The number of victims from the Israeli bombings between Tuesday and Wednesday against the Jabalia refugee camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip, has increased to 195 dead and 777 injured, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported this Thursday.

In a statement, the Ministry did not rule out that the number could increase because there are at least 120 people missing under the rubble. On Tuesday, hospital sources said at least 145 people had died from Israeli shelling in Jabalia.

That day, many of the homes in the bombed area, where there were apparently underground tunnels, were reduced to nothing after this attack, as the impacts created a crater in the ground that swept away the surrounding homes.

According to the Israeli Army, the attack targeted a Hamas militia commander, who was killed along with fifty other militiamen hiding in tunnels in the area.

According to sources in Gaza, Israeli warplanes launched tons of explosives into the subsoil that caused the destruction of the foundations of the buildings in the area – with a high population density – and the demolition of many of the buildings.

On Wednesday, Hamas denounced a second “massacre” in Jabalia, with “dozens of dead and wounded” in the Falujah neighborhood, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, due to attacks by Israeli planes.

The spokesman for the al-Qasam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, Abu Obeida, reported that seven hostages, held by the group, died on Tuesday as a result of Israeli bombings against Jabalia. According to the latest figures from the Israeli Army, there are 242 hostages held by Hamas and other Palestinian militias in Gaza.

This Thursday marks the twenty-seventh day of war between Israel and Hamas, which began on October 7 after an attack by the Islamist organization against Israeli territory, which left 1,400 dead, more than 5,400 injured and 242 kidnapped who were taken to Gaza.

Since then, Israel has carried out bombings against the Strip, and last Friday it launched a ground offensive, which has caused more than 8,800 deaths and more than 22,000 injuries.

In its unexpected attack on October 7, Hamas took a large group of hostages (the number is never clear), numbering 242.. The list includes soldiers and especially civilians of all ages. They are captives and the Palestinian militia hopes to be able to exchange them for their prisoners in Israeli prisons.

It is believed that approximately half of the hostages are people with passports from up to 25 foreign countries, including about 54 Thais, 15 Argentines, 12 Americans, 12 Germans, six French and six Russians, according to North American media estimates.

“Israel will not negotiate with an enemy it promised to erase from the face of the earth.”

At the start of the current war, Hamas demanded the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for captives.. The demand is still that. Last Saturday, Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Al Qasam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, demanded the release of all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails (an estimated 6,000) to release the two hundred hostages.

Qatar's mediation

Benjamin Netanyahu's Government officially rejects Hamas proposal. There is no barter, they insist. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant assured the hostages' relatives on Sunday that Hamas' offer is only part of its “psychological warfare” and Tzachi Hanegbi, head of the Israeli National Security Council, insisted that his country “does not will negotiate with an enemy whom he promised to erase from the face of the earth.”

However, it has emerged that David Barnea, head of Mossad, the main Israeli intelligence agency, traveled to Qatar a few days ago.. It was, of course, a secret mission, but according to Israeli media, he traveled to discuss the possibility of an agreement that would lead to the release of the hostages.. On other occasions, Qatar acted as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinian militias, but in less serious situations.

“One of the objectives of this war was to capture Israeli soldiers and officers.”

A week after the Hamas offensive, Khaled Meshal, former leader of the organization, said that they had the necessary means to achieve the freedom of Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons.. “One of the objectives of this war was to capture Israeli soldiers and officers. “We have enough prisoners for the Palestinian prisoner exchange,” Meshal said on the Saudi channel Al-Arabiya.

Stalled conversations

“The large number of our prisoners in the hands of the enemy has the price of emptying all (Israeli) prisons of Palestinian prisoners,” Abu Obeida said in a video last weekend.. But, he added, Israel did not agree: “There was an opportunity to reach an agreement, but the enemy blocked it.”

“There was an opportunity to reach an agreement, but the enemy blocked it.”

With or without Qatar, talks are taking place, but stalled on Friday. This is what happened after Hamas demanded that Israel allow fuel supplies to Gaza and Hamas refused to guarantee the release of large numbers of foreign captives, according to a former US official with knowledge of the negotiations cited by NBC. .

“Hamas has insisted on receiving fuel,” this person said.. This former official, another Israeli official and a diplomat with knowledge of the talks said they broke down before Israel launched the second phase of its offensive last Friday night and sent ground troops to Gaza.

