Two weeks have passed since Hamas made a surprise attack on Israel, killing nearly 1,400 people and kidnapping more than 200.. Thus, since last October 7, the international community has had its attention focused on this war that is intensifying more every day and, little by little, is covering more countries in the Middle East.

While the Israeli Army reinforces its plans and maneuvers to carry out a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip with the aim of ending Hamas, the Air Force continues bombing various points in the region. “In recent days, plans have been approved to expand operational activities,” the Israeli Army said in a statement this Saturday.

“We will enter the Gaza Strip. “We will begin an operational and professional mission to destroy Hamas operatives and infrastructure and will also keep in our minds the images, the scenes and the fallen from two weeks ago,” said Israel Defense Forces Chief Lieutenant General Herzi. Halevi.

Thus, Israel has intensified its bombing of Gaza in the last 24 hours. In a press conference this Sunday, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari assured that the Army has accelerated the pace of attacks on the Strip since Saturday while continuing to attack “dozens of terrorist targets,” according to military sources.

In addition to Gaza, the Palestinian region of the West Bank, controlled by the Israelis since 1967, is also suffering the consequences of this conflict, reaching its highest peak of violence since 2006, when the Second Intifada ended.. Israeli forces are carrying out raids and attacks in the West Bank to find alleged members of Hamas.

In these operations they use firearms with live bullets, tear gas canisters and sound grenades, in addition to resorting to air attacks.. Thus they have arrested more than half a thousand suspects: this Saturday alone they have arrested 89 “suspected of being involved in terrorist activities, 68 of whom are Hamas agents.”

However, although Gaza has become the main theater of this conflict, tensions are increasing in other territories that share a border with Israel, such as Lebanon and Syria.

Crossed attacks between Hezbollah and Israel

Israel's border with Lebanon is experiencing its most tense moment in decades. So much so, that the Netanyahu Government this Sunday ordered the evacuation of another fourteen communities in the north, close to the Lebanese border, while at the same time intensifying its attacks against Hezbollah infrastructure.

In this sense, the increasingly frequent exchange of fire between both troops is increasing fear that the war will spread to Lebanon.. In the last week, the level of violence has progressively increased until it has become an almost constant crossroads of attacks against increasingly larger geographical areas.

And this Shiite militia has launched dozens of anti-tank missiles, rockets and mortars towards Israeli soil, where they have tried to infiltrate; to which Israel has responded with intense attacks with artillery and also by air. In this way, Hezbollah would have been “escalating the situation,” as confirmed this Sunday by the spokesman for the Israeli forces Jonathan Conricus, who has defended that his side's response has so far been “measured” and “tactical.”

“The way it looks now, Hezbollah is attacking and dragging Lebanon into a war in which it will gain nothing, but in which it can lose a lot,” warned the Israeli spokesman, who warned that the Shiite group “is playing a very, very dangerous game” and has asked the Lebanese Government to consider whether it is willing to put at risk “what remains of its prosperity and sovereignty” for the “terrorists” of Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) thus denounce “the attacks that Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations backed by Iran have perpetrated against Israel. “Israel is only defending itself,” they affirm, justifying that it is the Shiite group that is attacking and blaming to the Lebanese authorities “of everything that happens on its territory.”

The Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, for his part, has insisted that they do not want a conflict and that they are maintaining contacts to try to contain the situation.. However, the view in Lebanon is that the decision is not in the hands of the state, but rather Hezbollah.

From this movement, its deputy secretary general, Naeem Qassem, assured this Saturday that the group “will intervene in the war” if necessary and that if Israeli troops begin a ground incursion into Gaza, it will be a “cemetery for the enemy.”. In contrast, Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah, accustomed to giving televised speeches from an unknown location, has not spoken since the outbreak of border violence.

Likewise, the United States has also entered this clash between Israel and Lebanon to warn that the entry of Lebanese troops into the war would have “consequences.” The American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has highlighted “the importance of respecting the interests of the Lebanese people, who would suffer the consequences if Lebanon is dragged into the conflict.”

