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Carmen Gomaro - leading international news and investigative reporter. Worked at various media outlets in Spain, Argentina and Colombia, including Diario de Cádiz, CNN+, Telemadrid and EFE.
SPAIN

The Prosecutor's Office defended in July that the investigation into Tsunami Democràtic was for "terrorism" and later said that it was done by "error"

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On July 19, the Prosecutor's Office of the National Court described the procedure in which the Tsunami Democràtic platform is being investigated as a case of terrorism, a summary in which since this Monday the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont and the leader of ERC Marta Rovira, among others.

This is stated in a report, known to EL MUNDO, in which prosecutor Joaquín González Herrero responded to the request of Oriol Soler's defense where he requested that the case be sent to the courts of Barcelona.

In his report, sent to the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 of the Court, the representative of the Prosecutor's Office maintained that “in the opinion of the Ministry, the events that are the subject of this case are susceptible to being classified as terrorist crimes of articles 571 and of the Penal Code, as the Prosecutor's Office has been maintaining since the beginning of the proceedings through opinions that are ratified herein”.

The aforementioned document also highlighted the “seriousness” of the events attributed to Tsunami Democràtic “due to the seditious phenomenon” that took place in Catalonia and defended the competence of the National Court to investigate possible criminal acts, when committed. by “armed gangs and terrorist groups”.

“The seriousness of the facts allows us to reasonably sustain the provisional judgment according to which terrorism crimes have been committed,” emphasized the representative of the Public Ministry, in reference to the Tsunami case.

Legal sources explain that the department headed by Chief Prosecutor Jesús Alonso then rushed to describe the aforementioned report as an “error.”. There was nervousness. And, a lot, for what had been left in writing. The Public Ministry then verbally asked the Court led by García Castellón to leave the report with the classification for terrorism without effect and announced that another rectification report would be sent.. However, the prosecutor's report defending that it was a crime of terrorism was notified by the court to the parties involved in the procedure.

“A wrong transfer”

Days later, the Public Ministry's rectification arrived.. The correction report of the Prosecutor's Office is dated July 26 and was signed by the chief prosecutor of the National Court himself.. In it, Jesús Alonso explained that “the Public Prosecutor's Office is not really in a position, in view of the state of the procedure, to advance its criterion in an exhaustive and conclusive manner on whether or not the aforementioned inhibition is appropriate, without prejudice to the opinion issued on July 19, which is due to an erroneous transfer made by this Ministry, which is obligatory to state in view of subsequent developments in the procedure, without the prosecutor's actions being therefore able to be labeled as contradictory, and without “the qualification maintained in the aforementioned report is understood as definitive, which is therefore qualified in the sense expressed.”

The chief prosecutor of the National Court then justified the opinion of the Prosecutor's Office by pointing out that “effectively, the aforementioned opinion was issued, as has been said, erroneously because it was focused on whether or not to sustain the extension of the proceedings, which had been carried out. and maintained in a correct and adequate manner because, at this time, this judicial body is competent for its maintenance or withdrawal, so it was not appropriate to report on the inhibition in that process and only on the extension.”

The Prosecutor's Office then said that “to rule on the merits of the matter, that is, the inhibition of the proceedings before the Barcelona courts, it is necessary that the final joint executive report already requested be incorporated into the case (as well as other proceedings that are pending). if received), so it is the interest of this Central Court that once the set of requested proceedings is in the file, it be passed back to the report of this Public Ministry to issue a definitive ruling on jurisdiction and, where appropriate, inhibition of the proceedings to the corresponding courts of Barcelona”.

After receiving the report from the Civil Guard pointing to Puigdemont and Rovira, Judge Manuel García Castellón once again transferred it to the Public Prosecutor's Office.. Yesterday, the Prosecutor's Office led by Alonso rushed again but this time to announce that it will present a direct appeal before the Criminal Chamber to prevent the investigation of Puigdemont, Rovira and other former senior officials of the Government for terrorism crimes, which which would entail the loss of jurisdiction of the Court in favor of the courts of Barcelona.

