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At least 19 killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, including senior Hamas leader
Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip killed at least 19 Palestinians overnight into Sunday, including a senior Hamas political leader as well as several women and children.
This, as the Israeli military instructed people to evacuate from part of the city of Rafah on the border with Egypt.
The military said it would soon operate in the Tel Sultan area of Rafah. Israel launched a major offensive on the city in May.
People were ordered to evacuate on foot along a single route to the Mawasi area. It was not immediately known if the evacuation order meant Israeli forces would renew ground operations.
ISRAEL ORDERS IDF TO SEIZE MORE GAZA TERRITORY IF HAMAS DOESN’T RELEASE HOSTAGES
Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip killed at least 19 Palestinians overnight into Sunday, including a senior Hamas political leader. (IDF)
«Remaining in camps, tents, or houses in Tel al-Sultan or walking on any other route endangers your lives and the lives of your family members,» military spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee said in a statement.
Hamas said that Salah Bardawil, a member of its political bureau, was killed in a strike in Mawasi along with his wife. Bardawil, who was also a member of the Palestinian parliament, was a well-known member of the Hamas’ political wing who spoke to the media over the years.
Two hospitals in southern Gaza said they received the bodies of 17 people killed in the strikes, including several women and children. Bardawil and his wife were not included in this number.
The European Hospital said five children and their parents killed in a strike in Khan Younis were among the deceased. Another family of two girls and their parents were killed in a separate strike. The Kuwaiti Hospital said it had received the bodies of a woman and child killed in another strike.
Hamas said that Salah Bardawil, a member of its political bureau, was killed in a strike in Mawasi along with his wife. (IDF)
The Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said Israeli forces were blocking its ambulances from responding to strikes in Rafah and that several of its medics had been wounded.
Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas ended last week when the Jewish State launched a series of airstrikes, killing hundreds of Palestinians.
The ceasefire started in January, pausing a 15-month war sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Twenty-five Israeli hostages and the bodies of eight others were released during the ceasefire in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Negotiations were supposed to begin in early February on the next phase of the truce, in which Hamas was called to free the remaining 59 hostages — including 35 who are believed to be dead — in exchange for additional Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
CEASEFIRE OVER AS ISRAEL STRIKES GAZA AFTER HAMAS REFUSED TO RELEASE HOSTAGES, OFFICIALS SAY
Two hospitals in southern Gaza said they received the bodies of 17 people killed in the strikes, including several women and children. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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However, those negotiations never began, and Israel backed out of the ceasefire deal after Hamas refused Israeli and U.S.-backed proposals to free more hostages ahead of any talks on a lasting truce.
Hamas killed roughly 1,200 people and abducted 251 hostages in the Oct. 7 attack. Most of the captives have been released in ceasefire agreements or other deals, but Israeli forces rescued eight alive and recovered dozens of bodies.
Israel’s offensive has killed nearly 50,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run government’s Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between terrorists and civilians.
Meanwhile, Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who are allies of Hamas, launched another missile at Israel, but the Israeli military said the projectile was intercepted. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Nicolás Maduro desafió a Donald Trump y aseguró que los aranceles impuestos sobre Venezuela por Estados Unidos «serán derrotados»
Nicolás Maduro, quien juró para un tercer mandato en enero tras su cuestionada reelección en Venezuela, dijo este lunes que la imposición de aranceles «será derrotada» luego de que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, anunciara que impondrá una tasa del 25% a los países que compren petróleo o gas venezolanos.
«Las sanciones de ayer las derrotamos y las que vengan las derrotaremos también con trabajo. Podrán sancionar y poner aranceles a lo que le dé la gana. Lo que no podrán sancionar es el amor y el patriotismo del pueblo venezolano», expresó Maduro en un acto transmitido por el canal estatal Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).
Asimismo, el líder chavista reiteró que «cualquier perturbación» que se pretenda «contra la recuperación» de la economía de Venezuela «será enfrentada, controlada y superada con unión nacional».