Tension with Syria increases

Another of the States that is being involved in the conflict is Syria, which precisely denounced this Sunday that an Israeli missile attack has disabled the two airports in Damascus and Aleppo and has caused one death. This new attack against international airports, the third so far this month, took place during the early hours of the morning, a Syrian military source reported.

“The Israeli enemy simultaneously carried out an aerial attack with missile bursts from the Mediterranean, west of Latakia, and from the occupied Syrian Golan, against the international airports of Damascus and Aleppo,” the source said, according to the official agency. SANA news syria.

“The attack caused the death of a civilian worker at the Damascus airport, injuries to another worker and material damage to the landing strips of the two airports, which left them out of service,” he added.

Israel has not commented on this attack, but its Army understands that Syrian airports are used by militias to import weapons from Iran, a declared enemy of Israel and an active participant in the Syrian war in collaboration with the Government of Damascus.. In addition, Israeli forces attack Syrian territory relatively frequently, most of the time with missiles by its aviation and somewhat less by land from its side of the border.

Local activists have reported that Iranian and pro-Iranian militias are already strengthening their presence in southern and eastern Syria.. And, given Israel's threats to eliminate Hamas, there is fear that a joint response will be initiated from southern Lebanon and also from Syria to prevent the disappearance of its ally.

Since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas, armed groups have launched projectiles from Syria into Israeli territory, from where they have responded with artillery and mortars.. For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has explained that these attacks are attributed to “factions that work with Hezbollah”, also present in Syrian territory.

Israel warns its citizens not to travel to Egypt, Jordan or Morocco

The tensions are not only between the borders of Lebanon and Syria, but are gradually spreading to other neighboring countries: Israel raised the alert level this Saturday and issued a warning for its citizens not to go to Egypt, Jordan or Morocco

The Government has issued this warning due to the risk that its citizens will be targets of attacks in the middle of the war with the Palestinian Islamist militias in Gaza. In a joint statement from the National Security Council, the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israelis in these countries are also asked to leave them “as soon as possible.”

“Due to the continuation of the war, in recent days another significant upsurge in protests against Israel has been detected in several countries, especially in the Arab countries of the Middle East, along with signs of hostility and violence against Israeli and Jewish symbols” , indicates the statement. “The rhetoric of global jihad has become more extreme, requiring harm to Israelis and Jews around the world,” he adds.

The Peace Summit ends without an agreement

Faced with this situation, leaders and representatives of European and Arab countries attended the Peace Summit organized by Egypt in order to address the “Palestinian question” and seek ways to de-escalate the conflict.. However, it ended without a final joint statement.

The 34 countries and international organizations that participated in the meeting, which did not include Israel, have not been able to reach an agreement due to the different positions they maintain on the war in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas.

Thus, the Egyptian presidency issued a statement highlighting that the conflict has revealed “a deficiency in the values of the international community when addressing crises.”

“The international scenario in recent decades has revealed a serious deficiency in finding a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian question, because it was about managing the conflict and not putting a permanent end to it.”

The Rafah border crossing, which connects Egypt with the Gaza Strip, opened this Sunday for the second consecutive day to allow the entry of 17 trucks of humanitarian aid, local media reported.

Egyptian television Al Qahera News broadcast live the entry of these vehicles through Rafah towards Gaza.

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The war between Ukraine and Russia, which occurred after the invasion of the first country by Putin's troops, has been stuck for months in a bloody conflict that does not seem to be moving forward.

In addition to the civilian population, soldiers on both sides are subject to this situation and, in particular, the Russians are beginning to suffer anxiety due to inactivity.

As reported by the Mirror in its edition this Sunday, many are turning to hallucinogenic drugs and vodka to cope with the day-to-day life of the conflict.

According to this medium, soldiers smoke salts, which causes hallucinations and generates paranoia. Some are affected more than others by stress and take all the drugs they can, plus vodka.

There are reports that approximately one in 10 soldiers smoked marijuana at the front, while many others use a synthetic drug called alpha-PVP.