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Real Sociedad eliminates Benfica in 20 minutes and sets foot in the round of 16

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Real Sociedad has become unattainable in Europe. Nothing hinders his flight, neither the weight of the Champions League stars nor the name of the rivals, whom he ruthlessly disarms before they can put him in trouble.. The people from San Sebastian do not walk like rookies, rather they show a nerve that in LaLiga, in the big events, has not been able to make a profit but that emerges in Europe. Like a steamroller, they overwhelmed Benfica in just 20 minutes to be able to get into a round of 16 that they had not reached for 20 years.. [Narrative and statistics]

Its effectiveness was extraordinary before the Portuguese could react. They tried, but when the game was overturned and overheated by a group of fans who dedicated themselves to creating a disturbance by throwing flares at the Reale Arena stands.

With three accurate shots they stunned the Portuguese champion, blurring a quarter-finalist team from the last Champions League.. Real likes explosive exits. Before the 10th minute, the duels against Inter, Salzburg and the visit to the Estadio da Luz were put into perspective.. Six minutes into an essential duel for the Portuguese team, Mikel Merino finished off a ball from Aihen in a play that was born from a corner and catalyzed by Kubo. Without recovering from the first blow, the second came five minutes later. The intensity of the pressure caused the error of Florentino, who, harassed when the ball was released, sought to lean behind Otamendi without appreciating that it was Oyarzabal who would benefit from his assistance to score the second.

The gale had broken. They annulled another goal from Merino because his shot, rebounded by goalkeeper Trubin, grazed his hand, but the cut to Neves and the right hand with Barrenetxea's seal was incontestable.. Benfica did not know how to stop a team that even hit the post with a penalty. Otamendi hunted Oyarzabal, but the shot was from Brais Méndez, who sought to be the first Spanish player to score in four consecutive games in the Champions League.

The Portuguese were grateful to arrive at half-time without any more weight in their backpack and reacted in the second half, which began with a goal from Rafa Silva. They poured into Remiro's goal, with more momentum than head while part of their fans threw flares onto the field.

Le Normand complains about the firing of flares. AFP

They had already been involved in altercations near the stadium and only managed to stun their own players.. Just with a long shot from Otamendi they tested the San Sebastian goalkeeper. La Real had understood the message and closed a match with which they made history.

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Masarova succumbs to Stakusic, 258th, in Spain's debut against Canada

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Absent Paula Badosa, who is expected next Friday against Poland, Anabel Medina chose as number two who corresponded by rank. Rebeka Masarova, 65th, made her debut at the Billie Jean King in singles. In theory, the player of Swiss origin had an affordable rival. Canadian Marina Stakusic. 258th, 18 years old, has been nourished until now by his presence in ITF tournaments, at the third level, and was also facing his first match with his country.

The status of host, in the La Cartuja stadium, was an unbearable weight for the Spanish, about whom nothing good can be written. Stakusic won 6-3 and 6-1, in one hour and nine minutes, creating a complicated situation for Spain from the beginning.

Finalist in Auckland at the beginning of the year, Masarova has had her best season on the circuit, after seeing her progression conditioned due to injuries. The Billie Jean King, however, was too big for him. He lost his serve in the fourth game and what could be considered an accident became the start of a match that was a real disaster.

Much more temperate, the roadmap was very clear, Stakusic did not feel any pressure. He enjoyed the opportunity to debut for his country and exhibited fresh tennis, much more solvent than that of his rival, who did have four doubles matches with Spain, two of them ending with victory.. Also erratic when converting break options, 0 out of 5, Masarova did not find a way to put several balls in a row on the court. The premiere ended like a real nightmare.

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Competition sanctions Mollejo with one match for celebrating a goal 'a la Rubiales' by touching his genitals

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The Competition Committee has suspended Real Zaragoza player Víctor Mollejo with a one-match suspension for celebrating a goal by touching his genitals, 'a la Rubiales', after scoring a goal in the match against Cartagena on September 10.

In its resolution, released this Wednesday, Competition agrees to “sanction Víctor Mollejo Carpintero, Real Zaragoza SAD player, for an infraction of article 126 of the RFEF Disciplinary Code, with a penalty of suspension for one match, with an accessory fine in the amount of 200 euros to the club and 600 to the offender, for the reported events that occurred during the match corresponding to matchday 5 of the Second Division National League Championship.”

