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Israel maintains plans for an operation in Rafah where it says that there are “8,000 terrorists” left
Israel plans to continue with its military operation in Rafah, in the southern end of the Gaza Strip, where, according to its ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, “8,000 terrorists” from Hamas are hidden in the city.
Erdan was addressing the members of the Security Council this Friday, precisely after most of them had expressly asked him not to carry out that operation due to the great accumulation of Palestinian civilians in that city who have nowhere to go.
According to Erdan, Israel has “dismantled” 18 battalions from Hamas, but four remain active in the streets of Rafah, with “8,000 terrorists,” and therefore “there is no alternative route to the ceasefire that does not go through (the attack on) Rafah,” he said.
“You can’t extinguish a fire by extinguishing only most of it, because the fire will be lit again. That’s what will happen without an operation in Rafah. Israel sees no other alternative,” he continued.
On the other hand, Erdan denied that there is famine in Gaza, and said that the UN reports that assure that 1.1 million Gazans are already about to fall into it are “defamatory narratives,” a product of “a tool of Hamas propaganda that the UN has chosen to make its own.”
According to Erdan, if the humanitarian aid that enters Gaza does not reach its population – 18,283 trucks with 300,000 tons of aid, according to his figures – it is because “Hamas plunders most of it for themselves,” he said, without recognizing the multiple obstacles that the Israeli army is putting to the aid entrance.
What’s more, Erdan went so far as to say that “Israel has taken steps that no other army in any other conflict has ever taken in order to avoid civilian casualties.”
The war in Gaza has so far cost the lives of 32,000 people, of which more than half were women and children.
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Seven bodies found with signs of torture in Sinaloa
Mexican authorities discovered seven lifeless bodies on Wednesday, showing clear signs of torture, in the rural area of Culiacán, Sinaloa, just one day after the same number of bodies was found in several municipalities in the western state of Mexico.
Six of these seven victims were found along the side of the highway that connects Culiacán to Mazatlán, near Laguna de Canachi, according to local media reports, which also noted that messages addressed to a criminal group were found near the bodies.
This brings the total number of violent deaths in the region to seven within just 24 hours. On Tuesday, authorities reported more victims found in the municipalities of Culiacán, Elota, and Mazatlán.
Among the victims identified was a local cattle rancher named Ramón Velázquez Ontiveros, as well as a police officer from Mazatlán, who was killed by a motorcyclist outside his home in San Marcos.
International
Málaga paralyzed by new storm as torrential rains hit Spain
Thousands of people were evacuated and trains were suspended as torrential rains once again struck Spain on Wednesday, following the devastating floods that killed at least 223 people two weeks ago, most of them in the Valencia region.
The national meteorological agency (Aemet) issued a maximum, red-level alert for the Andalusian province of Málaga in the south, and for Tarragona in the northeast, due to the new DANA (isolated depression at high levels), also known as a cold drop.
The city of Málaga appeared to be the hardest hit by the rains, with more than 3,000 people evacuated from 1,000 homes near rivers, flooded streets, and the suspension of urban transport and train services to Madrid.
“Today Málaga is paralyzed,” said Andalusia’s regional president, Juan Manuel Moreno, to reporters. “I know it is a problem for citizens not being able to take their children to school or go to work, but after what we saw in Valencia, we need to ‘prevent’ and minimize the impact in terms of loss of life,” he added.
The storm also led to the postponement of a match between Spain and Poland in the Billie Jean King Cup women’s tennis competition, which was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in Málaga.
International
Hezbollah launches explosive drone strike on Israel’s defense headquarters
The Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah claimed on Wednesday that it launched an attack with explosive drones against the Israeli army’s headquarters in Tel Aviv.
The Iran-backed organization reported in a statement that it had carried out “an aerial attack with a squadron of explosive drones” targeting the site that houses Israel’s main defense institutions.
Hezbollah later stated that it also fired a barrage of rockets at the Glilot military intelligence base in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.
The Israeli military indicated that “sirens sounded in several areas of northern and central Israel following the launch of projectiles from Lebanon.”
It later clarified that “five projectiles were identified over the territory, and some were intercepted.”
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