After the United States threatened to abandon mediation between Russia and Ukraine, Putin has announced, “for humanitarian reasons”, a 30 -hour respite. In the first six hours of yesterday evening, however, according to sources of Kiev, the Easter truce would have been violated with “387 bombings and 19 attacks by Russian forces” and with drones “used by the Russians 290 times”. President Zelensky fears that the truce is “a fake”. A 58 -year -old man was killed in the Russian attacks in the Kherson region (South) an hour after the start of the Annunciated Tregna. If, however, today the Ukrainian weapons were really silent, it hopes that it will be the beginning of a real peace negotiation.
No spiraglio, however, for the Holy Land. The families of the kidnapped hostages gathered at the Kibbutz Nir Oz, on the border with the Gaza Strip, to launch an appeal for their loved ones still prisoners. “For 561 days, the cry of the 59 hostages is not listened to for 561 days,” reads the release released yesterday. «If we do not act, we will condemn the living to death and we will no longer be able to recover the bodies of the fallen. We ask the government: “Reach an agreement that immediately free all the hostages in a single phase” “.
But Netanyahu’s government does not seem willing to negotiate. Indeed, the Israeli president said he wants to marry “the important vision of President Trump that Gaza’s face will change once and for all and will allow our country to live safely” which provides for the expulsion of the inhabitants from the strip to “clean up the territory”. Netanyahu also said that accepting the truce would mean sending “a message to all Israel’s enemies: taking an Israeli hostage, the state of Israel can be brought to its knees”.
In the meantime, a firm condemnation came from the Arab Orthodox Union of Jerusalem “for the actions and measures adopted by the Israeli police against the Christian faithful of various confessions” which occurred on Holy Saturday. “These actions”, explains the note, “included the impediment to access to the church of the Holy Sepulcher through the doors of the old city, in particular through the Porta Nuova, and the establishment of dozens of checkpoints in the alleys of the Christian district of the old city of Jerusalem”. Among the people also stopped the Nuncio in Israel, the archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana, blocked out of the old city and on the road to the nunciature which is on the mountain of the olive trees. Checking that it was a diplomat, the Nuncio was then passed. In the note of the Orthodox, he also protested for having seen “today, holy Saturday for Christians of all confessions, brandishing weapons against children of the scout groups, women and the elderly, as well as snaps, beatings and physical insults in an unacceptable and provocative scene. What happened was a clear violation of freedom of worship and a scandalous violation of all status quo agreements in force for centuries “.