Competition is protected by article 126 of the regulations of the Disciplinary Committee of the RFEF, which explains the sanctions for offensive gestures and ensures that “it is therefore appropriate to dismiss the allegations (from Real Zaragoza) contained in the letter of October 2, focused on “argue that celebrating the goal would not be offensive, since it is clear that it is a manifestly unacceptable and ribald gesture, which offends the most basic common sense of the community.”

It establishes that the sanction must be between one and three matches, but that, given the circumstances that arise, “it considers it pertinent to impose the sanction proposed by the Instructor, that is, suspension for one match.”

complaint letter

On September 12, two days after the match, LaLiga sent a written complaint to the Competition Committee and the Anti-Violence Commission regarding the gesture made by Mollejo.

LaLiga then pointed out that the match incident report reflected that “in the 90+1 minute of the match, the visiting Real Zaragoza player, number 20, Víctor Mollejo Carpintero, after scoring his team's third goal, and during the celebration of the himself, he grabs his genitals with both hands, and later repeats it again with one of them, a fact that was clearly seen by the spectators who attended the match, as well as by the viewers through the television broadcast of the match.”

He added that “this incident immediately had a great media impact through the media, which is reflected in the report attached to this complaint.”

Furthermore, it highlighted “that after the game and in the stadium itself, the player showed his regret by publicly stating that he had made a mistake.”. This appears in the aforementioned report that is attached.”

Mollejo wrote on social networks: “Apologize to all those people who have felt offended by that celebration. It is a gesture that, evidently, does not correspond to the education that I have. Now when I'm cold I regret it a lot and I wish I had changed it.”.

He added that “it was nothing significant nor was it directed at anyone.”. It's not an excuse, but it was nothing significant. “Apologize to everyone who was offended and say I'm sorry.”

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Xavi's anger, an unprecedented quadruple change and the final that awaits Barcelona: "One of the worst games I remember"

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An angry Xavi Hernández, something never seen before. This time there were no excuses: neither the rival, nor the refereeing, nor luck, not even the grass of the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg, a mistreated grass.. The Barcelona coach was angry, boy was he. So much so that in the defeat against Shakhtar Donestk this Tuesday (0-1) he did not hesitate to point out four of his players. Suddenly, in the 59th minute of the game, he replaced several starters at the same time to show his anger. Marcos Alonso, Oriol Romeu, Ferran Torres and Raphinha went to the bench, without further ado.. What happened?

“It was one of the worst games I remember, we are in a bad moment of the season. A low moment in terms of play, in terms of losing the ball, in terms of understanding how to attack…. regarding trust. There are some players who need to reset,” explained the Barça coach at a press conference, who just this week celebrated his second year in office.

During the match he already showed signs of his discomfort, such as with the quadruple substitution or at half-time, when he flew to the locker room to give instructions to his team on how to overcome Sikan's goal, but it was especially afterwards when he did not hide. “We have to get character, self-love and regain confidence. “Not long ago we were playing good football, now we are in a slump.”

Danger against Porto

Since the beginning of October, when they miraculously saved their visit to Porto in the Champions League or the match against Athletic in the League, Barcelona had already had problems, but the defeat against Real Madrid in the last classic brought down the mood of the team. Against Real Sociedad, with a bad game, they also won; This Tuesday against Shakhtar he did not have the same luck. In addition to the four substitutes, other leaders such as Lewandowski or Gündogan were named and now the Champions League is once again in danger.

To reach the round of 16, a minimum objective, an objective unattained in the last two seasons, Barcelona needs to win or, at least, draw against Porto at the Estadi Lluís Companys on November 28. If he falls, if he slips again, a victory against Antwerp on the last day could even be of no use to him, a dangerous scenario..

“We are angry, this cannot happen to us. Gündogan's words after the classic? Please stop asking us about it. He said what he said because he felt that way. He was right, we have to improve if we want to win,” declared Ter Stegen, in line with his coach.. After defeat, anger. An angry Xavi Hernández, something never seen before

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Álvaro Djaló, the late pearl that convinces De la Fuente: parents from Guinea-Bissau, childhood in Bilbao and interest from Athletic

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Álvaro Djaló (Madrid, 1999) debuted in the Portuguese First Division on February 12, just nine months ago. And he did it at the age of 23, an age that in this fast-paced football, with 17-year-old teenagers stepping on the grass of the elite, is almost not considered “young.”. But Djaló has gone from zero to a hundred like his football: fast, vertical, impulsive. Suddenly he is the star of Sporting de Braga, a Champions League team, he scored a goal against Real Madrid in the first leg of the group stage, they have renewed him until 2027, they have given him a termination clause of 20 million of euros, Athletic Club wants him and Luis de la Fuente, the national coach, has him on his list of favorites to go to Spain's next call-up. His story is like him: lightning.

