The United States assured this Wednesday that it is working “actively” with Israel and Egypt to establish a humanitarian corridor that allows the departure of civilians from the Gaza Strip amid clashes with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

“We support a safe corridor for civilians,” said US Security Council spokesman John Kirby at a press conference, adding that civilians are protected under international law and “are not responsible for what Hamas has done.” made”.

Likewise, he stressed that “there have been no meetings or discussions” in recent hours with the Palestinian Authority, although the United States maintains an open and sustained line of communication over time with the Palestinian side.

On the other hand, Kirby has said that Washington will mobilize a second aircraft carrier, the USS Dwight Eisenhower, towards Atlantic waters with the option of being able to transfer it, “if necessary”, to the eastern Mediterranean, where the 'USS Gerald R' is already located.. Ford'.

However, he stated that the decision has not yet been made.. “It is a message that the United States is prepared to act if any hostile actor tries to escalate or aggrandize the war against Israel,” he added.

For his part, the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, who will land on Thursday in Israel to talk with the Israeli authorities, has also referred to the dialogue with Israel and Egypt about the corridors, adding that it is being a “complicated” process. “.

The Government of Spain has repatriated 429 people who were in Israel, after the war broke out between the country and the Islamist militia Hamas, according to diplomatic sources reported to 20minutos.. Two Ministry of Defense planes have been prepared for this operation, which have taken off from Tel Aviv.

The last of these flights landed this Wednesday with 220 people, including 149 Spaniards, 15 EU citizens, 36 Ibero-Americans and 20 from third countries.. Among the foreigners on this flight, apart from being relatives of Spaniards or residents in the country, there are also nationals of other states, whose governments had requested their repatriation.

The passengers have been received at the Torrejón de Ardoz air base (Madrid) by the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares.

On the first plane, which also arrived in Torrejón at dawn this Wednesday, 209 people were repatriated. Of them, 185 were Spanish; seven, EU citizens; five, Ibero-American, and twelve, from third countries. These foreigners are also relatives of Spaniards or residents in the country.

Tourists caught by surprise

Some of the returnees were tourists, who were caught by surprise by Saturday's attack by the Hamas group. “I arrived in Israel ten days ago to visit a friend,” Jorge Santesteban, a young man from Madrid, told Efe who, after seeing “the seriousness of what happened,” began looking for ways to return to Spain.

Santesteban says he felt safe because when the attack from Gaza occurred, he was in Eilat, the southernmost city in Israel, where the rockets launched by the Palestinian militias that did hit other parts of the country did not reach either.. “We decided to stay there and keep calm and the next day I went to Tel Aviv and started looking for flights,” he adds.

But the flight he found for this Tuesday was canceled and in the morning he contacted the Spanish embassy in Israel, which proceeded to process his repatriation with the military plane.

This Tuesday, the Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, announced the sending of two military planes to repatriate Spaniards whose commercial flights were canceled, but does not consider the evacuation of the approximately 10,000 Spaniards who live permanently between Israel and the territories. Palestinians.

Many commercial flights arriving and leaving Israel have been canceled due to the armed conflict and the alerts due to the rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, which also reached the outskirts of Tel Aviv this Tuesday.

The Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ Association, which claims to be the current Templars, has filed a conciliation lawsuit against Pope Francis in which it demands the rehabilitation of the order, suspended in the year 1312.

The plaintiffs state in the brief that the order was suspended “illegitimately” at the Council of Vienne not by virtue of “a judicial ruling” but by virtue of “an Apostolic Ordinance by Pope Clement V” and, they assert, that ” “This was a tremendous mistake pressured by King Philip the Fair.”

According to them, the Order was dissolved through an “infamous process without providing evidence”. “The number of knights at the date of arrest was 15,300, of which 650 were killed and 14,650 escaped, and their Grand Master Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake on March 18, 1314,” they say.

For this reason, they demand the “rehabilitation” of the Order of the Temple, currently called the Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ, although popularly known as the Order of the Poor Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon.

At the same time, the plaintiffs ask for financial compensation for the seizure of their assets which, as they indicate, “were mostly delivered to the Order of Saint John of the Hospital of Malta.”

