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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, October 30, 2024, p. 22
Gaza Strip. Yesterday Israel multiplied its attacks against Gaza and Lebanon, leaving more than 213 dead after fierce bombings on both fronts, while Hezbollah announced that its new leader is Naim Kassen and the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, warned that the dislocation is temporary and it won’t last long.
The bombing of a residential building in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza, left 109 dead and 40 missing. In other parts of the enclave, 34 people perished; The majority were women and children, said Mahmud Basal, spokesman for the enclave’s civil defense.
People tried to save the injured, but there are no hospitals or adequate medical care.said Rabi Shandagli, a 30-year-old witness who took refuge in a nearby school.
Questioned by AFP, the Israeli army assured that it is examining the information about the operation. Instead, he claimed actions in the nearby Jabaliya sector that eliminated about 40 terrorists.
Since October 6, Israeli troops have deployed a new offensive in northern Gaza, where they say Hamas fighters are regrouping, forcing the displacement of tens of thousands of people and leaving hundreds dead, according to the defense. civil.
In Gaza, war broke out on October 7, 2023, when Islamist militants killed 1,206 people in southern Israel, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 251; In response to the attack, Israel launched an offensive in the Palestinian territory that has killed 43,061 people, most of them civilians, according to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health.
In Lebanon, at least 70 people died in several bombings in israeli enemy launched the day before on the east of the territory, according to a balance not definitive of the Lebanese Ministry of Health, which recorded bombings in several towns in the Baalbek region and the Bekaa Valley, strongholds of Hezbollah. Among the victims are two childrenthe ministry reported in a statement.
This day is the most violent in Baalbek since the war began in September, the governor of the province, Bashir Khodor, published in X.
Operations to clear debris continue in the affected towns, the ministry reported.
The offensive in Lebanon has so far caused more than 1,700 deaths since September 23, according to a count by the Afp news agency based on official Lebanese data.
Eight Austrian soldiers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Finul) were injured when a missile probably fired by Hezbollah, or an allied group, hit their headquarters and slightly injured some. blue helmets.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah chose Naim Kassem, 71, born in Beirut, one of the founders of that militia in the 1980s, as the movement’s new leader.
Mexico joins the condemnations of UNRWA
Mexico, Russia, the United States, the European Union, France, Spain, Ireland, Norway and Poland separately condemned Tel Aviv’s decision to ban the activities of the United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs highlighted that it is vital the work of UNRWA in supporting the civilian population and regretted the restrictions on that agency that prevent the fulfillment of their mandate.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry assured that it will use other United Nations (UN) and international agencies to guarantee that aid reaches the Gaza Strip.
Cuba described as unacceptable the inability of the UN Security Council to stop the Israeli massacre in Gaza.
Meanwhile, satellite images analyzed by the AP agency show that Israel’s attack against Iran last Saturday may have caused damage to a Revolutionary Guard base where ballistic missiles are built and rockets from the Iranian space program are launched.
To all this, the Wall Street Journal reported that the United States is running out of some types of air defense missiles after using more than 100 during Israel’s war in Gaza last year.
(With information from Emir Olivares)
