Primo dibattito Harris-Trump 🗞️ Rassegna del 12/09/2024

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(Al Jazeera) Israel’s war on Gaza live: Women and children killed in attack on school

• The Palestinian Civil Defence says at least 14 people, including women and children, have been killed in an Israeli air attack on a school-turned-shelter in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip.
• Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank have arrested 30 Palestinians in Hebron, Jenin, Ramallah and Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

(New York Times) Israeli Forces Mount Fresh Raids in Two West Bank Cities

• The Israeli military has launched fresh raids of two cities in the occupied West Bank where it has recently conducted destructive and lengthy incursions, resuming operations in Tulkarm after a brief pause and carrying out an overnight strike on Tubas that the Palestinian Health Ministry said killed at least five people.
• Israel’s military said early Wednesday that its forces were carrying out an operation against militants in Tubas, adding that its aircraft “attacked an armed terrorist squad in the Tubas area.”
• The Health Ministry did not elaborate on the identities of those killed. But Wafa, the Palestinian Authority’s news agency, reported that the strike killed five young Palestinian men near a mosque. It said that Israeli forces had closed all entrances to Tubas and were inspecting ambulances before allowing them to enter a local hospital. The Israeli military said it could not immediately comment on the reports.
• The operation came as an Israeli raid on Tulkarm, a city west of Tubas, was in its second day on Wednesday. At least two Palestinians, a man and a woman, were killed and several others wounded on Tuesday in Tulkarm, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The Palestinian Red Crescent said that Israeli forces had detained five of its emergency and rescue crew members overnight in Tulkarm while they were transporting a patient and evacuating children. Israel’s military did not comment on the claim.
• The latest operations followed a particularly intense 10-day campaign that had appeared to ease last week and killed at least 39 people, according to Palestinian health authorities.

(New York Times) Biden says he is ‘outraged’ over the killing of an American activist in the West Bank.

• President Biden said on Wednesday that he was “outraged and deeply saddened” by the killing of an American activist by an Israeli soldier at a West Bank protest last week and that there must be “full accountability” from Israel for her death.

• The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it was highly likely that Ms. Eygi was “unintentionally” struck. Mr. Biden expressed confidence in those findings, saying the United States has had “full access” to Israel’s initial investigation and that her death appeared to be “the result of a tragic error resulting from an unnecessary escalation.”
• Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, said in a statement on Wednesday that “the killing of Aysenur Eygi is a horrific tragedy that never should have happened.” “The shooting that led to her death is unacceptable and raises legitimate questions about the conduct of I.D.F. personnel in the West Bank,” she added, referring to the Israeli military.
• The Israeli military has said that it had meant to target a person it described as a “key instigator” of the protest, which it called “a violent riot.” Eyewitnesses have strongly disputed Israel’s account, saying that clashes in the area had finished by the time Ms. Eygi was shot, and that they had occurred in a separate location.

Ucraina

Ucraina - USA - Russia - Iran:

(Reuters) US says Russia received missiles from Iran, piles on sanctions

• At a news conference in London [on Monday] ahead of a visit to Kyiv he and Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy will make, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington had privately warned Iran that providing ballistic missiles to Russia would be "a dramatic escalation."
• The U.S. later identified nine Russian-flagged vessels it said were involved in the delivery of weapons from Iran to Russia, designating them as "blocked property" under Washington's sanctions regime, according to the Treasury Department's website. It also imposed additional measures on previously sanctioned airline Iran Air, as well as companies and individuals involved in the two countries' military cooperation, the department said in a statement.
• Blinken said Iran has trained dozens of Russian military personnel to use its Fath-360 close-range ballistic missile system, which has a maximum range of 75 miles (121 km). Russian defense ministry representatives are believed to have signed a contract in December with Iranian officials for the Fath-360 and another Iranian ballistic missile system, Reuters reported last month.
• Iran has previously supplied Shahed drones used by Russia in Ukraine, but has denied that it is supplying Russia with ballistic missiles.

(Reuters) Biden says ending ban on Ukraine's use of long-range weapons being worked out

• U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that his administration was "working that out now" when asked if the U.S. would lift restrictions on Ukraine's use of long range weapons in its war against Russia.
• Kyiv's allies have been supplying weapons, but with restrictions on how and when they can be used inside Russia, out of concern such strikes could prompt retaliation that draws NATO countries into the war or provokes a nuclear conflict.

