The Polish Electoral Commission reported this Tuesday that the counting of votes for Sunday's general elections has been completed, with a victory without a majority for the Government party and the possibility of an alternative for the opposition.

According to official data, the government PiS (Law and Justice) obtained 35.38 percent of the support, the opposition Civic Platform 30.70 percent, the centrist Third Way coalition 14.40 percent, New Left 8, 61 percent and Confederation 7.16 percent of the votes.

In the absence of official statements from the respective leaders, the option of a coalition that brings together the liberal Civic Platform of former Prime Minister Donald Tusk and some of the other opposition parties is opening up, with the aim of removing the power to PiS, which has governed since 2015.

The projections describe a Parliament made up of 194 seats for PiS, 157 for Civic Platform, 65 for Third Way, 26 for Left and 18 for Confederation.

The simple majority obtained by the ultra-conservative party PiS, and its zero possibilities of forming any alliance, open the possibility that a multiparty pact led by PO could reach 248 deputies, considerably more than the 231 required for an absolute majority.

In the Senate, it is expected that the implicit pact that the opposition has formed during the last legislature will be maintained and that, after the results of Sunday's elections, they will be able to renew with the 64 seats that they will control by joining forces.

A passenger train that was traveling between Brussels and Strasbourg (France) to take MEPs and officials to the plenary session of the European Parliament ended up mistakenly at the Disneyland theme park station in Paris this Monday, with a delay of 46 minutes and many jokes from travelers on social networks.

The train driver made a mistake after leaving Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris and took the track that led to the Marne-la-Vallée Chessy station, located next to the well-known playground, confirmed the SNCF, the company that manages the French railway system. .

One of the parliamentary workers who was on the train explained to EFE that, approximately ten minutes after leaving the airport, the driver informed them over the public address system that he had taken the wrong route and that he had to correct the route, which he did in the station at the gates of Disneyland.

In total, he estimated, they were stopped for about 20 minutes and the arrival in Strasbourg was 46 minutes after the initially scheduled time.

“Team Disneyland,” wrote Dutch liberal MEP Samira Rafaela on X (formerly Twitter), sharing a photo from the cafeteria car with her socialist compatriot Mohammed Chahim.

It didn't take long for the reactions and memes to reach social networks, where jokes and comments such as the following have been shared:

The trip was part of the monthly trip that MEPs and their teams make from Brussels, where practically all committee and day-to-day work is carried out, to Strasbourg, where plenary sessions are held for four days each month.

Although this duplication of parliamentary venues has been criticized for being impractical and for the carbon footprint it leaves, the holding of twelve plenary sessions a year in the French city is guaranteed by European treaties and Paris defends it staunchly.

The Belgian Government's National Crisis Center has announced that it is raising the terrorist threat level for the Brussels-Capital region to 4, the maximum, in response to the incident in which at least two people were shot dead by an individual.

“Threat level 4 for the Brussels-Capital region. Greater vigilance required. Avoid unnecessary travel,” the National Crisis Center has published on its Twitter account.

The Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo, has already conveyed his “heartfelt condolences” to the families of “this cowardly attack” perpetrated in Brussels.. “I am closely following the situation together with the Ministers of Justice and Interior from the National Crisis Center,” he explained, while asking the population of Brussels to “be attentive.”

The Minister of the Interior, Annelies Verlinden, has warned of a “horrible shooting in Brussels”. “We are looking for the person responsible. The police and prosecutor's investigation is underway. “I am following the situation and the measures to be taken with the National Crisis Center,” he explained.

Police sources cited by the regional media group Sudinfo indicate that a man opened fire indiscriminately with a Kalashnikov-type rifle shouting “Alahu akbar!”. The attacker was wearing a helmet and a reflective vest and fled on a moped.

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) published this Monday a first video of a 21-year-old French-Israeli hostage who remains held in the Gaza Strip after the attack by the Palestinian group on the electronic music festival in southern Israel.

