he said, adding that the internationalisation of the impasse is “growing by the day”, and that it will further escalate with the deployment of US fire power to the east of the Mediterranean.