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The number of dead and the number of injured in the Israeli attack on downtown Beirut rises to 20
The number of people killed after the attack by the Israeli Armed Forces, in the early hours of Saturday, against an eight-story building in the center of Beirut rose to 20, while another 66 were injured, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health updated in a new statement.
The ministry issued a fourth balance sheet of victims, in which it reported on the new number of people killed and injured in the attack against the area located in the capital’s Basta neighborhood.
According to the statement, volunteers and rescue teams continue to search for survivors with excavators and heavy equipment that clear the debris where they claim to have found “a large number of body parts.”
According to the Lebanese National News Agency (ANN), “a deep crater remained after the use of bunker bombs.”
The attack in that area of the city center occurred in the early morning, after Israeli Army planes intensified their actions against different parts of Lebanon, with special emphasis on Tyre and other southern areas, as well as in Baalbek-Hermel, in the northeast of the country.
In Friday’s attacks alone, counts by Lebanese health authorities speak of 25 people killed throughout the country and another 58 who were injured.
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said in its report on Saturday that Israeli aggressions since the beginning of the conflict have caused the death of at least 3,670 people and left 15,413 injured.
At least two dead in an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon
In southern Lebanon, at least two people died in an attack perpetrated by an Israeli drone while driving motorcycles in the town of Tora, near the city of Tyre, capital of the demarcation of southern Lebanon that has suffered constant bombing since last night until this morning, official sources reported.
The Lebanese National News Agency (ANN) reported on Saturday that “Israeli attacks intensified against the towns of the Tyre and Ben Ybeil areas from last night until this morning” and detailed that “unmanned aviation bombed the town of Tora targeting two motorcycles causing two fatalities.”
Israel blames Hizbulá for the attack on the FINUL post
On the other hand, the Israeli Army held the Shii group Hizbula responsible on Saturday for yesterday’s attack on a post of the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNFINUL) in the Shamaa area, in which four Italian soldiers were slightly injured.
“Hezbulá fired a series of rockets from Deir Qanun that hit and damaged a FINUL post in the Shamaa area, in southern Lebanon, and injured several soldiers stationed there,” a military statement said today.
The Israeli Army also accused the Shiite group, with which it has been waging war for more than a year, of having attacked last Tuesday with projectiles that same FIUL post in Shamaa and another in Ramyeh.
International
Trump: “I won’t allow the stupidity of buying venezuelan oil again”
U.S. President Donald Trump declared on Friday that he would not allow the purchase of oil from Venezuela, as his predecessor Joe Biden did when he lifted a series of sanctions.
“Biden went and bought millions of barrels of oil. I’m not going to allow something that stupid to happen again,” Trump said in remarks to the media in the Oval Office.
The president was asked about the visit of his special envoy, Richard Grenell, to meet with Nicolás Maduro at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Friday.
“He (Grenell) is meeting with a lot of different people,” Trump responded.
International
Trump administration holds first direct talks with Maduro regime to discuss hostage release
The Trump administration has had its first contact with Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela to advance the release of American hostages and ensure the repatriation of “criminals and gang members in a clear and unconditional manner.” The meeting took place just before U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first trip to Latin America, marking his first international tour.
Rick Grenell, Trump’s Special Envoy for Foreign Affairs, traveled to Venezuela to meet with Maduro and discuss the release of American hostages and the deportation of Venezuelans. This marks the first face-to-face encounter between the new U.S. government and the Chavismo regime, which may begin to shape the future of bilateral relations and whether the Trump administration plans to deploy a strategy aimed at seeking regime change in the Caribbean nation.
“We want to do something with Venezuela. I’ve been a big opponent of Venezuela and Maduro. They’ve treated us badly, and they’ve treated the Venezuelan people very badly,” Trump said in a statement in the Oval Office.
“From migration to security and trade, no other region in the world affects the daily lives of Americans more than the Western Hemisphere, and that’s why, under President Trump’s golden era, he has prioritized the Americas in this administration,” said Mauricio Claver-Carone, Special Envoy for Latin America, in a call with journalists, confirming Grenell’s meeting in Caracas.
International
Florida democrats urge Trump administration to reinstate protections for venezuelans
Florida Democrats in Congress criticized the Trump administration on Friday for reversing an 18-month extension of a federal program that protects over half a million Venezuelans from deportation. They urged officials to reinstate these protections for individuals from the South American nation.
In a letter addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the group of lawmakers stated that “sending Venezuelan immigrants back to a dictatorship that engages in torture, extrajudicial killings, and systematic human rights abuses would be a death sentence for many of our friends and neighbors.”
“This decision will have a devastating impact on more than 505,400 Venezuelans who currently rely on protected status,” the lawmakers wrote. “It will also severely affect the communities where they live, work, and pay taxes.”
The letter, led by Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Broward County and Darren Soto of Osceola County, follows Noem’s decision to cancel the program’s extension from April 2025 to October 2026. The extension had been announced by former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas just days before Biden left the White House. Noem argued that the decision should be left to the Trump administration.
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