His parents changed Guinea-Bissau for Spain before his birth and he came into the world in Vallecas, which he barely remembers because when he was very little his family moved to Bilbao.. In San Miguel de Basauri, on the outskirts of the big city, he grew up in life and in football. His group of friends is still there and visits them every summer, although now, installed in Europe's top football competition, it will be increasingly difficult for him.. The past vacations will have been the last of a certain tranquility if Álvaro confirms during the remainder of the season what he has promised at the beginning.

He has accumulated nine goals and three assists in 19 games and has become indisputable for Artur Jorge, the man to whom he owes his explosion in Braga. Until fate brought him together, nothing was clear in Djaló's football career.. He trained at Unión Deportiva San Miguel de Basauri and Sociedad Deportiva Begoña, but at the age of 17 and after offering himself and being rejected by Athletic, he decided to start from scratch in Portugal.. He did not go through any important youth academy until landing, almost on the rebound, at Sporting, and he has not been on the radar of the national team's lower categories either.. In Lezama they didn't want him, they say, because he was too short. A reason similar to the one they gave him at Benfica. And now, a matter of destiny, in San Mamés they pine for him.

Athletic's interest

Djaló is the cousin of Malcom Abdulai Ares Djaló, a red and white youth player who is already one of Ernesto Valverde's first team, and sounds like a luxury reinforcement for a Bilbao team that could lose Nico Williams in the short term, desired by the big clubs on the continent. Djaló's clause is 20 million, something that would fit Athletic's intentions, and the player has already made clear his desire to wear the shirt of the team of his life. “All my friends are from Athletic,” he acknowledged.. Despite being born in Madrid and not having gone through the Lezama youth academy, his case would fit into Athletic's philosophy.

The Basque club assures that “players who have come from its own quarry and those trained in clubs in Euskal Herria can play in its ranks, which includes the following territorial demarcations: Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa, Araba, Nafarroa, Lapurdi, Zuberoa and Nafarroa Behera”, so there would be no problem with Djaló, who has lived for more than a decade in Basauri.

His explosion, crowned with the goal against Madrid a couple of weeks ago, has not gone unnoticed in the Las Rozas Football City, where Luis de la Fuente has written his name on the list of options he manages for the calls prior to the next Euro Cup. The coach is attentive to all the profiles of fast footballers, with dribbling and vertical skills, characteristics that he sometimes lacks in his lineups.. In Norway, for example, Ansu and Ferran were starters on the wings and Pedraza ended up being disruptive from the bench. Hence the quick call to Bryan Zaragoza, the Granada winger.. Djaló, who could also play for Guinea-Bissau, has decided to play for Spain if they demand him: «I am aware that my family is from Guinea-Bissau, but I have never been to Guinea-Bissau, I don't know anything about it. I have to go there, but for now I want to play with the Spanish team,” the footballer declared in a recent interview. Today, against Madrid, new test.

INTERNATIONAL

The Israeli Army advances towards the center of Gaza and the Red Cross denounces the attack on a humanitarian convoy

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This morning, Israeli planes intensified attacks in the center of the Gaza Strip, causing several deaths and deaths in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.. During the night, some of the attacks have hit areas that were already destroyed, especially in the Shujaiya neighborhood of central Gaza.. Military experts indicated that the Israeli Army would be destroying specific streets to facilitate the advance of tanks towards the city center.. The troops are already less than a kilometer from the Al-Shifa hospital, where Israel believes the Hamas command center is hidden in tunnels.. Although the hospital administration has reiterated that it has no link with the militant group, in recent days Israeli attacks have reached the vicinity of the health center, where hundreds of wounded and refugees are staying.

During the day on Tuesday, Israel carried out a pause in its offensive, for about four hours, in which images of Palestinian civilians trying to flee on foot towards the south of the Strip were published.. Images published in the media reveal a line of civilians, many with white flags in their hands, others in wheelchairs or quite a few, fleeing the area with few belongings.