“Hello, my name is Mia Schem. I am 21 years old and I am from Shoham. Right now I'm in Gaza. I returned early Saturday morning from a party in Sderot. I seriously injured my hand. They brought me to Gaza and took care of me in the hospital here,” he explains in the recording, subtitled in Arabic and collected by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

The young woman, who appears looking at the camera on a brown background after several shots in which a person adjusts the bandages on her hand, has asked to be taken home “soon” to reunite with her family.. “Please get me out of here as soon as possible,” the young woman asks, speaking in Hebrew.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed this Monday that 199 people are being held by Palestinian militiamen in the Gaza Strip, a new official figure that the Army has made public after having notified their respective families.

Israeli authorities reported that they had recovered more than 250 bodies at a music festival venue in the Negev desert when Palestinian militias carried out armed raids.

The music festival was organized to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.. It started at 11pm on Friday and lasted all night with thousands of attendees, mostly Israelis between 20 and 40 years old.

At least two people have died and several have been injured this Monday after the gun attack near Saintelette Square in Brussels. The shooting occurred shortly after 7:00 p.m., when the individual began shooting with a large-caliber weapon, according to police sources.

Belgian Police prioritize terrorist hypothesis. In addition, several videos have appeared on social networks. One of them can be seen at the moment of the attack, where you can see how a man with an orange reflective jacket and a white helmet arrives on a motorcycle on a sidewalk, throws the vehicle and begins shooting from both sides.

Shortly after, he enters a glass building where he shoots a person who immediately falls to the ground.. In the background, several citizens who witness the scene flee the scene.

In another video, the alleged attacker appears in the foreground and proclaims his membership in the Islamic State and boasts of having killed several infidels.. The speech vindicates his action to “avenge Muslims in the name of those of us who live and die for our religion.”

He had also previously published a message about the six-year-old Palestinian boy murdered this Sunday by a 71-year-old man in Chicago “for being Muslim.”. If he had been a Christian “we would have called it terrorism and not a brutal crime,” he alleged.. Belgian police have not yet linked the people in the videos to the attack.

At least two people have died and several more have been injured by firearms in an incident that occurred shortly after 7:00 p.m. near Saintelette Square in Brussels.. A man, dressed in a bright orange jacket, opened fire “indiscriminately”, according to the Belgian press, in a busy area, near the Grand Place, ending the lives of both Swedish nationals.. In addition, there is a third person injured.

At this time, the Belgian Police are prioritizing the hypothesis that it is a terrorist attack because, in addition, the person involved has fled shouting “Alahu akbar!”. A search and capture device has been deployed after the man fled carrying a Kalashnikov and the Government has raised the terrorist alert to the maximum level, 4, which represents “a serious or imminent threat”. In addition, the authorities have asked citizens to avoid going out and not to make unnecessary trips, and on the other hand, France has reinforced controls on the border with Belgium.

“We live for our religion and we die for our religion,” he reportedly said before shooting, according to the newspaper Le Soir.. The event occurs precisely on the day that the Belgian and Swedish teams face each other in a qualifying match for the 2024 European Football Championship; The match was suspended at half-time.

The recording of the attack, published by a resident of the area, shows how a man with an orange reflective jacket and white helmet arrives on a motorcycle on a sidewalk, throws the vehicle and begins shooting from both sides.. Shortly after, he enters a glass building where you can see him shooting a person who immediately falls to the ground.

In another video, the alleged attacker appears in the foreground, identifies himself as Slayem Slouma and proclaims his membership in the Islamic State and boasts of having killed “three Swedes” whom he describes as “infidels.”. The very violent speech vindicates his action to “avenge the Muslims in the name of those of us who live and die for our religion.”. Slouma had previously published a message about the six-year-old Palestinian boy murdered this Sunday by a 71-year-old man in Chicago “for being Muslim”. If he had been a Christian “we would have called it terrorism and not a brutal crime,” he alleged.

