The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, reiterated this Friday in an unusual speech during the Shabbat, the mandatory rest for Jews, that Israel will destroy the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) within the framework of an imminent ground offensive on the Gaza Strip. Loop.

“We will destroy Hamas and we will win, but it will take time,” said the Israeli prime minister, adding that they are fighting “like lions” and that this is “just the beginning,” according to The Times of Israel.

Netanyahu, who spoke this Friday with several families who have lost their loved ones due to the attacks of the Palestinian Islamist movement, stressed that Israel “will never forget” the “horrible acts” committed by the enemy.

Likewise, he recalled that the country has “tremendous international support”. This week, Israel has become a destination for diplomatic representatives of some of the main international powers.

In fact, this Friday the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, traveled to Israel to express their solidarity with the Israeli people in the midst of attacks that have already ended. with more than 1,300 civilians dead.

A journalist from the Reuters news agency has died and four other reporters have been injured in a bombing in southern Lebanon during a day of hostilities between the Israeli Army and Lebanese militias, as confirmed by the British media in a statement.

The deceased has been identified as cameraman Isam Abdullah, who “was part of a Reuters team in southern Lebanon that provided a live feed,” the media reported.

“We are urgently seeking more information, working with authorities in the region and supporting Issam's family and colleagues.. Our thoughts are with his family at this terrible time,” according to the news organization.

Reuters journalists Thaer al Sudani and Maher Nazeh have also been injured and are receiving medical attention, according to the agency, while a spokesperson for the outlet has limited itself to indicating that the reporter died “due to an artillery attack on the Lebanese border.” with Israel,” reports DPA.

For its part, the pan-Arab network Al Jazeera has confirmed that two of its reporters, identified as Carmen Youkadar and Eli Brakhia, have also been injured in this incident, which the channel's management blames on Israel.

The event took place when the vehicle was traveling through the Lebanese town of Alma el Chaeb, the scene this afternoon of an exchange of gunfire and artillery between the Israeli Army and “an unidentified party on the Lebanese side”, according to the Lebanese Army, in relation to the Hezbollah militias, which have ultimately claimed responsibility for these attacks.

Lebanese military sources also confirmed to the Lebanese newspaper L'Orient le Jour and the Lebanese TV network LBC Israeli hits against a military observation tower in the area.

For its part, the Israeli Army has reported in recent hours an explosion that has caused minor damage to a section of the security wall on the border with Lebanon, near the Hanita kibbutz, which has led Israeli forces to respond. with artillery fire against Lebanon to prevent possible infiltration.

Israel assures that it will maintain the blockade in Gaza until Hamas releases the hostages. “No electrical switch will be turned on, no hydrant will be opened and no fuel truck will enter until the kidnapped Israelis are returned home,” reads the message published this Thursday in X by the Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Israel Katz.

The number of hostages is unclear. Israel estimates that there are up to 200 kidnapped people, but Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim that there are around 130 people.. The UN has demanded that Hamas immediately release all of them. The truth is that its existence complicates and limits the operation that Israel is preparing against the Palestinian guerrilla, considered a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada, as well as by other powers, and, of course, Israel.

What options does Netanyahu have?

The return alive of the kidnapped is now the priority for many Israelis. But the context – which the Israeli Government understands as a response to the barbaric Hamas offensive – and their number rule out the possibility of an exchange.. In 2011, Israel exchanged hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to secure the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was detained for five years.

This is how things open up the option of a rescue. There is a precedent for this. In 1976, Tel Aviv carried out a hostage rescue mission in Uganda.. A plane was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists. It was Operation Entebbe or Thunderbolt, also known as Operation Uganda, that established a model for Israel in handling hostage situations: neither negotiate nor compromise.. The Israeli Executive already has a command ready like that of that 1976 rescue.

Air France Flight 139

On June 27, 1976, Air France Flight 139, an Airbus A300, was carrying 248 passengers and twelve crew members from Athens to Paris, but the plane came from Tel Aviv.. At noon, the plane was hijacked by two Palestinians from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-External Maneuvers (PFLP-ME) and two Germans from the German Revolutionary Cells.

The plane was diverted to Benghazi, Libya. He was there for seven hours to refuel.. The next day, the aircraft left the Libyan airport and landed at Entebbe airport, in Uganda.. There the kidnappers were joined by four others supported by the pro-Palestinian forces of Ugandan President Idi Amin.

What did the kidnappers want?

The group demanded the release of 40 Palestinians detained in Israel and another thirteen imprisoned in Kenya, France, Switzerland and West Germany.. If their demands were not made effective, they would begin killing hostages from July 1. They divided the abductees into two groups, separating into one the 105 who were Israeli citizens or non-Israeli Jews.

The terrorists freed the non-Jewish passengers, forcing them (some refused to abandon the rest) to board another Air France plane that had arrived in Entebbe for that purpose.. In the end, 85 Israelis or Jews remained detained, plus another twenty people, most of them crew members of the plane.. The kidnappers persisted in threatening to kill them if Israel did not agree to their demands.

