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Moreno Luis - is a business and economics reporter based in Barcelona. Prior to joining the BNE24 he was economics editor of the BBC Spaine and worked as an economics and political reporter for Murcia Tuday.

Lagarde reveals that her son lost 60% of what he invested in cryptocurrencies: "He completely ignored me"

The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, acknowledged this Friday that she has “a 'very low' opinion on cryptocurrencies” and revealed that her own son, ignoring her advice, lost 60% of what he had invested. in them.

“He completely ignored me, which is his right. And he lost almost all the money he had invested. It wasn't much, but it lost approximately 60%,” he said at a colloquium in Frankfurt with 200 young people organized by the Bundesbank.

She explained that later, when they talked about it, he reluctantly agreed that she was right.

Lagarde assured that what has been seen in recent months with Terra or Luna, FTX and now with Binance shows that cryptocurrencies are “a highly speculative asset.”

“People are free to invest their money wherever they want, they are free to speculate as much as they want, but people should not be free to participate in criminally sanctioned operations and businesses,” he said.

This week, the world's largest cryptocurrency platform, Binance, agreed to pay a $4.3 billion fine and resign its CEO, Changpeng Zhao, for money laundering, following an accusation described as a “point of inflection” by the United States authorities.

For his part, the founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, is awaiting a prison sentence after being found guilty this month of seven crimes of fraud following a criminal trial, and has another process pending, promoted by the Commission of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Who are the 13 Israeli hostages released by the Islamist group Hamas?

On October 7, their lives were shattered and they went through hell in the middle of the war.. Some 240 people were kidnapped in the Hamas attack on the music festival near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, where they were taken.

Forty-nine days later, Israel and the Islamist group have reached a four-day truce pact with which 13 kidnapped Israelis have been able to return to their homes, in addition to 11 Thais, a Filipino citizen and 39 Palestinian prisoners.. These are the names of the nine women, the three girls and the boy released this Friday by the Palestinian Islamist group.

The families have revealed the identity of Adina Moshe, 72, and Margalit Moses, 78, in addition to that of four other elderly women, who were part of the first group of hostages that has already arrived in Israel.

Twelve of the thirteen released lived in the Nir Oz kibbutz, one of the hardest hit in the Hamas attack, which kidnapped almost 80 people there.

Hamas and Israel reached an agreement that 50 kidnapped people will be released in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners, in both cases all of them women and minors (boys and girls).

Among those released this Friday were also Danielle Aloni and her 5-year-old daughter Emilia, who were in the Nir Oz kibbutz at Danielle's sister's house when Hamas terrorists attacked, killing more than 1,200. people.

Her sister, Sharon Aloni-Cunio, was also kidnapped along with her two twin daughters and their father, David Cunio, who remain in the hands of the Islamist group.

Ruth Mundar, 78, her daughter, Keren Mundar, 54, and her grandson, Ohad Mundar, 9, have also been released.

Others who have returned are Doron Katz-Asher, 34, and his two daughters Raz and Aviv, 4 and 2 years old respectively.

The released minors are 2, 4, 5 and 9 years old.

Among the elderly women handed over by Hamas to Israel is also 85-year-old Yaffa Adar, whose video of her being transported by Hamas fighters in a golf cart went viral.

Netanyahu's response to Sánchez after proposing the "political solution" to the war: "They fight to eliminate the Jewish State"

Spain faces a diplomatic crisis with Israel due to President Pedro Sánchez's statements about a possible unilateral recognition of the Palestinian State, if the international community does not make joint decisions in that direction.

“The time has come for the international community, and especially European countries, to make a decision on the recognition of the Palestinian State,” he stressed. And, then, he pointed out that it would be worth working together for it, “but if that does not happen – he added – Spain, of course, will make its own decisions.”

Sánchez's statement, made this Friday in Rafah (Egypt) together with the Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander Croo, has not pleased the Israeli Executive, whose Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the ambassadors of both countries “for a harsh reprimand” when considering the words like “support for terrorism”.

The president, who met this Thursday in Jerusalem with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has already transferred the “political solution” to the conflict and the commitment to the recognition of the two States as a possible solution to the current situation in Gaza, to which was met with a forceful reaction from the Israeli president.

