The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, assured this Saturday that Israel will take “security control” of the Gaza Strip when the war ends and Hamas is eliminated, and rejected that it is the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) that will assume that role. as the United States, its main ally, has suggested.

“Among friends you have to tell the truth and not create illusions, even more so in an existential question like this. I repeat to our friends: after the elimination of Hamas, the Gaza Strip will be demilitarized, it will be under the security control of Israel and there will be no factor in it that threatens us, nor that raises its children to destroy us,” Netanyahu said in a message addressed to the United States about the possible role of the ANP in the future of the enclave.

The US administration of Joe Biden insisted to the Netanyahu government that they must think about who will govern the Strip when the war ends, and has rejected Israel's resumption of the policy of settler settlements in the enclave, which it dismantled in 2005.

The US security advisor, Jake Sullivan, visited Israel and the West Bank this week, and asserted that the ANP must be strengthened to be able to assume the task of governing the Gaza Strip, where Hamas took power in 2007, when the war ends. expelled the ANP, controlled by President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah party.

“I will not allow us to replace Hamastan with Fatahstan, let's replace Khan Younis with Jenin” – the focus of violence in the West Bank and a bastion of armed militias – Netanyahu said.

“I will not let the State of Israel repeat the fatal mistake of Oslo, which brought to the heart of our country and Gaza the most extremist elements of the Arab world, committed to the annihilation of the State of Israel and who educate their children with that end,” he added,

Netanyahu insisted that this is not a debate between whether Hamas or Fatah should govern, since “both seek the elimination of the State of Israel,” and criticized the ANP for not having condemned the massacre of the Islamist group on Israeli soil on the 7th. October.

“So they will govern Gaza the 'day after'? Have we learned nothing? As Prime Minister of Israel, I will not allow this to happen,” he stressed.

The prime minister addressed the citizens of Israel to warn them about the war that “victory will take time, but it will continue to the end.”

“Despite the enormous pain, despite the pain that tears our hearts, despite international pressure, we continue until the end. “Nothing will stop us until we achieve victory,” he said.

The prime minister referred to the “terrible tragedy” that occurred on Friday, when the Israeli Army mistakenly killed three hostages, whom it mistook as members of Hamas in fighting in Shujaiya; in the same week in which he found the bodies of five other captives inside the Strip.

The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) called this Saturday for an international investigation after receiving information that the Israeli Army “buried alive” several people in Gaza.

The Palestinian Minister of Health, May Al-Kaila, explained in a statement that according to this information, this event occurred in the courtyard of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the north of the Strip.

“Testimonies from citizens, medical teams and the media indicate that during the occupation, Israel buried citizens alive in the courtyard,” he stressed.

“The world must take serious measures to uncover the circumstances and neither tolerate nor remain silent in the face of information coming from the Strip,” he added in the statement.

May Al-Kaila reported that wounded people who were in this hospital in the Gazan city of Beit Lahia were taken outside despite “the extreme cold” and medical personnel were attacked.

Israeli forces have been besieging this hospital, one of the few medical centers that were operational in the north of the Palestinian enclave, for eight days.

Dozens of people were killed this morning local time, and many others were injured, as a result of continuous Israeli bombings over most of the territory of the Gaza Strip, according to the official Palestinian agency Wafa.

On September 7, the Islamist group Hamas launched an attack against Israel, with the infiltration of more than 3,000 militiamen and the launching of some 4,000 rockets, in which there were more than 1,200 dead and nearly 240 kidnapped who were taken to Gaza.

Israel declared a state of war and launched a military offensive by land, sea and air on the Palestinian enclave, with more than 18,800 dead and more than 51,000 injured according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health.

The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, told the president of the social network popularly known as Twitter, now called X, this Saturday that it is very useful for him to confront the so-called cancel culture.

As reported by Vox, Abascal and Musk coincided at the annual event that the Brothers of Italy group organizes, 'Atreju', in which the North American businessman intervened on Saturday morning and the Spanish political leader will do so on Sunday.

Abascal, according to the testimony of sources from his party, conveyed to Musk the importance he attaches to X for freedom of expression, because it allows combating the ideological cancellation of 'woke' culture and is a very useful tool for Vox. The president of the social network, always according to Vox, already knew the Spanish politician because he saw him in an interview that he found “very interesting.”

