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Israeli forces order evacuation for most of Rafah ahead of attack on the area
The Israeli military issued evacuation orders on Monday for most of Rafah and suggested it may soon launch another ground operation in the city after its ceasefire with Hamas ended.
The evacuation orders appeared to cover almost all the city and nearby areas. The military ordered civilians to head to Mawasi, where tent camps were set up along the coast.
«The IDF is returning to intense operations to dismantle the capabilities of the terrorist organizations in these areas,» a spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces wrote on X. «For your safety, move immediately to the shelters in Al Mawasi.»
Earlier this month, Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas and renewed its air and ground attacks against the terror group. In early March, Israel cut off all supplies and humanitarian aid to Gaza to pressure Hamas to accept changes to the ceasefire agreement.
ISRAEL STRIKES BEIRUT FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE A CEASEFIRE ENDED THE LATEST ISRAEL-HEZBOLLAH WAR
Mourners walk by the bodies of the Abu Sultan family, killed when an Israeli army strike hit their tent before their burial at the hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP)
Israel launched a major operation in Rafah in May, decimating large parts of the area. The military seized a strategic corridor along the border and the Rafah crossing with Egypt, which is Gaza’s only path to the outside world that was not controlled by Israel.
Israel was expected to withdraw from the corridor under the ceasefire before later refusing, citing the need to block weapons smuggling.
Israel has said it would intensify its military operations until Hamas releases the remaining 59 hostages in its custody, including 24 who are believed to be alive. Israel has also called on the terror group to disarm and leave the territory, conditions that were not in the ceasefire agreement. Hamas has rejected those demands.
LANDMARK UK REPORT ON HAMAS EXPOSES WORST ATTACK ON JEWS SINCE HOLOCAUST
Hassan Abu Sultan mourns over the body of her son Jehad, who, along with his wife and three children, was killed when an Israeli army strike hit their tent. (AP)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his country would take control of security in Gaza after the war and would impose President Donald Trump’s controversial proposal to resettle the territory’s civilians in other countries.
The proposal has been universally rejected by Palestinians, who view it as forcible displacement from their homeland. Human rights experts also say the plan would likely violate international law.
Hamas has insisted on moving forward with the signed ceasefire deal, which called for the remainder of the hostages to be released in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and Israel pulling its troops out of Gaza. Negotiations over those parts of the agreement were supposed to have begun in February after some hostages were freed in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said Israel would take control of security in Gaza after the war and impose President Donald Trump’s plan to resettle the territory’s civilians in other countries. (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/Pool/File Photo)
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The war began when Hamas launched an attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing roughly 1,200 people and kidnapping another 251, most of whom have since been released in ceasefires or other deals.
More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military’s retaliation, according to the Hamas-run government’s Gaza Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between civilians and terrorists.
At the height of the war, roughly 90% of Gaza’s population had been displaced, and many had fled.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Donald Trump has just had the best few weeks of his presidency.
No question. No argument. Period, end of paragraph.
It began with a bold gamble to send pilots to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites.
Then Trump managed to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Iran.
TRUMP’S ACHIEVEMENTS EMBOLDEN HIM TO BE EVEN MORE AGGRESSIVE
Meanwhile, as Trump delayed his sky-high tariffs, the stock market hit record highs.
And he won a $16-million settlement from CBS’s parent company in his lawsuit against unfair editing by «60 Minutes.» That means he has now beaten two of the three broadcast networks, having won the same sum from ABC in a suit involving a crucial mistake by George Stephanopoulos.
And after days of pressure and arm-twisting, he managed to pass the Big Beautiful Bill.
President Trump’s been on a serious winning streak these past few weeks – culminating in the passage of his «big, beautiful bill.» (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Make no mistake, the bill was always going to pass. What were Republicans going to say, never mind, we just tanked the president’s main legislative priority because we didn’t like this or that?
They didn’t need Democratic votes, under so-called reconciliation. And Trump controls the GOP. So its members fell into line.
Now the question is why, through this successful stretch, has Trump continued to draw such negative coverage?
TRUMP SIGNS ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL’ BILL IN SWEEPING VICTORY FOR SECOND TERM AGENDA, OVERCOMING DEMS AND GOP REBELS
For starters, many in the media just can’t stand the guy. And this has largely been true since 2015. So anything that helps him must be wrong and must be denigrated.
