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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris see the end of the conflict in Gaza closer after the death of the Hamas leader
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, and the vice president and Democratic candidate for the White House, Kamala Harris, reacted this Thursday to the death of the leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, in an Israeli operation and pointed out that there is now more room to “end the war.”
In a statement, Biden said that Sinwar’s death is an “opportunity” to reach an agreement that “provides a better future for both Israelis and Palestinians” and that allows the Gaza Strip to access a “day after” without Hamas in power.
“Yahya Sinwar was an insurmountable obstacle to achieving all those goals. That obstacle no longer exists, but there is still a lot of work ahead,” said Biden, who later spoke on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to the Israeli Prime Minister’s office, Biden congratulated Netanyahu on Sinwar’s death and both agreed that this fact opens an opportunity for the release of the hostages in the hands of Hamas.
The White House also indicated that the two leaders talked about “how to take advantage of this moment to take the hostages back home and close the conflict, guaranteeing Israel’s security and preventing Hamas from controlling Gaza again.”
The conversation took place while Biden was traveling to Germany on the Air Force One presidential plane.
Kamala Harris sees a better world
For his part, Harris, in statements to the press from Wisconsin, said that “Justice has been done. The United States, Israel and the rest of the world are a better place.”
According to the vice president, U.S. special operations and intelligence personnel worked closely with their Israeli counterparts to locate the leader of the Islamist group.
After Sinwar’s death, said the Democratic Party candidate in the US presidential elections, Hamas is decimated” and that opens up an “opportunity to end the war in Gaza.”
The end of the conflict, he said, must include security guarantees for Israel, the release of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas and the end of the “suffering” of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
“We will not give up these goals and I will always work to create a future of peace, dignity and security for all,” said the Democratic candidate.
Who was the leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar?
Born in a refugee camp in Jan Yunis, a city in southern Gaza, Sinwar was elected leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2017 after arbilling a reputation as a bitter enemy of Israel and on August 6 – after the murder in Tehran of the then head of the political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh – he was chosen to occupy the highest position in the organization chart of the Islamist group.
He represented the hardest and most belligerent line of the group and is considered by Israel as the mastermind of the attacks of October 7 against Israeli territory in which some 1,200 people were killed and another 250 were kidnapped, which made him the man most wanted by Israel.
Around 16:00 local time (13:00 GMT), the Israeli Army announced that it was investigating whether one of three militiamen killed in operations in Gaza was Sinwar, but said it could not confirm it until it had the results of fingerprint, dental and DNA tests, all of which were already positive.
According to the scarce information revealed so far, Sinwar’s death occurred yesterday, Wednesday 16, in a fortuitous encounter between Israeli troops and militiamen in Rafah, southern the Palestinian enclave, but it was not based on intelligence information.
According to the Army, together with him they did not find any kidnapped nor were their lives in danger.
Israeli media point out that Sinwar would have remained hidden with Israeli hostages in the tunnels of the Strip until the end of August, when Hamas murdered six kidnapped people in Rafah a day before Israeli troops approached them.
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Convicted gang member challenges Guatemala’s anti-gang law, citing Human Rights Violations
A member of a criminal gang currently facing sentencing for the crime of extortion has filed a constitutional appeal before Guatemala’s Constitutional Court against the recently approved and enacted Anti-Gang Law.
The appeal, submitted by Dylan Smaily Archila García, argues that the new legislation violates his fundamental human rights and claims there were procedural irregularities during its approval process, according to local Guatemalan media.
Archila García filed the motion just hours after the law took effect. The new legislation, passed by Guatemala’s Congress, increases penalties for crimes linked to gang activity and authorizes the construction of a mega-prison, modeled after El Salvador’s Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT).
Local outlets reported that in his petition, Archila García contends that the approval of the law did not comply with constitutional requirements and requests that the Court issue a ruling to annul the legislation, effectively halting its enforcement.
The appeal further claims that the Anti-Gang Law infringes on due process rights, as it allegedly fails to guarantee a fair criminal trial in which defendants can prove their innocence, undermining legal certainty and judicial security.
Through this legal action, the petitioner seeks to have the law suspended and ultimately struck down by the Constitutional Court, preventing it from being debated again in Congress.
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Trump warns Hamas that they will be “eradicated” if they break the ceasefire with Israel in Gaza
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, urged Hamas again this Monday to stop the violence and take the terms of the peace plan it promotes with Israel in Gaza, warning that otherwise they could be “eradicated,” although in turn he ruled out the possible presence of soldiers from his country in the Strip.
“We have peace in the Middle East for the first time in history; we reached an agreement with Hamas for which they will be very good, they will behave well and they will be kind. And if not, we will go and we will eradicate them,” the president told the press during a meeting at the White House with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Trump clarified, however, that if that happened “there would be no American soldiers on the ground at all” because it would only be enough to ask several of the countries that supported the peace proposal to take charge of the Palestinian militant group: “Israel would intervene in two minutes,” he added.
“I could tell them to intervene (to the countries) and take care of it. But for now, we haven’t said it. We are going to give (Hamas) a small chance and, hopefully, there will be a little less violence,” said the president, whose plan received the support of Arab and European nations during a peace summit in Egypt.
The American insisted that the militant group “has been very violent, but no longer has the support of Iran. He no longer has the support of anyone. They have to behave well, and if they don’t, they will be eradicated,” he repeated.
Israel bombed several points in Gaza on Sunday and killed dozens of people, in response to what it interpreted as a “violation” of the agreement by Hamas, a week after the entry into force of the ceasefire promoted by the Trump Administration.
The bombings took place after clashes in the Rafah area, located in southern Gaza and controlled by the Israeli Army, which left two Israeli soldiers dead.
After these clashes, Israel claimed to have “resumed the application of the ceasefire”. Shortly after, Trump assured for his part that the truce “is still in force.”
The Republican president had already threatened last week to “kill” Hamas members if they did not comply with the ceasefire agreement with Israel and “continue to kill in Gaza.”
The militant group has mobilized in Gaza to regain control after the start of the ceasefire in the Strip, which has meant the withdrawal of Israeli troops from half of the territory. In the midst of this tense situation, there have also been clashes between Hamas and other local militias.
Several videos show summary executions of people whom Palestinian militants accuse of collaborating with Israel, which according to local sources, have occurred in Gaza City.
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Trump files $15 billion defamation suit against The New York Times
U.S. President Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against The New York Times, which denounced the legal move on Tuesday as an attempt to silence the press.
In this new stage of his presidency, the 79-year-old Republican leader has escalated his long-standing hostility toward traditional media, repeatedly attacking critical journalists, limiting their access, or taking them to court.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in Florida, seeks $15 billion in damages, along with additional punitive compensation “in an amount to be determined at trial.”
The New York Times had reported last week that Trump threatened legal action over articles concerning a birthday letter allegedly sent by him to financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The letter featured a typed message inside the outline of a nude woman. Trump denies that the accompanying signature is his.
“For too long, The New York Times has been allowed to lie, defame, and slander me freely — and that ends NOW!” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
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