Tag: Israel

• Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

  Brazil not giving up rescuing people from war-torn Gaza

  

  President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Brazil was still willing to welcome anyone who wanted to return from the Gaza Strip, Agencia Brasil reported. The head of state made those remarks on Christmas Day over lunch with a group of people who had arrived from the war-torn area on Dec. 23.

• Saturday, December 23rd 2023 - 09:44 UTC

  Brazilian Air Force flight to repatriate people from Gaza takes off

  

  A Brazilian Air Force (FAB) KC-30 aircraft (the military version of the Airbus 330-200 passenger airliner), took off from Rio de Janeiro's Galeão Airport to bring back another batch group of nationals of the South American country who lived in the Gaza Strip, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Saturday, December 16th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

  Argentine hostage mistakenly killed by Israeli forces

  

  According to Buenos Aires media, one of the Hamas hostages Israel mistakenly killed had Argentine roots.

• Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:09 UTC

  Milei wants to appoint his rabbi friend as next ambassador to Israel

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei confirmed he intentds to appoint Rabbi Axel Wahnish as the South American country's next ambassador to Israel in addition to moving the mission from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, December 11th 2023 - 14:54 UTC

  FAB aircraft carrying 48 evacuees from Gaza lands in Brasilia

  

  A Brazilian Air Force Airbus KC-30 (the military version of the A330-200) aircraft landed in Brasilia at 3.47 am Monday after a 15-hour flight from Cairo carrying 48 refugees who had fled the war-torn Gaza Strip, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Tuesday, December 5th 2023 - 10:07 UTC

  Netanyahu praises Milei but Israel ups travel warnings for Argentina and Brazil

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday called Argentina's President-elect to invite him over to Jerusalem for the opening of the South American country's Embassy there after relocating it from Tel Aviv, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, December 1st 2023 - 09:46 UTC

  Uruguayan national among those released by Hamas

  

  Uruguayan national Shani Goren Horovitz was among the eight hostages released by the terrorist group Hamas Thursday in exchange for yet another batch of 30 prison inmates from Israeli jails, Qatari government sources confirmed.

• Thursday, November 30th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

  Hamas says Argentine baby hostage and his family died in Israeli strike

  

  According to the Palestinian Islamist terrorist group Hamas, the 10-month-old Argentine baby Kfir Bibas, his brother, and their mother had died as a result of an Israeli strike carried out in retaliation for the Oct. 7 attacks in which some 240 people were taken hostage to the Gaza Strip.

• Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 10:09 UTC

  Four more Argentines freed by Hamas

  

  The terrorist group Hamas Tuesday released ten women, four of them Argentine nationals, in exchange for another batch of 30 Palestinian inmates held by Israel at the Ofer prison in the West Bank and in the Russian prison in Jerusalem, as the humanitarian truce was extended to allow for further swaps. Two other hostages were also freed as a bonus not contemplated in the agreement.

• Saturday, November 25th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

  First batch of Israeli hostages released in exchange for Palestinian prison inmates

  

  The terrorist organization Hamas Friday handed over 13 hostages of the over 200 taken from Israel in the Oct. 7 attacks. The measure was enacted during a four-day ceasefire which also allowed for the release in return of 39 Palestinians who were serving prison sentences. Further swaps are expected in the coming days.