“They are fighting to eliminate the Jewish state”. The Israeli leader, who has been at war with Hamas for more than 40 days after the terrorist attack on October 7, did not hesitate to publicly respond to Sánchez's request for a “political solution.”. “We are facing a peculiar type of enemy, especially cruel and inhumane,” he asserted.. “They are genocidal, they are not fighting for this or that territory, they are fighting to eliminate the Jewish State at any border they say,” he continued in his story.

“What is a democracy that is committed to the laws of war supposed to do? Do these laws provide exemptions to these criminals?” he asks.. Given this, Netanyahu says that “if we don't enter, we lose.”

“Israel has the right to self-defense”

After the meeting, the Spanish president gave details of his conversation with the Israeli and pointed out that “Israel has the right to self-defense, but it must respect international law and humanitarian law.”. The socialist president pointed out on his X account, formerly Twitter, that “it is urgent to stop the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.”

“We must hold an international peace conference as soon as possible with all the parties involved. Today the solution to the conflict involves the materialization of two States, Israel and Palestine, that coexist in peace and security,” he added.

EU and Canada close ranks on two-state solution

The European Union and Canada have pointed out this Friday the “worsening” of the humanitarian crisis in the Strip and have expressed their support for reviving the political process based on the two-state solution.

Within the framework of the summit held in St. John's, Brussels and Ottawa, Canada, have underlined the “deep concern” about the “worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza”, highlighting the importance of launching “urgent and expanded humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Strip” , as the United Nations Security Council resolution emphasizes.

“We reaffirm the imperative to protect civilians and ensure full compliance with international law, including international humanitarian law,” the joint statement states.

In this sense, Canada and the EU reiterate the importance of urgent and unimpeded access for humanitarian aid to reach Gaza “through all necessary measures.”

Regarding the future of the conflict, the European bloc and the North American country say they are “willing to contribute to reactivating a political process based on the two-state solution”, thus betting and closing ranks around the construction of a Palestinian State. independent, democratic, contiguous, sovereign and viable”, while making explicit their opposition to the forced displacement of Palestinians.

Israel accuses Spain of "supporting terrorism" for Sánchez's words and calls the ambassador for "a reprimand"

Pedro Sánchez's words at the close of his tour of Israel, the West Bank and Egypt about the possibility of unilateral recognition of Palestine have opened the first international diplomatic breach of the new coalition Government.

From Rafah, the only open border crossing with the Strip, Sánchez defended this Friday that “the time has come for the international community and especially the EU to make a decision on the recognition of the Palestinian State.”. If not, the President of the Government continued, “of course Spain will make its own decisions,” he pointed out.

These statements have greatly displeased Israel, to the point of summoning the Spanish ambassador, Ana María Salomón Pérez, for “a harsh reprimand conversation.”

Israel's slap on the wrist has also affected Belgium, whose Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo, has accompanied Sánchez throughout this tour of the area.

“We condemn the false claims of the prime ministers of Spain and Belgium that they are supporting terrorism,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in a message on Twitter.

“Following his words,” Cohen continues, “his ambassadors will be invited to a harsh reprimand conversation,” he added.

In said message, Israel has defended that “it is acting in accordance with International Law and fighting against a terrorist organization worse than the Islamic State that commits war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has also “roundly” condemned the statements of Sánchez and De Croo, since he believes that the two leaders did not clearly point out Hamas for the crimes committed, including the attacks against Israeli citizens and the use of Palestinian civilians as “human shields”.

Albares responds to Israel

Shortly after, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, responded to his Israeli counterpart that his accusations against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, are “totally false and unacceptable”, he said in an official statement.

In this sense, Foreign Affairs has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Spain, Rodrica Radian-Gordon, to give explanations about these criticisms.

Sánchez's words have received support in Spain from the second vice president and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, who has indicated that it is “justice” to recognize the Palestinian State: “It has been a firm commitment in the Government agreement. It is a matter of justice to do it now. We must move from words to actions,” Díaz said through a message on Twitter.

For their part, the PP has criticized Sánchez's statements, which in their opinion “make difficult” the “European consensus, with the EU and with NATO, and the consensus in Spanish foreign policy.”

According to popular sources, “traveling to Israel to offend Israel is the opposite of diplomacy”. In their opinion, they continue, “going invited to an ally's house to offend him is the worst letter of introduction for Spain.”

With his trip to Israel, Sánchez “has created a problem for Spain”. “To go last and create a conflict, it is better not to have gone,” maintains the PP.

