International
The Israeli Army confirms the incursion into the Shujaiya neighborhood, in Gaza, due to the “presence” of militiamen
The Israeli Army confirmed this Friday in a statement its incursion into the Shujaiya neighborhood, in the northern city of Gaza, already besieged last December, due to the “presence” of militiamen and military infrastructure, after receiving information from its intelligence.
“Simultaneously with the entry of the troops, fighter planes attacked dozens of terrorist infrastructure sites in Hamas,” the Army details in the note about this operation that, he says, began on Thursday morning and maintained this morning.
Palestinian sources confirmed yesterday to EFE the entry of Israeli tanks into the Shujaiya neighborhood and aerial bombings that occurred in parallel, causing the death of at least seven Palestinians and leaving about thirty injured.
Before launching this operation, Israeli forces attacked other points in the northern Strip where they “eliminated dozens” of fighters who, they say, were hiding in UNRWA schools, according to their statement.
“During this past night, our planes also attacked a Hamas terrorist in an area of Deir al Balah (central Gaza), which was operating from within a humanitarian zone,” they add in the statement.
On the other hand, Gaza medical sources reported the death of at least 11 people and more than 40 injured in the humanitarian zone of Al Mawasi, in the western part of Rafah, south of the Strip, after an Israeli bombing last night.
Most of the Gaza people who took refuge in Rafah, the city on the border with Egypt, moved to the coastal area of Al Mawasi, by order of Israel, after the start of the Israeli land invasion of this southern city last May.
The official spokesman for Civil Defense in Rafah, Ahmad Redwan, denounces that hundreds of Gaza families slept on the street last night after the incursion and attack by Israeli troops on this camp considered supposedly a safe area by Israel.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa also reports Israeli air and artillery attacks in the early hours of this morning against homes in central Gaza that left at least four civilians dead, including a woman and a child.
In almost nine months of war, the Israeli offensive has already left more than 37,700 people dead, mostly women and children, and another 86,429 injured; in addition to schools, hospitals and residential buildings destroyed.
The Israeli Security Cabinet approved this morning to legalize five outposts (inities of illegal settlements) in the occupied West Bank and to impose new sanctions on the Palestinian National Authority (ANP) at the proposal of the Minister of Finance, the far-right, Bezalel Smotrich.
“These are measures that protect the State of Israel and convey a clear message: We will never establish a terrorist state in the Land of Israel! The actions against the State of Israel and in favor of the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian State received an appropriate Zionist response!” Minister Smotrich wrote in his X account.
The president of the Yesha Council, Israel Ganz, the body that brings together all the settlements of the occupied West Bank, welcomed this decision that assured “strengthens the State of Israel.”
“In these difficult days, when we are at war for our home, strengthening the communities in the land of our ancestors is the appropriate Zionist response,” Ganz said.
The five legalized settlements are Evyatar, Givat Assaf, Sde Efraim, Heletz and Adorayim.
International
Israel says 136 food aid boxes airdropped into Gaza by six nations
The Israeli military announced on Sunday that 136 boxes of food aid were airdropped into Gaza by the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Germany, and Belgium.
“In recent hours, six countries conducted air drops of 136 aid packages containing food for residents in the southern and northern Gaza Strip,” read the statement, which added that the operation was coordinated by COGAT, the Israeli defense body overseeing civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli military emphasized that they will “continue working to improve the humanitarian response alongside the international community” and reiterated their stance to “refute false allegations of deliberate famine in Gaza.”
The announcement comes as UN agencies warn Gaza faces an imminent risk of famine. More than one in three residents go days without eating, and other nutrition indicators have dropped to their worst levels since the conflict began.
The agencies also noted the difficulty of “collecting reliable data in current conditions, as Gaza’s health systems —already devastated by nearly three years of conflict— are collapsing.”
Meanwhile, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry reported on Sunday that hospitals in the enclave recorded six deaths from hunger and malnutrition on Saturday, all of them adults.
International
Seven inmates dead, 11 injured after violent riot in Veracruz prison
Seven inmates were killed and eleven others injured in a violent riot and clash inside a penitentiary in the Mexican state of Veracruz, local authorities reported on Sunday.
The disturbance began on Saturday afternoon at the Social Reintegration Center in the port city of Tuxpan, in northern Veracruz, when inmates staged a protest over extortion and assaults allegedly carried out by members of the criminal group known as Grupo Sombra.
The protesting prisoners clashed with another group of inmates and set fires inside and outside the facility, seizing control of the prison for more than 12 hours.
During the takeover, the rioters released several videos, including one showing four prisoners —believed to be members of Grupo Sombra— accusing them of being behind the violence and extortion inside the prison.
It wasn’t until Sunday morning that elements of the Mexican Army, the National Guard, and local police forces managed to enter the prison and regain control. The state’s Public Security Secretariat confirmed that around 9:00 a.m. local time a coordinated operation restored full order and reestablished control of the facility.
Authorities also reported that the fires set by inmates were fully extinguished.
Official figures confirmed the “tragic” deaths of seven inmates and injuries to eleven people, who are now receiving medical treatment in various regional hospitals.
This is the second deadliest riot in Veracruz in the past eight years. In 2018, a violent uprising at the La Toma medium-security prison left seven people dead (six police officers and one unidentified man) and at least 22 injured (15 officers and seven inmates).
The riot follows the kidnapping and killing of retired teacher and taxi driver Irma Hernández, a case that shocked the entire country and was attributed to Grupo Sombra. Images of Hernández kneeling, surrounded by armed men in the municipality of Álamo, sparked nationwide outrage. She was murdered after refusing to pay extortion demands from the criminal organization.
Despite these incidents, Veracruz has not seen a spike in the daily homicide average. In fact, there has been a 1.6% decrease in homicides in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System.
In 2023, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported 3,094 incidents in Mexican prisons —an 18.5% increase from the previous year— resulting in 100 deaths and 892 injuries.
International
Study finds COVID-19 vaccines prevented 2.5 million deaths worldwide
COVID-19 vaccines prevented an estimated 2,533,000 deaths worldwide between 2020 and 2024, according to an international study led by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Italy and Stanford University in the United States, published in the journal JAMA Health Forum. Researchers calculated that one death was prevented for every 5,400 doses administered.
The analysis also found that the vaccines saved 14.8 million years of life, equivalent to one year of life gained for every 900 doses given.
The study, coordinated by Professor Stefania Boccia, revealed that 82% of the lives saved were people vaccinated before becoming infected with the virus, and 57% of deaths avoided occurred during the Omicron wave. In addition, 90% of the beneficiaries were adults over 60 years old.
“This is the most comprehensive analysis to date, based on global data and fewer assumptions about the evolution of the pandemic,” explained Boccia and researcher Angelo Maria Pezzullo.
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