This statement from Vox has taken place after a week in which Abascal has received a multitude of criticism for stating from Argentina that “there will be a time when the people want to hang Pedro Sánchez by his feet.”

Last Wednesday, the Socialist Party formalized the complaint against Vox and its president before the Prosecutor's Office for their “clear direct incitement to hatred and discrimination.”. However, Abascal stands by his words. “I don't have to apologize, it's a colloquial expression of the Spanish language,” he said last Thursday on Telecinco.

Apart from the meeting with Musk, in recent weeks, the leader of Vox has traveled to Israel at the invitation of Benjamin Netanyahu and has been able to meet with Milei in Argentina. In addition, American journalist Tucker Carlson visited Spain to interview Abascal and learn more about Ferraz's protests.

The Government of Israel approved this Friday the entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing, which would thus be added to the assistance delivered for several weeks through the Rafah crossing, on the border between Egypt. and the Palestinian enclave. According to information collected by Israeli media, the trucks will be subjected to inspection on the Israeli side of the crossing, after which they will go to a complex located about 70 meters from the border, where they will unload the goods before returning to Israeli territory.

In this way, trucks will be able to pass from Egypt to the Kerem Shalom pass, crossing Israeli territory, a decision that has already been criticized by some ministers, including the head of the National Security portfolio, the far-right Itamar Ben Gvir. . Likewise, the leader of the Yisrael Beitenu opposition party, Avigdor Lieberman, has spoken of a “shameful” vote and has pointed out that “it is a moral, political and security bankruptcy.”. Lieberman recalled that the pass was attacked by “the human monsters” of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) during the October 7 attacks.

The Israeli Parliament, for its part, has also given its approval to the reopening of the crossing. This was announced by the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shortly after the United States National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, concluded his visit to Israel.. The president has indicated that Israel committed last month during the truce agreed with Hamas to allow the entry of some 200 trucks of humanitarian aid daily.

“To comply with this agreement, today the Cabinet has approved the entry of trucks into Gaza on the other side of the Kerem Shalom crossing,” the Government previously indicated in a statement in which it did not offer further details on the matter. The United States Government has applauded the decision and has stressed that the president of the North American country, Joe Biden, had previously raised the matter with the Israeli authorities, to whom he had requested its reopening.. “This was an important issue that the president had addressed with Netanyahu in a telephone conversation,” Sullivan said.

Currently, the Rafah border crossing is the only one open to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza. Israel imposed a total blockade against the Strip after the attacks carried out on October 7 by Hamas, which left nearly 1,200 dead and some 240 kidnapped.. In response, Israel launched an offensive against the enclave that has so far left nearly 18,800 dead, and prevented the delivery of food, fuel, medicine and other goods.

This has been criticized repeatedly by the UN. The last of them was this Friday. “It is very clear that the 2.3 million inhabitants of Gaza have been under a total siege, hermetically sealed and locked within a small strip of land for the last two months, and before that as well,” said the director of health emergencies of the World Health Organization (WHO), Mike Ryan. “Right now we cannot do our work because we are blocked and prevented from doing so.”. We have restrictions on who we can have in the country and a huge access problem due to insecurity,” he explained.

Despite this, the WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Peeperkorn, welcomed the news of the opening of the new border crossing.. “I think now we need to make sure that the trucks carrying aid can go to all places in Gaza and not only to the south, but also to the north,” he said.

Rockets fired at Jerusalem

In the last few hours, at least 63 people have died in bombings in Beit Lahia, Jabalia, Khan Yunis or Rafah; while heavy fighting against Hamas continues in Shujaiya, on the outskirts of Gaza City, where Israeli troops search for hostages. The Israeli Army has claimed to have destroyed a Hamas command post there, “the control center of the Shujaiya Battalion” of the Islamist group, in an operation with aviation, tanks and ground troops.

On the other hand, this Friday Israel declared in Jerusalem the first rocket alert from Palestinian militias in Gaza since October 16, during the first days of the war with Hamas. “After 70 days of constant rocket fire against the entire country, the sirens sound in Jerusalem, when Shabbat arrives,” the mandatory rest for Jews, the Israeli Army has announced on its X social network account.

