“When I first spoke out about Gaza and what I thought—the bad conduct in Gaza—I was a pretty lonely voice, frankly,” says Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), while discussing a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinian territories. Van Hollen explains that his longstanding position of supporting both Israel’s security and Palestinians’ right to self-determination predates the current conflict in the Gaza Strip. He notes how the expansion of settlements over decades has made a two-state

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has condemned the bloodshed in Sudan’s el-Fasher after the takeover by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, and called for a political solution to end the war. Al Thani was speaking at a UN development summit in Doha. | Al Jazeera English