The Israeli Army announced the death of one of its soldiers in Gaza. Fighting and attacks during the ground invasion in the Strip have caused the death of 31 soldiers, while Hamas has not revealed the number of casualties in its ranks.. The Israeli Army claimed on its Telegram channel to have killed Mohsen Abu Zina, an “expert in the development of strategic weapons” of Hamas.. “During the night, troops also identified a terrorist cell that was planning to fire anti-tank missiles at forces. “The troops directed a plane that hit the cell and killed several terrorists,” the statement said.

On the other hand, the International Committee of the Red Cross denounced that a convoy of five trucks and two vehicles that entered Gaza with humanitarian aid was attacked by the Israeli Army, causing injuries to one of the drivers.. “These are not the conditions in which humanitarian personnel can work,” declared the head of the Red Cross in Gaza, Willian Schomburg.. “We are here to bring urgent assistance to civilians in need. “Ensuring that life-saving assistance can reach medical facilities is a legal obligation under international humanitarian law,” he said in a statement.

In addition to the lack of fuel, medical supplies and drinking water, there is a growing food crisis after a month of blockade in the Strip.. All bakeries in northern Gaza have closed due to lack of fuel, water and wheat flour, humanitarian organizations said.

Raids in the West Bank have increased in recent days. Last night there were police operations at the university of Ramallah and in Hebron, in which 47 Palestinians were arrested. Tension also increased on the border with Lebanon, after Israel increased attacks against positions of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah.. Israel claims it attacked the organization's warehouses and a group of fighters who tried to launch anti-tank missiles.

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Paolina Massidda: "Crimes continue to be committed with impunity in Venezuela"

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“As we speak in Venezuela, crimes continue to be committed with impunity,” Paolina Massidda, representative of the Public Defense Office for Victims of the International Criminal Court (ICC), closed her intervention.. The perfect culmination of two historic sessions, the public hearing before the Appeals Chamber of the ICC that must decide whether to continue the investigation against Nicolás Maduro, generals and collaborators in the crimes against humanity committed for years.

No exagera Massidda. Beyond the fact that at this moment 271 political prisoners remain in Maduro's dungeons, among them three women and a man with Spanish nationality, torture and abuse are the order of the day.. Only five prisoners have benefited so far from the Barbados Accords between the government and the opposition and with the United States as the instigator..

Among the latest violations of the revolution, the illegal detention 70 days ago and the torture applied to the Anthropology and Law student John Álvarez, 24, who was forced to record some videos against unionists who protest against the government, stand out.. The mistreatment has caused loss of vision, kidney failure and paralysis in one leg..

“The strategy adopted by the State is absurd for an international court, based on the fact that it is a sovereign country to investigate and that it is doing so.. The Prosecutor's Office asked them if they were investigating 63 specific cases and they said that they had 15 officials convicted, all of them of low hierarchy and, what is more important, the investigation was not for crimes against humanity,” Alfredo Romero summarized for EL MUNDO, president of Foro Penal, an organization that defends a good part of Venezuelan political prisoners.

In fact, Massidda introduced in his argument the content of a letter sent to the ICC by the Penal Forum, which demonstrates that in Venezuela there are no laws that regulate the Rome Statute.. “This is very solid and irrefutable: it cannot be investigated because there is no law,” Romero stated..

Since an obstacle course in search of justice began in 2018, this is the first time they have seen each other in court. And two very expensive lawyers have stood out on the Chavista bench: the famous English lawyer Ben Emmerson, protagonist of such renowned cases as the defense of the spiritual leader of Al Qaeda in Europe and of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks activist, and, in the background , the Spanish Aitor Martínez Jiménez, belonging to the office of former judge Baltasar Garzón.

Emmerson, who wanted to justify his fame with arrogance but with very weak arguments, has also defended Carlos Puigdemont and other leaders of the independence movement before the United Nations, such as Oriol Junqueras and the Jordis, Cuixart and Sánchez.

Garzón, for his part, is one of Maduro's favorite lawyers.. The former Spanish judge has defended the Colombian tycoon Alex Saab, figurehead of the “people's president” currently imprisoned in the US and has also participated in Spanish courts in the lawsuit filed by Nicolasito Maduro, son of the Chavista dictator, against human rights defender Tamara Suju.