29 commands

Israel tried diplomatic means to obtain the release of the hostages while preparing a military operation. On July 1, the date on which the deadline given by the kidnappers expired, the Israeli government offered to negotiate with them on the condition of extending the deadline until July 4.. With the mediation of Idi Amin, the extension was achieved. It was essential for the Israeli commando to have time to reach Entebbe.

On July 3, Israel's cabinet approved the rescue mission. Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, began to prepare the rescue based on the details provided by the hostages released in Paris.. Among them, a Jew with military training who gave information about the number and type of weapons of the terrorists was released by mistake.. In addition, it turned out that an Israeli company was involved in the construction of the Entebbe terminal in the 1960s and 1970s.. With his help, a partial replica of the building was built.

Benjamin Netanyahu's brother

Israel displaced a hundred people on land. The commando had to assault the terminal and rescue the hostages. It was made up of 29 soldiers, led by Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan Netanyahu (elder brother of today's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu). They were members of the elite Sayeret Matkal unit and elements of the parachute reconnaissance units and the Golani Brigade.. In addition, a reinforcement team was to, among other things, secure the area and destroy the MiG-17 squadron of the Ugandan Air Force on the ground.

Israeli commandos stormed the terminal on July 4, successfully rescuing 102 people and killing all the terrorists and several Ugandan soldiers.. Three hostages lost their lives in the crossfire. Netanyahu also died.

Do what we did in Uganda in Gaza?

Precedent suggests that Israel could opt for a decisive ground attack to secure the release of the hostages. This is reflected in the recent communication between the Israeli Prime Minister and the American President, Joe Biden, in which the Jew insisted on the need for a ground operation in Gaza.

By the way, the Israeli president also served in Sayeret Matkal, participating in several missions, including the rescue of the hijacked Sabena flight 571, during which he was shot in the shoulder. This elite unit still exists and has specialized in hostage rescue and reconnaissance missions.

Experts cited by The Telegram newspaper affirm that Israel will turn to Sayeret Matkal for his experience, but also to the Yamam special forces unit of the Israeli national police. The United States has offered to assist hostage rescue missions with planning and intelligence support.

Hostage crisis of unprecedented magnitude

“Israel has perfected the anti-terrorist hostage rescue mission.. “These units have been collecting intelligence and working closely with Mossad and Israel's Shin Bet service,” said Aaron Cohen, an Israeli special forces expert.

Any rescue mission risks causing the hostages to be executed at any moment

But things are much more complicated in Gaza than in that airport terminal. The enclave will supposedly be full of traps and defended by terrorist fighters. Enclave or enclaves because Tel Aviv does not have, as far as is known, information on whether the hostages are being held in a single location.

How many, where and how

What we do know is the enormous difference, numbers in hand, between what was in 1976 and what is now.. In Entebbe there were a few terrorists and several Ugandan soldiers; now there are hundreds of Hamas militants. In that kidnapping, three Jewish hostages and a member of the commando died; now the casualties could multiply.

Finally, what Israel now faces is a kind of war, unequal, but war. This is how the country feels. Given that Hamas has already threatened to begin executing its prisoners in response to Israeli attacks on Gaza, any rescue mission risks resulting in the hostages being executed at any moment.

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, arrived this Friday shortly before noon in Israel to convey their solidarity to the country for last Saturday's terrorist attacks by Hamas.

“I have arrived in Israel with the President of the European Parliament to express our solidarity with the Israeli people after the terrible terrorist attack by Hamas,” Von der Leyen wrote on the X social network.

“We are here with a message of solidarity after the worst terrorist attack that Israel has suffered in years. Terror will not prevail. How we respond matters. We can and must stop Hamas and do what we can to mitigate the humanitarian consequences,” Metsola said on the same platform.

The visit of the presidents of two of the most important EU institutions to Israel occurs six days after Hamas carried out its surprise attack by land, sea and air in Israel, which has left more than 1,300 dead – more than in the entire Second Intifada -, in addition to 3,200 wounded.

In Gaza, where the population is on the brink of the abyss, in a tide of destruction – without light, water or food – and without anywhere to go, the death toll from the bombings already exceeds 1,400 dead and 6,200 injured.

This Friday there was a stabbing at a high school in the French city of Arras (in the north of the country) that left a teacher dead and two others injured.. According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, the attacker – a former student – had entered the school and cut the teacher's throat while shouting Allahu Akbar (God is the greatest).

The events took place at 11:00 a.m.. Police sources have indicated to the BFMTV channel that the person stabbed was a teacher, while the director of the center is one of the injured, and that his condition is serious.. According to the aforementioned media, the third victim would be a technician at the center, whose life is in danger.

