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Hamas will not allow Trump’s plans to take them out of the area to be fulfilled

Hamas will not allow the plans announced by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who intends to leave the Gaza Strip, to be fulfilled.
“The (Palestinian) people who have stood firm for 15 months (of war) against the most powerful military machine and the most criminal Army, and who thwarted the attempt to displace it, will remain attached to their land and will not accept that plan no matter the cost,” Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al Qanou said in a statement.
“The American racist position is consistent with the position of the Israeli extreme right to displace our people and liquidate their cause,” continued Qanou, who called on the international community to reject Trump’s statements and support the Palestinians’ right to self-determination in the face of Israeli occupation.
The Islamist group called Trump’s proposal for the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza a “crime against humanity”.
“What President Trump has declared about his intention to displace the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip out of it and the control of the United States over the Strip by force is a crime against humanity and consolidates the law of the jungle at the international level,” the member of the Hamas political bureau, Basem Naim, denounced in a statement.
According to International Humanitarian Law, the displacement of civilians is only permitted, exceptionally, for “comprehensive military reasons or for the safety of the population”.
Finally, it also urges that the mediators, and especially the United States, “force” Israel to complete the three phases of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza and agrees on the need to rebuild the enclave, although he says the difficulties for this “do not lie in the presence of the Palestinian people in its territory, but in the continuation of the Zionist occupation and the suffocating siege of the Gaza Strip for more than 17 years, with the support of the United States.”
US President Donald Trump said yesterday, Tuesday, that the Palestinians have no choice but to leave the Gaza Strip because the place is uninhabitable, and insisted that he wants Jordan and Egypt to take in those citizens.
“They are there because they have no alternative. What do they have? It’s a big pile of rubble right now,” he said from the Oval Office of the White House.
Trump assured that in the Palestinian enclave “everything is demolished” and that the people of Gaza “would be delighted” to leave if they were given the opportunity to do so in a “beautiful place with beautiful borders.”
For his part, Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas leader, called Trump’s statements “a recipe for creating chaos and tension in the region” and reiterated that the Palestinians will not allow this to happen.
“(What we ask) is to end the (Israeli) occupation and aggression against our people, not to expel them from their land,” Zuhri said, about the Palestinian demand for a state.
Since 1967, Israel has built about 160 illegal settlements where more than 700,000 Jews live throughout the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. In addition, it claims sovereignty over the whole of Jerusalem, whose eastern side it captured in the war of that year, occupied militarily and annexed unilaterally in 1980.
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Armed forces target illegal mines in Northern Ecuador with bombing raids

Ecuador’s Armed Forces carried out an operation on Monday — including airstrikes — against illegal mining in the town of Buenos Aires, in the country’s north, Defense Minister Gian Carlo Loffredo reported.
The mountainous, gold-rich area has been a hotspot for illegal mining since 2017, located in the Andean province of Imbabura.
In 2019, former president Lenín Moreno deployed around 2,400 soldiers to the region in an attempt to curb the illegal activity. “The operation began with mortar fire, followed by gunfire and bombing runs by Supertucano aircraft,” Loffredo said in a video released by the Defense Ministry.
He added that the operation would continue on Tuesday with patrols across the area to locate possible members of “irregular armed groups that may have crossed from the Colombian border.”
The Armed Forces stated on X that the intervention focused on the “complete elimination of multiple illegal mining tunnels” in the areas known as Mina Nueva and Mina Vieja.
The operation coincided with the deployment of a military and police convoy into Imbabura, which has been the epicenter of protests against President Daniel Noboa since September 22, following his decision to scrap the diesel subsidy.
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Caracas shuts embassy in Oslo without explanation following Machado’s Nobel win

Venezuela has announced the closure of its embassy in Norway, just days after opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Venezuelan diplomatic mission provided no explanation for its decision on Monday.
“It is regrettable,” a ministry spokesperson said. “Despite our differences on several issues, Norway wishes to keep the dialogue with Venezuela open and will continue to work in that direction.” The ministry also emphasized that the Nobel Committee operates entirely independently from the Norwegian government.
In its announcement, the Nobel Committee stated that Machado met the criteria established by Alfred Nobel, “embodying the hope for a different future, where the fundamental rights of Venezuelans are heard.”
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