Among other demands, they demand that the Templar priesthood be recognized; that they be authorized to build oratories and chapels; that the collection on St. Bernard's Day in all parishes be for the Order; that the Vatican archives on the Order be handed over to them, and that the Church of the True Cross of Segovia be returned to them.

Likewise, they demand that all tortured and murdered medieval Templars be considered martyrs and that the Order be authorized to form “an army or armed body”, and to “intervene in religious conflicts and as a mediator between parties.”

The plaintiffs ask the Pope to proclaim a decree that includes all these agreements and that it be communicated in all parishes and convents.. They also want the Order, once rehabilitated, to depend solely on the pontiff and not on the Curia or the clergy, like a personal prelature, and they demand a private audience with him.

It is not the first time that the Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ requests his rehabilitation. The last was a conciliation demand dated January 11, 2023 before the Court of First Instance 73.

The images speak for themselves. The screams and cries of despair took over the streets of the city of Ashkelon, in Israel, this Tuesday, when Hamas unloaded its bombs on the city, just 10 kilometers from the Gaza Strip.. They had warned, but some citizens were surprised by the attack.

In the video you can see how a young woman screams and cries inconsolably.. Next to him, a couple keeps calm as best they can, crouching, while they watch the destruction before their eyes.. “We are bewildered, this is not a war,” she says in perfect Spanish.

The Islamist group's attacks against Israel have not stopped since last Saturday's attack on a peace festival in the Reim kibbutz, in the middle of the Negev desert, where 260 people died and hundreds are missing.

The offensive, launched at 5:00 p.m. (local time) caused the activation of warning sirens not only in Ashkelon, but also in other nearby towns, according to information collected by the newspaper The Times of Israel. This medium assures that some of the missiles could have hit the tourist complex of the Hotel Regina, near the port of Ashkelon.

The Israeli Army also confirmed the activation of anti-aircraft alerts in different areas, including the city of Tel Aviv.. Hamas, for its part, reported on its Telegram account that among the latest targets attacked by its armed wing was the Ben Gurion International Airport, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed the death of the Spanish-Israeli citizen Maya Villalobo Sinvany, the 19-year-old girl who was inside the Nahal Oz military base at the time the Hamas terrorist group assaulted and occupied it.

The fighters managed to access the compound, located a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip, with at least six Namer heavy armored vehicles and it was known that six people had been kidnapped.. Until now, Maya was considered missing.

It was on Sunday when Eduardo Villalobo, a professor at the University of Seville and Maya's father, asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israeli Embassy in Madrid for help after several failed attempts to contact his daughter.

The girl's parents declared that they had not heard anything about her since 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, when the Islamist raid took place; and declared in a statement that they were preparing “to help her in every possible way,” while calling for “caution” and “respect.”

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is “dismayed” by the news of the death and expresses his “sincere condolences” to his family and friends. “The Government of Spain reiterates its strongest condemnation of Hamas' attacks on Israel,” he stated, emphasizing that “nothing justifies a terrorist attack.”

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has also regretted “the murder of Maya Villalobo at the hands of Hamas”, the name of the entire party: “I want to accompany her family and friends in their pain.. “Terrorism knows no limits, it only wants victims.”

In addition to her, after the attack, Iván Illarramendi Saizar, 46, a native of the Basque town of Zarautz (north), where he stopped being registered in 1986, and who lives in Israel with his wife in a kibbutz, is also missing after the attack. two kilometers from the Gaza Strip.

A woman miraculously saves her life at the last moment when she is rescued by her flight instructor, when she did not open her parachute during a descent that at times reached 200 kilometers per hour.

The events occurred in Russia and the video has gone around the world after its publication on social networks.

It has emerged that the instructor, identified as Nikita Kudriashov, was the one who intervened to save his student's life.

In the video, screams are heard when the woman, shortly after jumping from a small plane, loses control when she realizes that her parachute does not open.. The quick reaction of her instructor, who caught up with her and restrained her, prevented the tragedy by opening the woman's parachute.