What happened this Friday represents the most serious episode of diplomatic tensions between Israel and Spain after the Hamas attacks on October 7, although the Israeli Embassy in Madrid also expressed its discomfort at the positions of “certain elements” of the previous Government, in reference to former minister Ione Belarra.

At that time, the Spanish Foreign Ministry responded with a statement in which it called the Israeli accusations “falsehoods” and emphasized that foreign policy was set solely by Sánchez and Minister José Manuel Albares.

The largest iceberg in the world moves again after more than 30 years stranded

The largest iceberg in the world is on the move again after having spent more than 30 years stranded at the bottom of the ocean, as reported by the BBC this Friday. The iceberg, called A23a, measuring 4,000 square kilometers, separated from the Antarctic coast in 1986, but settled in the Weddell Sea, becoming like an 'ice island'.

Over the past year, experts have observed that it has been drifting rapidly and is now on the verge of breaching Antarctic waters. A23a was formed following a huge break in the Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986, when it housed a now dismantled Soviet scientific research base on its surface.

Because right now?

Expert Andrew Fleming, from the British Antarctic Survey, tells the BBC that he himself asked a couple of colleagues if there could have been some temperature change in the waters that would have caused it to move again after 20 years, “but the consensus was that the time had simply come.”

“It had been stranded since 1986 but over time it was going to lose enough size to lose grip and start moving. “We detected the first movement in 2020,” he explained. In recent months, A23a has been pushed by winds and currents and is now passing through the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Like most icebergs in the Weddell sector, A23a will almost certainly be ejected into the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which will throw it into the South Atlantic on a path that has become a kind of “iceberg alley.”

Scientists will closely monitor the progress of A23a, since if it runs aground in southern Georgia it could cause problems for the millions of seals, penguins and other seabirds that inhabit the island, since its large size would disrupt these species.

Yolanda Díaz proposes raising the minimum wage to at least 1,120 euros per month

Yolanda Díaz believes that the minimum wage should rise above inflation so that workers do not lose purchasing power. The increase in the SMI would have to be, therefore, above the 3.7-3.8% that the accumulated price increase until November is expected to reach, said the second vice president and Minister of Labor this Thursday.. This approach would imply bringing the legal minimum remuneration to at least 1,120 gross euros per month in 14 payments compared to the current 1,080, which would represent an increase of 40 euros per month.

This was expressed by the second vice president of the Government at an event held this Thursday to defend equality among Roma women.. “There is no better tool for equality than raising the SMI,” said Díaz, who has announced that he will call on unions and employers “immediately” to undertake an “immediate” increase in the SMI “in the face of an unprecedented inflation crisis.”. “There is no better feminist policy or better tool for job insecurity and poverty,” he added.

With this proposal, the vice president picks up the gauntlet that the employers threw at her on Wednesday. Businessmen presented an unexpected proposal to raise the SMI by 3% in 2023 and 2024. An approach that would take the minimum wage to 1,112 euros in 2024 and up to 1,146 euros in 2025 with the possibility of reinforcing these increases by an additional percentage point each year if inflation remains high. The idea of the employers is to apply to the SMI the same criteria that were agreed with the unions in May to negotiate wage increases by agreement in the V AENC.

Once the positions of Labor and employers are known, it is still pending to know what the final proposal of the unions will be.. UGT and CC OO have rejected this afternoon the employer's approach, which they consider “insufficient”, but they have not gotten involved with any figures. Through a joint statement, the two large union centers have demanded that the increase in the SMI be in line with raising this income to 60% of the average salary and that it also take into account the increase in the prices of basic products, particularly the food.

Evolution of the minimum wage in the 21st century Carlos Gámez

Although the three parties will sit at the negotiating table in the coming days, the Government as a whole will have the last word.. The Workers' Statute states that the increase in the SMI is the responsibility of the Executive, which must first consult the most representative unions and business associations for their opinion.

The last time the Government raised the minimum wage was in February of this year, when it raised it from 1,000 gross euros per month in 14 payments to the current 1,080.. An 8% increase that was approved in a context of high inflation and without the agreement of the employers' association, which refused to sit at the negotiating table considering that the Executive had not taken them into account in the process.

The minimum wage has risen 47% since Pedro Sánchez took over the presidency of the Government in 2018. However, consumer prices have eroded part of the purchasing power that SMI recipients have gained in recent years.. In fact, the last two increases in the minimum wage – those that took it from 965 to 1,000 and from 1,000 to 1,080 – have been completely neutralized by inflation. Since 2021, the SMI has risen 12%, practically the same as consumer prices. In practice, those who earn the minimum wage have not gained purchasing power since 2021.

