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Israel withdraws from more neighborhoods of Gaza City, leaving dozens of corpses in its path
The Israeli Army withdrew from more neighborhoods of Gaza City, leaving dozens of corpses in its wake, according to the Civil Defense of the enclave, which in the Tal al Hawa area alone recovered about 60 bodies.
According to the group, Israeli troops withdrew today from the neighborhoods of Tal al Hawa and Rimal, and also from the headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza capital, where Israel is holding a new offensive to try to prevent Hamas militiamen from regrouping.
Only yesterday, the rescue teams of the Civil Defense recovered another 60 corpses from the Shujaiya neighborhood, a bastion of the Islamist group in the Gaza capital that has become totally uninhabitable after the passage of Israeli soldiers, who left it on the night of Wednesday to Thursday.
This Friday, the Army announced that during its operations in Shujaiya it managed to eliminate the deputy commander of the Hamas battalion in the neighborhood, whom it identified as Ayman Showadeh.
According to Israel, Showadeh participated in the planning of the October 7 attacks and led numerous attacks against Israeli troops throughout the war in Gaza.
The Army also assured that during its attacks in Shujaiya it eliminated more than 150 alleged militiamen, including a commander identified as Ubadah Abu Heen, to whom it attributed an “important role” in the fighting in Gaza.
More than 38,300 people have already died throughout the Strip, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health of the enclave, controlled by Hamas, and it is estimated that thousands of bodies are still buried under the rubble.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Army maintains a tough offensive in Rafah, the southernmost town in the Gaza Strip, where on the last day the troops “have eliminated numerous terrorists in short-range combat and air strikes, and dismantled terrorist infrastructure in the area,” according to a military statement.
Israel also assured that its forces have located an arms production workshop and a large amount of funds “used in terrorist activities” in the center of the devastated Palestinian enclave, in addition to several militiamen who were eliminated.
In the midst of negotiations to reach a ceasefire agreement in the devastated Strip, which are at its most promising point in recent months, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, denied that the Army will leave the so-called Philadelphia corridor, located in Rafah and which runs the border of Gaza with Egypt.
“The Prime Minister insists that Israel will remain in the Philadelphia corridor. These were his instructions to the negotiating teams, and this is what he communicated to the representatives of the United States this week and to the Government last night,” the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel said in a statement.
Netanyahu thus responded to information published today by the Reuters news agency indicating that Israeli and Egyptian negotiators would be negotiating an electronic surveillance system that allows Israeli troops to leave the border in case of reaching a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
The Islamist group, for its part, accused the Israeli president of introducing new demands in the negotiations for a ceasefire, which shows that he is “procrastinating, looking for what will make the agreement fall,” according to a message from the member of the political bureau of Hamas Izzat al Risheq.
The group also insisted that managing the Gaza Strip after the war is an exclusively Palestinian matter, and confirmed that it has proposed that a single government, national and non-partisan, take control of the enclave next to the occupied West Bank.
Israel took control of the Philadelphia corridor in early May and since then controls the area, which includes the Rafah border crossing to Egypt, through which much of the humanitarian aid previously entered Gaza and which remains closed since the entry of Israeli troops into the town.
For Israel, controlling that border – in which they claim to have found at least 20 tunnels – is very important because it is the main source of arms smuggling that for years has served for the entry of Hamas weapons.
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China shows at the UN its “condemnation” of Israel for the “violation of Iran’s sovereignty”
The Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, Fu Cong, showed the “condemnation” of his country against the “violation of the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Iran” after the air attack launched by Israel against multiple targets in that country, the official newspaper Diario del Pueblo reports this Saturday.
That media echoes Fu’s speech to the UN Security Council on Friday, in which he demanded that Israel “immediately stop all its military actions.”
“China (…) opposes the expansion of conflicts, and is deeply concerned about the serious consequences that may arise from Israel’s actions. The intensification of regional tensions does not interest any of the parties involved,” said the Chinese emissary.
