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Real Madrid lost last year's Spanish Super Cup final Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid in extra time in a Spanish Super Cup semi-final thriller in Saudi Arabia. Atletico's Mario Hermoso and Real's Antonio Rudiger scored headers before Ferland Mendy flicked in Dani Carvajal's cross to put Real ahead. Antoine Griezmann scored a club record-breaking 174th goal for Atletico and Rudiger netted an own goal before Carvajal forced extra time. A late Stefan Savic own goal and Brahim Diaz strike won the game for Real. Atletico keeper Jan Oblak had gone forward in injury time with Diaz beating him in a race starting in his own half before slotting into an empty net from 40 yards. Real Madrid play either Barcelona or Osasuna - who meet in the other semi-final on Thursday - in Sunday's final. If Barca win their semi it would mean a second El Clasico final in a row, with Barcelona winning 3-1 last year. Griezmann made history with his excellent strike from the edge of the area after beating two defenders, overtaking legendary Luis Aragones as Atletico's all-time leading scorer. But it was not enough for Diego Simeone's side, who were five minutes from the final before Carvajal's strike and four minutes from a shootout before Savic deflected the ball into his own net. Atletico's next game is also against Real Madrid, with the capital rivals meeting in the Copa del Rey last 16 next Thursday. Link

Plant Munich, home of the 3 Series, will make EVs only in just three years Big news from BMW: its historic Munich factory will exclusively produce electric vehicles from 2027. The moment will draw the curtain on decades of tradition as the company shifts apace towards its e-mobility goals. Plant Munich produced its first car, the BMW 501 saloon, back in 1952, with many of the firm’s big-hitters popping out of BMW Group’s ‘parent factory’ since. Perhaps most crucially it’s where the original Neue Klasse kickstarted BMW’s prosperous modern era – the delectable 2002 its big icon – and it’s where the neue Neue Klasse will hope to write a similarly successful new chapter when production begins in 2026, a year before internal combustion car production concludes at the factory. For now, the plant continues to produce both 3 Series and i4 saloons on the same assembly line. BMW set a new production record in 2023, in fact, with nearly 1000 cars a day being pumped out of Munich, around half of which are currently EVs. Paving the way for them all being EVs is a 650 million euro investment (around £560m) that’s already seen lots of construction begin, with four new buildings including a new assembly line and body shop. To make way, engine production halted in 2023 and has been fully shifted to Hams Hall in Britain and Steyr in Austria, ending over a century of ICE manufacturing in Munich. “Munich is the beating heart of BMW,” says Plant Munich director Peter Weber. “As in the 1960s, a Neue Klasse is again laying the foundation from which our plant is reinventing itself. We are delighted to be guiding the Munich plant into a fully electric future, starting with the Neue Klasse sedan." Yep, a saloon rather than a crossover. Though (perhaps inevitably) an SUV will begin the Neue Klasse era a year earlier, with a replacement for the iX3 being pumped out of BMW Plant Debrecen in Hungary from 2025. But the beginning of Bavaria’s bold new era should appease the purists; assuming the car in question sticks closely to the Vision Neue Klasse concept, it’ll clothe traditional three-box proportions in recognisable design cues. Hofmeister kinks, subtle kidney grilles… Perhaps it might lure more luddites to make the leap of faith to e-mobility, too. Neue Klasse production will also take place in China and Mexico, while Hungary will make the high-voltage batteries underpinning a new 800v architecture. But this investment proves BMW still firmly believes in its flagship Bavarian home by Munich Olympic Park. Handy, given that’s where its rather excellent museum and towering Vierzylinder office also reside. Catalysing Plant Munich’s next chapter is the increased digitalisation and AI utilisation of BMW’s ‘iFactory’ principle. Exciting times? Or another mournful day for the cars we know and love? Vent your thoughts below… Link

The party-line vote comes after House Republicans released a report saying the president's son should be held in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena. WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted to formally recommend that the full House hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena in the Republican impeachment inquiry into his father. The GOP-led committee voted along party lines, 23 to 14, in favor of advancing the contempt resolution. The vote comes hours after the president's son arrived on Capitol Hill to attend in person the congressional committee meetings on the matter. Biden was accompanied Wednesday morning by his attorneys Kevin Morris and Abbe Lowell, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Judiciary Committee vote. House Republicans on the Oversight and Judiciary Committees were holding separate votes Wednesday recommending a contempt charge for Biden, who's at odds with GOP lawmakers over their demand that he be deposed behind closed doors. The president’s son, facing two separate indictments, has