The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has put the number of displaced people in the Gaza Strip at one million a week after the war between Israel and Hamas broke out in that Palestinian territory.. Israel's evacuation order in the face of an imminent ground offensive in the Strip has encouraged the flight of hundreds of thousands of people in the northern half of the enclave, subject to continuous bombing, to head south.

The UN and other international aid organizations maintain that this mass exodus within Gaza, added to the total siege by Israel, will cause a humanitarian catastrophe.. For the WHO, Israel's ultimatum to evacuate the 23 hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip “is a death sentence for the sick and wounded.”

According to UN estimates, Gaza hospitals are expected to run out of fuel for their generators within two days, endangering the lives of thousands of patients.. Gaza's only power plant closed due to lack of fuel after Israel cut off its supply following the Hamas attack on October 7.

The situation in Gaza has practically reached a breaking point this Sunday. “The specter of death hangs over Gaza,” the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said in a message on Twitter.

“Without water, without energy, without food and without medicine, thousands of people will die in Gaza. “Clearly and simply,” Griffiths lamented.

Extreme situation in Gaza hospitals

At Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, intensive care rooms are packed with injured patients, most of them children under 3 years old.. Hundreds of people with serious injuries from explosions have arrived at the hospital, where they estimate they will run out of fuel this Monday, Dr. Mohammed Qandeel, consultant at the intensive care complex, told the AP agency.

According to what he said, there are 35 patients in the ICU who require ventilators and another 60 are on dialysis.. If fuel runs out, “it means that the entire health system will close,” he said.. “All these patients are in danger of death if the power supply is cut,” he added.

For his part, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, head of pediatrics at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, explained why he decided not to evacuate despite Israeli orders.

“There are seven newborns in the ICU connected to ventilators,” he said.. “We cannot evacuate, that would mean death for them and other patients under our care,” he added.. Meanwhile, patients continue to arrive there with amputated limbs, severe burns and other life-threatening injuries.. “It's terrifying,” he said.

“Hospital directors and health workers now face an agonizing choice: abandon critically ill patients in the middle of a bombing campaign, risk their own lives while remaining on site to treat patients, or endanger the lives of their patients by trying to transport them to facilities that do not have the capacity to receive them,” the WHO has warned.

Israeli military spokesman Colonel Peter Lerner has categorically rejected that Israel's evacuation ultimatums constitute a violation of international law.. What's more, for the spokesperson these orders are, in reality, a “humanitarian” measure.

“This whole idea of evacuating people to the south is part of our humanitarian means, so that we can continue fighting and attacking Hamas and prevent them from ever attacking our homes and massacring our babies,” Lerner said.

“That is why we are putting pressure on people to go to the south, because the conditions exist there to be relatively safer from the heart of the center of terrorism,” he added.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reported this Sunday the impact of a missile against the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, currently commanded by Spain, with no casualties reported.

A UNIFIL spokesperson, Andrea Tenenti, explained that “the Force's headquarters in Naqura has been attacked by a rocket,” according to the Lebanese newspaper L'Orient le Jour.

“We are investigating this incident, which has caused no injuries or victims,” added Tenenti, who has not specified the origin of the shot.

The Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has had a telephone conversation with the UNIFIL commander, Spanish General Aroldo Lázaro, who has also confirmed that there are no injuries as a result of the impact.

For his part, the acting Prime Minister of Lebanon, Nayib Mikati, has also contacted Lázaro “to ask him about the circumstances of the fall of a missile on the UNIFIL headquarters in Naqura” and to convey his “solidarity”, he reported. the presidency of the Council of Ministers in a statement, which also did not provide details about the origin of the projectile.

The border area has registered an upsurge in violence this Sunday with several missile attacks by the Shiite group Hezbollah against several points in northern Israel, which in turn has responded with artillery and aerial bombardments.