The assailant, about 20 years old and of Chechen origin, was being monitored by the secret services for his links to Islamic fundamentalism.. As a consequence, the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) has announced in a statement that it has taken charge of the investigation into charges of terrorist murder, attempted terrorist murder and terrorist association to prepare attacks.

Shortly after the event, a video recorded from the windows of the school itself has quickly circulated on social networks.. In the images you can see how the attacker, armed with a knife, attacks different people in the patio of the establishment. “It's the vice principal,” can be heard in the sequence.

Prince Lorenzo, little brother of King Philip of Belgium, assured this Friday that the monarchy is “a structure older than the Middle Ages” and that “it has not been sufficiently adapted” to the present.

“A royal family is based on a structure older than the Middle Ages. But this structure has not been sufficiently adapted until now, you could say that I live in the Middle Ages,” the prince declared in an interview published by the Flemish newspaper Nieuwsblad.

“What I don't understand is that society should always have a figure like that above society: a president, a prime minister, a king,” added the 59-year-old aristocrat about the form of government of democratic states.

The king's brother, who receives an annual salary of 366,000 euros from the Belgian State, frequently appears in the press in his country for his statements.

On the occasion of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of England, a little over a year ago, the prince criticized that he had not been invited to the funeral when “so many ordinary people are there, supposed officials who believe themselves important and people with excessive ambition.” , a situation he described as “shame.”

His official agenda suspended

Lorenzo of Belgium's controversies led to both his father, King Emeritus Albert II, and his brother, King Philip, suspending their agenda as representative of the country.

Among others, Queen Paola's youngest son was involved in a scandal when he met with the son of the then Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2007 and 2008.. He also participated without authorization in an event at the Chinese embassy in his country in 2017 that cost him a financial penalty of 47,000 euros.

Malaysian low-cost airline MYAirlines has temporarily suspended operations due to financial difficulties, grounding around 5,000 passengers.. This closure has affected around 125,000 people who already had purchased tickets.

This Thursday the airline informed its passengers in a statement that it was “temporarily” suspending operations while it looked for ways to finance and restructure its shareholders.

The airline assures that it has made this “extremely painful” decision due to “significant financial pressures” that have made it necessary to suspend its operations pending shareholder restructuring and recapitalization.

“We deeply regret and apologize for making this decision, as we understand the impact it will have on our loyal passengers, dedicated employees and partners,” MYAirlines' board of directors said in the note, adding that it is working to lift the suspension and that Affected passengers can request a refund of their money.

The Malaysian company indicated that it assumes responsibility and that it understands the “frustration” of the affected passengers and employees.

“The board of directors, shareholders and all of us at MYAirline will work tirelessly to resume operations as quickly as possible, but at this time we cannot commit to any timeline.. “We reiterate our sincere apologies for any difficulties and inconveniences arising from this suspension and we will do our best to provide any updates that become available,” they say in a statement.

Malaysian Airports, the company that manages Malaysia's airports, said the suspension grounded about 5,000 passengers at Malaysian airports, as well as Dong Muang Airport in Bangkok.

Israel denounced this Thursday the beheading of some babies, as well as the burning and murder of children in the “horrifying and monstrous” attack launched last Saturday from Gaza by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which sparked the war in the region.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also spread this Thursday on its social networks photos of babies burned at the hands of Hamas, and a senior Army official assured that he himself found a decapitated baby in an Israeli community near Gaza, and that his other colleagues saw more, without giving a specific figure.

While bodies are recovered and identified that add to the number of more than 1,300 deaths in Israel due to the Hamas offensive, which included a ground incursion into Israeli areas next to Gaza, a member of the Israeli Army's medical teams assured that he himself ” found a baby with its head cut off” among the more than 100 people murdered in Kibbutz Beeri, next to the Strip.

Members of his team found more decapitated children, added the source, reserve colonel Golan Vach, head of the National Rescue Unit in the Army's Internal Front Command.

“I don't think a baby with a severed head is an accident, a missile doesn't do this,” Vach said.

In his opinion, “terrorism means that a person enters the house of innocent people, kills the mother and cuts off the baby's head,” a scene that his unit encountered these days.

Likewise, this afternoon, in a publication on the social network

According to him, they are “horrifying photographs of babies murdered and burned by the monsters of Hamas”, a group that “is inhuman” and “like the Islamic State.”

A member of the ZAKA emergency teams, which is in charge of recovering bodies, told EFE on Wednesday that “he does not have numbers, but that there are many cases” of dead children in places like Kibbutz Beeri, the Israeli community where the biggest massacre of civilians these days.

“I myself took bodies of one-month-old, two-month-old babies, of burned children, of children who when I took them by the hands were still burning”. At the same time, he added that he knew of cases of “people who were tortured, raped and burned alive.”.

The head of ZAKA in the southern area of Israel, Yossi Landau, said this Thursday that he found “a pregnant lady on the floor” of her house, with “her stomach completely open, a fetus connected to the umbilical cord, stabbed with a knife, and the mother shot in the head.