Decine di morti a causa degli attacchi israeliani a Gaza 🗞️ Rassegna del 17/07/2024

Israele

(Reuters) Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 57, Palestinian health officials say

• Israeli forces battled Hamas-led fighters in several parts of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and Palestinian health officials said at least 57 people were killed in Israeli bombardments of southern and central areas.
• The Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas has accused Israel of stepping up attacks in Gaza to try to derail efforts by Arab mediators and the United States to reach a ceasefire deal. Israel says it is trying to root out Hamas fighters.
• In Rafah, a southern border city where Israeli forces have been operating since May, five Palestinians were killed in an airstrike on a house, Gaza health officials said. In nearby Khan Younis, a man, his wife, and two children were killed, they said.
• Later on Tuesday, an Israeli airstrike on a car killed at least 17 Palestinians and wounded 26 others in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the officials said.
• In the historic Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, at least four Palestinians were killed in separate shelling and aerial strikes in central Gaza, medics said. An Israeli airstrike also killed four in Sheikh Zayed in northern Gaza, they said.
• Hours later, an Israeli air strike on a U.N.-run school that housed displaced families in the Nuseirat camp killed 23 people and wounded many others, health officials said.
• On Tuesday, the military said it had eliminated half of the leadership of Hamas' military wing, with about 14,000 fighters killed or captured since the start of the war.

(AP News) Far-right groups that block aid to Gaza receive tax-deductible donations from US and Israel

• Under American pressure, Israel has pledged to deliver large quantities of humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. But at the same time, the U.S. and Israel have allowed tax-deductible donations to far-right groups that have blocked that aid from being delivered.
• Three groups that have prevented humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza — including one accused of looting or destroying supplies — have raised more than $200,000 from donors in the U.S. and Israel, The Associated Press and the Israeli investigative site Shomrim have found in an examination of crowdfunding websites and other public records.
• Incentivizing these donations by making them tax-deductible runs counter to America’s and Israel’s stated commitments to allow unlimited food, water and medicine into Gaza, say groups working to get more aid into the territory. Donations have continued even after the U.S. imposed sanctions against one of these groups.
• Israel has said repeatedly it does not restrict humanitarian aid and that the United Nations has failed to distribute thousands of truckloads of goods that have reached the territory. The U.N. and aid groups say deliveries have repeatedly been hampered by military operations, lawlessness inside Gaza and delays in Israeli inspections.

Ucraina

(Meduza) Ukraine’s Azov Regiment posts video showing shooting of Russian soldier, sparking fury and an investigation in Moscow

• On Monday, the Ukrainian military’s Azov Regiment published first-person footage of one of its soldiers killing a Russian soldier after finding him in a mostly-abandoned bunker. The video left Russian politicians and military leaders furious, with one top commander calling the shooting a violation of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, though it’s not clear from the clip that the soldier in question had surrendered.
• Numerous Russian soldiers and politicians responded to the video with outrage. Major General Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the Chechen Akhmat Battalion special forces unit and the deputy head of the Russian Armed Forces’ Main Military-Political Directorate, said that the Russian soldier’s killing constitutes a “violation of the Geneva Conventions [on Prisoners of War].” Why Alaudinov believes the soldier in the video was a prisoner of war is unclear.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, meanwhile, wrote: “Fascists are fascists. We should treat them that way and we should destroy them. And that’s what the heroes on the front line are doing.”
• Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there have been multiple reports of prisoners of war being killed. The most recent of these allegations came from the Ukrainian authorities less than one week ago, when a video surfaced online that appeared to show the killing of two Ukrainian soldiers who Russian forces had been taken prisoner in the village of Robotyne in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region.

(The Kyiv Independent) Two more Russian kamikaze drones enter Belarusian airspace

• Two Russian Shahed-type kamikaze drones flew into Belarus overnight on July 16, the third and fourth to do so in the last week, according to the Belarusian Hajun monitoring group.
• One of the drones entered Belarusian airspace just after 4 a.m. local time and traveled some 50 kilometers (around 30 miles) before exiting the country into Ukrainian airspace, the group said.
• The second entered Belarus at 8:40 a.m. and then proceeded to fly a winding path of more than 300 kilometers (185 miles) toward the city of Mahiliou.
• The drone's current whereabouts or where it crashed have not yet been reported.
• Ukraine's Air Force reported shooting down two Shahed drones on July 16, with two more "located in the airspace of Belarus."