In this last week, Israeli forces and Hezbollah have engaged in a series of crossed attacks across the divide between both countries, an area in which there have also been some actions claimed by Palestinian factions present in Lebanese territory.

UNIFIL, made up of almost 10,000 blue helmets from 49 different countries and currently commanded by Spain, is deployed in the southern strip of Lebanon that goes from the de facto border with Israel to the Litani River.. Some 650 Spanish soldiers participate in the contingent, protected by resolutions 425 and 426 (1978) of the UN Security Council, later renewed in resolution 1701 of 2006.

Since the outbreak of border violence last Sunday, the Blue Helmets have repeatedly called on the parties to restraint and have insisted that they maintain constant contact with officials on both sides of the divide to avoid “misunderstandings.”

On Saturday, October 7, the Islamist group Hamas attacked several Israeli cities, unleashing Israel's response in the form of bombings on the Gaza Strip and the declaration of a state of war, and one of those targets was the Nova Music Festival, near from kibbutz Reim, in the middle of the Negev desert; which resulted in hundreds of deaths and the disappearance of Ido Nagar's wife, reported by the BBC.

Celine Ben David Nagar and Ido Nagar are parents to Ellie, a six-month-old little girl who has not heard from her mother for a week.

Celine left the attacks on Saturday with a couple of friends for the south of Israel, where they were going to attend the aforementioned festival, but they turned back when they began to hear the sounds of rockets in the distance, according to Gone to the Wall. BBC.

The three attendees of the music festival took refuge near Sderot from where Celine sent the last message to her husband: “Soldiers are coming”, “God, it was a mistake to come here.”

The father of the family received the message at 7:11 a.m. and when he read it he immediately went out in search of him, but “the military did not let him pass,” the BBC explains.

The next day, with the uncertainty of not knowing anything about his wife's whereabouts and without any new news from her and her companions, he found the car in which they had traveled with gunshot wounds.

The man did not lose hope and continued his search, which brought him a meeting with one of the survivors of the attack, who told him that the girl had survived, but her friends had died when Hamas militants threw grenades at the place where they were sheltering. as he told the BBC.

A week later, Ido's only certainty to continue searching for Celine is that her body has not been found.

Without eating and sleeping due to uncertainty

The Israeli couple lives near Tel Aviv, and, from his home, Ido says that this situation does not allow him to eat or sleep because “you are in a kind of crazy uncertainty” and “totally helpless.”

Now, his friends and family are in charge of bringing him “food and milk to feed Ellie, whom Celine was breastfeeding,” while he clings to any information that could clarify his wife's whereabouts.

“I try to fight this in every way I can think of, I try to be optimistic and have positive thoughts,” Ido tells the BBC, “I want to believe that she is alive there, in Gaza, and maybe she is taking care of the children who were kidnapped with her” and “I just hope she knows that we are fighting for her and that she tells herself that she will come home.”

During his telephone interview with the BBC “he burst into tears while trying to describe his wife, an administrative assistant at the law firm where he works, who grew up in France and is a French-Israeli citizen.”

An American has been found guilty of two crimes of negligence and illegal detention, after it was proven that he and his wife locked up their minor son in a structure measuring just under 3 meters by 3 meters without windows, during hours each day.

Tim Ferriter and his wife Tracy were arrested in 2022 and now face a 30-year sentence. The jury deliberated for approximately four and a half hours before reaching the guilty verdict.

Jurors in Palm Beach County, Florida, heard seven days of testimony, including hours of video footage from a surveillance camera that showed the inside of the small structure, in which the boy had only a bucket for a toilet.

As reported by TooFab, the cache, located inside the garage of the Ferriter home, was first discovered after the teenager escaped in January 2022.

The workers who built it had already alerted the police about the room. When authorities found the boy, he told police he was confined there for a period of 16 to 18 hours each day.

The teenager was previously locked in a similar structure at the family's former home in Arizona since he was 11 years old.. The boy allegedly had no other bedroom in either house.. Both Timothy and Tracy Ferriter, both 48, were arrested in February 2022.

