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Kamala Harris, after meeting with Netanyahu: it’s time to end the war in Gaza
The vice president of the United States and future Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, claimed after meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that it was time to end the Gaza war with a ceasefire and hostage release agreement.
“I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu that it’s time for the agreement to be closed. So to all those who have been asking for a ceasefire and long for peace, I see and hear them. Let’s make the agreement to get a ceasefire and end the war,” Harris told the press at the end of the meeting.
Harris had previously photographed herself with Netanyahu, but appeared alone, with a message that departed slightly from the line of the president, Joe Biden, with greater empathy for the suffering of the Palestinians.
“I explained it to the prime minister, my great concern about the scale of human suffering in Gaza, including the death of too many innocent civilians,” the vice president said.
“What has happened in Gaza in the last nine months, those images of dead children and desperate people fleeing, some for the second, third or fourth time… We can’t look the other way in the face of these tragedies, we can’t afford to be insensitive to the suffering, Harris said.
Of course, he also had words of solidarity with the Israeli hostages in the hands of Hamas, and in particular those who also have American nationality, whom he cited one by one by name.
In what seemed like an appeal to American voters, he asked to make an effort to understand that the Gaza conflict is not binary (good and bad) and that we must “understand the complexity and nuances of the history of the region,” and therefore called for “condemning anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and all kinds of hate crime.”
Harris has been openly critical of the way Israel conducts the offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has already left more than 39,000 dead, and was the first voice of the US Administration to call for an immediate ceasefire.
The meeting with Netanyahu generated high expectations because Harris has practically assured the nomination of the Democratic Party after the president, Joe Biden, resigned from running for re-election, and could give clues about the relationship he would have with Israel if he won the November elections.
Harris, who within her functions has that of presiding over the Senate, was the great absentee in the speech that Netanyahu gave on Wednesday before the United States Congress, where he defended to maintain his war against Hamas until the “final victory.”
The vice president issued a statement to condemn the burning of an American flag and the slogans in favor of Hamas that occurred yesterday during a pro-Palestinian demonstration against Netanyahu’s presence in Washington.
Before meeting with Harris, the Israeli Prime Minister met with Biden in the Oval Office of the White House and then both leaders met with relatives of hostages who remain kidnapped by Hamas in Gaza.
Biden’s main objective is to pressure Netanyahu to close within the next few weeks an agreement with Hamas that allows a truce in Gaza and the release of the hostages.
Biden and Netanyahu have not seen each other since the US president traveled to Israel as a show of solidarity after the attack perpetrated by the Palestinian Islamist group on October 7 that left 1,200 dead and triggered the Israeli offensive on the enclave.
Despite being Israel’s largest supplier of weapons, the United States Government has been critical of Israeli bombings on densely populated areas, attacks on hospitals and restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid.
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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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