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Israel attacks northern Gaza again: at least 93 dead in the bombing of a residential building

At least 93 Palestinians, including 25 children, have been killed in an Israeli bombing of a residential building in the town of Beit Lahia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, where the Army has been maintaining an intense military siege for 24 days.

According to the health authorities of the enclave, “hundreds of displaced civilians” took refuge in the five-story building.

They have also denounced that the Israeli siege against the three main hospitals in northern Gaza now prevents dozens of injured people from being treated.

For their part, Palestinian media reported another air attack shortly after against the vicinity of the Kamal Adwan hospital, also in Beit Lahia, where some affected by the bombing had already arrived.

The Israeli army has not yet reported that attack.

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The Israeli military siege in northern Gaza

The Palestinian news agency Wafa has assured that there are still dozens of people among the rubble of the building, and at least 20 seriously injured have so far arrived at the Kamal Adwan center.

“The (Israeli) occupation army knew that in this residential building there were dozens of displaced civilians, and that most of them were children and women,” criticized the Government of the Strip.

“The Civil Defense labor system has been completely dismantled by the Israeli aggression in northern Gaza, the arrest of its workers and the displacement of others,” denounced the spokesman for that emergency service, who warned that they do not stop receiving notices for this attack in Beit Lahia.

The videos released after the “massacre”, in terms used by the Palestinian authorities, show dozens of corpses wrapped in blankets located next to the tangle of debris of the attacked building.

For 24 days, Israel has maintained a military siege against northern Gaza, in which it combines an intense bombing campaign with a land raid, which has caused more than a thousand deaths.

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Five dead and more than 20 injured in more Israeli attacks

At least five people died and more than twenty were injured on Tuesday in a couple of Israeli attacks against the Sahaba market in northern Gaza City, according to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.

The media, which cites local sources in the enclave (where Israel does not allow independent entry to the international press), said that there were two attacks launched by Israeli aircraft against the market, located in the Daraj neighborhood, in the east of the Gaza capital, and that the dead and wounded were transferred to several hospitals.

Gaza Civil Defense spokesman, Mahmud Basal, confirmed that at least 4 bodies and more than 80 injured arrived in less than an hour at the Arab hospital al Ahli in Gaza City after an attack on the Sahaba market and the Sudania neighborhood.

The news comes after Gaza’s health authorities raised the death toll to 43,061 in the last year.

This figure does not include the almost one hundred dead in the Israeli bombing of a residential building in the town of Beit Lahia.

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So far on Tuesday, at least 109 people have died in the punished north of Gaza, according to Palestinian media, which cite health sources.

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Death toll from southern Spain train crash rises to 40

The death toll from the train accident that occurred on Sunday in southern Spain has risen to 40, according to investigative sources cited by EFE on Monday afternoon.

Since early Monday, search operations have focused on the damaged carriages of a Renfe train bound for Huelva, which collided with the last derailed cars of an Iryo train traveling from Málaga to Madrid after it left the tracks.

The crash has also left more than 150 people injured. Of these, 41 remain hospitalized, including 12 in intensive care units at hospitals across the Andalusia region.

More than 220 Civil Guard officers are working at the site, searching the railway line and surrounding areas for key evidence to help identify victims and determine the causes of the accident.

The tragedy has revived memories of the deadliest railway disasters in Europe in recent decades. In Spain, the most severe occurred on July 24, 2013, when an Alvia train derailed near Santiago de Compostela, killing 80 people and injuring 130 others.

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At the European level, the worst rail disaster took place on June 3, 1998, in Eschede, northern Germany, when a high-speed train struck a bridge pillar at 200 kilometers per hour, resulting in 98 deaths and 120 injuries.

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Spain’s Prime Minister pledges transparency after train crash kills at least 39

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez pledged on Monday to ensure “absolute transparency” regarding the causes of a train crash that killed at least 39 people on Sunday in southern Spain, warning that the death toll could still rise.

The fatal accident occurred in the Andalusia region, where the number of confirmed deaths reached 39 by Monday morning, according to a spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior.

Authorities were preparing to deploy heavy machinery to lift several derailed train cars. “We are waiting for cranes to be installed this morning to lift cars one, two and three of the Alvia train, which suffered the most damage,” said Andalusian regional president Juanma Moreno Bonilla on regional television. “It is likely that once they are lifted, we may find more victims,” he added.

The disaster also left more than 120 people injured. As of Monday afternoon, 43 victims remained hospitalized, including 12 in intensive care, according to emergency services.

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Over 160 christian worshippers kidnapped in Kaduna Church attacks

More than 160 Christian worshippers were abducted on Sunday during coordinated attacks carried out by armed gangs on two churches in a remote village in Kaduna State, northern Nigeria, according to a cleric and a United Nations report accessed by AFP on Monday.

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has witnessed a renewed surge in mass kidnappings since November, prompting the United States government to carry out military strikes on Christmas Day in the northwestern state of Sokoto.

U.S. President Donald Trump accused Nigerian armed groups of targeting Christians, describing the violence as a form of “genocide” against the religious community.

According to Reverend Joseph Hayab, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria in the north, the attackers arrived in large numbers, blocked access to the churches, and forced worshippers to flee into nearby forests.

“The attackers came in large numbers, sealed off the entrances to the churches, and drove the faithful into the bush,” Hayab told AFP.