«Llamo a todo el empresariado, llamo a toda la clase obrera, llamo a todo el pueblo de Venezuela a la máxima unión productiva, al trabajo, al esfuerzo, al resultado», manifestó Maduro.
Más temprano, Venezuela rechazó los aranceles impuestos por Trump al considerar que la medida «viola flagrantemente las normas del comercio internacional», es «arbitraria, ilegal y desesperada» y, además, «confirma el fracaso rotundo de todas las sanciones impuestas» por Estados Unidos contra el régimen.
«Venezuela ejercerá todas las acciones pertinentes ante los organismos internacionales para hacer valer sus derechos y denunciar esta nueva violación al orden económico mundial», expresó el gobierno venezolano a través de un comunicado.
Trump anunció este lunes que «cualquier nación que compre petróleo y/o gas a Venezuela deberá pagar un arancel del 25% a Estados Unidos» sobre «cualquier transacción comercial» que realice con el país norteamericano.
Según una publicación en su red Truth Social, el presidente republicano aseguró que este «arancel secundario» responde a que Venezuela ha enviado a Estados Unidos «a decenas de miles de criminales de alto nivel y otros delincuentes» de manera «intencionada y fraudulenta».
«Entre las bandas que han enviado a Estados Unidos se encuentra el Tren de Aragua, que ha sido designada como ‘Organización Terrorista Extranjera’. Estamos en el proceso de devolverlos a Venezuela. ¡Es una tarea enorme!», añadió Trump.
Maduro rechazó esta acusación este mismo lunes y la calificó como «la más grande mentira».
«¿Ustedes creen que es verdad y es justo decir que Venezuela planificó una invasión de delincuentes a Estados Unidos? (…) Es la más grande mentira que jamás se haya dicho sobre nuestro país», añadió el mandamás del régimen chavista.
Con información de la agencia EFE.
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Rubio says South Africa must protect White farmers, US will offer admission to those facing violence
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday said White South Africans facing threats of violence would be welcomed in the United States.
Rubio’s position comes amid tension between the South African government and the Trump administration over that country’s land expropriation law and its anti-Israel stance.
In a post on X, Rubio referred to the «Kill the Boer,» an old anti-apartheid chant that critics say is a call to anti-White violence and has been used to refer to White farmers.
TRUMP FREEZES AID TO SOUTH AFRICA, PROMOTES RESETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES FACING RACE DISCRIMINATION
Farmers inspect show sheep at the Philippolis Show in Philippolis on November 1, 2024. (Photo by PAUL BOTES/AFP via Getty Images)
«South Africa’s leaders and politicians must take action to protect Afrikaner and other disfavored minorities,» Rubio wrote on Monday. «The United States is proud to offer those individuals who qualify for admission to our nation amid this continued horrible threat of violence.»
The Trump administration has pushed back against South Africa’s expropriation law, as well as its stance against Israel.
The land expropriation law allows the government to make land seizures without compensation. In February, Trump issued an executive order penalizing South Africa.
SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT SIGNS CONTROVERSIAL LAND SEIZURE BILL, ERODING PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump has criticized South Africa’s new land laws. (Evan Vucci/AP/RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)
«In shocking disregard of its citizens’ rights, the Republic of South Africa recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, to enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation,» the order states.
In addition, South Africa has accused Israel in the International Court of Justice of committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The country is also growing closer with Iran, with plans to develop commercial, military, and nuclear arrangements.
Earlier this month, Rubio announced that South Africa’s ambassador to the U.S. was no longer welcome in the country. In a post on X, Rubio called Embrahim Rasool a «race-baiting» politician who hates America and Trump.
South Africa’s ANC party has fielded candidates facing corruption charges. ((REUTERS/Mike Hutchings))
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Rasool addressed the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) in Johannesburg when he said Trump’s Make America Great Again movement a White supremacist response to demographic changes in the U.S. In response, Rubio declared the ambassador «PERSONA NON GRATA,» meaning not welcome.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the South African Embassy in Washington D.C.
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