At the moment there is no evidence of damage in these attacks, which have already been attributed to the Ezzeldin al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, according to a statement collected by the Times of Israel.

The European Commission will unblock “before Christmas” the funds planned for the Palestinian Authority that were suspended after the terrorist attack by the Islamist movement Hamas against Israel on October 7, indicated this Friday the high community representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell.

“In a few days the Commission will unlock the funds to the Palestinian Authority that have been unlocked since October and the payment will be made before Christmas,” Borrell said in a conversation with a group of media.

In the wake of the Hamas attacks, the European Commission decided to carry out an audit of the financing with which it supports the Palestinians – apart from humanitarian aid, which was not affected by the blockade – to determine if it was diverted in any way. to support terrorism, extremism or anti-Semitism.

The Commission reviewed aid worth €691 million between 2021 and 2023 planned for the Palestinian Authority, the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA), as well as other NGOs, and for assistance projects to the population. The conclusion of the study was that the funds do not contribute to fueling terrorism or extremism.

In Brussels there is growing concern about the situation not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank and the EU Council (the countries) is already working on possible sanctions against Israeli settlers responsible for carrying out violence against Palestinians in that area.

Borrell warned that tens of thousands of Palestinians have lost their jobs and have no income, while 300,000 families have lost jobs that depended on the Israeli economy.

“The economic crisis in the West Bank is one of the reasons to be concerned, not only because of the explosion of violence but also because of the destruction of homes,” he commented, and warned of the “deep economic crisis” that affects young Palestinians. .

At the summit of EU leaders that concluded today, a “strategic debate” was held on the situation in Gaza but no conclusions were adopted, which need the consensus of all countries.

The Twenty-Seven maintain a division of opinions, particularly on the need for a ceasefire in the Strip, as was proven in the last vote in the UN General Assembly, in which 17 member states voted in favor of this measure but two did not. They were against it and the rest abstained.

The resolution, which is not binding, passed by an overwhelming majority. In any case, Borrell made it clear that “concern about the high number of civilian victims” is common.

The displacement of A23a, the world's largest iceberg, from the Weddell Sea into the waters of the Antarctic Ocean has caused a stir around the world.. This mass of ice, which weighs almost a trillion tons, separated from the Antarctic coast 37 years ago and subsequently settled in the Weddell Sea, becoming an 'ice island'.. In 2020, scientists detected that the iceberg began to move, but in recent months this movement has accelerated with the help of winds and ocean currents, as reported by the BBC.. Faced with these facts, people wonder the reasons why the iceberg has moved and the consequences it could have.

Colossal dimensions

As reported by the aforementioned British media, the iceberg has a surface area of 3,900 square kilometers, which means that it is twice as large as Tenerife and approximately the same size as Mallorca.. It has a volume of 1,100 cubic kilometers and a mass of almost a billion tons.. Its thickness is about 280 meters. However, it should be noted that this block of ice is not uniform, so some parts are thicker than others.

Why has it moved?

Apparently, the reasons behind the iceberg's movement have nothing to do with a change in temperature in the waters.. As Andrew Fleming, a remote sensing expert at the British Antarctic Survey research center, told the BBC, after consulting with his colleagues about the reason why the iceberg is moving, he came to the conclusion that “the time had simply come.”

Probable final destination

Like the rest of the icebergs located in this area, “A23a is likely to be dragged by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current towards 'iceberg alley',” indicates the British Antarctic Survey center on its website.. This means that it will probably continue heading towards the subantarctic island of South Georgia, where about 1,000 people reside, although not permanently due to its remoteness and lack of infrastructure.

Consequences and benefits

According to the British channel, the possible movement of the iceberg to the island could harm its fauna, which consists of millions of seals, penguins and other birds.. Specifically, the feeding routes of the species that reproduce on the island could be affected.. However, they also remember that all icebergs end up melting and that this is beneficial for the environment since “they release the mineral dust that was incorporated into their ice when they were part of glaciers”, which is a source of nutrients for many. organisms.