Israeli intelligence is in question. The Hamas attack is unprecedented, it was carried out on several flanks and the terrorist group managed to advance more than 20 kilometers into Israeli territory, knocking down a walled border at several points and there was hardly any immediate retaliation.. Faced with so many doubts about the effectiveness of one of the best intelligence services in the world, an Egyptian intelligence officer reveals that Israel did receive the warnings, but they were ignored.

The Egyptian official points out that Cairo repeatedly warned Israeli intelligence services that “something big” was going to happen and that it would involve direct action, although it did not specify details, according to The Times of Israel. He believes Israeli officials focused more on the Palestinian area of the West Bank and ignored the importance of the threat brewing from Gaza.

“We warned them that an explosion of the situation was coming, very soon, and that it would be big, but they underestimated the warnings,” the secret service worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose, told The Associated Press. the content of these sensitive conversations.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied that these warnings reached Tel Aviv: “No early message arrived from Egypt and the prime minister did not speak or meet with the intelligence chief since the establishment of the government, either directly or indirectly. “.

However, Egypt's Intelligence Minister Abbas Kamel personally called Netanyahu just 10 days before the Hamas attack, saying they would do “something unusual, a terrible operation,” according to the Ynet news site.

In fact, Yaakov Amidror, the prime minister's former national security advisor, called the Islamists' offensive “a big failure” and said that this episode shows that in reality “the [intelligence] capabilities in Gaza were not good.”

Israel's lack of intuition or knowledge of what was to come allowed Hamas to enter the Israeli state, kill 1,200 people, wound 2,000, and kidnap around 150, who now serve as bargaining chips to rebuke the counteroffensive. From Israel. Some military bases were taken with members of the Army sleeping inside, who were unaware of the Gazan operation, such as Maya, a 19-year-old Spanish woman enlisted in the Israeli army.

Inbar Lieberman, a 25-year-old Israeli woman, has saved the lives of the residents of Kibbutz Nir Am by preventing an invasion by the terrorist group Hamas. In a quick action, he coordinated a security team that repelled the attack and killed 25 Palestinian militiamen; she alone ended the lives of five of them. Now, her community hails her as their hero.

According to Daily Mail, Lieberman, Nir Am's security coordinator, organized the 12 members of her team in just a few minutes when, without expecting it, they began to hear explosions.

After placing his squad in strategic positions throughout the kibbutz, he gave way to ambushes and managed to defeat the terrorists who were trying to invade them.

“Dozens of victims were avoided”

“It was incredible, my husband was part of the reserve unit that worked to prevent more victims,” one of the residents of the settlement told Israel Hayom.

Likewise, other witnesses declared that everything was thanks to the initiative of the combatants. “They heard the shots and contacted other members of the reserve unit and Inbar on their own.. They told them to wait, but Inbar decided to attack and this prevented dozens of victims,” they added.

For its part, the Maariv Daily outlet reported on the possibility of Lieberman being awarded the Israel Prize.. “When it's all over, this woman will receive the prize,” they reported.. They also assure that “the story of his heroism is a story that will be recorded in Israeli tradition for generations.”

Now, Nir Am has become one of the few kibbutz that Hamas has not been able to enter.

The video, belonging to the Indian news agency ANI Bharat, shows an image of the young woman who has saved the lives of her family, friends and neighbors.

The Jewish community of Argentina, Chile and Mexico, some of the largest in the world, showed solidarity last night with the victims of the Hamas attacks in southern Israel by singing the national anthem in the streets, in airports and from airports. balconies.

Called by Hebrew and Zionist associations in the streets of Buenos Aires (Argentina), thousands of people gathered, carrying Israeli flags and launching proclamations against the group that operates in Gaza.

Following in the wake of the Argentines, also in Mexico, in Chile, with the arrival of local residents repatriated from Israel, the anthem has been sung at the airports. Likewise, in neighborhoods of Israeli cities the scene of neighbors singing the Israeli anthem at night has been repeated.

“Residents of a neighborhood take to their balconies to sing together the Hatikvah (Hope), our national anthem. Never underestimate the spirit of Israel. Even in the hardest moments we are sure that we will prevail,” one of the X users posted with the song.

For its part, Paraguay illuminated the Government Palace with the colors of the Israeli flag, as a symbol of solidarity with the Israeli people.