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Explosion at Santiago School Leaves 11 Students in Critical Condition
The number of students in “critical condition” has increased to 11 following an explosion that occurred on Wednesday inside a school in Santiago, Chile, an incident that left at least 35 injured, the Chilean Ministry of Health reported on Thursday.
The ministry detailed in a statement that there are no fatalities, and among the 35 injured, 25 are hospitalized, five of whom are in “extreme critical condition” and 11 are in “critical condition.”
Education Minister Nicolás Cataldo asserted on Thursday at a press conference that there are “no demands, no objectives, no faces” behind these acts.
The Education Minister emphasized that what happened constitutes damage to the fundamental heritage of the country, which is its youth.
Meanwhile, the director of the Internado Nacional Barros Arana (INBA), where the incident occurred, María Alejandra Benavides, told local media that it was an isolated incident in a community that “has reconnected through dialogue, where we sit down to talk and resolve our differences.”
“There is no massive, daily, or permanent stockpiling of incendiary materials. There is no factory as stated in the press; rather, there is a small group of students who choose to express themselves violently,” she stated.
Local police clarified that an undetermined group of INBA students, located in the historic center of Santiago, was preparing to leave the premises and launch explosive devices into the public when an explosion of the devices occurred under unknown circumstances, resulting in several injuries.
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Car Bomb Explosion Injures Three Police Officers in Acámbaro, Guanajuato
Three police officers were injured, one in serious condition, on Thursday due to a car bomb explosion in front of a police station in Acámbaro, located in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, which has been shaken by violence linked to organized crime.
“Car bomb attack outside the public security building in Acámbaro, resulting in three injured police officers, including one female officer who was transported in serious condition to a hospital and two male officers with superficial injuries,” stated the Acámbaro Public Security Secretariat on its social media.
The agency added that there are no civilian injuries from the explosion, which did cause damage to the police station, four homes, and seven vehicles.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced in her regular press conference that the Attorney General’s Office will take charge of the investigations.
Guanajuato, a prosperous industrial hub that also hosts popular tourist destinations such as the colonial city of San Miguel de Allende, is currently considered the most violent state in Mexico, according to official homicide statistics.
This state is home to major manufacturers like Mazda and General Motors, along with other significant industries that primarily produce for export.
On October 4, the bodies of 12 murder victims were found at various locations in the city of Salamanca, Guanajuato.
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Israel accuses six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza of being Hamas “agents”
The Israeli Army accused on Wednesday six journalists in Gaza of the Qatari network Al Jazeera, banned in Israel since last April, of being “agents of the military wing” of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, assuring that it has found documents in the enclave that would supposedly prove its relationship with the Palestinian militias.
“The security forces have revealed intelligence information and numerous documents found in the Gaza Strip that confirm the military affiliation of six journalists from Al Jazeera in Gaza with the terrorist organizations of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad,” the Army said in a statement, in which it quotes the journalists with names and surnames.
In the note, they indicate that the documents found on these six Gaza journalists include “staffing boards, lists of training courses for terrorists, telephone directories and terrorist salary documents.”
For Israel, these documents “constitute unequivocal proof that these individuals act as military agents of terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip” and are speakers of “pro-Hamas propaganda” especially in the northern Strip through Al Jazeera.
The Islamist organization Hamas, which governs in Gaza, responded with a statement in which it accused Israel of trying to “morally murder” and “demonize” Palestinian journalists with this type of ads, and called its accusation a “false narrative”.
Hamas assured that the Hebrew State has used lists of injured to present them as lists of members of the organization, as well as that it has manipulated “general data that are not important or have any relationship” with the organization.
Israel intensifies its attacks in Gaza
Israel’s accusations against Al Jazeera journalists come after Israeli troops have intensified their offensive in the northern Strip in the last three weeks, causing more than 700 deaths, thousands of wounded trapped and tens of thousands of displaced, according to UN data.
Yesterday, Al Jazeera denounced that Israel is preventing the “urgent medical evacuation” of two of its journalists who were seriously injured in Israeli attacks in the Strip two weeks ago.
The Qatari chain has been banned in Israel since last April, when the Government accused the chain of being “a damage to national security.”
Israel invades Al Jazeera’s office in the West Bank
On September 22, Israel also ordered the closure of the Qatari office in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, after breaking into the headquarters with soldiers where they seized and destroyed equipment.
During the office raid, the soldiers tore off a poster from journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was murdered by an Israeli soldier two years ago while covering a military raid in the occupied West Bank.
After the closure of the Ramalah office, the non-governmental organization Amnesty International accused the Israeli authorities of “another blatant attack on the right to freedom of expression” and of giving a “destroting blow” to press freedom.
Al Jazeera is one of the channels with the largest deployment and journalists in the Strip, where the Israeli Government does not allow access to the international press.
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Israel claims to have found tunnels and arsenal of Hizbulá next to UN bases
The head of Operations of the second brigade of the Israeli Army, Ariye Hominer, said on Monday that the troops have found numerous tunnels and arsenal of the Shiite group Hezbula near positions of the UNFI, the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, during its operations in the south of the country.
“It is surprising that, despite the number of bases of the UN forces, we have found so much infrastructure of Hizbulah: tunnels, arsenal… in the noses of the blue helmets. How is it possible?” Hominer criticized in a visit to the troops in the Israeli town of Shlomi, adjacent to the border with Lebanon.
Shlomi is one of the cities in Israeli Galilee that have become closed military zones in which troops are preparing for their operations in Lebanese territory since the Hebrew State invaded the south of the neighboring country on October 1.
There, the military spokesman defends the good communication of the Israeli Army with UNFINUL, after being questioned by the various incidents between the Hebrew troops against positions of this UN mission that so far leave at least five injured blue helmets.
However, the military assures that “the UN mandate is not doing the work it should be doing” in Lebanon.
Attacks on Lebanon
Hominer also said that Israel will not cease its attacks on Lebanon – which, in addition to the land invasion, consist of a bombing campaign that began on September 23 – until it fulfills the objective of returning displaced Israelis from nearby communities to the border of the neighboring country.
“I hope it’s soon, but it doesn’t limit our time or space,” he said.
Throughout the day, the armed forces have detected the launch of more than 110 rockets from Lebanon aimed at Israel, although most have been intercepted or have fallen in open spaces.
“A drone approaching Israeli territory from Lebanon was intercepted by the Air Force” before entering the country, a military statement was collected around 15.00 local time (12.00 GMT), this being the fifth unidentified aerial vehicle shot down by the armed forces today.
Some 60,000 Israelis were displaced from northern Israel when the exchange of fire between the Army and Hezbullah began on October 8 last year, in a gesture of solidarity of the Shiite group with the Palestinians after the start of the war in Gaza.
On the other hand, more than 1.2 million Lebanese have had to move through Israeli bombings and the deaths from these attacks in more than a year exceed 2,500, most of them since Israel intensified its offensive in September.
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