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At least 21 dead and 61 injured after Israel’s last attacks in Gaza
At least 21 Palestinians were killed and 61 injured in the Gaza Strip after the latest Israeli attacks, the Palestinian Ministry of Health, administered by Hamas, reported on Saturday.
“The Israeli occupation committed three massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 21 martyrs and 61 wounded in the last 24 hours,” the health authority said in a statement.
With this last balance, the total death toll amounted to 45,277 and the injured to 107,573 since October 7, 2023, when the war in Gaza began after the Hamas attack in Israel.
Medical sources reported to EFE that between the morning and early hours of Saturday at least seven people died in two Israeli bombings in the north of the enclave: three of them in the Al Mukhabarat area, northwest of Gaza City, and four in the Al Shati refugee camp, near the aforementioned city.
According to reports from the Palestinian news agency Wafa, two other citizens died in an Israeli raid against Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the city of Beit Lahia, in the north of the Gaza Strip.
According to this media, two other Palestinians died in an attack in the Khirbet Al-Adas area, in the southern city of Rafah.
Fourteen months of attacks
In the last 14 months, the Israeli Army has attacked Gaza through the sky, sea and land, and has assured that it will not stop until it ends Hamas’ capabilities, both to govern and to operate through its armed arm.
These months of conflict have caused the destruction of more than 90% of the civil infrastructure of the enclave, including hospitals, according to figures from the Gaza Government.
Since last October, Israeli soldiers have maintained a siege against the north of the enclave; this operation has caused the death of at least 3,000 Palestinians.
In addition, the United Nations (UN) has accused Israel of preventing access to basic supplies for hospitals and blocking humanitarian aid for the population that remains in the area.
“An unprecedented” bombing of Kamal Adwan hospital
The Kamal Adwan hospital, located in the Beit Lahia town, north of the Gaza Strip, is the subject of an “unprecedented” attack by Israeli forces, its director, Abu Safiya, reported on Saturday night through a statement.
“At the moment there is an intense and strong bombing of the hospital, unprecedented and without prior notice to the care and nursing department,” said the doctor, who on November 25 had been injured during the continuous attacks of Israel against this health center.
Safiya, who earlier warned that in the last few hours the vicinity of the hospital had been attacked several times, reported that they are now being pointed out directly.
“The bombing is being carried out with explosives and tank fire, directly aiming at us while we are present inside the hospital departments,” he said.
The doctor called on the international community to protect the health system and its workers, and said that the responsibility for these events will fall on those who are silent.
International
TikTok sale advances as Trump reveals deal is in place
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that TikTok has secured a buyer, marking a key step for the popular video-sharing platform to continue operating in the United States.
“We have a buyer for TikTok. We’ll probably need China’s approval,” said the Republican leader during an interview with Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News. Without naming the company, Trump said it is a “very wealthy” tech firm, and the identity will likely be revealed within “two weeks.”
Under former President Joe Biden, Congress passed legislation requiring TikTok’s parent company, the Chinese firm ByteDance, to divest the app to a buyer from a “non-adversarial” country by January 20, the day Trump returned to the White House following his reelection.
Due to the lack of an agreement, TikTok temporarily ceased operations in the U.S. until Trump, on his first day back in office, signed an executive order granting a 75-day extension. He later issued another 75-day extension on April 4, and most recently extended the deadline an additional 90 days, until September 17.
Trump, who has publicly stated he has “a soft spot for TikTok,” believes the platform played a vital role in building his popularity among younger voters during the last election.
International
Protests erupt over Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant jail in the Everglades
Hundreds of environmentalists, Indigenous leaders, and activists gathered on Saturday to protest against the planned opening of a migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” which, according to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, could begin operating as early as Tuesday and hold up to 3,000 migrants.
The protest took place amid active construction at the site, located in the Everglades Natural Park—an ecologically sensitive wetlands region west of Miami. Demonstrators raised concerns about the environmental impact on an area that is home to 36 native species of plants and animals that are threatened or endangered.
Protest signs read messages such as: “This scam will cost us $450 million and destroy our precious Everglades,”“Continuing with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is criminal,” and “These are concentration camps on Indigenous land.”
The backlash intensified after a televised segment aired the night before on Fox and Friends, where DeSantis toured the facility—built on an abandoned airport—and suggested the detention center could start receiving migrants as early as Tuesday.
Internacionales
Jalisco’s grim discovery: drug cartel mass grave found in construction site
A mass grave was discovered in a residential area under construction in the municipality of Zapopan, part of the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco.
“After analyzing the recovered remains, they correspond to 34 individuals,” said a state official during a press conference. Jalisco has one of the highest numbers of missing persons in Mexico, largely due to the activity of drug cartels.
As of May 31, official data shows that Jalisco has recorded 15,683 missing persons, according to the state prosecutor’s office. Authorities attribute most of these cases to criminal organizations, which often bury or cremate their victims clandestinely.
“The construction company notified us at the end of February after discovering some remains,” explained the official, González, adding that excavation efforts have been ongoing since then.
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) operates in the region and was designated as a foreign terrorist organization earlier this year by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Washington has accused CJNG and the Sinaloa cartel of being the main sources of fentanyl trafficking, a synthetic opioid responsible for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the U.S.
Mexico has accumulated more than 127,000 missing persons, most of them since 2006, when the federal government launched a heavily criticized military-led anti-drug offensive.
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