(Reuters) Tehran has not delivered missiles to Russia, foreign minister says

• Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday that Tehran had not delivered any ballistic missiles to Russia and sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States and three European powers would not solve any problems between them.
• The Kremlin on Wednesday dismissed reports that Iran had shipped missiles to Russia, saying claims about various arms transfers were baseless.
• Meanwhile, the Netherlands summoned the Iranian ambassador, and Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said on X that it was calling for "new, robust EU sanctions".

(Reuters) Kremlin warns of escalation if US allows Kyiv to hit Russia with long-range missiles

• The Kremlin told the West on Wednesday that any decision to allow Ukraine to strike Russia with long-range Western missiles would deepen what it called the direct involvement of the U.S. and Europe in the war and would trigger a response from Moscow.
• The warning came as senior Ukrainian government officials pressed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British foreign minister David Lammy, on a joint visit to Kyiv, to allow Ukraine to fire long-range U.S. ATACMS missiles and British Storm Shadow cruise missiles at targets deep inside Russia.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Moscow suspected a U.S. decision to let Kyiv fire such missiles into Russia had already been taken [...]
• Sergei Ryabkov, one of Russia's deputy foreign ministers, was cited by state news agencies as saying Moscow was worried about what it regarded as a potentially dangerous escalatory scenario and would move to destroy any new deliveries of long-range ATACMS missiles [...]

Europa

Germania - Italia:

(Bloomberg) Germany Wrong-Footed by Shock UniCredit Move on Commerzbank

• Berlin had no advance warning that UniCredit would swoop when it offered a tranche of Commerzbank shares for sale on Tuesday [...] The purchase leaves officials in an unexpected position in which UniCredit, with 9%, owns almost as much of Commerzbank as Germany does, and it could become the biggest shareholder when more stock is offered.
• UniCredit had previously signaled its interest in increasing its stake in Commerzbank and Berlin had rebuffed the idea. Officials had also been told that announcing their plan to offer shares would add to the chances that a foreign lender would end up buying a large chunk, another person said.
• Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was given advanced notice of UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel’s plan in recent days, according to a person close to her.
• UniCredit’s investment raises the prospect of a full takeover of Commerzbank and the Italian lender has said it will seek authorization to increase its stake.
• Germany still owns 12% of the lender and the government had been aiming to get rid of that before elections [...] But the three governing partners are deeply divided on a range of issues [...] Faced with the embarrassment of losing money on the €18 billion it paid for the Commerzbank holding during the financial crisis, Berlin had been holding on in the hope of achieving a better price [...] UniCredit’s bid of €13.20 per share was “significantly higher” than all other offers [...]
• Now the dilemmas posed by UniCredit’s coup are likely to exacerbate the tensions within the coalition. Finance Minister Christian Lindner [...] has been one of the strongest advocates for getting rid of the government’s stake. But Chancellor Scholz, a Social Democrat, may feel more pressure from unions to call off the sale in order to protect jobs and ensure that Germany retains its second-biggest lender. German labor union Verdi on Wednesday called on the government to stop the sale of any more shares in Commerzbank immediately. Under stock market rules, Germany can’t sell any more stock anyway for at least three months.

Politica internazionale

Nord America

USA:

(New York Times) Pundits Said Harris Won the Debate. Undecided Voters Weren’t So Sure.

• Bob and Sharon Reed, both 77-year-old retired teachers who live on a farm in central Pennsylvania, had high hopes for the debate between Ms. Harris and former President Donald Trump. They thought that they would come away with a candidate to support in November. But, Ms. Reed said, “It was all disappointing.”
• The couple ended the night wondering how the costly programs each candidate supported — Mr. Trump’s tariffs and Ms. Harris’s aid to young families and small businesses — would help a couple like them, living on a fixed income that has not kept pace with inflation. They said they didn’t hear detailed answers on immigration or foreign policy, either.
• Immediate reaction from political analysts favored Ms. Harris, whose attacks appeared to rattle Mr. Trump. She goaded him over the various criminal and civil charges against him. She said his former aides considered him “a disgrace” and that world leaders laugh at him. At one point, she asked whether he might be “confused” — a stinging line given Mr. Trump’s relentless mocking of President Biden’s mental acuity. And she questioned his emotional stability by saying he was not capable of processing his loss in 2020.
• But not all voters, especially those undecided few who could sway the election, were effusive about the vice president’s performance. In interviews, these undecided voters acknowledged that Ms. Harris seemed more presidential than Mr. Trump. And they said she laid out a sweeping vision to fix some of the country’s most stubborn problems. But they also said she did not seem much different from Mr. Biden, and they wanted change. And most of all, what they wanted to hear — and didn’t — was the fne print.