Russia

(Reuters) Russian farmers fight to salvage harvest as major region cuts forecast

• Under the sweltering sun and in temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius, farmers in the Rostov region, Russia's breadbasket, toil to salvage a harvest battered by heatwave, frosts and floods.
• Accounting for 11% of Russia's total grain harvest last year, Rostov is one of the key regions that Russia's agriculture ministry has said it is monitoring to make further adjustments to an already soft 2024 crop forecast.
• Russia has become the world's leading wheat exporter under President Vladimir Putin, thanks to massive state support and despite Western sanctions on technology and equipment dating back to Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.
• Global warming has opened up new northern areas in Russia for agriculture, but extreme weather patterns have made harvests volatile in southern regions like Rostov.

Europa

Francia:

(Reuters) French government resigns, stays on for now in caretaker role

• French centrist Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his government resigned on Tuesday, but will stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet is appointed following an inconclusive snap election.
• The caretaker government will run current affairs in the euro zone's second-largest economy, but cannot submit new laws to parliament or make any major changes, experts say.
• There have been caretaker governments before in France, but none has ever stayed on for more than a few days. There is no set limit to how long an acting government can stay on. Parliament cannot force it to quit.
• A left-wing alliance that unexpectedly topped the June 30 and July 7 election, and which has since been fighting bitterly over who to put forward as prime minister, hopes to agree on a name for parliament chief.
• The New Popular Front (NFP), an alliance ranging from socialists and Greens to the communist party and the hard-left France Unbowed, was hastily assembled before the election.
• After it failed to win an absolute majority, years of tensions between the parties have resurfaced over who could run a possible left-wing government.
• Complicating matters, Macron has called on mainstream parties to forge an alliance to form a government, an option that would include some of the NFP but exclude France Unbowed.

Politica internazionale

Nord America

Stati Uniti:

(Al-Jazeera) JD Vance’s world: Where does Trump VP pick stand on Israel, Ukraine, China?

• Former US President Donald Trump wasn’t the only leader who received a rockstar welcome at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Monday. Also soaking in the adulation was JD Vance, the 39-year-old Ohio senator picked by Trump – two days after an assassination bid on the ex-president – as his vice presidential nominee for the November election.
• Vance’s foreign policy can be surmised as “America first with an Israel exception”. When Hamas carried out its attack on October 7 last year, Vance pinned blame on the Biden administration for enabling the Palestinian group.
• Though the Ohio politician does not want any limits placed on support for Israel’s war on Hamas, he has previously said that he is opposed to any direct US strikes on Iran, unless the Iranians directly attack US troops.
• Vance is against the US providing funds to Ukraine amid the war with Russia. At a recent speech at the National Conservatism Conference, Vance said US involvement in Ukraine had “no obvious conclusion or even objective that we’re close to getting accomplished”.
• According to Eisenberg, Vance views China as a primary strategic competitor and has called for a more assertive US stance to counter Beijing’s rising influence.
• In line with his views about focusing primarily on China, Vance has stated that the US should pivot away from Europe.

Medio Oriente

Oman:

(AP News) A rare shooting by multiple attackers in a Shiite mosque in Oman kills 5 and wounds dozens more

• A rare shooting by multiple attackers at a Shiite mosque in Oman killed five people and wounded many more including a police officer, authorities said Tuesday. Pakistan’s government said four of its nationals were dead and 30 hurt
• The Royal Oman Police said in a statement mentioned no motive or suspect and said the shooting occurred Monday night in the Wadi Kabir neighborhood of the capital, Muscat. The state-run Oman News Agency said three attackers were killed. It reported 28 wounded of “different nationalities.”
• The shooting occurred on the eve of Ashoura, a remembrance of the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith. The day falls in the Islamic month of Muharram, one of the holiest months for Shiite Muslims.

Asia e Pacifico

Bangladesh:

(AP News) 5 killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh in violent clashes over government jobs quota

• At least five people were reported killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh on Tuesday as student protests against a government jobs quota led to violence around the country, media reports said.
• Student protesters clashed with pro-government student activists and with police, and violence was reported around the capital of Dhaka, the southeastern city of Chattogram and the northern city of Rangpur. At least three of the dead were students, one was a pedestrian and one was not identified, media reports said, citing officials.
• Protesters are demanding an end to a quota reserved for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971, which allows them to take up to 30% of government jobs.
• They argue the quota is discriminatory, and should be replaced with a merit-based system. They also say it benefits supporters of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose Awami League party led the independence movement. Ruling party leaders accuse the opposition of backing the protests.
• While job opportunities have expanded in Bangladesh’s private sector, many people prefer government jobs because they are seen as stable and lucrative. Each year, some 3,000 such jobs open up to nearly 400,000 graduates.