Israel Declares Gaza City ‘Combat Zone,’ Launches Initial Expanded Offensive

Welcome again to world brief, where we look at it IsraelAn extensive attack in Gaza City, Thai prime minister Paetongtarn shinawatraAnd European Military support for Ukraine.

“The dangerous fighting zone”

Israel launched the “initial stages” of its planned attack in Gaza City on Friday, announcing the densely populated area “a dangerous combat area.” Foreign leaders and rights activists urged Israel not to proceed with the operation of Gaza City, pointing to concerns about the harmful effect that is likely to have a terrible humanitarian crisis in the region.

Welcome again to world brief, where we look at it IsraelAn extensive attack in Gaza City, Thai prime minister Paetongtarn shinawatraAnd European Military support for Ukraine.

“The dangerous fighting zone”

Israel launched the “initial stages” of its planned attack in Gaza City on Friday, announcing the densely populated area “a dangerous combat area.” Foreign leaders and rights activists urged Israel not to proceed with the operation of Gaza City, pointing to concerns about the harmful effect that is likely to have a terrible humanitarian crisis in the region.

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms that such an attack is vital to dismantling the last Hamas stronghold. According to senior Israeli officials, a network of tunnels that use Hamas is still operating throughout Gaza City. “We will increase our strikes until we restore all the kidnapped hostages and dismantle Hamas,” said Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adri on Friday. Before the attack, the Israeli army summoned 60,000 reserve soldiers at the top of the extension of active duties of 20,000 others.

Also on Friday, Israel suspended its “tactical stop” from performing military operations in Gaza City during the day. It was first imposed last month to allow food connections and assistance to enter the region at the request of the United Nations and rights groups. Last Friday, the world’s leading hunger screen announced famine in Gaza City and its surrounding areas, and experts now warn that renewed fighting will not make matters worse.

More than half of the 2 million population of Gaza lives in Gaza City. Adri issued a statement on Wednesday saying that the evacuation of the city was “inevitable.” He claimed that there are “vast empty regions” in the southern Gaza Strip, where the residents of Gaza City can go, adding that the families who moved there will get abundant humanitarian assistance. Last week, about 23,000 people evacuated the city, the United Nations said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the death toll in Gaza exceeded 63,000 people on Friday, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

“This will have a terrible impact on people already exhausted, actually malnutrition, already density and displaced, and is deprived of the basics necessary for their naked survival,” said Stephen Dujarik, United Nations spokesman for the Israeli expanded military campaign in Gaza City. “Forcing hundreds of thousands to move in the south is a recipe for more disasters and can rise to the level of forced transport,” which is a crime against humanity under international law.

Netanyahu faces increasing pressure within Israel and foreign leaders to secure the shooting and hostage deal. Hamas accepted a framework for Arabic last week calling for a 60 -day truce and the launch of some Israeli hostages to Palestinian prisoners. But Netanyahu is still opposing the offer, and instead calls for the issuance of all hostages and the end of the war “on the acceptable conditions of Israel.”

Netanyahu said: “We will not rest or scream until we return all our hostages to the homeland – both neighborhoods and dead.” Almost 50 hostages are still in Gaza, only 20 of them are still alive. On Friday, Israeli forces recovered the bodies of two prisoners who were killed in Gaza City: Ilan Weiss, who was killed during Hamas on October 7, 2023, an attack on Israel, and another unnamed individual.

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The decision to violate ethics. The Constitutional Court in Thailand removed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from his post on Friday after its ruling on 6-3 votes that it had violated the rules of morals during a phone call in June with the former Cambodian leader Hun Al-Sanat, and he took the ruling, and they specified, responded, and responded to the Prime Minister.

A notorious invitation was made in June at the height of Thai tensions, when a fatal border dispute sparked rare clashes between the two neighboring. In an audio recording of the invitation leaked by Hun Sen, Paetongtarn can be heard and called the Cambodian official “Uncle” and referring to a general of the Thai army as a “opponent”. Paetongtarn confirms that her postponed dialect was a negotiating tactic, but critics suggested that her words had occurred to national security in Bangkok.

Prime Minister Feetongtage was supervised by Prime Minister Feetongtarn’s responsibilities since her duties were suspended in early July. Femetam will occupy his position until parliament chooses a new prime minister. Although the Paetongtarn Party in PHEU Thi is still leading the ruling coalition, which owns a minimal majority in Parliament, Friday’s ruling may weaken its influence, which means that the PHEU THAI candidate may not be guaranteed. To avoid this, the Council of Ministers can choose to dissolve Parliament and call for new elections. The date for the vote has not been made yet.

Kyiv support. European defense ministers in Copenhagen met on Friday to pledge their continuous support to Ukraine, one day after the Russian forces launched a deadly attack on Kyiv, killing at least 23 people and caused a diplomatic complex. In addition to discussing the deployment of European forces, expanding military courses, and freezing Moscow’s assets, officials discussed what security guarantees may appear in a future peace deal.

Among the options under consideration, European leaders weighing a 40 -km insulating area (or about 25 miles) between Russian and Ukrainian front lines, Politico I mentioned. An alliance of 30 countries-including Australia, European countries and Japan-also indicated their support to create the so-called reassurance force from the European forces to act as a peace leader, although the United States is asking Europe bearing the lion’s share of the burden, and the foreign foreign president in the European Union.

Where the White House decided to engage, though, in military sales. On Thursday, the US State Department agreed to sell 825 million dollars to Kyiv, which will include extended missiles and relevant defensive equipment. The purchase funds will come from NATO allies, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway, as well as from American foreign military financing, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The growing list of grievances. Thousands of people throughout Indonesia protested on Friday after hitting a police car and killed a civilian. The accident occurred near the site of violent clashes outside the parliament building in Indonesia in the capital of Jakarta on the previous day, where the demonstrators were expressing anger at increasing monthly housing allowances to increase legislators at a time when labor unions demand higher wages. He added Thursday’s incident since then invitations to reform the police to a mixture of grievances.

According to Jakarta Police Chief, Asib Eddie Sawriri, seven police officers were arrested in relation to death. But experts warn that this may not be sufficient to put out the demonstrations, some of which turned into violence on Friday, as the demonstrators also demand the removal of the police chief.

“I was shocked and disappointed by the excessive measures of the officers,” Indonesian President Prabo Subanto said on Friday. However, the President urged – in his position for a period of less than a year – the Indonesians to “stay awake” and organized. He added: “In such a situation, I urge the public to remain calm and be confident in the government I lead.”

What in the world?

In an attempt to increase the diversification of its commercial partners due to the American definitions, the South American Trade Bloc Mercosur said on Monday that it would reopen free trade negotiations with any country?

A. Mexico
for. Canada
C. Colombia
D. Chilean

Difficulties end

A list of a house on a real estate site in the Argentine has revealed a stolen artwork. On Monday, a Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad An internal image of a house in the Argentine town of the Italian painter, Giuseppe Gaisandley, is followed by a “woman”, which the Nazis seized from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam in the 1940s. The list of the house was published by a daughter of Friedrich Kadgin, financial advisor to Adolf Hitler who fled to Buenos Aires after World War II. According to Kadjin’s daughters, the daughters of Kadjin advertisementRepeated requests for an interview.

The answer is …

for. Canada

A group of Brazilian business leaders will travel to Canada in September to resume discussions, and Catherine Ospurn reports from FP in Latin America.

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