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Montevideo, August 23rd 2026 - 11:11 UTC

Tag: Israel

  • Saturday, January 27th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

    UN agency staff in Gaza sacked for allegedly helping Hamas during Oct. 7 raid

    “Anyone who betrays the fundamental principles of the UN also betrays the people it serves in Gaza,” Lazzarini said

    The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) Friday sacked 7 of its workers for their alleged involvement in the Oct. 7, 2023, raids by the terrorist organization Hamas into Israeli territory killing some 1,200 people and taking hundreds hostage, which triggered the ongoing crisis given Tel Aviv's stern response.

  • Saturday, January 27th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    ICJ ruling on Gaza prompts mixed reactions

    South African President Ramaphosa dubbed Friday's ruling a “victory for international law, for human rights, and, above all, for justice”

    The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Friday ordered Israel by 15 votes to 2 to take all necessary measures to avoid genocide in Gaza. But, while failing to declare that such a calamity already existed in the war-torn Middle East region as those filing the case earlier this month presumably expected, it also stopped short of mandating a ceasefire.

  • Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

    Paraguay with positive trade balance and good news from Israel

    Israeli health authorities have authorized the shipment of bone-in beef from Paraguay, which is considered a historic event for the country and the sanitary conditions of its national herd.

    Land locked and Mercosur member Paraguay exports reached US$ 17,3 billion in 2023, according to the country's Central Bank International Trade Report. This represents a 24,8% increase in US dollars over a similar period a year before. The success is attributed to larger shipments of soybeans, rice and soy flour.

  • Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:26 UTC

    Paraguay cleared to ship beef on the bone to Israel

    Sheep meat may too be exported soon to Israel, it was explained

    Paraguay has been authorized by Israel's Veterinary and Animal Health Service (IVSAH) to sell beef on the bone to that country, the National Animal Health and Quality Service (Senacsa) announced Sunday in Asunción. Uruguay Israel's approval on Jan. 8.

  • Saturday, January 13th 2024 - 11:15 UTC

    Uruguay: Palestinian Embassy criticizes beef export deal with Israel

    We are still waiting for Uruguay to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, Ambassador Nadya Rasheed wrote

    Palestine's Embassy in Montevideo criticized the Uruguayan government of President Luis Lacalle Pou for a recent beef export agreement with Israel and suggested there was some sort of political alliance with Tel Aviv.

  • Thursday, January 11th 2024 - 10:41 UTC

    Brazil and Paraguay take opposite sides regarding ICJ case against Israel

    Lula recalled Brazil's immediate condemnation of Hamas' terrorist attacks but was critical of Israel's “disproportionate use of force”

    Although partners in the South American Common Market (Mercosur), Brazil and Paraguay took opposite sides in the case brought by South Africa before the The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for allegedly committing genocide against Palestinians living in Gaza. While the leftwing-leaning administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva joined the plaintiff, Asunción sided with the defendant.

  • Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Jewish leader in Buenos Aires sparks controversy regarding Gaza

    Pikholtz is a former president of the Argentine Zionist Organization

    Contradicting reports in Buenos Aires Friday concurred that Sergio Pikholtz was no longer Vice President of the Delegation of Argentine-Israeli Associations (DAIA) after posting on social media that there were “no innocents in Gaza.”

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

    Brazil not giving up rescuing people from war-torn Gaza

    “We will continue to take care of you in the best possible way,” Lula promised a group of people who landed in Brazil from Gaza on Dec. 23

    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

    The return flight is due at Brasilia's air base on Dec. 23.

    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

    Alon Lulu Shamriz, 26, was a computer engineering student

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