The negotiation divides Israel

This hypothetical negotiation keeps Israelis divided. According to a survey by the Israel Democracy Institute, 45% of citizens are against the mass release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the two hundred hostages, while 40% are in favor.

To the 6,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, another 1,200 should be added who have been detained in recent weeks in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem for alleged links with the militias.

Hamas says it will release several foreigners in the coming days. “We have informed the intermediaries that we will release a certain number of foreigners in the coming days, in accordance with our previously announced position that we do not want or need to detain them or continue to detain them in Gaza,” the Hamas spokesman explained on Tuesday in a video.

For now, four released

So far, Qatar's mediation in the talks has allowed the release of four people, two Americans and two elderly Israeli women, on two different days.. Jason Straziuso, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, which acted as intermediary in those two releases, has acknowledged that enormous levels of trust will be needed to free large numbers of hostages.

Hostage taking has been a tactic frequently used by different Palestinian militant groups to pressure Israel to achieve the release of its prisoners.. In 2011, Israel exchanged hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for the release of an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, kidnapped and held captive by Hamas for five years.

Several Latin American countries governed by the left – such as Bolivia, Colombia and Chile – are rethinking their ties with Israel with measures ranging from breaking relations to calling their ambassadors, following the bombings in Palestinian territory, actions which they consider a violation of International Law.

Bolivia announced on Tuesday that it was breaking diplomatic relations with Israel following what it considers an “aggressive and disproportionate military offensive” against the population of the Gaza Strip.

In a statement, the vice chancellor, Freddy Mamani Machaca, indicated that his Government “has made the determination to break diplomatic relations with the State of Israel in repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive being carried out in the Gaza Strip.” .

Immediately afterwards, Chile decided to call its ambassador to Israel, Jorge Carvajal, for consultations due to the “unacceptable violations of International Humanitarian Law that Israel has incurred in the Gaza Strip.”

“Chile strongly condemns and observes with great concern that these military operations – which at this point in their development entail collective punishment of the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza – do not respect fundamental norms of International Law,” the government said in a statement. .

And shortly after, it was the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who called his ambassador in Israel, Margarita Manjarrez, for consultations about “the massacre of the Palestinian people” that he says that country is committing.

“I have decided to call our ambassador to Israel for consultation. If Israel does not stop the massacre of the Palestinian people, we cannot be there,” the president said in a message published on X (formerly Twitter).

Isarel accuses Chile and Colombia of supporting Hamas

The reaction from Tel Aviv has not been long in coming. This Wednesday, Israel accused Chile and Colombia of “supporting Hamas terrorism” after calling their respective ambassadors in the Jewish State for consultations over the Israeli offensive on Gaza, and accused them of aligning “with Venezuela and Iran in support of the Hamas terrorism.

“Israel hopes that Colombia and Chile will support the right of a democratic country to protect its citizens and demand the immediate release of those kidnapped” in Gaza, and “that they will not align with Venezuela and Iran in supporting Hamas terrorism,” he said. a spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, in the country's first reaction to the steps taken today by the two Latin American countries.

The United States, Israel's great ally in the world, announced that it will explain to the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu the need to respect the laws of war.

The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will convey to the Israeli authorities on his new trip to the country next Friday the need to respect the laws of war and do everything possible to minimize civilian damage, the spokesperson indicated this Wednesday. of your Department, Matthew Miller.

“As he has done previously and as the president (Joe Biden) has also done, he will speak directly to the Israeli Government about our expectation that, in launching and carrying out its military campaign, it will do so in full compliance with the law.” international humanitarian and the laws of war. He will be very direct about it,” he said in his daily press conference.

The diplomatic measures in response to the bombings in Gaza have also generated cross-border reactions in Latin American countries.

The Delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations (DAIA) questioned this Wednesday the Argentine Government's decision to condemn the Israeli attack on a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and has asked to differentiate itself from the “pusillanimous positions of some countries in the region.”

The DAIA, the body of political expression of the Jewish community in Argentina, has said that it “condemns the criticism expressed by the Argentine Foreign Ministry towards Israel for its military response to the criminal terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7”, and has referred to the “right to the defense that a democratic State has in the face of the brutal attack in which more than 1,400 people were murdered, thousands were injured and 239” people were kidnapped, of which “21 are Argentines.”

