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Kamala Harris, after meeting with Netanyahu: it’s time to end the war in Gaza

The vice president of the United States and future Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, claimed after meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that it was time to end the Gaza war with a ceasefire and hostage release agreement.

“I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu that it’s time for the agreement to be closed. So to all those who have been asking for a ceasefire and long for peace, I see and hear them. Let’s make the agreement to get a ceasefire and end the war,” Harris told the press at the end of the meeting.

Harris had previously photographed herself with Netanyahu, but appeared alone, with a message that departed slightly from the line of the president, Joe Biden, with greater empathy for the suffering of the Palestinians.

“I explained it to the prime minister, my great concern about the scale of human suffering in Gaza, including the death of too many innocent civilians,” the vice president said.

“What has happened in Gaza in the last nine months, those images of dead children and desperate people fleeing, some for the second, third or fourth time… We can’t look the other way in the face of these tragedies, we can’t afford to be insensitive to the suffering, Harris said.

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Of course, he also had words of solidarity with the Israeli hostages in the hands of Hamas, and in particular those who also have American nationality, whom he cited one by one by name.

In what seemed like an appeal to American voters, he asked to make an effort to understand that the Gaza conflict is not binary (good and bad) and that we must “understand the complexity and nuances of the history of the region,” and therefore called for “condemning anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and all kinds of hate crime.”

Harris has been openly critical of the way Israel conducts the offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has already left more than 39,000 dead, and was the first voice of the US Administration to call for an immediate ceasefire.

The meeting with Netanyahu generated high expectations because Harris has practically assured the nomination of the Democratic Party after the president, Joe Biden, resigned from running for re-election, and could give clues about the relationship he would have with Israel if he won the November elections.

Harris, who within her functions has that of presiding over the Senate, was the great absentee in the speech that Netanyahu gave on Wednesday before the United States Congress, where he defended to maintain his war against Hamas until the “final victory.”

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The vice president issued a statement to condemn the burning of an American flag and the slogans in favor of Hamas that occurred yesterday during a pro-Palestinian demonstration against Netanyahu’s presence in Washington.

Before meeting with Harris, the Israeli Prime Minister met with Biden in the Oval Office of the White House and then both leaders met with relatives of hostages who remain kidnapped by Hamas in Gaza.

Biden’s main objective is to pressure Netanyahu to close within the next few weeks an agreement with Hamas that allows a truce in Gaza and the release of the hostages.

Biden and Netanyahu have not seen each other since the US president traveled to Israel as a show of solidarity after the attack perpetrated by the Palestinian Islamist group on October 7 that left 1,200 dead and triggered the Israeli offensive on the enclave.

Despite being Israel’s largest supplier of weapons, the United States Government has been critical of Israeli bombings on densely populated areas, attacks on hospitals and restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid.

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FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Arrested in Mexico and Deported to U.S.

Authorities in Mexico announced Thursday that Samuel Ramírez Jr., a U.S. citizen accused of murdering two women and listed among the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was arrested in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Ramírez Jr., 33, was detained Tuesday in Culiacán just 1 hour and 13 minutes after being added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Ten Most Wanted list, the agency said in a statement.

The suspect, who was born in California, has already been deported to the U.S. state of Washington, where he faces charges related to the fatal shooting of two women at a bar in Federal Way in May 2023.

A court issued an arrest warrant for Ramírez in November last year, and the FBI initially offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to his capture, later increasing the amount to up to $1 million.

“To protect individuals’ privacy and ensure continued cooperation from the public, the FBI does not confirm the identity of those who provide information,” the agency said in its statement.

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UN experts warn Nicaragua runs vast transnational network to monitor exiled dissidents

Nicaragua maintains an “extensive” transnational network to monitor and intimidate opposition figures living in exile, affecting “hundreds of thousands” of people, the United Nations Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua warned on Tuesday.

In a statement, the experts said their report “details an extensive transnational architecture of surveillance and intelligence used to monitor, intimidate and attack the hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans living abroad.”

The report, which will be presented on March 16 to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, states that the structure maintained by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo includes the army, the police, migration authorities and diplomatic missions.

According to the statement, “the government has arbitrarily stripped 452 Nicaraguans of their nationality, left thousands more exiled in a situation of de facto statelessness, and prevented many from returning to Nicaragua.”

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Trump: ‘We Think It’s True’ Amid Claims Iran’s Supreme Leader Was Killed

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he believes multiple reports claiming the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the U.S. and Israeli offensive against the Islamic Republic are likely true, though he stopped short of confirming the news.

“We have a feeling that the information is correct,” he said, according to NBC News. “I don’t want to say anything definitive until I see it, but we think that’s the case. And many of their leaders have disappeared,” he added.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were “many indications” that Khamenei had died in an attack on his residential compound.