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Four Palestinians die in an attack with an Israeli drone in Tulkarem, West Bank

Four Palestinians died in an Israeli attack with a drone in the Nur Shams refugee camp, in Tulkarem, northern occupied West Bank, confirmed by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

“A plane of the Israel Defense Forces attacked a terrorist cell in the Nur Shams area while they were placing an explosive device,” the Israeli Army said in a statement.

According to the Palestinian media, one of the deceased is Nimr Hamarsha, identified as a militiaman.

Israeli attacks are not frequent, but they have normalized in the occupied West Bank in the last year, especially since Israel intensified its raids in parallel with the war in Gaza, where it has carried out more than 4,100 “suspected” arrests, including more than 1,700 with alleged links to Hamas.

Yenin is the main focus of violence, but in recent months Tulkarem has become another scene of the Israeli rads against local militias.

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The occupied West Bank is experiencing its largest spiral of violence since the Second Intifada (2000-05), and so far in 2024 at least 226 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, most of them alleged militiamen or attackers, but also civilians, including about 45 minors, according to the EFE count, after closing 2023 as the deadliest year in two decades with more than 520 deaths.

On the Israeli side, 16 Israelis have died this year, ten uniformed personnel and six civilians, five of them settlers.

The Israeli Army intensified its already frequent incursions into the occupied West Bank after the attack in Hamas on October 7 and, since then, at least 556 Palestinians have been killed in violent incidents with Israel, mainly with troops and a dozen of them at the hands of settlers.

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Trump urges Putin to reach peace deal

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “reach a deal” to end the war in Ukraine, while also reaffirming his willingness to impose sanctions on Russia.

“I want to see him reach an agreement to prevent Russian, Ukrainian, and other people from dying,” Trump stated during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House.

“I think he will. I don’t want to have to impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil,” the Republican leader added, recalling that he had already taken similar measures against Venezuela by sanctioning buyers of the South American country’s crude oil.

Trump also reiterated his frustration over Ukraine’s resistance to an agreement that would allow the United States to exploit natural resources in the country—a condition he set in negotiations to end the war.

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Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.

Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.

Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.

However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.

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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

Guatemalan court decides Wednesday whether to convict journalist José Rubén Zamora

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.

“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.

The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.

His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”

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