Meanwhile, in Bolivia, political scientist Franklin Pareja, a researcher at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), in La Paz, believes that with the cutting of diplomatic relations with Israel, the South American country is getting closer to several of its political partners and trade in the Middle East and Asia, while distancing it from Western countries.

Hamas thanks Bolivia for breaking relations

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which de facto governs the Gaza Strip, has welcomed the decision of the Government of Bolivia to break diplomatic relations with Israel and described it as a “brave” stance.. Likewise, he thanked the Governments of Colombia and Chile for withdrawing their ambassadors from Israel.

And the expressions of condemnation for the bombings of the Palestinian territories continued in several Latin American foreign ministries.

The Chilean Government has expressed this Wednesday “its deep regret” for the death of officials of the United Nations and its agencies as a consequence of the Israeli military operations in Gaza and has conveyed its condolences to the families of the victims, in the midst of the escalation diplomatic with Israel.

After the bombing on Tuesday in the north of the Gaza Strip, which killed at least 145 people, the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, a renowned defender of the Palestinian cause, has condemned the attacks carried out by Israel and called the Chilean ambassador for consultations. in Tel Aviv, José Carvajal.

And for its part, Peru has expressed its deep concern about the worsening of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and has condemned the attacks carried out by the Israel Defense Forces against the Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza, which It has caused hundreds of deaths.

In an official statement released by the Foreign Ministry, the Peruvian Government reiterated that it “condemns and will condemn violence wherever it comes from.”

At least two students have been stabbed and two others have been injured for other reasons after a mass fight occurred this Wednesday at Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, in the extreme southwest of the United States.

As reported by the Los Angeles Fire Department, the incident occurred around noon (local time), while the authorities are already immersed in the search for the alleged perpetrator of the events.

According to the aforementioned department, all of the injured victims were teenagers under the age of 18 and none of the injuries are considered life-threatening.

The management of Van Nuys High School has decided to close the facilities and suspend classes while authorities investigate what happened in the vicinity of the educational center, according to CBS News.

Israeli forces bombed this Wednesday, for the second time in less than 24 hours, the Jabalia refugee camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip, in a new attack that represents “another tragic massacre,” said the Islamist group Hamas, which controls in enclave.

The attack caused “dozens of deaths and injuries,” according to the official Palestinian agency Wafa, which stated that the bombing targeted the Falujah neighborhood, in the same field, and estimated that among the dead and injured there may be many women and children.. The Islamist group Hamas, ruling in Gaza, assured that Israel “perpetrated a tragic massacre”, in what it described as “the second consecutive crime in the Jabalia camp in less than 24 hours.”

“These heartbreaking events are part of a harrowing sequence of massacres in the Gaza Strip that will forever cast a dark shadow on the collective conscience of humanity,” added Hamas, which denounced that “the international community remains silent” in the face of the Israeli offensive. about the enclave that in 26 days of war has left almost 8,800 dead and more than 22,200 injured.

Against a Hamas commander

This Tuesday, a first and forceful Israeli bombardment on the Jabalia field left at least 145 people dead, according to hospital sources informed EFE.

According to the Israeli Army, the attack targeted a Hamas militia commander, causing his death and that of another fifty militiamen hiding in tunnels in the area.

Israeli warplanes launched tons of explosives into the underground, causing the destruction of the foundations of buildings in the area – with a high population density – and the demolition of many of the buildings, according to sources in Gaza.

Israel and Hamas are this Wednesday in the 26th day of war, which broke out on October 7 after a surprise attack by the Islamist group on Israel that left more than 1,400 dead.

Gaza suffers a serious humanitarian crisis due to the almost total Israeli siege and its veto on access to food, water, medicine and fuel. This has left many hospitals at their limit and some 16 of them out of operation due to the lack of gasoline and electricity, a problem that is getting worse while the number of deaths and injuries, many of them children and women, continues to increase.

The Mexican Government estimated this Wednesday at 61,313 million pesos (more than 3,400 million dollars or 3,224 million euros) the cost for repairs and social support in the southern state of Guerrero after the impact of Hurricane Otis, which left 46 dead after making landfall last week.

This is the first official calculation of the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who offered in his morning press conference a recovery plan with 20 points, which includes 10,000 million pesos (more than 555 million dollars) to restore public infrastructure in Acapulco , the most impacted city.

