The German far-right has gained positions in the regional elections of Bavaria and Hesse. It is already the second political force in both federated states, although the stories surrounding its leaders – and not only that – smell like singeing.. Let's see.

Days before the appointment with the polls last Sunday, spokespersons for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) announced that its co-president, Alice Weidel, would not be able to attend the closing rally in Hesse for security reasons.. Weidel, who temporarily resides with her family in Switzerland, had to be transferred to a safe house, where she would have to remain hidden until further notice.. From that safe place, Weidel sent a video message to the rally participants: “I would like nothing more than to be with you today, but unfortunately I cannot.”

Once the alarm was unleashed, the Federal Criminal Police Office, responsible for the personal protection of politicians, declared that the cancellation of Weidel's participation in the event in question “was neither instigated nor recommended.”. Furthermore, the agency could not “provide any information about tactical measures or moments of danger”, meaning it did not know what the AfD was talking about.. The German press went to work to discover Weidel's whereabouts, and the weekly Spiegel found her.. But not in a safe house, but in the sun, on the terrace of a restaurant in Mallorca. She was caught red-handed with his wife and the couple's two children. And what the AfD spokespersons said from then on was a tongue-twister.

Weidel went to Mallorca to “get away from that dangerous situation”. And there he stayed to spend the German Unity Day of October 3. Explanation: After the event, which apparently occurred on September 23, Weidel, his partner and the children “followed the recommendation to spend some time outside their family environment, as he was an alleged target of the attack,” he declared.. Swiss police confirmed that several officers went to Weidel's home in Schwyz, in the center of the country, but did not offer further details.

Let everyone think what they want, but “the fact is that 14 days ago, my apartment was evacuated along with my family by an anti-terrorist unit and they took me to a safe environment,” Weidel declared.. The incident was “traumatizing” for the entire family, he explained.

And while Weidel was recovering from the scare in Mallorca, his better half in the party presidency, Tino Chrupalla – you have to have a bad temper – was the victim of an attack at a campaign event in Ingolstadt. The AfD reported that its leader had to be rushed to hospital and admitted to intensive care. There was talk of an assault with a knife, after a puncture.

The medical report revealed redness and superficial swelling of the upper part of the right arm, a probable puncture from an intramuscular injection whose effects were “dizziness with nausea and headache with a pre-collapse event after unexplained poisoning.”. However, the report also revealed that in the toxicological examinations carried out “no substance was detected” that indicated intoxication or poisoning.

The Ingolstadt Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into the incident for suspicion of bodily injury, but has not found witnesses to confirm the assault.

Chrupalla, for his part, has left the hospital.

Turkey and Russia, which support opposing factions in the Syrian war, have intensified bombing in recent days in the north of the country, coinciding with the attack by the Islamist group Hamas in Israel and its response in Gaza. The Bashar al Assad regime and its main ally on the ground, Russia, have bombed the Syrian province of Idlib since last Thursday, causing at least 42 civilian deaths, 12 of them minors.. This is the largest attack in this territory since 2019.

Idlib is the last province dominated by opponents of Damascus and is under the control of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), a militia formerly allied with Al Qaeda, which split from the jihadist group after it renounced terrorist attacks as a means of combat. Apart from the militias, more than two million civilians also live in this area, most of them displaced from other parts of the country, who survive in very precarious conditions due to the attacks and blockade of the regime but also due to the economic crisis suffered by the country. country.

According to Syria's Emergency Response Coordinator, Mohammed Hallaj, the Syrian army and Russia carried out attacks “from ground and air against 61 civilian settlements within the borders of Idlib.”. Hallaj assured that weapons prohibited by international law were used, causing the death of 42 civilians and wounding more than 200.. The bombing has displaced thousands of people north towards the border with Turkey, being the largest attack since Ankara, which supports Syrian militias opposed to Assad, and Moscow signed a new ceasefire at the end of 2019.

“Regime forces have launched artillery against public administration buildings, hospitals, markets, schools and parks throughout the Idlib region,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), based in London but with researchers deployed on the terrain. Among the buildings hit is the largest hospital in the province. “These attacks will only worsen the very serious humanitarian situation in northwest Syria, where more than four million people depend on international aid to survive,” said the NGO Care, which works together with the United Nations in this territory.. The attack comes days after a Syrian army military academy in Homs was bombed, killing eleven soldiers.. Damascus attributes the attack to opposition forces but at the moment it has not been claimed by any group.

For its part, Turkey has intensified bombings against Syrian Kurdish militias in territories near its border.. The Turkish Government considers these militias “terrorist groups” affiliated with the Kurdish guerrilla operating in Turkey, the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).. The Turkish Government assures that the attacks are a response to the suicide attack that took place in Ankara on October 1, coinciding with the restart of legislative activity in the Turkish Parliament after the summer. The attack was claimed by the PKK, but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan assures that the perpetrators of the coup came from Syria. The Turkish leader threatened a new military offensive in the north of the neighboring country to create a 30-kilometer-deep pocket along the border with Turkey, which would be under the control of Ankara.

