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Biden manages to get Netanyahu to promise to take a step in Gaza and reiterates his position on Rafah

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, managed to get the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, to promise to open the humanitarian aid passage of Kerem Shalom, closed after an attack by Hamas, and reiterated his “clear position” regarding an invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

As reported by the White House in a statement, “the prime minister agreed to ensure that Kerem Shalom’s passage is open to humanitarian assistance from those in need.”

The Kerem Shalom crossing, one of the main crossings used to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, was closed on Sunday after a Hamas attack killed four Israeli soldiers and injured ten others.

In addition, Biden “reiterated his clear position on Rafah,” according to the White House statement, which does not add more details about that part of the conversation.

The Biden government has repeatedly asked Israel to present a concrete and effective plan before invading Rafah to prevent the death of civilians in that city, located on the border with Egypt and where more than 1.4 million Palestinians are crammed, who have taken refuge there from Israeli operations in the rest of the enclave.

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Netanyahu has been reiterating his intention to invade Rafah for months to eliminate Hamas militiamen who he claims are hiding there and, just a few hours ago, the Israeli Army ordered the evacuation of about 100,000 residents of Rafah.

On the other hand, the two leaders also talked about the negotiations to agree on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of Israeli hostages held in the enclave by Hamas and the release of Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli prisons.

The negotiations are at a crucial moment after the apparent failure of the last round held this weekend in Cairo. However, Washington seeks to revive them, so yesterday, Sunday, the director of the CIA, William Burns, arrived in Doha to continue the talks.

Biden referred specifically to that point and updated Netanyahu “on the efforts to reach an agreement on hostages,” including Monday’s talks in Doha, which has hosted the political office of Hamas for more than a decade.

The United States has been acting for months as a mediator in those negotiations with Egypt and Qatar.

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Finally, both leaders also spoke about the commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is celebrated this Monday.

Specifically, they talked about the “commitment” shared by the US and Israel to remember the six million Jews systematically persecuted and killed in the Holocaust, one of the “darkest chapters in history,” and agreed to “act forcefully against anti-Semitism and all forms of hate-motivated violence.”

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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.

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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.

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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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