“They take drugs out of boredom,” said a soldier quoted by the Mirror, who added: “War is when you are constantly waiting for something, sometimes praying for it to all end,” he says.. Despite the serious effects, “boredom is much worse.”

Right now, both Russia and Ukraine face some uncertainty about the amount of weapons they have for their war efforts in the near future.

Ukraine is five months into a counteroffensive that has depleted Russia's reserves but apparently only hit its frontline defenses, and both countries are planning to replenish their reserves by 2024.

Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old Iranian teenager, was admitted into a coma on October 1 at the Fajr hospital after she was allegedly beaten by the 'Moral Police' for not wearing the hijab when she was in a metro station in Fajr. Tehran and, in the last few hours, it has emerged that he is “brain dead”, according to Iran's public media, which is reminiscent of the notorious case of Mahsa Amini.

“Follow-ups on Armita Geravand's most recent health status indicate that she is brain dead despite the efforts of medical staff,” reported the Borna news agency, which reports to the Iranian Sports Ministry.

The first information, collected by IranWire, stated that the young woman had a “cranial trauma” when she was transferred to the Iranian Air Force medical center, due to a fall “during a confrontation in the subway.”

However, new official versions of what happened emerged with a video broadcast by the official IRNA news agency in which Geravand's mother declared that her daughter had fainted after losing consciousness due to a drop in blood pressure.

Along these lines, Borna repeats the official version of events and that Geravand, a 16-year-old student at the Arwa al Waghgi Technical and Vocational University, “suddenly fainted when she was boarding a subway car and fell on her back” and was taken to the hospital center by ambulance with the help of metro station staff.

This information has also been collected by the Tasnim news agency, dependent on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the elite military and ideological body of the Iranian Armed Forces.

The young woman, a resident of Tehran, was at the Shohada metro station in the Iranian capital when she was allegedly attacked by members of the 'Moral Police', the body in charge of ensuring correct compliance with Islamic dress, for not wear the veil, according to information from media related to the opposition.

The Iranian media broadcast images from the security cameras in which several people take the young woman out of the car “after suffering a drop in tension”, although there is no trace of the previous moments, so several NGOs, including Iran Human Rights (IHR), suspect that the authorities are trying to cover up the incident.

As part of the event, a journalist from the Shargh newspaper sent to the scene to cover the events was detained, although she was later released.. The alleged aggression of the young woman is reminiscent of the death of the young Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini, which led to massive protests against the Government of Iran.

The president of the board of a synagogue in Detroit, Michigan (USA) was found dead on Saturday morning with multiple stab wounds outside her home, as reported by CNN citing the police.

The victim, Samantha Woll, was the president of the board of the Isaac Agree Downtown synagogue, which is located in downtown Detroit, as the center itself explained on Facebook.

“We are shocked and saddened to learn of the unexpected death of Samantha Woll, our board president,” the synagogue said. “May his memory be a blessing,” they add.

Officers were alerted Saturday morning about a person lying on the ground unresponsive and when they arrived at the scene, they found a “trail of blood” leading to Woll's home, according to a statement from the Police Department. Detroit.

Police believe the crime took place inside his home.. Officers found Woll's body with multiple stab wounds and she was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.

The Detroit Police Department said the case had been assigned to its homicide unit for investigation. Police Chief James White said in a statement Saturday that the stabbing is being fully investigated and the motive is not yet known.

“Understandably, this crime leaves many unanswered questions,” White said.. “This matter is under investigation and I ask that everyone be patient as investigators carefully examine every aspect of the available evidence,” he added.

“It is important that no conclusions be drawn until all available facts are reviewed,” White said, adding that new details about the investigation would be released Sunday.

The FBI in Detroit is assisting police in the investigation, the agency said in a statement to CNN.. According to Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the Michigan State Police have also been assigned to support local law enforcement officials in the investigation.

The American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, warned the Lebanese Prime Minister, Nayib Mikati, this Saturday that entering the war would have “consequences” for the Lebanese people.

The head of US diplomacy has highlighted “the importance of respecting the interests of the Lebanese people, who would suffer the consequences if Lebanon is dragged into the conflict caused by the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.”

