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Netanyahu and the opposition are stry for the war in Gaza

In a heated debate, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended before the Kneset (Parliament) his strategy of “pressure, pressure and more pressure” in the Gaza Strip, where more than 38,700 people have died and thousands are missing after nine months of intense bombing.

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas “is under pressure because we are eliminating its commanders, thousands of its terrorists, because we have entered Rafah and the Philadelphia corridor and we have them by the neck,” Netanyahu said during a parliamentary session convened by the opposition.

Netanyahu told his critics to question his strategy in the enclave, and said that pressure on him will not do anything.

He also ventured that, if it depended on the opposition, Israel would have put an end to the war “without eliminating the commanders, without controlling Rafah and the Philadelphia corridor” and with the military leader of Hamas in Gaza, Mohamed Deif, “strolling like a winner.”

Deif was the target of a harsh Israeli attack over the weekend against the humanitarian zone of Mawasi, in the south of the enclave, in which more than 90 people were killed, according to the Gaza authorities. His destiny remains uncertain.

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The leader of the opposition National Unity party, Benny Gantz, responded to Netanyahu on his X account with a threatening message in which he accused him of delaying Israeli operations in Jan Yunis and Rafah (south of Gaza) for his “indecision.”

“Everything will be revealed when the protocols and decisions are evaluated by the state commission of inquiry,” said Gantz, who until recently occupied a position with the right to vote in the already dissolved Cabinet of War of Israel.

The Israeli Government has not yet ordered the creation of a state commission to investigate the security flaws that allowed Hamas to carry out a large-scale attack on Israeli soil that left 1,200 dead and more than 200 kidnapped on October 7, 2023, and which was the trigger of the current war in Gaza, and Netanyahu himself has said that he opposes an investigation until it ends.

Both Gantz and the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, have asked for this commission to be formed and have criticized the president for his lack of decisions in the war.

“Benny Gantz spreads fake news again,” Netanyahu replied in a message in X in which he claimed to have taken a screenshot of his tweet to rescue him when the public discovers “who was looking for excuses to ‘stop the fighting for a year or two’ and who pressed to continue the war until victory.”

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Meanwhile, the families of the Israelis kidnapped in Gaza also charged Netanyahu, who allegedly said last night at a government meeting about negotiations with Hamas that “they should not be stressed” since “the hostages are suffering, but not dying,” according to a leak published by the Ynet news portal.

“We demand that the prime minister explain himself immediately,” the Forum of Relatives of Hostages demanded in a statement, before statements that they considered “deeply hurtful,” as well as “dangerously irresponsible.”

The platform, which represents the families of the kidnapped in the enclave, took advantage of the statement to demand that Netanyahu, as he usually does, sign the ceasefire agreement with Hamas to guarantee the safe return of both the living and the deceased hostages.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid, who has repeatedly offered a “safety net” to Netanyahu in front of his far-right coalition partners to achieve a hostage release agreement, asked him not to travel to Washington to participate in a joint session of the two chambers of Congress if not to announce an agreement.

The Israeli Prime Minister is scheduled to travel to the United States in the coming days to deliver a speech to the country’s legislators, after being invited by the Democratic and Republican leaders of both chambers.

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His journey will take place with the negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza on the tightrope, after the attack on Deif in Mawasi that left 90 dead and 300 injured.

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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.”