Even the successful strike on Iran drew only scattered instances of grudging praise, when under any other president there would have been standing ovations.
The press immediately reframed this as a debate over whether the bunker-busting bombs had only set back Iran’s nuclear program by a few months.
The press’ scant praise over Trump’s Iran strikes quickly devolved into debate over how far they really set back Tehran’s nuclear program. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
In fairness, that’s what the preliminary, classified Intel report leaked to the press said. And there’s nothing wrong with reporting that accurately, even though the assessment was made with low confidence.
But Trump wants reporters for CNN and the New York Times, which broke the story, fired over this, and with an FBI leak probe under way, says he may force journalists to reveal their confidential sources.
Once the White House could no longer blame anonymous sources, there is nothing wrong with quoting a government report – even if if turns out to be wrong.
The cease-fire between Israel and Iran was fine, but that quickly morphed into chatter about why Trump couldn’t pull off an end to the fighting between Israel and Hamas, a far more difficult task.
AFTER SETBACK TO IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM, TRUMP EXPECTED TO LEVERAGE MILITARY SUPPORT IN NETANYAHU MEETING
Not to mention his freezing of weapons shipments to Ukraine, when despite his «very disappointing» call with Vladimir Putin, who promptly unleashed the biggest drone and missile attack against Kyiv since the illegal invasion of its sovereign neighbor.
Perhaps the president is learning what has been obvious to the rest of us: Putin has no conceivable interest in peace.
Everyone had to report the stock market surge, though not with the enthusiasm of the earlier plunge, and Trump yesterday announced that he’d hit Japan and South Korea, two allies, with a 25 percent hike in tariffs. But they don’t take effect till Aug. 1, so this could just be another negotiating tactic.
There was also next to zero coverage of Trump’s $16 million settlement with Paramount. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
There was almost no television coverage of Trump’s $16 million settlement with Paramount, which is nothing more than the news business protecting its own. If this had been any other kind of company – with the backstory that someone like Shari Redstone needed administration approval to sell the company and pocket $2 billion – the press would have gone haywire.
Now there’s a new twist. Fox’s Charlie Gasparino, writing for the New York Post, reported the Paramount settlement includes a side deal between Trump and for the buyer David Ellison, son of tech mogul Larry Ellison, for him to run $15 to $20 million in advertising supporting causes backed by the president.
And Trump confirmed it.
«We did a deal for about $16 million plus $16 million, or maybe more than that in advertising,» he told reporters.
Paramount denied any knowledge of the side deal.
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The president has also been drawn into a war of words with Elon Musk, calling him a «train wreck» who’s gone «off the rails» in forming a third party and raising the Epstein files again. Musk says the lack of an Epstein client list is the «final straw» – he had once apologized for raising it – and there’s no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties.
But there was one moment, in my view, that was a misstep by Trump.
The president had no need to negotiate with Democrats, who strongly opposed a tax cut tilted toward the wealthy while making deep cuts to Medicaid.
«Every Democrat in Congress voted against the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill…They wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know? I really do. I hate them. I cannot stand them, because I really believe they hate our country.»
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I don’t believe the overwhelming majority of Democrats hate their country. And that was hardly a unifying message on July 4 weekend. Maybe many in the media hate him and he was just counterpunching. But he didn’t need to go there.
On the other hand, Donald Trump has been getting terrible coverage since 2015, and he’s clearly grown tired of it.
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Qué se sabe de las inundaciones que arrasaron Texas y dejaron más de 100 muertos, incluidos decenas de niños
Varias inundaciones catastróficas asolaron el centro de Texas durante el fin de semana festivo del 4 de julio y han causado la muerte de al menos 104 personas, entre ellas 28 niños. Hasta el lunes por la noche, 10 campistas y un consejero se encontraban entre los desaparecidos.
En el condado de Kerr, el río Guadalupe creció 6 metros en dos horas el viernes, lo que obligó la evacuación de varios campamentos de verano.
Cientos de equipos de rescate seguían buscando supervivientes el lunes, mientras gran parte del centro de Texas, incluida la región de Hill Country, estaba bajo alerta de inundación.
Esto es lo que sabemos sobre las inundaciones:
Hasta el lunes por la noche, al menos 104 personas habían muerto en el diluvio catastrófico. La mayoría, 84, estaban en el condado de Kerr, una parte de Texas Hill Country al noroeste de San Antonio.