Today he has become one of the stars of the Puebla Group, which brings together populist, revolutionary, leftist or progressive leaders from Latin America with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Garzón recently visited Caracas with his partner, the former Minister of Justice Dolores Delgado. They were both seen at the Humboldt Hotel at the top of Ávila, today converted into the most emblematic place of the millionaire bubble for plugged-ins created by the revolution.

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The Labor leader resigns for the first time in his shadow government for refusing to support the ceasefire in Gaza

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British Labor opposition leader Keir Starmer has made the first resignation of his 'shadow government' team for refusing to support a “ceasefire” in Gaza. Imram Hussain, 45, MP for Brafrod, has resigned from his position as head of workers' rights.

Hussain alleges disagreements with his leader over Israel's military offensive, which has caused more than 10,000 deaths in response to Hamas terrorist attacks that caused 1,400 deaths. Starmer has to date supported a “humanitarian pause”, but has opposed the “ceasefire” on the grounds that Hamas would not respect it..

More than 20 Labor councilors have resigned in recent weeks and have criticized “the lack of empathy and humanity” of their leader, who went so far as to justify in a radio interview the water and electricity cuts in Gaza as part of the “right to “self-defense” of Israel.

Last Friday, Starmer attempted to amend the plan by citing the need to “alleviate the suffering” of the civilian population and recognizing that Gaza “desperately needs faster humanitarian aid.”. The Labor Foreign Affairs spokesman, David Lammy, has gone further this week and urged Israel to take measures to avoid “the humanitarian catastrophe.”

MP Imram Hussain however decided to break the bank on Wednesday and resign from his position in the “front row” of the Labor Party, although he retains his seat.. “I want to be able to firmly defend the ceasefire, which is what the UN Secretary General has called for,” he wrote in his resignation letter to Starmer.

“In recent weeks, it has become clear that my view of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza differs substantially from the position you have taken,” Hussain alleged.. “A ceasefire is essential to end the bloodbath, to ensure the entry of humanitarian aid and to guarantee the release of Israeli hostages.”

The Labor MP Zarah Sultana has presented an amendment in the debate on the King's Speech demanding a ceasefire.. Several MPs from six parties (including at least 14 Labour) announced their intention to back the amendment.

“A humanitarian pause is not an acceptable response to the thousands of men, women and children who are dying,” said Senior Minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Humza Yousaf.. “An immediate ceasefire is the only way to alleviate the suffering of innocent people. “The international community should step forward and put itself on the right side of history right now.”

Yousaf, married to a woman of Palestinian origin, Nadia Maged El-Nakla, has become the most prominent voice in the United Kingdom against the extent of Israeli military retaliation. Her in-laws, Elizabeth and Maged El-Nakla, who were visiting their relatives in Gaza, experienced the bombings very closely and managed to escape through the Rafah border crossing this week.

“I had never seen my father-in-law cry like that,” Yousaf confessed. “He is totally traumatized. They have had to say goodbye to his mother, his son and his grandchildren, including the youngest who is only three months old.”

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Israel remembers the 7-O attack and fights in the heart of Gaza

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In parallel with the commemoration events of the month of the attack by the jihadist group Hamas to remember the 1,400 dead and request the release of the 240 kidnapped, Israel carried out attacks and combats in Gaza. From this city, in the north of the Palestinian strip, thousands of inhabitants left this Tuesday towards the south in a war that seems to have no end in sight.

“A month ago, in a shocking murderous massacre, Hamas attacked us and beat us severely. On that terrible day, we did not accomplish our mission,” admitted the head of the Southern Command, Yaron Finkelman, alluding to the greatest failure in the history of the Israeli Army before lifting some of the secrecy around the location of its ground forces: “For For the first time in decades, the Army is fighting in the heart of Gaza City. In the heart of terror.”

For some soldiers it is also a personal mission. Like the reservist captain who blew up a tunnel found in northern Beit Janun remembering his uncle, Ofir Lipstein, a well-known community leader who died trying to stop terrorists a month ago in southern Israel. “Ofir used to say that the towns near the Gaza Strip were 95% paradise and 5% hell (in reference to the Palestinian shells). “I want, not as an act of revenge but of defense of the nation, to dedicate this explosion as one of the efforts to return 100% paradise to our populations.”