Earlier this month, the Ferriters' son testified in court about the conditions inside the structure in which he was being held.. The boy, who has not been identified and was 14 years old at the time of his parents' arrests in 2022, took the stand in the case against his father.

While he described the mistreatment as “dehumanizing,” he also said he believed his parents made a “mistake” and that others should “forgive them and move on.”

The Ferriters' son testified that the 8-foot-long by 8-foot-wide windowless room was built inside the garage.. The structure had a double mattress on the cement floor, had no windows and had air conditioning and lights that the minor could not control, he said.. The boy claimed that he was sometimes kept in total darkness, with locks on the outside preventing him from going out alone.

“I had a bucket for my urine and my feces and that was it,” he added, adding that the room sometimes smelled “rotten.”. He also stated that he “received water occasionally, but not on a regular basis.”

The boy reported that he was sometimes brought into “the room by physical force” if he resisted, and stated that his father once “slapped” him in the face and “whipped” him with a rope.

During the trial, the defense said Tim Ferriter and his wife had to make “difficult decisions” about their son because of his behavioral problems.. A defense witness, Dr. Shiela Rapa, testified that the teen suffers from “reactive attachment disorder,” a condition in which a child does not form a healthy emotional bond with his or her parents or guardians.

Tim Ferriter's defense attorney, Prya Murad, argued the man's behavior was simply a case of “bad parenting” but did not rise to the level of criminality, saying the room was used to “watch” the boy.

Following Thursday's guilty verdict, Tim Ferriter was handcuffed and taken to jail. He faces up to 30 years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on November 16.. The defendant previously rejected a two-year plea deal.

At least one person has died and 120 have been injured after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, followed by four aftershocks of between 5.4 and 4.4, that hit western Afghanistan this Sunday, the WHO reported in an area where more than a thousand people have died as a result of a series of seismic movements that began last week.

“A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Afghanistan's Herat province again this morning. So far, more than 120 injured people have been brought to the Herat regional hospital, and many others have been taken to other hospitals in the city,” the WHO said on the social network X, formerly Twitter.

The organization, whose teams work alongside hospital staff in Herat, has shared images of patients receiving medical treatment outside the hospital.

The spokesman for the governor of Herat province, Nisar Ahmad Elyas, has confirmed that at least one person has died during the earthquakes this Sunday.

The Bhaktar agency, the official media of the interim Taliban government, has raised the number of fatalities to two and has warned that this number “could probably increase” in the coming hours.

A first earthquake of magnitude 6.5 was recorded in the province of Herat around 08:00 local time (05:30 peninsular time), at a depth of 6.3 kilometers and about 30 kilometers north of the capital, according to the USGS.

Half an hour later, a second earthquake of magnitude 5.4 again hit the province about 10 kilometers north of Herat.. The province has recorded a total of four aftershocks, the last of them measuring 4.4 at 12:34 local time (10:04 peninsular time).

This Afghan region was shaken last Saturday by several earthquakes of up to 6.3 magnitude, and successive aftershocks of considerable intensity that left some 20 villages destroyed.

Although the interim Taliban government initially estimated more than 2,400 dead and 2,000 injured, the Ministry of Disaster Management this week lowered the death toll to around a thousand.

The weak structure of the Taliban's de facto government and the disorganization of the agencies have complicated the rescue and distribution of humanitarian aid tasks, with many residents of Herat camped outdoors for fear of new aftershocks and with limited access to sources of food. running water or food.

Israel's ground offensive in Gaza is imminent. The objective is to completely dismantle the terrorist group Hamas, which last Saturday carried out a massacre with more than 1,300 victims in Israeli territory.. But Tel Aviv also has a very specific objective.

Yahya Sinwar is the current head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and experts consider him the Osama Bin Laden of Palestine. This 60-year-old radical is considered responsible for the massacre on October 7, and Israel wants to find and kill him.

