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what has happened in the last few hours

These are the most relevant news regarding Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and the escalation in the Middle East this Friday, January 19 at 9:00 pm ET:

Borrell accused Israel of funding Hamas and advocated “imposing” the creation of a Palestinian state. The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has advocated the creation of a Palestinian state despite Israel’s current denial. “We believe that the two-state solution must be imposed from abroad to enforce peace,” Borrell assured during his speech at the investiture ceremony as Honorary Doctor of the University of Valladolid, where he warned that if such There is no intervention from, “the cycle of hatred will continue from generation to generation.”

Biden reiterates support for Palestinian state to Netanyahu, US President Joe Biden reiterated in a telephone call this Friday to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the need for a Palestinian state to be part of the post-war landscape in Gaza. The talks between the two leaders came after Netanyahu on Thursday reiterated his opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state “under any circumstances.”

Palestine condemns shooting of 17-year-old US national in West Bank, A 17-year-old Palestinian with American nationality died this Friday in a clash with Israeli forces in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry said. The young man’s uncle told Reuters that he died in a clash in which Palestinians threw stones at Israeli soldiers.

UN Women and UNICEF have warned of dire conditions for women and children in the Gaza Strip. Two mothers are dying every hour in the Gaza Strip due to the conflict since the day the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, 2023, according to a UN Women report on the impact of the crisis on women. For its part, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) indicated this Friday that approximately 20,000 children are born in the “hell of Gaza” in conditions that are “beyond imagination.”

Russia demanded the release of hostages during the second visit of a Hamas delegation to Moscow. The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, has met in Moscow with the number two in Hamas’s political bureau, Musa Abu Marzouk, to whom he reiterated Russia’s request that all civilian hostages held by the Islamic group be immediately released. last October. Friday was the second meeting held in Russia between foreign affairs representatives and Abu Marzouk since the beginning of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Health Ministry put the death toll from the Israeli attack at 24,762. The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry this Friday raised to 24,762 the number of deaths – most of them children and women – in the strip since Israeli attacks began on October 7. There were 142 more deaths than last year, according to data published Thursday. In addition, the operation was launched in response to a terrorist attack carried out by the Islamic militia Hamas that day against Israeli territory, which killed more than 1,100 people and injured 61,504.

The group ‘Legal Action Against Crimes Against Humanity’ justifies the complaint made to the President of Israel. The Swiss prosecutor’s office has received a criminal complaint against Israeli President Isaac Herzog over his visit to the Central European country to attend the Davos Forum, where he spoke about the war his country is waging against Hamas. Had defended. The Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed receipt of this complaint, without clarifying who its author is or what its contents are. Apparently, according to multiple agencies, a group called Legal Actions Against Crimes Against Humanity is behind him, which presented him before various cantonal authorities in Basel, Bern and Zurich.