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MIDDLE EAST: Truce Between Israel And Islamic Jihad In Worst Escalation Since 2021

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Although the ceasefire may be short-lived, it could end the fighting. After three days of attacks, Islamic Jihad and Israel began a truce this Sunday at 11:30 p.m. that could end the worst escalation since May 2021. The Israeli government did not take long to accept the ceasefire after beheading the Jihad military leadership in the Gaza Strip while the militia, severely beaten and wishing to carry out a greater retaliation for the attacks, finally agreed to Egyptian mediation and pressure from its older brother and at the same time rival, the Islamist group Hamas, which did not intervene in the confrontation against their common enemy. Truce,which, like the previous ones, was preceded by mutual attacks until the last second and even with some sporadic Jihad projectiles minutes later, is based on a return to the previous situation of calm, even if it was tense. In other words, the border crossings of the needy Gaza will be reopened, a vital point for the entry of fuel and the exit of 14...

Visit to Saudi Arabia: Joe Biden warns against acts of violence against government critics

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The US President has met the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince. He blamed Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. US President Joe Biden said he warned Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of future acts of violence against government critics at their meeting in Jeddah. He made it clear to the heir to the throne that another act like the murder of journalist and government critic Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 would result in a "response" from the United States, said Biden after his consultations with bin Salman in the Saudi Arabian port city. Khashoggi 's murder was "at the top" of the topics of conversation, the US President said. Khashoggi disappeared from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Later it turned out that he was murdered by a special commando. He had published opinion pieces from the United States that criticized the crown prince. According to US intelligence, bin Salman authorized the murder. Biden Proclaims In Israel Th...

Biden Proclaims In Israel That He Will Not Allow Iran To Have Nuclear Weapons

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The United States affirms that the best way to achieve this is through diplomatic channels and the nuclear agreement, although "it is prepared to use all the elements of its national power" to ensure it. Lapid tells him: "Diplomacy and words will not stop Iran" A few meters from the walls of the Old City, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem has become the most luxurious fortress in Israel, serving as the setting for the meetings of US President Joe Biden on the second day of his first tour in the Middle East. The leader has conveyed four central messages to Prime Minister Yair Lapid: the commitment to Israel's security ("as long as the US is there, you will never be alone"), the promise to avoid a nuclear Iran, the promotion of the normalization of relations with Arab countries and, finally, the need for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. All this has been recorded this Thursday in the Jerusalem Declaration signed by Biden and...