World conflict does not stop

The war provoked by the Russian aggression against Ukraine has been little less than monopolizing information about what is happening in the rest of the world. But in the meantime, the reality is that various facts and events continue to occur, such as the conviction against Donald Trump for sexual abuse -no less than a former president of the United States, something unprecedented-, but for the most part, news is offered in its most worrying.

Violence is a growing problem after a few years in which the conflict was reduced to the wars in Syria or Yemen or isolated incidents. None of these wars have been resolved after several years and meanwhile new threats to peace are emerging. One, already known, is the situation in Sudan, where despite the truce, the confrontations that have already caused more than a thousand deaths continue.

Now the concern is focused on Pakistan, a country prone to tensions and internal clashes. Yesterday, the trial against the former prime minister, Imrain Khan, who was ousted in April 2020 – a seventy-year-old politician who enjoys great popularity throughout the country – has unleashed a wave of protests that are sowing chaos and threatening an outbreak of armed confrontation taking into account that the military are involved to stop the revolt.

The current government, which is part of a coalition chaired by Shehbat Sharif, has spent all this time trying to implicate his predecessor in all kinds of corruption accusations with which he tried to reduce the influence that he continued to maintain among the masses.. The situation increases the threat of a more disturbing social outbreak, in the case of a country like Pakistan with 230 million inhabitants and many external conflicts with India and internal religious ones.

But it's not just Pakistan where violence is keeping the world on edge.. In Israel, Palestinian activists from the Gaza Strip have launched hundreds of rockets against different locations in the country, some directed at Tel Aviv where alarms warning of the danger have caused panic among the population.. The Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu anticipated that the response will be forceful, which the experience of similar situations allows us to anticipate that it will be harsh.

Some analysts have recalled that it is inexplicable that the groups organizing such attacks do not assess what will happen and the cost of lives among the civilian population, in addition to the material damage caused by the foreseeable destruction of the intervention of the air force. The Arab and Israeli conflict adds equally serious news. In the Tunisian town of Gerba, a member of the National Guard fired rounds at a synagogue where dozens of Jews were celebrating a religious function.

The balance was five dead and several injured. The perpetrator’s own colleagues, for which no explanation can be found, given the respect with which the local society held the synagogue. The Tunisian government condemned the attack and the investigations do not explain the motives that impelled the guard for such an initiative. Speculations agree that he was a member of the Jihad. In Tunisia, the jihadist violence of six or seven years ago was considered to be over.