Palestinian civilians leaving east Rafah following an evacuation order from Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) have described their fear and despair to CNN correspondents in the area.
Mohammed Ghanem and his wife pushed strollers full of belongings. Ghanem told CNN: “We no longer have a home. We are going to Mawasi because there is no security with the Israelis. They are killing women and children.”
Ghanem added: “We left because they distributed pamphlets and attacked everywhere without distinguishing between children, adults, military or non-military. I abandoned my house that I have been building for 17 years.”
Another woman from east Rafah said: “The Israelis sent us messages ordering us to leave. We cannot wait.”
One man on a bicycle, Faisal Barbakh, told CNN: “I’m going into the unknown. I feel terrible. I wish one of the people who caused this was walking with us.”
“I’ve been here all my life. My family has been destroyed in seven places. I think it’s the end of life. I can’t think anymore. I have 59 years of life left, all my memories, photos of my children, contract of my house.
Videos from the area showed trucks full of people’s belongings traveling through the streets, which became increasingly crowded as the day wore on.
Two boys, Malek and Yousef, went out alone on bicycles, clinging to their bags. One of them said: “We fled from the Israelis. They warned us and ordered us to evacuate the eastern area. I have my clothes and food in my bag. We are going to our grandparents’ house.”
Many of those who left east Rafah have previously been displaced. One man told CNN: “This is the fourth time I’ve been displaced. From Nuseirat to Khan Younis, then to Rafah, and now another one. I don’t know where I’m going.”
Not all of them were going to areas designated by the Israel Defense Forces as safer places. Baker Al Ma’moun told CNN: “I am not leaving. Where am I going to go? To Mawasi, among the displaced? No, I prefer to stay with my family. Do you want to be displaced with us as in ’48? I will never accept that.”
In Mawasi, a coastal area already crowded with displaced people, some of the new arrivals were confused and uneasy. The streets were full of trucks and donkey carts, among huge piles of garbage.
Mohammad Abu Khamash told CNN: “I came here from Rafah and I didn’t find anywhere to stay. People even say we should leave.” [de aquí]. I swear I don’t know where to go. “They distributed pamphlets and people panicked and started running away.”
Ahmad Safi said he and his family left Khan Younis towards Rafah. “We had to fight air raids that put our lives and our children at risk. We left in search of a small decent life that we can live with our families.”
Safi said he got water every day. “There is no life. It is very complicated. I arrived in Khan Younis and I felt very depressed. It was a city full of life and happiness, but now it is not even worth living in. We are 8 family members. We came we by car from Rafah.
“There is no security anywhere. The Israelis can enter at any time when they want,” said Safi.
Abu Salah said he left Rafah under heavy fire. “There is no security. The security is in my house. The security is moving from one place to another like a cat with its babies, asking for some water and a coupon [de comida]?”.
“There will be no solution as long as we (Hamas) and the Israelis try to defend their positions. There will be no solution. The solution is in the hands of God,” said Salah.
A woman named Maha said that Palestinian civilians were at the mercy of the Israeli army. “They can tell you to go here and they kill you here, or they tell you to go there and they kill you there. They don’t want bail for us.”
“The solution is to end this cause, not just to stop the war, but to have a Palestinian state,” he said.
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The writer and journalist Anabel Hernández assures that Ismael Zambada García, “El Mayo”, received protection from the extinct Attorney General’s Office of the Federal District (PGJDF), when the now president Andrés Manuel López Obrador was head of government in Mexico City.
And the first time that the authorities of Mexico City (formerly Federal District) They recognized the presence of organized crime groups dedicated to drug trafficking in the capital at the beginning of 2020.
However, two decades earlier, the Sinaloa Cartel, whose leader is precisely “El Mayo” Zambadawas already receiving protection from those who governed the center of the country, according to statements collected by journalist Anabel Hernández.
Testimonies included in the controversial book The secret history: AMLO and the Sinaloa Cartel by Anabel Hernández relate that when Andrés Manuel López Obrador was head of government of the then Federal District (2000-2005), the city functioned as a cocaine warehouse for the criminal organization.
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The research work that also reveals Sinaloa Cartel ties extend to AMLO’s children already Claudia Sheinbaumpresidential candidate of Morenaresume statements by Jesús Reynaldo Zambada García (“The King”), brother of “El Mayo””.
He (another key witness against Genaro García Luna) who confessed that he was responsible for receiving “tons of cocaine at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM).”
The statements of “El Rey”, brother of “El Mayo”, were taken as true and useful, as it was removed from the “blacklist” of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), of the United States Department of the Treasury, on Wednesday, May 12, 2021.
Even his properties, interests and transactions that were in the United States were unblocked on that same date.
To move freely around the capital, he states that both Reynaldo and “El Mayo”, the Sinaloa Cartel, had the protection of Genaro García Lunafrom the Secretariat of Local Public Security (SSP), and of the extinct Attorney General’s Office of the Federal District (PGJDF), at the time when the head of government of Mexico City was AMLO.
And file cited by Anabel Hernándezprepared between 2004 and 2005, indicates that the commander Ignacio Perales Gómez of the PGJDF y Domingo Gonzalezdirector of the Special Operations Command Center of the Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) gave protection to “El Mayo”, when AMLO was head of government in Mexico City.
The report gives details of vehicles used for these purposes, which were stationed in the capital police offices located on Liverpool Streetfrom the Juárez neighborhood, in Mexico City.
Commander Ignacio Perales Gómez of the PGJDF He was executed in June 2006 a few meters from his house, in the then Gustavo A. Madero delegation.
A group of hitmen intercepted him aboard a car and, before the agent could defend himself, they shot him at least ten times.
The apparent links of Ignacio Perales Gómez They were revealed a couple of years later by Edgar Enrique Bayardor, former inspector of the Federal Preventive Police (PFP).
Before the Specialized Unit for Organized Crime Investigation (Siedo) of the then Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (PGR), Bayardo claimed that the murdered commander was compadre of “The King” Zambada.
Who is Jesús Reynaldo Zambada García, “El Rey”, brother of “El Mayo”?
“El Rey” was deputy leader of the Sinaloa Cartel from 1987 until his arrest in 2008 and went key witness to start the investigation against Genaro García Luna, former head of the Ministry of Public Security (SSP) in Mexico, currently imprisoned in Brooklyn, for allegedly receiving at least 8 million dollars from the Sinaloa Cartel.
“The King” Zambada testified in mid-November 2020in the trial that took place in the Federal Court of the Eastern District of New York, against Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, “El Chapo”, whom he pointed out as the true leader of the Sinaloa Cartel and partner of his brother “El Mayo”.
During his testimony for the trial, “El Rey” Zambada stated that he was the main person responsible for the criminal organization in Mexico City, where he stored cocaine from Colombia in a warehouse.
He also stated that “El Chapo” murdered in a cinema in Culiacán, Sinaloa, in 2004, to Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentesbecause the brother of “El Señor de los Cielos” and “El Viceroy” did not shake his hand.
“The King” also accused El Chapo of ordering the murder of Julio Beltrán Leyva, for having disobeyed an order not to send cocaine to Acapulco, Guerrero.
Likewise, “El Rey” Zambada told about the alleged payment of 250 thousand dollars in bribes to a lieutenant colonel of the Mexican Army, who warned that, in 2003, there was an imminent operation to arrest “El Chapo.”
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