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The Israeli Army raids a hospital in northern Gaza with more than 100 patients
The Israeli army raided this Friday the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia (north of Gaza), where there are more than a hundred people trapped, and asked patients to move to the central courtyard, according to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.
The Kamal Adwan is one of the few centers still operational in the north of the Strip, where three weeks of harsh Israeli offensive have left more than 700 dead and thousands of people displaced, according to data from the Gaza authorities.
The Qatari network Al Jazeera, which cites sources from the Gaza Civil Defense, assures that more than 150 patients and medical personnel are trapped in the center.
On Thursday afternoon, Israeli tanks fired at the hospital and destroyed an oxygen station, according to the media.
The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian enclave, governed by the Islamist group Hamas, denounced that the situation in the center “is catastrophic in every sense of the word,” and said that hundreds of patients, medical personnel and displaced people are detained by Israeli forces without food or medicine.
On the other hand, the military agency in charge of the management of civil affairs in Gaza (COGAT) said on Friday that last night it facilitated the transfer of 23 patients, mostly minors, from Kamal Adwan to other hospitals in the Strip, and that the center received fuel and 180 units of blood for transfusions.
Hamas denounces the assault and Israel says it evacuated patients
The Islamist group Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, denounced this Friday the raid on the hospital by Israeli forces, who confirmed that they had entered the center and assured that during the last few weeks they facilitated the evacuation of patients.
“The assault on the hospital (…) is a war crime and a blatant violation of international laws,” the group said in a statement, in which it asked Arab countries to take measures to stop the war, beyond issuing condemnatory statements.
For its part, the Israeli Army confirmed that it was operating inside the center, one of the few that still operated in the punished north of the Strip.
According to the military command, intelligence information indicates that there are militiamen and Hamas military infrastructure in the area.
Bombings in Yabalia and Jan Yunis
Meanwhile, the Gaza authorities estimate that a new batch of attacks against the Yabalia refugee camp has caused some 150 deaths, although rescue services have not been able to access the area due to the siege of Israeli troops.
Israel claims to have killed more than 200 fighters in its new offensive in the north of the enclave.
In the south of the Strip, at least 38 people died during the night of Thursday and this Friday morning in several Israeli bombings against homes in the town of Jan Yunis, according to the Ministry of Health of the enclave, governed by Hamas.
The deadliest attack, which left at least 28 dead, took place in the Manara neighborhood, in the south of the town.
In a video published on social networks and verified by the Qatari network Al Jazeera, it is observed that several of the victims are minors.
International
Thirteen cuban military members missing after explosion at arms warehouse
Thirteen members of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) have been reported “missing” following an explosion at an arms and ammunition warehouse in the eastern part of the island, the military institution announced.
“As a result of the explosions at an arms and ammunition warehouse in the Melones community… in the province of Holguín, 730 km east of Havana,” two officers, two non-commissioned officers, and nine soldiers are reported as “missing,” according to a statement from the Ministry of the Armed Forces released by Cuban state television.
The statement specified that “investigations are still ongoing at the site,” which led to the evacuation of more than 1,200 residents from areas near the warehouse of a military unit where “aged ammunition was being classified.”
Neither the official press nor Cuban state television have provided images of the explosions at the military unit, but independent media outlets published photos online showing a massive column of smoke and police officers deployed in the streets of the Melones community.
International
Trump considers declaring National Economic Emergency to justify universal tariffs
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may be considering declaring a national economic emergency in order to justify implementing a package of universal tariffs on both allied and adversary countries, according to CNN.
The proclamation of these measures would grant the incoming U.S. president the freedom to create a new tariff program using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
This move would give the president the authority to manage imports during a national emergency.
According to the report, Trump has a penchant for this law as it provides broad jurisdiction on how tariffs are implemented without strict requirements to prove they are necessary for national security reasons.
International
Venezuelan opposition candidate Enrique Márquez detained ahead of Maduro’s inauguration
Enrique Márquez, a minority opposition candidate in Venezuela’s July 28 elections, was “arbitrarily detained,” denounced a political coalition he is part of and his wife, who described the action as “kidnapping.”
Since Tuesday night, there has been a wave of reports of detentions, with at least a dozen arrests just over 48 hours before President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration for a third six-year term, following a controversial reelection.
“We inform that yesterday, 07.01.25, Enrique Márquez was arbitrarily detained,” stated the Popular Democratic Front (FDP).
“He was kidnapped by paramilitary groups who, using force as their law, aim to silence and intimidate those of us who want a better country and have a different vision,” said his wife, Sonia Lugo de Márquez, on the leader’s X account.
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