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Montevideo, May 26th 2025 - 04:59 UTC

Tag: Palestine

  • Wednesday, November 8th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Guterres once again calls for humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza

    “Everything he says is based on information that we have and that we trust to be able to use,” a spokesperson for Guterres explained

    United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Tuesday called again for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza to allow humanitarian actions. The Portugal-born official said he was “extremely distressed by the violent death of civilians in Gaza and the humanitarian catastrophe that continues there.”

  • Thursday, November 2nd 2023 - 08:39 UTC

    Divergent positions: Argentina backs Israel, then condemns attacks in Palestine

    Hamas must still release the Argentine hostages, the Foreign Ministry also said.

    Three weeks apart, the Argentine Foreign Ministry issued two communiqués with different positions on the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the first, dated October 7, Argentina clearly supports the position of Israel, which claims its position as the nation under attack and condemns the attacks of the terrorist group Hamas against the Israeli population.

  • Friday, October 27th 2023 - 10:09 UTC

    UN Security Council: Brazil drafting 5th resolution on Middle East crisis

    “I think a new resolution has to ask for everything,” Vieira said

    Diplomatic representatives of Brazil, the country chairing the United Nations Security Council, are drafting a fifth resolution regarding the ongoing war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas after four previous attempts failed to garner enough votes or were vetoed by one or more of the body's permanent members, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Friday, October 27th 2023 - 09:51 UTC

    UN General Assembly evaluating ceasefire in Middle East war

    “Why is there so much pain over the deaths of Israelis and so little pain for us Palestinians?” Riyad Mansour wondered

    A United Nations (UN) General Assembly meeting where a possible resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in the Middle East was adjourned Thursday, Agencia Brasil reported. The body is to resume Friday the discussion of the conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip region.

  • Friday, October 27th 2023 - 09:45 UTC

    7-year-old Chilean boy living in Gaza Strip is found

    “Now the immediate problem is to set up a place to stay, in Gaza,” Ghassan's uncle said in a video released on social media

    Chilean media reported early Friday the finding of 7-year-old Ghassan Sahurie, a 7-year-old boy of Chilean-Palestinian descent who was missing in the Gaza Strip.

  • Saturday, October 21st 2023 - 10:27 UTC

    Hamas releases first two hostages

    Netanyahu said Israel will keep fighting until the “final victory”

    The pro-Palestine terrorist group Hamas Friday released Judith Tai Raanan and Natalie Shoshana Raananan taken hostage since the beginning of hostilities on Oct. 7, it was reported. “From our side, it is a clear humanitarian step to show that our conflict is only with Israel,” a spokesman for the Al Qasam Brigades (Hamas' armed wing) said.

  • Friday, October 20th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

    José 'Pepe' Mujica begs Hamas for Latin American hostages

    The hostages will not solve the problems of the Palestinians, Mujica argued

    Former Uruguayan leftwing President José 'Pepe' Mujica Thursday called on the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas to release the Latin American hostages captured since the beginning of the conflict with Israel on Oct. 7, it was reported in Montevideo.

  • Thursday, October 19th 2023 - 09:21 UTC

    The impact of Israel/Hamas conflict on global grain and fertilizer prices

    In search of safer assets during geopolitical tensions, market players often shift to investments such as the U.S. dollar

    The war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas may have repercussions on global grain prices and could also increase fertilizer prices, as indicated by analyses from Hedgepoint Global Markets and Itaú BBA, reports Globo Rural.

  • Monday, October 16th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

    WHO warns patients in Gaza have been given a death sentence

    “We are ready to deploy supplies as soon as humanitarian access to the Strip is established,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote

    The World Health Organization (WHO) expressed its concern this past weekend regarding the evacuation of patients from northern Gaza and insisted Israel's ultimatum for 1.1 million people to move to the south was tantamount to “a death sentence,” in addition to the risk that the most critically ill might need to be left behind.

  • Monday, October 16th 2023 - 08:47 UTC

    Paraguayan President expresses support to Israel

    Peña also said he wished peace would return “to this brother country as soon as possible”

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Sunday conveyed his country's support to his Israeli colleague Isaac Herzog during a telephone conversation, it was reported in Asuncion.