The State Department has reported this telephone conversation in which Blinken has conveyed his “condolences” to the families of the Lebanese civilians “who have tragically lost their lives as a result of the conflict.”

Blinken has reiterated the “continued support of the United States to the Lebanese Armed Forces and the Internal Security Forces, the only legitimate guarantor of the stability and territorial integrity of Lebanon.”

Hezbollah claims six attacks

The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah claimed to have launched six attacks against northern Israel this Saturday, most of them with missiles or rockets, and to have suffered three casualties, amid an escalation of tension on Lebanon's southern border with Israel, which It lasts for almost two weeks.

According to a statement from the Shiite formation, the first action this afternoon was carried out with guided missiles and “other weapons” against a series of military posts in the Cheba Farms and the hills of Kfar Chouba, territories controlled by the Jewish State that the Lebanon claims as its own that it suffered similar attacks throughout this week.

The Israeli Government has criticized the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg for her latest message on X, formerly Twitter, in support of the Palestinian population and has reproached her for “Hamas does not use sustainable materials for its rockets.”

“Week 270. Today we express our solidarity with Palestine and Gaza. The world must speak out and call for an immediate ceasefire, justice and freedom for Palestinians and all affected civilians.. #FreePalestine #ImWithPalestine #WeareWithGaza,” says Thunberg's message.

The text is accompanied by a photograph in which Thunberg herself appears holding a sign with the slogan “We stand with Gaza.”. Three other people appear with signs with the phrases “Free Palestine”, “Climate justice now!” and “This Jewess is with Palestine.”

The Israeli Government has responded from its official account on X alleging that “Greta Thunberg, Hamas does not use sustainable materials for the rockets that have MASSACRED innocent Israelis. The victims of the Hamas massacre could have been your friends. Speaks”. In the message there are three photographs of two women and a 19-year-old man who died in the Hamas attack.

Other users of the social network have highlighted that Thunberg has supported the Palestinians, not Hamas, or have reproached Israel for “playing the victim card.”

However, other voices such as that of the anti-Semitism commissioner of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, Michael Blume, have criticized Thunberg's message as “dualistic, false and that trivializes terrorism.”. Blume has denounced the “widespread anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism” in the Fridays for Future movement led by Thunberg.

A few hours after learning of Hamas's decision to release two American citizens, Judith and Natalie Raanan, mother and daughter, the latter's father, Uri Raanan, stated that they are well, happy and eager to return home.

“I talked to my daughter today. Sounds great, looks great. “She was very happy and is waiting to come home,” he said at a press conference from Bannockburn, the municipality in the state of Illinois where they reside.

His ex-wife, he explained, has “a small scratch on her hand” but “it's nothing, she's fine.”

The spokesman for the Al Qasam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced this Friday the release of the two American hostages (who were in Israel visiting relatives) for “humanitarian reasons”, after mediation by Qatar.

He stated that they have adopted this gesture to “demonstrate to the American people and the world that the claims made by Biden and his fascist Administration are false and unfounded.”

After being released, they underwent medical check-ups and received a phone call from President Biden.. The US embassy in Jerusalem published a photograph through the social network X (formerly Twitter) in which the two women appear talking on the phone with the president, with smiling faces.

Also in X, Biden himself published a photograph in which he appears speaking on the phone, with a big smile, from the Oval Office.

“I just spoke with the two Americans freed after being held hostage by Hamas. I let them know that their government will fully support them as they recover and heal.. “Jill (the first lady) and I will continue to hold all the families of missing Americans close to our hearts,” the president declared.

Uri Raanan explained that his daughter has not told him anything about how the two weeks she has been held since Hamas militants orchestrated a wave of surprise attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip and kidnapped more than 200 people of various nationalities.. An event that caused Israel to declare war.

According to Raanan, the two women are expected to be back in the United States next week.. “Hopefully I'll be able to see them next week” and celebrate Natalie's 18th birthday, which is next Tuesday.

In the conversation with the media, Raanan explained that he first learned of the release when he began receiving photographs from Israeli television channels on his phone and that shortly after the Israel Defense Forces called him saying that they were going to reunite with his daughter and his mother.

