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The number of dead and the number of injured in the Israeli attack on downtown Beirut rises to 20
The number of people killed after the attack by the Israeli Armed Forces, in the early hours of Saturday, against an eight-story building in the center of Beirut rose to 20, while another 66 were injured, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health updated in a new statement.
The ministry issued a fourth balance sheet of victims, in which it reported on the new number of people killed and injured in the attack against the area located in the capital’s Basta neighborhood.
According to the statement, volunteers and rescue teams continue to search for survivors with excavators and heavy equipment that clear the debris where they claim to have found “a large number of body parts.”
According to the Lebanese National News Agency (ANN), “a deep crater remained after the use of bunker bombs.”
The attack in that area of the city center occurred in the early morning, after Israeli Army planes intensified their actions against different parts of Lebanon, with special emphasis on Tyre and other southern areas, as well as in Baalbek-Hermel, in the northeast of the country.
In Friday’s attacks alone, counts by Lebanese health authorities speak of 25 people killed throughout the country and another 58 who were injured.
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said in its report on Saturday that Israeli aggressions since the beginning of the conflict have caused the death of at least 3,670 people and left 15,413 injured.
At least two dead in an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon
In southern Lebanon, at least two people died in an attack perpetrated by an Israeli drone while driving motorcycles in the town of Tora, near the city of Tyre, capital of the demarcation of southern Lebanon that has suffered constant bombing since last night until this morning, official sources reported.
The Lebanese National News Agency (ANN) reported on Saturday that “Israeli attacks intensified against the towns of the Tyre and Ben Ybeil areas from last night until this morning” and detailed that “unmanned aviation bombed the town of Tora targeting two motorcycles causing two fatalities.”
Israel blames Hizbulá for the attack on the FINUL post
On the other hand, the Israeli Army held the Shii group Hizbula responsible on Saturday for yesterday’s attack on a post of the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNFINUL) in the Shamaa area, in which four Italian soldiers were slightly injured.
“Hezbulá fired a series of rockets from Deir Qanun that hit and damaged a FINUL post in the Shamaa area, in southern Lebanon, and injured several soldiers stationed there,” a military statement said today.
The Israeli Army also accused the Shiite group, with which it has been waging war for more than a year, of having attacked last Tuesday with projectiles that same FIUL post in Shamaa and another in Ramyeh.
International
Uribe requests freedom amid appeal of historic bribery conviction
Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe on Monday requested that the Supreme Court restore his freedom while he appeals the historic 12-year house arrest sentence he received for bribery and procedural fraud.
Uribe, the most prominent figure of Colombia’s right wing, was convicted last week by a lower court for attempting to bribe paramilitary members into denying his ties to the violent anti-guerrilla squads.
Since Friday, the 73-year-old has been under house arrest at his residence in Rionegro, about 30 km from Medellín. The judge justified the measure by citing a risk of flight.
However, Uribe’s defense team rejected that argument and formally petitioned the court to immediately lift the detention order, claiming it lacks legal basis.
Uribe, a dominant force in Colombian politics for decades, is now the first former president in the country’s history to be convicted and placed under arrest, found guilty of witness tampering and obstruction of justice to prevent links to paramilitary groups.
He has repeatedly denounced the trial as politically motivated, blaming pressure from the leftist government currently in power.
His political party, Centro Democrático, has called for nationwide protests on August 7 in support of Uribe, who remains popular for his hardline stance against guerrilla groups.
Uribe has until August 13 to submit his written appeal. The case will then move to the Bogotá High Court, which has until October 16 to uphold, overturn, or dismiss the sentence. If the deadline passes without a decision, the case will be archived.
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U.S. Embassy staff restricted as gunfire erupts near compound in Port-au-Prince
The poorest country in Latin America and the Caribbean is currently engulfed in a deep political crisis and a wave of violence driven by armed groups — a situation that an international security mission led by Kenya is attempting to stabilize.
Due to the worsening security conditions, the U.S. government has suspended all official movements of embassy personnel outside the compound in Port-au-Prince, the U.S. State Department announced Monday in a security alert posted on social media platform X.
“There are intense gunfights in the Tabarre neighborhood, near the U.S. Embassy,” the alert reads, urging the public to avoid the area.
Tabarre is a municipality located near Port-au-Prince International Airport, northeast of the Haitian capital.
According to a July report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, at least 3,141 people were killed in Haitibetween January 1 and June 30 of this year.
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Israel says 136 food aid boxes airdropped into Gaza by six nations
The Israeli military announced on Sunday that 136 boxes of food aid were airdropped into Gaza by the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Germany, and Belgium.
“In recent hours, six countries conducted air drops of 136 aid packages containing food for residents in the southern and northern Gaza Strip,” read the statement, which added that the operation was coordinated by COGAT, the Israeli defense body overseeing civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli military emphasized that they will “continue working to improve the humanitarian response alongside the international community” and reiterated their stance to “refute false allegations of deliberate famine in Gaza.”
The announcement comes as UN agencies warn Gaza faces an imminent risk of famine. More than one in three residents go days without eating, and other nutrition indicators have dropped to their worst levels since the conflict began.
The agencies also noted the difficulty of “collecting reliable data in current conditions, as Gaza’s health systems —already devastated by nearly three years of conflict— are collapsing.”
Meanwhile, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry reported on Sunday that hospitals in the enclave recorded six deaths from hunger and malnutrition on Saturday, all of them adults.
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