🗞️ Rassegna del 19/03/2024

Israele

(Reuters) Gaza suffers famine-level shortages, mass death imminent, UN-backed monitor says

• Northern Gaza already far exceeds famine thresholds for food shortage, probably for malnutrition
• Data lacking on deaths but famine levels believed imminent
• Famine can be prevented only by immediate ceasefire, surge of aid

(BBC) Israeli forces raid Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital

• The Israeli military says it has taken control of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City in what it called an operation to "thwart terrorist activity".
• It said troops killed 20 "terrorists", including a senior commander of Hamas's internal security force, and detained dozens of suspects during the raid.
• Witnesses described heavy exchanges of fire around the site, where thousands of displaced people are sheltering.

Russia

(Reuters) West decries Putin's election win, China, India vow closer ties

• Western governments say election was rigged, undemocratic
• Condemn holding of election in occupied Ukraine regions
• China, North Korea, India, Iran congratulate Putin

Politica internazionale

America Latina

(AP) Venezuela ruling party officially makes Maduro its candidate in the July presidential election

• Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday became his party’s official nominee for July’s presidential election
• Maduro accepted the nomination as the ruling United Socialist Party’s candidate for the July 28 presidential election during a party gathering in Caracas

Asia e Pacifico

(Reuters) North Korea fires ballistic missiles as Blinken visits Seoul

• North Korea fired short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Monday for the first time in two months, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Seoul for a conference hosted by President Yoon Suk Yeol on advancing democracy.