Beijing called on Tel Aviv and Tehran to “resolve their disputes through political and diplomatic means, and maintain peace and stability at the regional level jointly.”
In Fu’s view, the Israeli attack will have a “negative impact” on the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program: “China has always been committed to the peaceful resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue through dialogue and consultations, and opposes the use of force, illegal unilateral sanctions and armed attacks on peaceful nuclear facilities.”
This Friday, China had already expressed its willingness to “play a constructive role” to curb the escalation of tensions and facilitate conciliation, in line with its traditional position of active neutrality in the region’s conflicts.
The Israeli attack, which according to Tehran caused dozens of deaths, including senior military commanders and at least six nuclear scientists, targeted key facilities such as the uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. Numerous civilian casualties were also reported.
Israel justified the offensive by claiming that the Iranian regime is secretly developing a program to manufacture nuclear weapons.
For his part, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, promised a “severe response” and assured that the attack would reveal the “evil nature” of Israel.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres also expressed concern about the bombing, at a time when Iran and the US The United States is holding talks about the Iranian nuclear program.
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Donald Trump’s government pauses its program of indiscriminate raides against migrants
The government of US President Donald Trump has decided to pause its campaign of discretionary roundings against migrants in certain areas due to its apparent concern about the growing unpopularity of these methods, according to The New York Times newspaper on Friday.
According to an email to which the newspaper has had access and the confirmation of US officials, the Executive has ordered the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) to pause the beatings that affect the agricultural industry and the hospitality industry.
The spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, confirmed in a statement that “the president’s instructions” will be obeyed and the portfolio will also continue to “work to get the worst illegal foreign criminals out of the streets of the United States.”
The decision points out that this campaign of discretionary arrests to try to deport large-scale immigrants is harming industries and electoral constituencies whose support Trump wants to retain for next year’s legislative elections.
The new instructions were transmitted to ICE in an email sent last Thursday asking that “all investigations/law enforcement operations be suspended in work centers in the agricultural sector (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and hotels.”
These new guidelines come in turn after more than a week of intense protests in Los Angeles against this immigration policy and that Trump himself admitted that the raids seem to be affecting the agricultural sector, which in states like California, where beatings have intensified, depend almost exclusively on immigrant labor.
Since his return to the White House in January, Trump has implemented an aggressive policy of hard hand against immigration and as a sample of his Cabinet officials recently held a meeting with the ICE leadership to order them to carry out 3,000 arrests a day, a mandate that seems to be behind the intensification of the raids.
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Trump says he knew “everything” about the attack on Iran and assures that the dialogue remains open
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Washington “known everything” about the Israeli attack on Iran and that the dialogue on Tehran’s nuclear program “is not dead.”
“We knew everything and I tried to avoid Iran all this humiliation and death. I tried hard to avoid it because I would have loved to see an agreement,” Trump said in an interview with Reuters.
The US president insisted on what he wrote today about the attack on social networks, where he said he gave an ultimatum of 60 days to Tehran to reach an agreement.
“We knew practically everything. We knew enough to give Iran 60 days to reach an agreement and today it is already 61 days,” he explained in the interview, in which he said he did not know what the current situation of the Iranian nuclear program is after the attack launched by Israel, which also ended the lives of key military leaders of the Persian country.
Regarding the dialogue between the US and Iran about the nuclear program of the ayatollahs, Trump assured that “he is not dead”, that “an agreement is still possible” and also recalled that on Sunday a sixth round of dialogue is scheduled in Muscat (Oman) that they consider is now in the air.
“We have a meeting with them on Sunday. Now, I’m not sure if that meeting will take place, but we have a meeting with them on Sunday,” he said.
The United States and Iran have held five rounds of talks on the Iranian nuclear program since April, with Washington demanding that Tehran discard its capabilities both to manufacture an atomic bomb and to enrich uranium, something that the ayatollahs considered unacceptable.
Both Israel and Trump himself had warned of possible preventive attacks on the Persian country due to this refusal by Iran.
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