Más de dos decenas de los fallecidos eran menores, entre ellos varias niñas de tan solo 8 años que habían estado en el Campamento Mystic, un lugar de verano a orillas del río Guadalupe con más de 750 asistentes. Dick Eastland, director durante muchos años del Campamento Mystic, también murió tras ser arrastrado, según reportes, mientras intentaba rescatar a las niñas de la crecida de las aguas.
Los funcionarios del condado de Kerr dijeron el lunes que aún no habían podido identificar a los 22 adultos y 10 niñas que aparecieron muertos tras las inundaciones.
Los equipos de emergencia han rescatado a más de 850 personas utilizando helicópteros, caballos, barcos y camiones. A un nadador de rescate de la Guardia Costera se le atribuye haber salvado a 165 personas del Campamento Mystic.
Pero al menos 10 niñas del campamento seguían desaparecidas el lunes por la noche, junto con más de una decena de personas en toda la zona.
Las autoridades dijeron que comenzarían los esfuerzos de recuperación, incluida la limpieza de escombros y la reapertura de carreteras. El domingo, el presidente Trump emitió una declaración de desastre mayor que dirige la ayuda federal a la zona.
En principio, Trump tiene previsto viajar a Texas el viernes, dijo el lunes Karoline Leavitt, secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca. La Casa Blanca estaba coordinando con las autoridades locales la visita de Trump para evitar perturbar los esfuerzos de recuperación, dijo Leavitt.
A primera hora de la tarde del jueves, el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional emitió una alerta de inundación general para el centro-sur de Texas, incluido el condado de Kerr. Cuando los ríos de la región empezaron a crecer el viernes por la mañana debido a las fuertes lluvias, el organismo aumentó el nivel de sus advertencias.
La alerta más urgente, enviada poco después de las 4 a. m., advertía de una “situación especialmente peligrosa” e instaba a los residentes y campistas a buscar terrenos más elevados. En unos 90 minutos, el río Guadalupe se había desbordado de un metro hasta 10 metros, según un indicador fluvial cerca de la ciudad de Comfort, Texas.
El aguacero continuó durante el fin de semana, mientras los equipos de respuesta de emergencia buscaban sobrevivientes.
Las inundaciones son una amenaza histórica en el centro de Texas, una zona a la que a menudo se denomina el “callejón de las inundaciones repentinas”, y la cuenca del río Guadalupe en particular es una de las regiones más peligrosas para este tipo de fenómeno. El cambio climático también ha intensificado y aumentado la frecuencia del tiempo extremo.
Entonces, ¿por qué el Servicio Meteorológico no envió antes su alerta urgente? Algunos expertos afirman que la escasez de personal de la agencia puede haber dificultado la capacidad de los meteorólogos para coordinar las respuestas con las oficinas locales de gestión de emergencias.
El senador Chuck Schumer, el principal demócrata del Senado estadounidense, pidió el lunes al inspector general en funciones del Departamento de Comercio que investigara si los recortes y la escasez de personal del Servicio Meteorológico habían contribuido al elevado número de víctimas mortales en Texas.
Por otra parte, los funcionarios del condado de Kerr contemplaron en su día la posibilidad de instalar un sistema de alerta de inundaciones a lo largo del río Guadalupe, pero finalmente rechazaron la idea por considerarla demasiado cara. Por eso, cuando la catastrófica crecida de las aguas se produjo el fin de semana, no hubo sirenas ni monitores de inundación temprana. Las alertas de texto llegaron tarde para algunos residentes y otros las desestimaron o no las vieron.
Aunque las autoridades no han hecho pública la lista completa de víctimas, algunas de ellas han sido identificadas por sus familiares.
Entre las víctimas se encuentran Jeff Wilson, profesor de secundaria de los suburbios de Houston desde hace muchos años, que estaba acampado cerca del río Guadalupe con su esposa; Tanya Burwick, de 62 años, que conducía hacia su trabajo en San Angelo cuando su vehículo quedó atrapado por la crecida de las aguas; y Blair y Brooke Harber, dos jóvenes hermanas que se alojaban en una cabaña junto al Guadalupe cuando la caseta fue arrastrada por las aguas.
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