ISRAEL OF PALESTINE
The Security Council will discuss the conflict between Israel and Palestine this Friday
United Nations (EFE). – The UN Security Council will meet again this Friday to discuss the escalation in the conflict between Israel and Palestine, which has claimed about a thousand lives on both sides in five days, a diplomatic source confirmed to EFE. The Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel last Saturday sparked a war that continues to see fierce exchanges of fire between the parties, and the international community has expressed concern about civilian deaths and contagion in the region. These were two priorities on which the Security Council was focused, as some of its members expressed after a first closed emergency meeting on the conflict last Sunday, where there was no unanimous condemnation of Hamas’ attacks on Israel.
Palestinians report 51 dead in the last hour after Israeli attacks on Gaza
Jerusalem (EFE). – The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Thursday that 51 people have lost their lives in the past hour following Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) bombings in Gaza. According to official information, Israeli forces attacked the neighborhoods of Sabra, Al-Zaytoun, Al-Nafaq and Tel Al-Hawa, as well as other places in the Palestinian enclave. The attacks also injured 281 people in Palestinian territory under the rule of the Islamist group Hamas, which launched a series of surprise operations in Israeli territory on Oct. 7 that prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to declare a state of war.
Netanyahu announces emergency government: “Every member of Hamas is a dead man”
Jerusalem (EFE). – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned this Wednesday that “every member of Hamas is a dead man” and announced an emergency government with opposition leader and former Defense Minister Benny Gantz as long as the war continues. “We disregard any other consideration for the citizens of Israel,” the prime minister said during a joint message with Gantz and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on the fifth day of the war with Palestinian militias in Gaza.
The White House clarifies that Biden has not seen photos of Hamas beheading children
Washington (EFE). – The White House corrected statements Wednesday by President Joe Biden, who said he had seen photos of Hamas militants “beheading children” and asserted that neither the president nor U.S. officials had seen those images. In a statement to EFE, a Democratic government spokesman clarified that the president made these statements based on statements made “publicly” by the Israeli government. During a speech to the Jewish community today, Biden said that during his many years in government, he never thought he would have “seen” or “confirmed” images of terrorists beheading children.
The US is urging its citizens to avoid Gaza and reconsider travel to Israel and the West Bank
Washington, Oct. 11 (EFE). – The United States issued a travel warning this Wednesday recommending its citizens not to travel to the Gaza Strip under any circumstances due to the new war and asking them to reconsider trips to Israel and the Occupied West Bank. At least 22 US citizens were killed in Hamas’ bloody surprise attack on Israel, while the number of US citizens kidnapped by the Palestinian Islamist group is still uncertain. The State Department urges vigilant Americans to avoid the Gaza Strip due to “terrorism, unrest and armed conflict.”
The Palestinian UN ambassador calls for a ceasefire and warns of a “catastrophe” in Gaza
United Nations (EFE). – Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour called this Wednesday for a ceasefire with Israel to allow humanitarian aid to reach the Gaza Strip, which is under a total blockade, and thus “avoid an impending catastrophe.” for its population. Mansour told a news conference that the situation in Gaza was “extremely terrible,” thanked the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNRWA) for its work and said Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah are “trying to provide unemployment benefits so far.” not reach it.
LEBANON ISRAEL
More than 900 Lebanese have been displaced by violence in areas bordering Israel
Beirut (EFE). – More than 900 people have left their homes in areas bordering Israel in southern Lebanon due to violence in the region in recent days, where there have been attacks between the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah and the Jewish state. The director of the disaster management unit in the Tire District Municipal Association, Mortada Muhanna, assured that 911 people remained accommodated in two reception centers in the southern city of Tire and in a number of villages in the region of the same name, according to the National News Agency (ANN).
UKRAINE WAR
Russia attacks in the east to stop the Ukrainian advance in the south
KYIV/MOSCOW (Portal) – Russian troops are trying to surround the town of Avdivka, one of the most heavily fortified areas on Donetsk’s eastern front, a tactic Western analysts say is intended to prevent the deployment of more Ukrainian troops to the southeastern region from Donetsk. Zaporizhzhia, one of the hottest points of the Kiev counteroffensive. Northwest and southwest of Avdvika, Russian forces have intensified their offensive with the apparent aim of “expelling Ukrainian troops from the Robotine area (Zaporiyia),” according to the latest report from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW). . its acronym in English).
IMF MEETING
The IMF expects global debt to rise due to pressure from the US and China
Marrakesh (Morocco) (EFE).- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned this Wednesday that global public debt will rise again this year mainly due to pressure from the United States and China, a trend that will continue in the medium term annual increase in global GDP of one point. According to an IMF report, rising debt is also linked to slowing growth, rising interest rates and growing budget deficits.
KOREA CONFLICT
A US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea in a new show of force
Seoul (EFE).- The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrived today at the port of the South Korean city of Busan, according to the Yonhap agency, marking a new exhibition of the deterrence mechanisms activated by Washington and Seoul to confront Pyongyang’s weapons advances. The aircraft carrier is accompanied by its strike group, which includes the destroyer USS Shoup and the guided missile cruiser USS Robert Smalls, which also arrived this Thursday in Busan (320 kilometers southeast of Seoul), where they will remain for five days, leading at that time a series of Exchange activities with the South Korean Navy, as reported by the Asian country’s Defense Ministry.
AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE
Taliban identify 1,000 dead in earthquake and are confused about the victims
Herat (Afghanistan) (EFE). – The Taliban interim government announced on Wednesday that it had confirmed more than a thousand deaths in the series of earthquakes in Afghanistan that have been ongoing since last Saturday, without being certain of the death toll. official sources put the number at 2,400. This Wednesday alone, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in the western province of Herat caused at least 153 injuries, according to the official Bhaktar agency.
HAITI CRISIS
At least 360 people have been kidnapped in Haiti in the last three months
Port Au Prince (EFE). – At least 362 cases of kidnapping were recorded in Haiti in the third quarter, an increase of 141.3% compared to the previous period, when there were 150 kidnappings, a non-profit organization reported this Wednesday. . According to the crime monitoring unit of the Center for Analysis and Research on Human Rights (Cardh), 11 collective kidnappings were recorded between July and September, most of them in Bas-Artibonite, the lower area of this department north of Port-au-Prince. EFE
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