“The cost of the investment, which we have been working for several days to bring as close as possible to the needs, is 61,313 million pesos and is distributed among the 20 points indicated by the President of the Republic, that is the investment amount” “said the Secretary of the Treasury, Rogelio Ramírez de la O.

In addition to public reconstruction in Acapulco, the Government will allocate the largest amount of resources, 10,471 million pesos (581.7 million dollars), in direct cash delivery to affected homes, which will receive up to 60,000 pesos (3,333 dollars).

On the other hand, the Government will exempt the payment of value added taxes (VAT) and income taxes (ISR) until February, which will cost 9,109 million pesos (506 million dollars).

It will also give a six-month extension in the payment that companies and employees make to the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), and to the housing institutes for workers (Infonavit and Fovissste), which will cost 9,001 million pesos (500 million Dollars).

For the private sector, the Ministry of Finance will support 373 hotels with the payment of half of the interest they contract with commercial banks, which would cost 5,000 million pesos (almost 278 million dollars).

And to the victims, the Government will deliver a basket of basic products to 250,000 families for three months, for which it will allocate 3,250 million pesos (180.5 million dollars), in addition to 4,000 million pesos (222.2 million dollars ) in a package of household goods, such as stoves and washing machines.

The rest of the resources are distributed in areas such as social programs and forgiveness of electricity payments.

President López Obrador, who has promised to “get Acapulco back on its feet” by Christmas, asserted that “there are unlimited resources when it comes to benefiting the people.”

“It is important to say, in general, that we have a budget to finance all these needs, these programs, and that we do not consider them or do not consider allocating these resources as expenses, if not it is an investment, fortunately we have healthy public finances,” held.

This is the first support plan and the first official damage estimate offered by the Government of Mexico after Otis, which hit the southern coast of Guerrero last Wednesday as a category 5 after a record intensification.

The Jewish cemetery in Vienna, the capital of Austria, was the target of an attack perpetrated by unknown persons who set fire to a ceremonial hall and painted swastikas on the walls of the premises, as reported this Wednesday by the municipal authorities, as well as the Jewish Community of Vienna ( IKG).

In a statement, the press service of the City of Vienna explained that firefighters received a fire alert at 08:00 local time (06:00 GMT) today in the Central Cemetery, where the Jew is located.

“It turned out that during the night a fire had broken out in a part of the ceremony room in the Jewish part of the cemetery,” the note states.. He adds that the fire was almost extinguished when the firefighters arrived, who put out the embers. The cause is being investigated by the police, the statement concludes.

“The anteroom of the ceremonial hall was burned,” the president of the IKG, Oskar Deutsch, also reported on X (formerly Twitter).

“Swastikas were painted on the exterior walls (of the building). No one was injured. “Firefighters and police are investigating,” the brief message added.

“I hope that the perpetrators will be identified quickly,” wrote Austria's federal chancellor, the conservative Karl Nehammer, after “strongly condemning the attack on the Jewish cemetery in Vienna.”

“Anti-Semitism has no place in our society and will be fought with all political and legal means,” added the head of Government in a brief statement also published in X.

As in other countries, Austria has seen a sharp increase in anti-Semitic incidents since the terrorist attack against Israel perpetrated by the Islamist group Hamas on October 7, in which 1,400 people were murdered and more than 200 kidnapped.

Israel reacted by declaring war on Hamas, with intense bombings and army incursions into the Gaza Strip that, according to Gaza authorities, have so far caused more than 8,000 deaths.

At least four people have died and a dozen have been injured after Russian forces launched the most intense attacks so far this year throughout the last night and on Wednesday morning.. The Minister of the Interior of Ukraine, Igor Klimenko, stated this Wednesday that this is the day with the highest number of cities and municipalities attacked since the beginning of the year, with around 118 localities affected spread across ten regions. Nikopol, located in Dnipropetrovsk province, the center of the city of Kherson, the town of Kupiansk in Kharkiv and the village of Pivzhne, in Donetsk, were the places where the four people died.

Half a thousand Palestinians with dual nationality crossed the Rafah crossing from Gaza on Wednesday towards Egypt, in parallel with the entry into the Palestinian side of dozens of ambulances to transfer wounded Gazans to Egyptian hospitals.

