At least 48 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed this Saturday in Israeli aerial bombardments against the Al Tuffah and Zeitun neighborhoods and the Al Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City, in the north of the strip, local medical sources and rescue teams confirmed to EFE.
In Zeitun, at least seven Gazans died, twenty-two in Al Shati and at least nineteen other bodies were recovered from the rubble in Al Tuffah, although the number of victims is expected to increase in the coming hours.
In videos released on social networks, injured people are seen in Al Shati completely covered in dust caused by the collapse of at least four buildings, in addition to an atmosphere of widespread panic and a multitude of debris.
The Israeli Army reported, shortly before, that it had attacked two bases of “military infrastructure of Hamas” in the capital of Gaza with fighters, in which local media point to an attempt to assassinate a senior official of Hamas.
The Islamist group Hamas lamented in a statement the “savage attack on unarmed civilians” by Israel, which it called “a continuation of the genocide of more than eight months, in flagrant contempt and defiance of all the laws and rules that prohibit attacking civilians.”
The Hebrew Army has confirmed that intense fighting against Hamas militiamen is being recorded in the center of Gaza and “selective operations” in Rafah (south).
Already yesterday, in another attack that the Israeli military command claimed to be investigating, at least 25 Gazans died and fifty were injured when tanks opened fire on tents of displaced people in the north of Rafah, in the safe area of Al Mawasi, in an incident reported by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
In the last few hours, at least 101 Gazans have died, according to the local Ministry of Health, dependent on Hamas.
“The ‘Israeli’ occupation committed three massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, causing 101 martyrs and 169 injured treated in hospitals in the last 24 hours,” the Gazaz Ministry of Health said on Saturday.
Thus, the total number of deaths increased today to 37,551 and the number of wounded to 85,911, after eight and a half months of war in Gaza started after the attacks in Hamas on October 7
The Israeli Army has reported the death of Ayman Ratma, a member of both Hamas and the Lebanese Sunni group Jamaa al Islamiya, in a selective air attack on his vehicle near the city of Khiara, 40 kilometers from the border with Lebanon.
“An air force (unmanned) aircraft carried out a precise attack in the (western) area of Beqaa in Lebanon to eliminate the terrorist Ayman Ratma, a key member responsible for the supply of weapons for the terrorist organizations Hamas and Jamaa al Islamiya in Lebanon,” according to a military statement.
Israel assures that Ratma was preparing to attack in Israel “immediately” and that he had already participated in other previous attacks, without offering evidence or giving details about it.
At the moment, Hamas has not spoken about it or claimed Ratma as one of its affiliates.
The European Union (EU) condemned this Saturday the bombing that caused damage at a headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza this Friday, during two Israeli attacks in an area near its offices, and which left at least 25 Palestinian civilians dead and 50 injured, according to the Ministry of Health of the Strip, controlled by Hamas.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, called for an independent investigation and stressed that those responsible for the attacks “will be held accountable,” as he said in a message disseminated through the social network X.
“The protection of civilians is an obligation under the Geneva Conventions. All parties to the conflict are obliged to do so,” Borrell said.
The head of European diplomacy stated that the ICRC must be able to carry out “in safe conditions” all its work, which is covered by the Geneva Conventions, and which, according to Borrell, includes humanitarian protection, assistance to victims and access to prisoners.
The United States and Mexico have reached an agreement to comply with current water obligations affecting U.S. farmers and ranchers and for Mexico to cover its water deficit to Texas under the 1944 Water Treaty, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement.
The department уточified that the agreement applies to both the current cycle and the water deficit from the previous cycle.
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump accused Mexico of failing to comply with the water-sharing treaty between the two countries, which requires the United States to deliver 1.85 billion cubic meters of water from the Colorado River, while Mexico must supply 432 million cubic meters from the Rio Grande.
Mexico is behind on its commitments. According to Washington, the country has accumulated a deficit of more than one billion cubic meters of water over the past five years.
“This violation is severely harming our beautiful crops and our livestock in Texas,” Trump wrote on Monday.
The Department of Agriculture said on Friday that Mexico had agreed to supply 250 million cubic meters of water starting next week and to work toward closing the shortfall.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, quoted in the statement, said Mexico delivered more water in a single year than it had over the previous four years combined.
Trump has said that if Mexico continues to fall short of its obligations, the United States reserves the right to impose 5% tariffs on imported Mexican products.
Mexico’s Deputy Foreign Minister for North America, Roberto Velasco, said that a severe drought in 2022 and 2023prevented the country from meeting its commitments.
Several people were shot on Saturday in an attack on the campus of Brown University, in the northeastern United States, local police reported.
“Shelter in place and avoid the area until further notice,” the Providence Police Department urged in a post on X. Brown University is located in Providence, the capital of the state of Rhode Island.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social that he had been briefed on the situation and that the FBI was on the scene.
At 5:52 p.m. local time (11:52 p.m. GMT), Brown University said the situation was still “ongoing” and instructed students to remain sheltered until further notice.
After initially stating that the suspect had been taken into custody, Trump later posted a second message clarifying that local police had walked back that information. “The suspect has NOT been apprehended,” the U.S. president said.
The Colombian government stated on Thursday that it would have no reason to reject a potential asylum request from Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro should he leave office, as regional tensions persist over the deployment of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean since August.
“In the current climate of tension, negotiations are necessary, and if the United States demands a transition or political change, that is something to be assessed. If such a transition results in him (Maduro) needing to live elsewhere or seek protection, Colombia would have no reason to deny it,” said Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio in an interview with Caracol Radio.
However, Villavicencio noted that it is unlikely Maduro would choose Colombia as a refuge. “I believe he would opt for someplace more distant and calmer,” she added.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro also commented on Venezuela’s situation on Wednesday, arguing that the country needs a “democratic revolution” rather than “inefficient repression.” His remarks followed the recent detention and passport cancellation of Cardinal Baltazar Porras at the Caracas airport.
“The Maduro government must understand that responding to external aggression requires more than military preparations; it requires a democratic revolution. A country is defended with more democracy, not more inefficient repression,” Petro wrote on X (formerly Twitter), in a rare public criticism of the Venezuelan leader.
Petro also called for a general amnesty for political opponents and reiterated his call for forming a broad transitional government to address Venezuela’s prolonged crisis.
Since September, U.S. military forces have destroyed more than 20 vessels allegedly carrying drugs in Caribbean and Pacific waters near Venezuela and Colombia, resulting in over 80 deaths.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that attacks “inside Venezuela” will begin “soon,” while Maduro has urged Venezuelans to prepare for what he describes as an impending external aggression.
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