It is not the first time that Erdogan threatens a new military incursion into Syria, it would already be the fifth in the last five years, although Turkish defense experts believe that for the moment it will not happen.. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan warned that “all PKK infrastructure and energy facilities in Syria and also in Iraq are now legitimate targets” for the Turkish army.

“I advise third parties to stay away from PKK facilities,” referring to the US, Russian and Syrian troops deployed in the northwest of the country.. Turkish drone strikes have killed eleven militants of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militias in the Syrian regions of Hasakah and Qamishli. Last Thursday, there were fears of an escalation of tension after the United States shot down an armed drone, supposedly of Turkish origin, that came within 500 meters of its troops.. However, Ankara noted that the drone was not its property, although it did not detail who it belonged to.

As the days go by and the bodies are found and identified despite the fighting that is still taking place in the south of Israel, the testimonies of the survivors of the jihadist “Black Saturday” multiply.. The date that entered the calendar with blood, bullets and knives to be remembered and mourned in the 21 agricultural groups bordering the Gaza Strip.

Precisely, the largest terrorist attack in the history of Israel occurred in the fiefdom of the left in favor of a commitment to peace with the Palestinians in general and coexistence with the Gazan neighbors in particular.

Although beyond the possible political consequences, especially in the new generations, what now dominates is the shock of the horror. For example, at Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Armed with kalashnikovs, machetes, grenades and the green ribbon of loyalty to their group and the jihad (holy war), 70 members of the armed wing of Hamas, arriving from a strip located just two kilometers away, broke into this pastoral group and forced it to suffer its most shocking moment since its creation in 1951. One of the first to fall in combat with the attackers was one of the people in charge of the enclave who intervened in the armed clash as the first and improvised line of containment. Many others were gunned down in their homes.. Some in their beds. Others in their cribs.

“Hamas barbarians massacred 40 children. “Israel will honor each of the victims of these atrocious jihadist terrorist attacks,” Israeli sources say.

Accompanying a group of foreign journalists on the first day that the kibbutz opened its doors after three days of blood, silence and uncertainty, the officer Itai Veruv assured, as quoted by Reuters: “You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers , in their bedrooms, in rooms where they tried to take shelter and how the terrorists murdered them.”

He later stressed that “it was not a battlefield but a kibbutz.”. “It's a terrorist massacre.”. According to various information, there were also beheadings, although EL MUNDO has not been able to officially confirm such savagery.

The soldiers have been on a double mission for several days: “cleaning” the area of militiamen and finding survivors and bodies. Along the way, cars and houses that the attackers set on fire to provoke the departure of those who would be their victims.. There are cases of Israelis who remained hidden for two days in the sealed and armored room waiting for the soldiers to arrive while listening to the terrorists at a short distance.. 33 members of the kibbutz were on vacation in Bulgaria so they saved their lives but lost their children, grandchildren and friends.

“Hamas has broken all red lines. It is inconceivable what has happened so the State and the Army must sign a new contract with us. We will not return to the kibbutzim as long as there are terrorists in Gaza,” said Haim Yelin.

Members of Zaka, in charge of finding human remains so they can be buried and honored by their relatives, found dozens of bodies in a kibbutz that will take years to recover.. His work continued tonight house to house in other groups.

On Sunday, a day after the massacre, a resident of Kfar Aza sent the following message: “There are still terrorists in the kibbutz! They shoot at the stairs, they hide on the roofs, some are even still in houses with hostages”. The Army and YAMAM (elite police unit in charge of fighting terrorism) had a lot of work this weekend in the kibbutzim. Several dozen paid with their lives in clashes lasting several hours with militiamen who, for their part, were filming their “conquests”. According to official sources cited by Channel 13, “there are about 1,500 bodies of terrorists in our territory who died during their attacks”. Several dozen were arrested.

“What they have done is typical of the Nazis or the terrorists of Daesh (ISIS),” some testimonies, media and leaders affirm with language that reflects not only the shock of the events but the demand for an unprecedented military response.

“It's Daesh from Gaza. There is no. We take off the gloves. We will eliminate Hamas. “Israel cannot allow its children to be murdered,” said Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, admitting that the offensive “may take months.” The pain in Kfar Aza will last longer.

The German far-right has gained positions in the regional elections of Bavaria and Hesse. It is already the second political force in both federated states, although the stories surrounding its leaders – and not only that – smell like singeing.. Let's see.

Days before the appointment with the polls last Sunday, spokespersons for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) announced that its co-president, Alice Weidel, would not be able to attend the closing rally in Hesse for security reasons.. Weidel, who temporarily resides with her family in Switzerland, had to be transferred to a safe house, where she would have to remain hidden until further notice.. From that safe place, Weidel sent a video message to the rally participants: “I would like nothing more than to be with you today, but unfortunately I cannot.”