The terrorist has been arrested by Israel several times and in fact spent 24 years in Israeli prisons. He was freed in 2011, as part of a prisoner swap for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

“Yahya Sinwar is the face of evil,” said Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht, spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in statements reported by the Daily Mail.. “He's the mastermind behind this, just like Bin Laden was,” Hecht adds.

“He built his career murdering Palestinians when he understood that they were collaborators. “This is how he became known as the butcher of Khan Younis,” adds the Israeli military spokesman.

Hecht has confirmed that Israeli troops will not rest until they find and kill him. “That man and his entire team are in our sights. We will get to him, he said, although he warned: “This could take a long time.”

A woman interrupted US President Joe Biden this Saturday with shouts in defense of the Gaza Strip during an event in Washington.

“Let Gaza live, a ceasefire now!” the protester shouted as Biden attempted to give a speech at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest US lobby group.. in defense of the LGTBIQ+ collective.

Faced with screams, the president interrupted his speech, but said he could not hear what the woman was saying: “Whatever she is saying, I can't hear her.”

The president's speech was focused on the defense of the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people, although he did speak at some point about the escalation of tension in Gaza, repeating what he had already said on other occasions during the week.

“We are witnessing the worst massacre of the Jewish community since the Holocaust. “We are seeing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” Biden declared.

Furthermore, he considered that the majority of people living in Gaza are “innocent Palestinian families who have nothing to do with Hamas.”

Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza

On Saturday, October 7, Hamas attacked several Israeli cities, to which Israel responded by declaring a state of war and bombing the Gaza Strip, representing the worst escalation in decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Israeli military now appears to be preparing for a ground invasion and has asked the 1.1 million Palestinians living in the northern Gaza Strip to move south.

The United States has not questioned this ultimatum from the Israeli Army, but US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, touring the region, has reaffirmed Washington's commitment to minimizing damage to civilians.

The Arab community has strongly condemned this massive displacement of Palestinians within the Gaza Strip, while the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, and the High Representative of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, have urged Israel to “seriously reconsider” that evacuation.

The Ministry of Health of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip has reported 300 Palestinian deaths in the last day, the highest daily figure since the start of Israeli retaliatory attacks.

The Ministry's latest balance sheet recorded 2,215 deaths since the start of the Israeli military offensive.. Among them there are 724 children and 458 women.

In addition, 8,714 injuries have been recorded, including 2,450 children and 1,536 women in the Israeli attacks in retaliation for the offensive by Palestinian militiamen who on October 7 stormed 22 Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip.

New stage

The Israeli Army has launched a new “phase of the war” against Hamas with the massive deployment of its troops on the border with the Gaza Strip, with a view to a “large force attack” that will reach areas of the enclave , scene of the massive departure of Gazans.

Meanwhile, air attacks against Hamas targets continue, in which two important leaders are said to have died: Murad Abu Murad, who is defined as one of the Hamas leaders who organized last Saturday's attack against Israel, and Ali Qadi, commander of the Hamas raid force known as Nujba and considered the main executor of the ground attack.

“I'm still alive,” said this Saturday morning a Gaza resident evacuated with his family to a school of Christian nuns, after the harsh Israeli bombings at night on the Strip, where the deaths increase by hundreds day after day and the The humanitarian situation is increasingly on the brink of collapse.

The interruption of telephone and internet connection in Gaza is increasingly prolonged and the information reaching outside the enclave is increasingly limited.

This is about 1.1 million people – around half of Gaza's population – who continue to move south this Saturday, while the Israeli Army gave an ultimatum until 3:00 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time) so that civilians who have not yet moved can move to the south of the enclave along specific roads.

The humanitarian crisis in the Strip is rampant due to the constant attacks by the Israeli Army that have left at least 2,115 dead and more than 8,714 injured, figures that in just one week of war are close to the 2,250 Palestinians who died in the 2014 conflict. with Israel that lasted for two months.