said he would testify publicly, an offer Republicans have refused, continuing to insist that the interview be held privately. During the Oversight Committee's markup Wednesday morning, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., called for Biden's arrest on the spot for defying the congressional subpoena. "Hunter Biden, you are too afraid for a deposition, and I still think you are today," she said. "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes," she added. Biden and his legal team left the hearing shortly before Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., delivered remarks at the Oversight hearing in which she called Biden a "coward." Outside the chamber, Lowell said committee Republicans were motivated by "improper partisan motives." He said he and his client had offered to work with Republicans on the committees on a half dozen occasions since last February, including on Wednesday, to see "how relevant information to any legitimate inquiry could be provided," but their offers were ignored. He called a GOP subpoena in November for a closed-door deposition "a tactic that the Republicans have repeatedly misused in their political crusade to selectively leak and mischaracterize what witnesses have said." "The Republican chairs today then are commandeering an unprecedented resolution to hold someone in contempt who has offered to publicly answer all their proper questions," Lowell added. "The question there is, what are they afraid of?" Asked by NBC News shortly after leaving the Oversight hearing whether he would testify Wednesday if asked, Biden replied, "Yes." He and his team then left the building. During the Judiciary Committee's contempt markup, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., mentioned Biden’s unexpected appearance on Capitol Hill before moving to adjourn the meeting in order to have the president’s son testify in public given his presence down the hall at the time. The motion failed in a roll-call vote. Link

Soldiers are on the streets in several cities in Ecuador as the country reels from an unprecedented day of violence. Masked gunmen stormed a public TV studio during a live broadcast in the city of Guayaquil and bombs were detonated across Ecuador on Tuesday. More than 130 prison staff are being held hostage by inmates in five jails. A 60-day state of emergency began on Monday after a notorious gangster vanished from his prison cell. It is unclear whether the attack on the TV studio in Ecuador's largest city was related to the disappearance of the boss of the Choneros gang, Adolfo Macías Villamar, or Fito, as he is better known. President Daniel Noboa declared the state of emergency in response to a wave of recent jail riots and escapes from prisons and other acts of violence blamed by authorities on criminal gangs. He ordered that criminal gangs be "neutralised" and said that an "internal armed conflict" existed within the country. The government says the violence is a reaction to President Noboa's plan to build a new high security prison for gang leaders. The president said on Wednesday that Ecuador would begin to deport foreign prisoners, especially Colombians, to reduce the number of inmates. Esteban Torres Cobo, a vice minister in President Noboa's government, said the war on armed gangs could result in many deaths and casualties. "It's going to be bloody but this is the change we need in order to have a better future, we cannot be postponing this decision throughout the years, we have to take decision now," he told the BBC's Newshour programme. He said gang leaders were asking for mediation but that the "government is not going to negotiate with no-one." A spokesperson for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was "very much alarmed by the deteriorating situation" and the "disruptive impact on the lives of Ecuadorans". Meanwhile, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the US "strongly condemned" the recent attacks, while National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Washington was committed to "helping support security and prosperity for the people of Ecuador". Hours after the most brazen of the attacks, Guayaquil was like a city waking up from a strange nightmare. Despite the deteriorating security situation over recent years, few could have expected to see the anchor of state television channel TC with a gun pointed at his head, live on air. Police have made 70 arrests since Monday, including in response to the storming of the TV station. The ripple effect of that brazen attack has been to send people for cover, even a day later. The streets are largely empty for a weekday. Many say the situation reminds them of life during the Covid pandemic. Hundreds of soldiers, including in tanks, are patrolling the streets of Guayaquil and the capital, Quito. Across the country, schools have remained closed, with lessons taking place online. China, a major investor in Ecuador, also announced it was temporarily shutting its embassy and consulates. Soldiers patrol the streets of Guayaquil Inside the businesses which remain open in Guayaquil, jumpy private security guards are keeping the doors closed, only allowing people in with caution. Eduardo, who works for an international clothing firm, said he was in the street buying coffee at the moment the chaos started to unfold and by the time he returned to the office, his