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Israel withdraws from more neighborhoods of Gaza City, leaving dozens of corpses in its path
The Israeli Army withdrew from more neighborhoods of Gaza City, leaving dozens of corpses in its wake, according to the Civil Defense of the enclave, which in the Tal al Hawa area alone recovered about 60 bodies.
According to the group, Israeli troops withdrew today from the neighborhoods of Tal al Hawa and Rimal, and also from the headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza capital, where Israel is holding a new offensive to try to prevent Hamas militiamen from regrouping.
Only yesterday, the rescue teams of the Civil Defense recovered another 60 corpses from the Shujaiya neighborhood, a bastion of the Islamist group in the Gaza capital that has become totally uninhabitable after the passage of Israeli soldiers, who left it on the night of Wednesday to Thursday.
This Friday, the Army announced that during its operations in Shujaiya it managed to eliminate the deputy commander of the Hamas battalion in the neighborhood, whom it identified as Ayman Showadeh.
According to Israel, Showadeh participated in the planning of the October 7 attacks and led numerous attacks against Israeli troops throughout the war in Gaza.
The Army also assured that during its attacks in Shujaiya it eliminated more than 150 alleged militiamen, including a commander identified as Ubadah Abu Heen, to whom it attributed an “important role” in the fighting in Gaza.
More than 38,300 people have already died throughout the Strip, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health of the enclave, controlled by Hamas, and it is estimated that thousands of bodies are still buried under the rubble.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Army maintains a tough offensive in Rafah, the southernmost town in the Gaza Strip, where on the last day the troops “have eliminated numerous terrorists in short-range combat and air strikes, and dismantled terrorist infrastructure in the area,” according to a military statement.
Israel also assured that its forces have located an arms production workshop and a large amount of funds “used in terrorist activities” in the center of the devastated Palestinian enclave, in addition to several militiamen who were eliminated.
In the midst of negotiations to reach a ceasefire agreement in the devastated Strip, which are at its most promising point in recent months, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, denied that the Army will leave the so-called Philadelphia corridor, located in Rafah and which runs the border of Gaza with Egypt.
“The Prime Minister insists that Israel will remain in the Philadelphia corridor. These were his instructions to the negotiating teams, and this is what he communicated to the representatives of the United States this week and to the Government last night,” the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel said in a statement.
Netanyahu thus responded to information published today by the Reuters news agency indicating that Israeli and Egyptian negotiators would be negotiating an electronic surveillance system that allows Israeli troops to leave the border in case of reaching a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
The Islamist group, for its part, accused the Israeli president of introducing new demands in the negotiations for a ceasefire, which shows that he is “procrastinating, looking for what will make the agreement fall,” according to a message from the member of the political bureau of Hamas Izzat al Risheq.
The group also insisted that managing the Gaza Strip after the war is an exclusively Palestinian matter, and confirmed that it has proposed that a single government, national and non-partisan, take control of the enclave next to the occupied West Bank.
Israel took control of the Philadelphia corridor in early May and since then controls the area, which includes the Rafah border crossing to Egypt, through which much of the humanitarian aid previously entered Gaza and which remains closed since the entry of Israeli troops into the town.
For Israel, controlling that border – in which they claim to have found at least 20 tunnels – is very important because it is the main source of arms smuggling that for years has served for the entry of Hamas weapons.
International
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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