Israel attacked a Palestinian command near Al Quds Hospital which, according to the Army, “caused major secondary explosions indicating the presence of a Hamas weapons depot in a civilian area” while Hamas accused the Air Force of “indiscriminate attacks”. The Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, conditioned the humanitarian truce on the release of the hostages and assured that one of the objectives of the war is “the liquidation of the terrorist leadership including Yahia Sinwar” without specifying whether he believes that the Hamas leader is located in a bunker in Gaza that, due to its tunnels, he defines as “the largest terrorist base ever built.”

The armed wing of Hamas asked “not to believe Zionist propaganda” and boasted of damaging the advance of the Israeli Army, causing it “great losses”. The militiamen trust in the effectiveness of the tunnels distributed for several hundred kilometers to surprise and hit the enemy forces – who fight with the help of the Air Force – while waiting for some type of truce as a result of international pressure or the hostage negotiation.

Those who do not have tunnels and bunkers in Gaza are its inhabitants under incessant bombardments. Many of them left the city and crossed the Wadi Gaza line in search of a safer place in the south.. It is estimated that more than 200,000 Palestinians remain in the north while several Palestinian NGOs put the number of internally displaced people at 65% of the population.

“We are human beings. What have they done to us! May Allah take revenge on those responsible,” a Palestinian demanded to Arab media, forming part of a long line that left the Gazan neighborhood of Zeitun, some with white flags, through the corridor established by the Israeli Army on the Salah Al Din highway to let them come to the south. The Hamas Government asked not to disseminate these images of inhabitants leaving Gaza and in which Israeli tanks are seen deployed to prevent the militants from avoiding the evacuation.

According to the Hamas Health Ministry, 10,328 Palestinians have been killed, mostly civilians, in Israeli bombings since the start of the war 32 days ago.. Among them, 160 health workers when they were caring for the injured and sick, according to the World Health Organization, which after reporting the arrival of its aid trucks clarified that it was not enough to meet the needs.. “The population is exhausted and the lifeguards are practically helpless.”. In the face of the catastrophe, a ceasefire is a matter of vital urgency,” asks the director of Doctors Without Borders, Claire Magone.

The day after in Gaza

The consensus in Israel on the need for the military operation to put an end to the armed wing and regime of Hamas and to free those kidnapped “in a war imposed on 7-O” extends to the rejection of the occupation of the Gaza Strip after withdrawing ago. 18 years. The Israeli leadership told the US that it rules out two post-war scenarios: the control and presence of both Hamas and Israel.

“I believe that Israel should have general responsibility for security for an indefinite period of time because we have seen what happens when we do not have it.”. “When we do not have this security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale we could not imagine,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview on ABC television.. Asked about the high number of civilian deaths in Gaza, he questioned the credibility of the balance, adding that among them “there are thousands of terrorists.”

The leader of the opposition, Yair Lapid, is betting on the return of the Palestinian National Authority to Gaza from which it was expelled by Hamas in 2007. But Palestinian President Abu Mazen, already heavily criticized by Islamists for this possibility, does not want to be seen as returning thanks to the tanks of the common enemy and calling for a general solution for the Palestinian people.. The veteran leader, who accuses Israel of “war crimes in Gaza,” had in the past denounced Hamas for its actions in Gaza, such as hiding in the Shifa Hospital.

“For those who think that Hamas will disappear, Hamas will remain anchored in the conscience (…) of our people, and no force on Earth will be able to annihilate or marginalize it,” warned the Palestinian Islamist leader in Lebanon Ossama Hamdan. And he added in a triple message to Ramallah, Jerusalem and Washington: “Our people will not allow the United States to impose its plans to create an administration that suits them and the occupation and our people will not accept a new Vichy government.”

7-0 memory

With half a million reservists mobilized and citizens displaced, Israel remembered this Tuesday the largest terrorist attack in its history that occurred a month ago. The request for the release of the 240 kidnapped people, who include 38 children (including a 10-month-old baby), women and the elderly, was expressed in prayers at the Wailing Wall and in their photos displayed on the Walls and Parliament of Jerusalem. and in the Tel Aviv Museum. This city in the heart of Israel fell into darkness, once again, with the sound of sirens before bursts of projectiles announced by the armed wing of Hamas as a “response to the massacres in Gaza.”