Through a statement, Biden celebrated the release and stated that he will not stop until the rest of the hostages are freed.

“Since the first moments of the attack, we have been working day and night to free the Americans who were taken hostage by Hamas, and we have not slowed our efforts to secure the release of those still held,” he explained.

The release occurred two days after Biden visited Israel to demonstrate his country's “unwavering” support and defend the right of Israelis to defend themselves.

In addition, he compared Hamas to the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) and assured that the “atrocities” committed by the Palestinian organization make “Daesh” (another name for IS) seem more rational.

Exact number of hostages with US passports held by Islamists in Gaza unknown. There are currently 13 Americans missing and thirty dead after the attack that left more than 1,400 dead on Israeli soil.

The Palestinian group also kidnapped 250 hostages (200 that it says are in its hands and 50 in the hands of other Palestinian militias), although the Israeli Army has reduced that number to 203.

The Peace Summit for Gaza and the “Palestinian question” organized by Egypt in the so-called New Administrative Capital, east of Cairo, ended this Saturday without a joint final declaration from the 34 countries and international organizations that participated in the meeting.

Egypt, the country that called the meeting, issued a note in which it thanked the effort to seek consensus above political or religious positions to address this crisis and the situation in Israel and Palestine, and for its common position when it came to “seeing the importance of reevaluating the international strategy to address the conflict.”

Sources from the Spanish delegation evaluated the meeting positively despite the absence of a final declaration, as it was a very important step to mobilize the international community towards the reactivation of the fight for the coexistence of two States, Israel and Palestine, defended both by Spain and by the European Union for years.

In that sense, the same sources pointed out that Spain will have an important role in this reactivation, both for its help in defining the position of the 27 on this issue and for its privileged position for the necessary Euro-Arab dialogue.

From the first moment it was noted among those attending the meeting, which was held in the New Egyptian Administrative Capital, located about 50 kilometers east of Cairo, that there was a consensus in support of the idea of reactivating the solution of the ” two States” and coexistence for the Israel-Palestine conflict.

All those who expressed their opinion at the beginning of the meeting were categorical in defending the same ideas: the coexistence of two States is the only viable solution to the conflict, civilian lives must be protected everywhere and humanitarian aid must be able to enter the Gaza Strip.

Also noted, however, was the gap in sensitivity between the Arab world and the West when it came to assessing the situation of the Palestinians and the responsibilities for their situation.

In fact, Arab sources reported that the final declaration did not occur, despite agreement on many issues, due to the European refusal to hold Israel responsible for the deaths of civilians and to demand a ceasefire.

In their closing statement, Egypt and its president Abdel Fattah al Sisi stated that the initiative sought to “establish global consensus” to reject “violence, terrorism” and with requests to stop the ongoing war that has caused death. of thousands of innocent civilians in both Palestine and Israel.

Also, that the rules of international and humanitarian law be respected “which underline the vital importance of protecting civilians and not exposing them to dangers or threats.”

A German citizen who was reported missing since the Hamas attack on October 7 has been found dead in Israel, according to the newspaper Bild this Saturday.

Efrat Katz, 68, was in the Nir Oz kibbutz at the time of the terrorist attack, fifteen days ago, and since then she has been listed as missing and her relatives feared that she had been kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, but she is now missing. has confirmed his death with the discovery of his body.

His daughter Doron, 34, remains missing; his granddaughters Raz and Aviv, four and two, respectively; his partner, Gadi, 79 and co-founder of the kibbutz; and his ex-wife, Margalit, 79, seriously ill.

Gadi was taken away by the terrorists after he tried to negotiate with them, according to his relatives. In total, five of the founders of Nir Oz are in the hands of Hamas, Bild notes.

Yoni Asher, 37, Doron's husband, was able to identify his wife and daughter Raz in a video of the Hamas abductions.

Last Monday, the German Foreign Ministry referred to “eight cases” of missing people, although it specified that a case can include several people and a few days ago it put the number of dead nationals at less than ten.