The maritime transport groups Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd announced this Friday the temporary suspension of navigation through the Suez Canal and Red Sea after several ships suffered attacks in recent days off the coast of Yemen.

A spokesman for the German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, Nils Haupt, confirmed by telephone that the decision was taken today in view of the situation and will be in effect until next Monday, when it will be reviewed again.

Hapag-Lloyd had earlier reported that one of its cargo ships, the Al Jasrah, was attacked in Red Sea waters, amid a wave of assaults by Houthi rebels and Somali pirates on the strategic trade route.

The company indicated that there were no injuries and that the vessel continued on its course, while a crisis cabinet was convened to address the situation.

The Al Jasrah under the Liberian flag is en route to Singapore, where it had departed from the Greek port of Piraeus, according to data from the Marinetraffic tracking portal.

Maersk also suspended navigation

Shortly before, the Danish Maersk, the largest maritime freight transport company in the world, had announced a similar decision. “Following the incident with the Maersk Gibraltar yesterday and another attack today against a cargo ship, we have instructed vessels in the area en route to the Bab al Mandeb Strait to suspend navigation for the time being and await instructions,” reported the group in a statement to the media.

The Maersk Gibraltar was the target of a missile attack this Thursday, which did not hit, according to the Danish group. A Sydbank analyst, Mikkel Emil Jensen, commented that if other shipping companies adopt similar decisions, the impact on freight rates and delivery times could be significant.

“This will mean that we can have a Suez Canal 2.0 with increased rates, longer delivery times and less reliability of supply,” he said in statements cited by the Danish agency Ritzau.

In recent days there have been attacks by Houthi rebels, who have threatened all ships originating or destined for Israel and who this Friday claimed responsibility for two attacks against two container ships, both flying the Liberian flag, off the coast of Yemen. .

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock today demanded that attacks by the Houthis stop “immediately” and thanked Saudi Arabia for shooting down some drones and rockets launched by the Yemeni rebels.

These attacks “not only endanger Israel but also international maritime navigation and the freedom of trade routes,” the minister said at a press conference in Berlin with her Lebanese counterpart, Abdullah Bou Habib. In addition, he demanded the immediate release of the Galaxy Leader ship, which has been confiscated by the Houthis since last month.

Alex Batty, the minor located in the south of France and who had been missing for six years, made the decision to leave his mother when she told him that they had to move to Finland, as explained in a press conference by the deputy prosecutor of Toulouse, Antoine Leroy.

Leroy explained that Alex, his mother and his grandfather were in Spain and then in Morocco, before leading a nomadic lifestyle in towns in the French Pyrenees.

That is until this month Alex decided to escape and return to his grandmother in Oldham, United Kingdom.. To do this, he walked for four days before being found by a young French driver who handed him over to the authorities when he knew they were looking for him.. In those days, the teenager who disappeared after a trip to Spain when he was 11 years old, mainly walked at night and slept during the day.

The now teenager told the French authorities that the family traveled in a community “with ten people at a time” and that he was never enrolled in school. According to the prosecutor, Alex expresses himself correctly and looks like a normal teenager.. They went to big houses where there were already other families, coming and going, of different nationalities: Canadians, Indians.. The “ego” worked in them, but also meditation. However, the French prosecutor's office considers that the minor's living environment in recent years cannot be described as that of a sect, but rather an itinerant spiritual commune.

During this homeless life with his mother and maternal grandfather, he explains that he never experienced abuse in the communities in which he lived.. But he has admitted that “he would have suffered sexual assault when he was little,” according to the deputy prosecutor.. This Friday, Alex Batty was “tired” but in general “is in good health” and has proven to be “quite intelligent” despite his social isolation.

According to investigations by the Prosecutor's Office, the mother had an unstable character and Alex's grandfather may have died six months ago, something that Alex attributes to a ceremony that took place in the community around that time.

French Police confirmed the identity of Alex Batty in images that had been made available internationally. However, some media suggest that the agents failed in November when the minor tried to enroll in a school in the town of Quillan and was taken to the police station, reports the newspaper La Depeche.

The minor, who at the time he was located was carrying 100 euros and was destined for Toulouse, could return to the United Kingdom this Saturday, but the prosecutor has declined to give more details to guarantee his safety.

