The European Comission said on Monday it was reviewing its entire development aid portfolio for the Palestiniansworth 691 million euros (US$ 728.66 million), and which immediately suspended all payments after the Hamas attack against Israel. “The magnitude of the terror and brutality against Israel and its people is a turning point,” said Oliver Varhelyi, EU […]
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Israel-Palestine war tests China’s real weight in the Middle East
China This year, she achieved unprecedented success both as a diplomat and as a mediator in the diplomatic reconciliation between Iran and Saudi Arabia, an achievement that now leads to the question of whether the Asian giant could play a useful role in stopping the serious situation in Israel and Palestine. For observers, the will […]
Gold rises as Middle East conflict drives refuge demand
The price of gold rose more than 1% on Monday, as the military conflict between the forces Israelis and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas increased political uncertainty in the Middle East, prompting safe-haven buying in investments such as bullion. Israel bombed the Palestinian enclave of Gaza on Sunday, killing hundreds of people in retaliation for […]
Residents of Israeli city overwhelmed by Hamas attack
“Every second we thought we were going to die,” says Ortal Dadya, a 39-year-old Israeli, shortly after leaving the room where she took refuge with her family during the violent incursion by militants from Hamas in Sderot, near the Gaza Strip Loop. “I’ve never seen anything like that,” she adds, overwhelmed, in a feeling shared […]
The US will send aircraft carriers and ships to the eastern Mediterranean to support Israel
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday that he has ordered the US strike group aircraft carrier ford sail to the eastern Mediterranean to be ready to help Israel after the attack Hamaswhich unleashed a conflict that has left more than a thousand dead on both sides. The Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s newest and most […]
More than a thousand dead in two days of fighting between Israel and Hamas
About a thousand people – 600 on Israeli soil and more than 400 in Gaza – died in two days of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, who captured a hundred hostages in an offensive that took the Jewish State by surprise. “The enemy is still on the ground,” the Israeli army […]
Brazil announces a mission to repatriate its citizens from Israel and Palestine
Brazil announced this Sunday a mission to repatriate its citizens from Israel, Palestine and other countries in the Middle East, after the escalation of the conflict in the region that has caused more than 1,100 deaths so far. The Commander of the Aeronautics, Brigadier Marcelo Damasceno, stated in a press conference, together with the Minister […]
Portugal sends a plane from its air force to Israel to repatriate its citizens
The government of Portugal announced this Sunday that it has decided to send an Air Force plane to repatriate the Portuguese who wish to do so Israel. In a statement the Portuguese Executive explained that it has taken into account the “increasingly scarce” commercial flight options to leave the area, “given the exponential demand from […]
Israel’s war in Gaza: WFP calls for humanitarian access to affected areas
He World Food Program (WFP) asked today “humanitarian access in safe and unhindered conditions to affected areas” for the war unleashed this Saturday after the land, sea and air attack by the Islamist group Hamas in Israel and the bombings in response by the Israeli Army, which have already caused hundreds of deaths and thousands […]
War between Israel and Hamas: the death toll rose to 700
The dead in Israel due to the multiple attack launched yesterday by surprise by the Islamist group Hamas exceed 700, as the second day of war with the Palestinian militias in Gaza progresses. The Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed that there are also more than 2,243 injured people in Israeli hospitals, 365 of them in […]