Among the fatalities are 724 minors and 458 women, which is more than half of the total number of deaths recorded since the beginning of the war, last Saturday, due to a surprise attack by the Islamist movement Hamas, which left more than 1,300 dead in Israel.

Faced with the avalanche of wounded, medical centers are suffering from a shortage of medicines and medical supplies, as well as a lack of electricity due to Israel's total siege of Gaza, which prevents the arrival of food, water, goods or fuel.

The catastrophe is perceived in the Al Awda hospital, in the city of Jabalia, located in the north of the enclave and which Israel asked to evacuate.

The center's health personnel, 35 doctors and nurses, refused to leave it due to the impossibility of removing the wounded, after the Israeli Army threatened to bomb the center and gave them 24 hours to leave, according to the official Palestinian news agency. Wafa.

WHO asks for medical supplies to enter

First of all, the World Health Organization (WHO) insists that Israel allow the entry of medical supplies from Egypt “to meet the urgent needs in Gaza,” and on Friday a plane with material landed in the Egyptian city of Al Arish, near of the Rafah border crossing, which connects Egyptian territory with the Strip.

“We are ready to deploy supplies as soon as humanitarian access through the crossing is established,” declared WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the social network to reconsider the decision to evacuate 1.1 million people.

The images of the destruction of almost entire neighborhoods and of residential buildings reduced to rubble prevail among the information that emerges more and more in dribs and drabs, while Israel declared that between last night and early today it bombed “on a large scale” Hamas targets, including which he said had caused “dozens of deaths” and had killed a head of the militia's air system.

“Hamas terrorists are hiding in terrorist tunnels located under houses in Gaza City and civilian buildings,” the Army alleged in relation to its extensive offensive.

For their part, local media said that the airstrikes left dozens dead and injured in the town of Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.. There were also attacks against the Nuseirat market, in the center of the enclave, and against the house of a Palestinian family in Khan Yunis, in the south, where there were a large number of dead and wounded who were still being collected from the rubble.

The harsh attacks have led to the annihilation of about 50 families whose members died almost entirely, which constitutes about 500 people, according to official sources cited by the digital Sanad.

Now, when there is speculation about an imminent land military incursion by Israel – which is accumulating troops, tanks and military vehicles on the perimeter of Gaza – the population displacement inside the Strip is reaching unprecedented numbers.

“In the last 12 hours alone, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said in a statement today.. According to him, “the exodus continues towards southern Gaza,” and “in just one week, almost a million people have been displaced.”

A week after the attack committed by Hamas militias against Israel, new images continue to appear of the ground incursion, which the Islamist militiamen took advantage of to capture as many civilians as possible, especially children, with the aim of using them as bargaining chips against the Government of Israel. This Saturday, Israeli troops released a new video in which militants are seen taking babies and small children hostage, before being taken to the Gaza Strip.

The images show Hamas members around a table outside a house, with several very young children around them.. One of these militiamen rocks a stroller with a crying baby inside, while others carry them on their laps and try to calm them by patting them on the back.

At another point in the images, a Hamas member is also seen walking with a baby in his arms through the living room of a home where furniture and fallen objects can be seen, as well as another giving orders to one of the children to drink from a cup.

“You can see their wounds, hear their screams and feel them tremble with fear as these children are held hostage in their own homes by Hamas terrorists and their parents lie dead in the next room. These are the terrorists we are going to defeat,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a message posted on Twitter.

These scenes were recorded during the massive infiltration of Hamas militiamen into Israeli territory last Saturday, where the radical Islamist group took about 150 hostages, mostly Israelis, but also foreigners, of all ages.

Following Israel's response to this attack, 26 hostages have now died in Gaza, according to Hamas, due to the intense Israeli bombing “of the places where they were prisoners” within the Strip.