Asked if there is an international arrest warrant for his mother, Mel Batty, the prosecutor answered that there is not one, and that the minor was unable to say exactly where he was because he did not know.

The Attorney General's Office of the State of Quintana Roo (Mexico) has reported that a man was murdered this Wednesday with a firearm in the gym of the Marina Puerto Cancún shopping center.. His body was left on one of the weight machines, he received first aid and was taken to the hospital.. Mexican authorities have indicated that the victim had a criminal record in Canada, where he was convicted of the crimes of gangsterism and possession of money of illicit origin, but they did not reveal his identity.. However, La Presse's investigative team revealed that the victim is Samy Tamouro, who had ties to the Montreal mafia.

Tamouro was apparently related to Frederick Silva, a hitman linked to the Montreal-based Sicilian mafia who became a police informant after being convicted of four homicides.. According to the Canadian media, Silva would have revealed information about “about thirty murders and as many attempted murders committed within Montreal organized crime” since at least 2010.. Furthermore, two days after the alliance between Silva and the security forces was announced, Tamouro traveled to the Dominican Republic and later to Mexico, where he would have been living until now.

Until now, it is unknown who is behind the murder and the reasons why it was carried out.. However, former investigator of the City of Montreal Police Service (SPVM) and organized crime specialist, Eric Vecchio, stated on Radio-Canada's Tout le monde en parle program that the masterminds of the crimes could have ordered a “purge” in order to eliminate the ex-hitman's accomplices. “We can think that some of these problematic witnesses could disappear,” said the expert.

Tamouro is also linked to the Hell Angels group, a motorcycle gang sometimes involved in illegal activities.. In 2012 he was sentenced to 24 months in prison for a case of aggravated assault and four years later he was arrested in Quebec as part of Operation Magot-Mastiff, which had the purpose of dismantling an organized crime organization.. In 2017 he declared that he was a gangster and that he had money of illicit origin, for which he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. According to police, Tamouro was also linked to several street gangs and even drug trafficking.

The Argentine Government warned this Thursday that the security forces will not allow street and highway closures or blockades of companies from now on as a form of social or union protest.. “The streets are not taken. We are going to organize the country so that people live in peace,” said the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, at a press conference, when presenting the new protocol for maintaining public order in the face of the closure of traffic routes.

Bullrich assured that there will be severe sanctions for those who carry out cuts, organize them, instigate or are “complicit” in these. The new protocol is presented in a delicate social and economic scenario in Argentina, where about 45% of the population is poor and where the Executive of Javier Milei, leader of the far-right party La Libertad Avanza and who assumed the Presidency on December 10 December, has just launched tough adjustment measures in a context of inflation of 160.9% year-on-year.

Against this backdrop, social organizations called for mobilizations for December 20, the anniversary of the violent protests of 2001, which occurred during an explosive economic crisis and ended with the resignation of the then president, the radical Fernando de la Rúa (1999). -2001).

“Without order there is no freedom. And, without freedom, there is no progress,” said Bullrich, who warned that “whoever does it, pays for it” and that protests will only be allowed “on the sidewalk.”. “The State is not going to pay for the use of security forces. The organizations that have legal status or their individuals will have to pay,” said the minister, so those who organize the marches will be the ones who will pay for the security operations.. “The responsible organizations or individuals will be billed.”

The minister explained that the four federal security forces and the Federal Penitentiary Service will intervene in the face of cuts, pickets or blockades, whether partial or total, regardless of whether the protesters leave alternative routes for traffic or not, and the troops will act until they completely leave free movement assured.

“To carry out these measures, the forces will use the minimum necessary and sufficient force and it will be graduated in proportion to the resistance,” he stated.. Organizers of protests with cuts will have to face the costs of security operations. Likewise, security forces will be able to act at train stations to seize “material” from protests, as well as stop “hooded men” or citizens who are seen heading to the protests “trying not to be recognized.”

Children will also not be allowed to take part in the demonstrations, and the Court will be notified in case of “environmental damage” if tires are burned.. In addition, the portfolio will transfer information to the National Migration Directorate in the case of foreign protesters with provisional residence.