The difficulty of predicting the average salary

The delay and variety of salary statistics make it impossible to know what the real average salary is for the current year when deciding on the SMI. The different sources (INE, Tax Agency, Social Security) provide figures that vary significantly. At the moment, the most recent average salary data is that published by the Tax Agency, which places this income at 29,247 euros gross per year.

Here we must take into account that when dealing with tax sources, there is an upward bias in the figure given that lower incomes tend to file less personal income tax return.. With this figure in hand, the SMI should rise to 1,253 euros in 14 payments to reach 60% of the average salary. This would imply an increase of 16%, far from the figures that have been put on the table until now.

At this point, some experts and organizations warn that the next increases in the minimum wage must be calculated carefully. This is the case of the OECD, which recently recommended that the Government link the following increases in the SMI to the conditions of the labor market and the productivity of the Spanish economy. “The minimum wage has risen considerably since 2018, which has increased incomes and reduced wage inequality among young people. However, such large increases can harm employment in some groups, especially young people,” the agency said.

The PSOE will try to avoid the PP's veto of the Budgets by confronting its autonomies before considering changing the law

The General State Budgets of 2024 are already being discovered as the new great political battle, once the investiture has passed and the amnesty is still in progress. The Government took the first step this Wednesday to begin its processing without losing sight of the fact that the PP will be able to make them decline in the Senate, where it has an absolute majority and has the capacity to veto the stability objectives.. The socialists are already thinking about how to get around this veto, but before considering a legislative change – something they do not rule out – they will try to convince those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo by putting pressure on the autonomous communities and city councils led by the popular ones, for whom the fact of Having Budgets is vital.

“I find the debate very curious because no one knows what the Government is going to propose and they are already talking about a veto,” launched the socialist spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López.. In a press conference held from the Lower House, he reminded the popular parties that vetoing the stability objectives “is preventing city councils from making their budgets.”. “They need this tool to exist to know what margins to operate within,” he added.

The Budget Stability law was the work of the first Government of Mariano Rajoy, who approved it in 2012. The articles establish that the Government must approve “stability and public debt objectives” that must be approved by Congress, where the PSOE could enjoy a majority to approve it, and in the Senate, where the PP has a comfortable majority. absolute majority. In the event that either of the two Chambers rejects them, they should be redone and voted on again.. Therefore, the popular ones could derail the accounts even before they are drawn up.

President Pedro Sánchez has already made some move to change this law, but it has not happened and now the PSOE is hiding its cards. First they will wait for María Jesús Montero, Minister of Finance and recently promoted to fourth vice president, to present the stability objectives and they will see what the PP does.. Because, they insist privately, it is a tool that communities and city councils – now governed mostly by the popular ones – need to prepare their own accounts.. “They are not going to veto themselves,” reflect the same sources.

A reflection that moves away from that offered by the popular ones. Management sources do not rule out using this veto capacity in the Upper House, although they have stressed that they cannot comment at this time on a plan that they have not yet seen and that they will have to evaluate when the Government presents it.. In any case, they are aware of the weapon they have to hinder the Government's Accounts. As they are also aware that this can change the budget stability law to bypass the Senate veto. In the PP they already warn that if the PSOE reforms the budget stability law, they will appeal it. “Because what would be the intention of overriding the veto? Not having control.”

However, from the socialist formation they assume that there will be General Budgets. The Minister of Finance's intention is for them to be approved in the first quarter of next year. This is where the possibility of changing the law comes in, although neither the Government nor the PSOE have yet put themselves in that scenario without ruling it out. “They will have to explain” if they make the approval of the Budgets difficult, the Executive spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, defended yesterday.

Self-consumption accounts: average investment of 6,646 euros, aid of 3,000 and an annual saving of 856 on the electricity bill

The typical self-consumption installation carried out in Spain is located in a single-family house, consists of between eight and nine solar panels and requires an initial investment of around 6,600 euros, of which it is possible to recover around half thanks to everything type of state, regional and municipal aid that exists. Aside from these figures, what the consumer notices on average in their electricity bill is about 856 euros in annual savings, 71 euros per month.