Sources at the Rafah crossing told EFE that this “first group” of Palestinians with dual nationality “are finalizing the procedures that allow them to be in Egyptian territory,” and did not rule out authorizing “other holders of foreign passports” to cross. towards Egypt.

They also highlighted that this permit follows an agreement between the Egyptian and Israeli authorities, with the mediation of Qatar and the United States, for the departure from Gaza of “some 500 foreign passport holders” of the Palestinian enclave.

Egypt, which categorically rejects the movement of Palestinian refugees to the Egyptian Sinai, has repeatedly accused Israel of imposing restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza and the departure of foreigners from the enclave.

The Egyptian authorities have also shown on several occasions their willingness to allow foreigners of various nationalities to cross the border, as long as they then travel to their respective countries.

The departure of Palestinians of dual nationality coincided with the entry today to the Palestinian side of Rafah, the only entrance and exit to the Palestinian territory under siege that is not in the hands of Israel, of dozens of Egyptian ambulances to transport “seriously wounded” by the Israeli bombings of the enclave to receive treatment in Egyptian hospitals.

Doctors without Borders of Spain and France

The Gaza Interior Ministry confirmed this Wednesday that it has authorized the departure of foreigners of various nationalities from the Strip, under the control of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

The General Agency for Crossings and Borders in Gaza, dependent on the Ministry, indicated in a statement on its Facebook page that it summoned foreign passport holders in Gaza at 7:00 a.m. local time (05:00 GMT time) to cross into Egypt through the Rafa land pass.

It published a list of people of around 500 people, which includes both Palestinians with foreign passports and citizens of other countries, with nationalities such as Japanese, Austrians and Bulgarians, as well as workers from international organizations such as Doctors Without Borders Spain and France.

The list does not specify who has a US passport, although this is one of the largest groups within the Gaza Strip, since many of those who appear on this list are named as Palestinians with another passport or as “internationals.” .

The departure of dual nationality Palestinians coincided with the entry into the Palestinian side of Rafah, the only entry and exit from the Palestinian territory under siege that is not in the hands of Israel, of dozens of Egyptian ambulances to transport those “seriously injured” by the bombings. Israelis from the enclave to receive treatment in Egyptian hospitals.

The armed conflict in the Gaza Strip has taken another step towards its internationalization this Wednesday, after the Israeli Army has deployed anti-missile vessels in the Red Sea area, after having thwarted several attacks with missiles and drones by the group. Yemeni Shia of the Houthis in that area.

“In accordance with the assessment of the situation and as part of the defensive efforts in the area, Israeli Navy missile ships arrived in the Red Sea area yesterday,” said an Israeli Army spokesperson.

In the early hours of the morning, the spokesman had reported that Israeli forces “intercepted an aerial threat that was identified in the Red Sea area,” south of the tourist city of Eilat, located in the extreme south of Israel, next to Egypt. This event “did not pose any threat to civilians and no infiltration into Israeli territory was identified,” the spokesperson said.

These events occur a day after the Israeli Government threatened the Houthis with retaliation for the attacks they have launched following the war that broke out between Israel and the Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip on October 7.

So far, the Houthis have claimed at least three missile and drone attacks against Israel “in support” of the Palestinians, and warned that the operations “will continue” as long as Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip continues.

On Tuesday, the Israeli Army reported that its air defense systems intercepted a surface-to-surface missile that was fired towards its territory from the Red Sea area, and that its fighter jets were deployed due to a threat in that same area. which caused anti-aircraft alarms to be activated in the city of Eilat.

Israel denounced last Friday that “missiles and drones” launched by the Houthis against its territory hit two tourist towns in Egypt near the border, in an incident that according to Egyptian authorities caused at least six injuries.

Iran's allies

The spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Lior Haiat, referred to this incident through the social network Hezbollah, and the Palestinian militias Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

The Yemeni Houthis have warned on several occasions that they “will not sit idly by in the face of the genocidal war” in Gaza, warning that “crossing red lines forces Yemen to fulfill its religious and principled duty.”

Israel and the Palestinian militias in Gaza entered this Wednesday the 26th day of a war that has left more than 1,400 dead on the Israeli side and more than 8,300 in the Strip.

This has reignited tensions in the region and exchanges of fire between southern Lebanese militias against Israeli forces.