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UN envoy, concerned about the “well-planned” policy of Israeli settlers in the West Bank
The UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, expressed this Wednesday in the Security Council his “concern” for a “very well-planned strategy” of Israeli settlers to expand their settlements and advance the occupation of the West Bank, in parallel to the war in Gaza.
“The points of friction around the settlements are getting worse as that very well-planned (Israeli) policy expands,” said the United Nations envoy, also in charge of the Palestinian issue, during a briefing at the Security Council.
After the Six-Day War (1967), the division of Palestinian territorial entities remained in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, but much of those areas are now under Israeli control.
In fact, 60% of the occupied West Bank is currently under civilian and military administration of Israel, where more than 140 Jewish settlements have proliferated that are legal in the eyes of Israel’s legislation – and dozens of illegal – in which more than 700,000 Israeli settlers live, including East Jerusalem.
“Violence and other negative trends continue at an alarming rate. Large-scale Israeli operations persist, which are often responded to with lethal exchanges with armed Palestinians, as well as an upsurge in the violence of the settlers and the attacks of Palestinians against Israelis,” Wennesland explained on Wednesday.
The United Nations representative also stressed his “concern” about Israel’s decision to “underrupt a military order” that prevented settlers from entering the settlements of Sa-nur, Ganim and Kadim, located near the cities of Yenin and Nabus, bastions of the Palestinian militia movement north of the West Bank.
The Israeli Army increases its already frequent incursions into the occupied West Bank after the attack in Hamas on October 7 and, since then, the death toll rises to about 500 Palestinians in violent incidents with Israel, mainly with troops but also with settlers, whose leaders in some cases have received sanctions from the United States and the European Union.
International
Fire in India’s Jhansi Hospital kills 10 newborns
At least 10 newborns have died following a fire in the neonatal unit of a hospital in Jhansi, India, which was attributed to a faulty oxygen machine, authorities reported on Saturday, adding that 39 babies were rescued.
“Unfortunately, 10 infants have died,” said Brajesh Pathak, Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, regarding the fire that occurred on Friday night.
The fire started at 10:30 PM (17:00 GMT) at the Maharani Lakshmibai Medical University in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
The rescued babies, all only a few days old, were moved to another area of the hospital for treatment.
Dr. Narendra Senga, the director of a medical faculty attached to the hospital, also confirmed the death toll of 10 infants.
International
Seven british citizens arrested in Spain for hashish trafficking 1.2 tons seized
Seven British citizens were arrested in Spain for hashish trafficking in an operation that led to the seizure of 1.2 tons of the drug, which is made from cannabis resin, the Spanish Ministry of the Interior reported on Saturday.
“National Police agents, in collaboration with the National Crime Agency (NCA) of the UK, have dismantled an organization allegedly dedicated to transporting drugs in trucks in Marbella and Elche,” the ministry stated in a press release.
“Agents seized 1,200 kilos of hashish and arrested seven British citizens,” the report specified.
The drugs were found in Marbella and Fuengirola, in southern Spain, as well as in Elche, in the southeastern region.
Part of the hashish was hidden in “large plastic barrels filled with fine mortar sand.”
In addition, the police seized over €63,000 in cash, five passenger vehicles, and a heavy-duty truck.
All of the detainees have been placed in pretrial detention.
Spain serves as the gateway for most of the hashish sold in Europe, due to its proximity to North Africa, the main production area.
In 2022, Spain seized 324.7 tons of hashish, according to the latest available official annual data.
International
Sinaloa cartel network dismantled in Spain following kidnapping and ransom incident
Fourteen members of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel were arrested in Spain following an investigation that began with the kidnapping and murder of an associate, the Spanish National Police announced on Sunday.
“The dismantled criminal network, based in Catalonia, is allegedly involved in the kidnapping and death of a man whose body was found in a wooded area of the region,” explained the National Police in a statement. The victim had traveled from Italy to meet with some of the leaders of the gang.
The criminal organization was “mainly composed of Mexican individuals” and was “linked to the Mexican Sinaloa cartel.”
The victim, a 46-year-old man, was allegedly working for the organization and had traveled to Barcelona from Italy to meet with leaders of the criminal network. The kidnapping took place between late May and June, and the victim’s family in Kosovo alerted the police after receiving a ransom demand of €240,000 (approximately $253,000). The family paid part of the ransom, $32,000 in cryptocurrency.
The victim’s body, whose nationality was not disclosed, was found in August in a forest, showing signs of violence and in an advanced state of decomposition.
The arrested individuals are allegedly connected to drug trafficking, money laundering, kidnapping, and murder. They received packages from Mexico containing methamphetamine soaked into pieces of clothing, which were sent to Catalonia. Once in Spain, they extracted the drug in a laboratory they operated.
The Sinaloa cartel is named after the northwestern Mexican state where it was founded and remains one of the most important criminal organizations in the world, despite the incarceration of two of its historic leaders, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and Ismael “Mayo” Zambada, in the United States.
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