Once the alarm was unleashed, the Federal Criminal Police Office, responsible for the personal protection of politicians, declared that the cancellation of Weidel's participation in the event in question “was neither instigated nor recommended.”. Furthermore, the agency could not “provide any information about tactical measures or moments of danger”, meaning it did not know what the AfD was talking about.. The German press went to work to discover Weidel's whereabouts, and the weekly Spiegel found her.. But not in a safe house, but in the sun, on the terrace of a restaurant in Mallorca. She was caught red-handed with his wife and the couple's two children. And what the AfD spokespersons said from then on was a tongue twister.

Weidel went to Mallorca to “get away from that dangerous situation”. And there he stayed to spend the German Unity Day of October 3. Explanation: After the event, which apparently occurred on September 23, Weidel, his partner and the children “followed the recommendation to spend some time outside their family environment, as he was an alleged target of the attack,” he declared.. Swiss police confirmed that several officers went to Weidel's home in Schwyz, in the center of the country, but did not offer further details.

Let everyone think what they want, but “the fact is that 14 days ago, my apartment was evacuated along with my family by an anti-terrorist unit and they took me to a safe environment,” Weidel declared.. The incident was “traumatizing” for the entire family, he explained.

And while Weidel was recovering from the scare in Mallorca, his better half in the party presidency, Tino Chrupalla – you have to have a bad temper – was the victim of an attack at a campaign event in Ingolstadt. The AfD reported that its leader had to be rushed to hospital and admitted to intensive care. There was talk of an assault with a knife, after a puncture.

The medical report revealed redness and superficial swelling of the upper part of the right arm, a probable puncture from an intramuscular injection whose effects were “dizziness with nausea and headache with a pre-collapse event after unexplained poisoning.”. However, the report also revealed that in the toxicological examinations carried out “no substance” was detected that indicated intoxication or poisoning.

The Ingolstadt Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into the incident for suspicion of bodily injury, but has not found witnesses to confirm the assault.

Chrupalla, for his part, has left the hospital.

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has reaffirmed his unconditional support for Israel after the “sickening atrocities” committed by Hamas in Israeli territory last Saturday, with a partial toll of 900 dead. “We must be crystal clear at this moment: we are with Israel,” said the Democratic president in a speech to the nation, supporting the right of Israelis to defend themselves and respond after the massacres perpetrated in the south of the country.

Flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Biden has shown his willingness to send additional aid to the conflict zone after holding a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.. “We will ensure that Israel has sufficient resources to defend itself,” he indicated, for which he hopes to have the support of a Congress paralyzed at this time after the departure of the leader of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy.

In addition, the president has confirmed the death of 14 Americans, three more than previously known, and an unknown number of those kidnapped by radical Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip.. “This is terrorism,” he said, describing the killings of entire families, the rapes perpetrated by attackers and the kidnapping of Holocaust survivors in a “violation of any code of human morality”; It is “pure, unadulterated evil,” he stressed.

As expected, Biden has not called for a cessation of hostilities, nor has he advised that Israeli forces stop the attacks in the Gaza Strip that have already left almost a thousand dead in three days of bombing.. In the previous conversation with Netanyahu he discussed the possible incursion of Israeli troops into Palestinian territory.. “We are not urging that they be restricted right now,” said a US government official quoted by CNN in relation to the call.

For Biden, Hamas has shown no interest in defending the interests of the Palestinian people, using civilians “as human shields”. The brutality of the massacre perpetrated by radical Islamists – described as an “ISIS-style” carnage – appears to have left the former senator little room for maneuver when it came to calling for a ceasefire.. In the background are the 14 American deaths caused by the crisis and which could increase. Adrienne Neta, 66, is one of them. Her eldest son, Nahar Neta, explained in a press conference on Tuesday that her mother was on the phone with her minutes before she disappeared.

“Both my brother and sister were talking to her when the terrorists broke into her house and we heard some screams. That was our last contact with her,” said Neta.. “Our hope, somewhat ridiculous at this point, is that she is kidnapped and not dead in the kibbutz where we grew up,” he said through tears, asking Blinken, head of US diplomacy, to bring back American citizens “healthy.” and saved. “We expect nothing less.”

Rachel Goldberg also has not heard from her 23-year-old son, Hersch Golberg-Polin, since Saturday. It is known that he was at the music festival in the south of the country where hundreds of young people died on Saturday, but he has not received texts or communications from him since then.. The family moved to Jerusalem in 2008 from California.

Jake Sullivan, White House security advisor, put the number of Americans missing after the attacks at around twenty.. “We don't know how many of them are kidnapped,” he said, in an unprecedented crisis in the Middle East region..