These data are part of the study on the profile of domestic self-consumption users and the costs and savings associated with it that the Samara company has prepared based on its activity so far in 2023, the year in which the sector predicted a “slowdown” after the boom of 2021 and 2022, among people who had solar panels installed and also based on projects carried out although they were ultimately not carried out. In total, there are 3,400 cases that allow us to make an “x-ray” of who engages in self-consumption, at what cost and what savings they obtain.

Investment and aid

The “barometer” indicates that the average initial investment that is necessary to install solar panels at home is 6,646 euros, depending on the size of the installation or the energy needs of each home.. An average of 8.5 plates are usually installed on each roof.

Of that first amount, the study calculates that it is possible to recover almost half – 45.6% – with the different public aid that exists, despite the fact that the highest ones, those from European funds, take time to arrive.. In any case, it estimates that households with self-consumption can recover an average of 3,035 euros thanks to the Next Generation funds distributed by the Ministry of Ecological Transition among the communities, which send them to users; the discounts that the different localities make in the Real Estate Tax (IBI), and the personal income tax deduction of 20, 40 or 60% depending on the energy efficiency improvement achieved by self-consumption for each home.

Once the self-consumption installation is running, the average electricity savings that Samara calculates is 856 euros per year, about 71 euros on each month's bill.

The average amortization period of the investment in self-consumption is 6.3 years, in which the savings on the bill will coexist with continuing to pay the plates. However, these have a useful life of about 25 years, so beyond that first period there are another almost 19 years of “net savings”. That is, the household will have already finished paying for the installation and will maintain the benefit of electricity savings.

Man between 45 and 54 years old

In addition to average costs and savings, the Samara study creates a profile of the person who installs domestic self-consumption or, at least, of those who were interested in it and requested a technical study.

What the data says, in line with the difficulties that the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE) itself identifies in neighboring blocks, is that in the vast majority of cases self-consumption is located in single-family homes. , 94.5%.

The barometer also says that it is a matter of men more than women, or at least they are the ones who in a much greater proportion (77.7% compared to 22.3%) request the technical study or are in charge of the installation of the photovoltaic panels. The age measurement is 45 and 54 years (35%), followed by 55 and 64 (26.3%) and, to a lesser extent, between 35 and 44% (21.3%).

Self-consumption is merely testimonial (1.96%) in the youngest age groups, with serious difficulties in accessing home ownership. “The population between 25 and 34 years old, more inclined to live in rent, represents only 1.96% of the total of those interested. With the deployment of collective self-consumption and its presence in neighboring communities, we hope to see a greater representation of that age group in the coming years,” says Manel Pujol, co-founder of Samara,

"Far-right" groups attack Dublin Police during multiple stabbing operation

The stabbing of four people this Thursday in Dublin, three of them minors, has caused riots in the city, in which “thugs” from the “extreme right” have taken advantage of this incident to attack the Irish Police (Garda), according to sources of the order.

The head of the Garda, Drew Harris, explained that a number of officers have been attacked with fireworks, bottles and other objects in the area where a man stabbed a woman and three minors this Thursday, one of whom was a girl. five years old, is in serious condition.

The police leader described these protests as “shameful” and assured that they are driven by “a faction of hooligans” with “extreme right-wing ideology.”

Harris asked citizens to ignore “the rumors” circulating on social networks about the identity of the attacker, since they are “malicious information” disseminated by groups “for their own purposes.”

Riots in Dublin after multiple stabbings. AP

The Garda reported this Thursday that the knife attack that occurred in the center of Dublin “is not related to terrorism” and that it could be an “isolated” incident.

The attack

In an appearance before the media, Garda Superintendent Liam Geraghty indicated that the investigation is now trying to establish the reasons why a man in his 50s, arrested at the same place as the attack, stabbed the woman today, the three minors and he also injured himself with a knife.

The police official explained that the suspect attacked a number of people shortly after 1:30 p.m. GMT this Thursday in a busy area in the north of the capital and close to a daycare center.

Among the injured are a five-year-old girl who is in “serious condition” and a woman in her 30s, a school worker, who is receiving treatment for “serious injuries”, while the other two minors are out of danger.

According to Geraghty, the alleged aggressor, whose identity has not been revealed, is also hospitalized with stab wounds and is being interrogated to clarify the reasons for the attack, for which he urged citizens to remain calm and “avoid premature trials.”