The reactions have not been long in coming. The first, that of the Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander de Croo, who assured that he was following the situation “together with the Ministers of Justice and the Interior” and has offered full collaboration to the Swedish citizens displaced to the Belgian capital.. The president of the European Council, Charles Michel, spoke along the same lines: “The heart of Europe is struck by violence. My heart goes out to the families of the victims of the deadly attack in the center of Brussels. “My support to the Belgian authorities and the security services who are monitoring the situation.”

For her part, the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, has published that “terrorism and extremism cannot infiltrate our societies. People should feel safe. “Hate will not win”. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, reiterated “the union of all against terrorism.”

“I came to visit Gaza, my (American) passport expired and then the US Embassy did nothing to help us,” laments Eilen al Tauil, a Palestinian-American, who has tried to leave through the Rafah crossing on several occasions. dodging Israeli bombings. “It's being very hard, we don't have water in the sinks or bathrooms,” adds an American woman from Salt Lake City (Utah, USA), also waiting to flee the Strip.

Al Tauil remains waiting for the border with Egypt to open after the announcement of a humanitarian corridor that has never been launched. It's not the only one. Without water, electricity or internet, a crowd of desperate Palestinians gathered this Monday at the Rafah crossing, which connects the Gaza Strip with Egypt, in the hope that humanitarian aid would arrive that has not yet arrived, in the midst of the rumors that the pass was going to open.

However, the hours passed and the crossing remained closed for the Palestinians, who saw a ray of hope in the early news that appeared in the media indicating that the crossing was going to be open between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. local time ( 06:00 and 12:00 GMT time). Specifically, they were waiting for eight aid trucks to enter the Strip with humanitarian assistance and for Palestinians with foreign passports, especially American ones, to be allowed to leave the enclave, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, towards Egypt.

All this amid information indicating that there was an agreement between Egypt, the US and Israel for a ceasefire in the Strip, which was later denied by the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Neither ceasefire nor humanitarian aid in exchange for the departure of those with foreign passports. This is how categorical Netanyahu's office was when it came to denying this information, despite the fact that on Sunday the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, announced in Cairo an agreement with the involvement of the UN, Egypt and other actors to open Rafah's move to assistance.

However, if this aid crossed the border crossing, it would be difficult to access the Gazans, since, as EFE was able to verify this Monday, the two main streets of Rafah through which the 8 trucks would have to pass from the crossing are completely bombed. Even so, these difficulties did not deter many Palestinians who approached the crossing this Monday, not even the Israeli bombings, such as the one that occurred in the vicinity of the border post.

Not far from Al Tauil, Ayam, a 17-year-old girl with a British passport, was also waiting for the opening of the crossing. “We are trying to leave, we came here two days ago, but it was not open and we returned home. Today we returned early in the day,” he tells EFE, while pointing out that due to the lack of internet connection, every time they hear a bomb they don't know where it comes from.

Ayam and her family members aspire to leave for Egypt if the passage opens at some point, because, as the teenager explained, the situation in the Strip is “terrible.”

“Not a liter of drinking water”

Hamas stated this Monday that for the tenth consecutive day Israel has not pumped “not even a liter of drinking water” to the enclave, despite the fact that the Israeli authorities announced this Sunday that it had resumed partial supplies.

Hamas Ministry of Interior and National Security spokesman Iyad Al Bozum stressed in a statement that the cutting off of drinking water “is forcing Gazans to drink contaminated water.” He predicted that this will lead to a health crisis that will threaten the lives of citizens living in the Strip.

Currently getting a bottle of water in Rafah is impossible, as EFE was able to verify by visiting hundreds of small stores in search of liquid suitable for consumption.

A truck with tap water has arrived in Rafah and Khan Yunis and has been distributed among Gazans, although in a limited way, only 20 liters per family, so many are resorting to boiling it to kill possible bacteria.

Tension has increased enormously since Hamas launched, on October 7, an attack by land, sea and air from Gaza that caused at least 1,400 deaths, the vast majority civilians, and has unleashed a harsh counterattack by Israel, which has carried out ten days bombing the Gaza Strip, leaving at least 2,808 Palestinians dead and 10,850 injured.