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The 32 countries of the International Energy Agency have already released 325 million barrels of the 400 million committed to compensate for the disturbances caused by the war in the Middle East. The organization remains open to release more crude, while countries call for priority of diesel.
While the memories of 1,200 people who died in the Hamas attacks accumulate in the sight of all, many Israelis are reviving that day of horror every day, consultations are increasing because of mental health problems and the feeling is growing that the world only addresses the situation of the Palestinian enclave, but not the aftermath of the war on the other side of the border.
On 7 October 2023, Hamas launched the largest terrorist attack on Israeli territory. The Palestinian organization, considered a terrorist by the European Union and the United States, first thing in the morning crossed the security barrier that separates Gaza from Israel and killed 1,189 people, including 815 civilians, left 7,500 wounded and abducted 251 others. Three years later, France 24 reconstructed a day that shook the region and the world.
The Malaca Strait is one of the main bottlenecks of world trade and an essential route for China's energy supply. Through its waters it transits a fundamental part of trade between Asia, the Middle East and the rest of the world. A possible blockade, whether by conflict, accident or disaster, could alter global supply chains and test Beijing's energy security. Why has this strait become one of Asia's major strategic points?
Since October 2023, the Israeli invasion has brought Gaza into a daily reality of death, bombing, absolute devastation and a humanitarian catastrophe without an end to sight. Even the first year under the nominal truce of Donald Trump's plan has not been translated into substantial changes: the Israeli attacks, although on a smaller scale, are repeated on a daily basis; humanitarian aid still does not go into the amounts necessary to address the urgency; and reconstruction is today more a desire than a real advance.
Hamas and the people of Gaza will pay a "high price," "beyond all proportion," if Israeli forces are damaged during the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack, Defense Minister Israel Katz warned on Tuesday. The warning takes place in the midst of the ceasefire declared a year ago.
Middle East oil exports over four days in the last week of September exceeded pre-war levels between the United States, Israel and Iran. The flows reached 22.5 million barrels a day, also driven by alternative routes to the Strait of Ormuz and even though the war has not ceased, and instead, the attacks continue and spread throughout the region. International crude oil prices dropped significantly on Monday, October 5.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan agreed to deploy military forces and capabilities quickly into Saudi territory, in the first activation of the agreement they signed in August. The decision is in full escalation with the Hutti, which on Monday, 5 October, claimed to have attacked with missiles and drones airports, military facilities and an Aramco refinery in Saudi Arabia, following the offensive by the Government of Yemen to expel them from the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
The Yemeni Hutti claimed on Saturday, October 3, the authority of the attack on an oil facility in Aramco in Riyadh, from which they unleashed flames. Shortly before, they had blamed the Saudi Army for 26 bombings against Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, which is under its control.
On Saturday, October 3, the Yemeni Hutti, aligned with Iran, claimed that they had attacked an Aramco oil facility in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, with ballistic missiles and drones, and said that the offensive was in retaliation for the Saudi attacks on Sana'a and other provinces of Yemen.
At least five explosions were heard on Saturday in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, controlled by the Hutti. The Almasirah channel, linked to the movement, attributed the attacks to Saudi Arabia, without specifying whether there were any casualties, while AFP correspondents reported explosions and combat aircraft throwing missiles over the city.
The co-pilot of FZ1073 Flydubai flight has been identified as Hamam al-Hammami, a citizen of Oman who had been banned from flying in his country because of suspected radicalization, according to media such as the AP agency, Saudi channel Al Arabiya and media such as' CNN '. The general prosecutor emirati, Hamad Saif Al Shamsi, said that al- Hammami intended to execute a "terrorist act," after assaulting the captain with an axe and trying to take control of the aircraft.
The G7 countries are armored by the arrival of winter. On October 2, the group announced the release of 100 million barrels of oil and diesel to stop the price escalation, in the midst of the crisis resulting from the war in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Ormuz, as well as under pressure from US threats to block its oil exports. We discussed the subject in the # InvitadoDelDiaF24 with Nelson Baldeon, a consultant on energy geopolitics and strategic resources.
In a nearly ten-minute conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, pilot Smit Machchhar recalled that he "collapsed" from the wounds caused by the stabbing by his co-pilot on the road between Dubai and Tel Aviv. With bandages and connected to an oxygen tube from the hospital in which it is recovering, the commander recognized that he made a "last effort" to open the door of the cabin and allow passengers to go in to reduce the attacker.
The Riyadh-led coalition that faces the insurgent group said that it had directed an offensive with drones against a Medina power plant, one of the most sacred cities of Islam, an accusation that was answered by the Huti in turn denouncing Saudi attacks against Sana & apos; a and other cities of Yemen. It is the greatest escalation of tensions since the UN-mediated truce came into force in 2022.
Smit Machchhar, Indian captain of the Emirati flydubai airline, became the protagonist of an air safety incident after his co-pilot allegedly stabbed him during a flight between Dubai and Tel Aviv, in which 174 people were travelling. Gravely injured, Machchhar would have managed to open the cabin door to allow the intervention of passengers and crew, which reduced the alleged aggressor while two other pilots on board assumed control of the aircraft. Benjamin Netanyahu's government calls him the "hero" who avoided a tragedy. E
The United Arab Emirates reported on October 1 that it opened an investigation to determine whether the incident that forced a Flydubai aircraft to Tel Aviv to land an emergency in Saudi Arabia one day earlier was linked to a "terrorist activity or intention." According to the Israeli authorities, the co-pilot reportedly stabbed the captain and tried to crash the aircraft. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of the Jewish majority State, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated, although not showing evidence, that the aggressor had received "radical Islamist indoctrination."
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Tehran hopes to receive a response from Washington on Tuesday to his proposal to reopen the Strait of Ormuz. In return for re-establishing transit through this vital maritime route, Iran requires guarantees that include a regional ceasefire, the lifting of sanctions on its oil sector and the end of the U.S. naval blockade.
An update of the satellite images available on Google Earth shows the magnitude of the devastation in the Gaza Strip after almost three years of war between Israel and Hamas, with entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. The United Nations estimates that 82 per cent of the structures of the territory have been damaged.