Closing of hostage and prisoner list delays truce between Israel and Hamas, expected to begin this Friday

Everything was prepared this Thursday for the first ceasefire between Israel and Hamas to be put into effect.. However, after ten in the morning, the Israeli bombings on Gaza continued; as they have done every day for almost seven weeks. Contradictory news then arrived about the delay of the truce; increasing uncertainty both in the Palestinian population and in the families of Israeli hostages who saw the return of their loved ones closer.. Finally, Qatar, the main mediator, has announced that the ceasefire will be delayed by one day. The cessation of hostilities will begin at 7:00 a.m. this Friday (6:00 a.m. Spanish peninsular time), although it will not be until 4:00 p.m. when the first 13 kidnapped by Hamas will leave Gaza.

One of the possible reasons for this delay has been the list of hostages and prisoners who will be released.. To close these issues, the head of Mossad (the Israeli intelligence agency), David Barnea, traveled to Qatar on Wednesday night, where he received the list of kidnapped people and handed over the list of Palestinian prisoners. On this Thursday afternoon, the Israeli Government acknowledged that it already had the names of the first batch, so everything indicates that the release will finally be this Friday.. “Designated officials verify the details of the list and are in contact with all families,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement.

For its part, Qatar has specified that the first 13 hostages will be women and children, taking into account “purely humanitarian” issues, said the Qatari Foreign Minister, Majed al Ansari.. Another of the countries that, together with the Gulf State and the United States, is an active party in the negotiation is Egypt, which has also acknowledged having received the list of hostages and prisoners this Thursday and “hopes” that the ceasefire will begin on Friday. humanitarian.

In total, during the four days of the truce, Hamas is expected to hand over 50 hostages, between 10 and 13 each day, in exchange for a truce in hostilities and the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners who have not been convicted of blood crimes.. The latter, all young or women. Although the agreement is for four days, the signatory parties contemplate that the truce can be extended to a maximum of ten, provided that a minimum of 10 hostages are released each day.. This would imply that up to 150 of the 240 kidnapped people could return to Israel, while the Hebrew State would free up to 300 Palestinians.. The exchange ratio would always be one hostage for every three prisoners.

The al-Qasam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, have also confirmed the start of the truce and have recalled that the pact with Israel includes the entry into the Strip, including the northern part, of between 100 and 300 trucks with food and medical aid, in addition to fuel, essential for the electricity supply and the operation of hospitals. In addition, the Red Cross will be able to visit the hostages who are still being held and will provide them with medical care, something that the Islamist organization has not assured.

Israel has also committed to suspending the flight of surveillance drones over the Strip: six hours a day, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the north, and all day in the south.. This petition seeks to prevent the Israeli Government from locating the hideouts of both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The bombings do not reduce their intensity

With the truce date constantly wavering, the war has continued with the same intensity. This Thursday, Israel “continued to attack terrorists, infrastructure and locate underground posts” of Hamas, the military spokesman said. “During the Army's activities in Gaza over the past day, airstrikes were carried out on more than 300 targets,” including, according to Israel, “military command centers, tunnels, weapons storage and manufacturing facilities, and places of launch of anti-tank missiles.

The Israeli Army reported that the 401st Combat Brigade found “four entrances to tunnels of significant depth” in an area around Jabalia, in the north of the Palestinian enclave, “from which significant mortar launches towards Israel were recorded.” “. “These tunnels used by the Hamas terrorist organization, which are connected to the electrical grid, converged on a central tunnel located in a building linked to a senior Hamas official,” reads the military statement. Israel claims that the city of Jabalia is already “completely surrounded.”

And it was precisely in the refugee camp in this town where the Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas, has reported the death of at least 27 people after an Israeli attack against a school managed by UNRWA.. Furthermore, the attacks have not only occurred in the north, but also in the southern town of Khan Yunis. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported this Thursday the death of dozens of people and hundreds of injuries due to the attacks throughout the Strip.

Bombings have also occurred in northern Israel. The Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah fired nearly 50 projectiles this Thursday, being its largest attack since the outbreak of the conflict.. According to Israeli media, two projectiles hit some homes, with no information on casualties at the moment.. Hezbollah had assured on Wednesday that they would join the ceasefire, but when this did not happen, they have continued their attacks on Israel.

Since the Hebrew State declared war on Hamas in response to the murder of 1,200 people and the kidnapping of more than 240, Israeli attacks have killed more than 14,800 Palestinians.. Among them, more than 6,150 minors.