colleagues had already started to pack up and leave. "Today, everyone is working from home," he said. Some 125 prison guards and 14 administrative staff are being held hostage across Ecuador, the SNAI prisons agency says. Four police officers, who authorities say were kidnapped by criminals between Monday and Tuesday, are also being held. Three other officers were freed late on Tuesday. Police say violence is ongoing in Guayaquil. Eight people were killed and three injured in attacks linked to criminal gangs in the city on Tuesday while two police officers were killed by "armed criminals" in the nearby town of Nobol, police said. Police say they are in the process of identifying three bodies which were found in a burned-out car in the south of the city overnight. This is an unprecedented situation for the people of Guayaquil - they have seen political protests and other violent incidents over the years but nothing on the scale of the sheer panic which gripped the city on Tuesday. Students ran in fear as gunmen entered their university corridors and bombs were detonated around the country, raising fears that the attacks were co-ordinated. Those who must venture out, for work or to visit family, are doing so with great trepidation. It has been an exhausting, upsetting 24 hours in Ecuador's main port. Nightly curfew to curb violence In recent years, Ecuador's prisons have been plagued by violent feuds between jailed members of rival gangs, often resulting in multiple massacres of inmates. President Noboa's emergency declaration listed the Choneros (named after the town of Chone in Manabi Province) as well as 21 other gangs as behind the recent spate of violence. The order built on the state of emergency declared on Monday, which ordains a nightly curfew in an attempt to curb violence following Fito's escape. Security forces have been trying to re-establish order in at least six jails where riots broke out on Monday. The escape of Fito represents a huge blow to Mr Noboa's presidency, barely seven weeks old. President Noboa, at the age of 36, became Ecuador's youngest leader to be democratically elected, winning an election tarnished by the assassination of presidential candidate and journalist Fernando Villavicencio. Villavicencio had reported receiving death threats from Fito just days before he was shot dead while leaving a campaign rally in Quito. Link

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Hayden Hackney's goal was just his second of the season in all competitions Chelsea missed a host of chances as Championship side Middlesbrough earned a slender advantage in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final at a boisterous Riverside Stadium. Hayden Hackney scored the only goal, opening up his body to slide home an Isaiah Jones cross in the first half. Cole Palmer missed three presentable opportunities as Chelsea failed to score for the sixth time this season. The second leg takes place on Tuesday, 23 January at 19:45 GMT. Liverpool face Fulham in the other semi-final, with the final taking place at Wembley on Sunday, 25 February. Palmer struggles as injury-ravaged Boro battle Cole Palmer has scored eight goals for Chelsea this season Both sides came into the game with 12 first-team players unavailable and the situation worsened for Boro boss Michael Carrick when striker Emmanuel Latte Lath and left wing-back Alex Bangura were forced off in the opening 20 minutes. Latte Lath had capitalised on a poor Levi Colwill header to get in behind the Chelsea defence and was caught on the ankle by Axel Disasi, but the referee waved away penalty appeals and there is no video assistant referee system in operation at this stage of the competition. Palmer's first big miss came when experienced captain Jonny Howson gifted him the ball, 30 yards from the Boro goal. He drifted towards goals and looked to place in the corner but dragged wide. Minutes later, Boro took the lead when Jones got in behind the Chelsea defence and twisted and turned Colwill, who struggled throughout, before his cross was turned in by Hackney, who had drifted off Moises Caicedo. The goal was met with rapturous noise inside the Riverside, but the game soon returned to the familiar pattern of Chelsea attacks with Palmer turning over the bar after Enzo Fernandez's effort was spilled by Tom Glover. Former Manchester City forward Palmer then saw another effort saved as he chopped in from the right, while Caicedo had a long-range effort fizz wide. Chelsea dominated large periods of the second half too but failed to create any clear-cut opportunities, with a Noni Madueke header, which was comfortably saved, the closest they came. Their recent investment can be highlighted by the fact that only two of the squad who played in an FA Cup tie against Boro in January 2022 are at the club this season, and while summer signing Palmer has been a shining light so far, this was a difficult night for the 21-year-old. Mauricio Pochettino's side had scored in their past six games but must improve in the second leg if the Argentine boss is going to retain a chance of winning his first trophy in England at the end of February. Among Premier League sides, only Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest (32 each) have lost more games than Chelsea (31) in all competitions since the start of last season, while no team have lost more away from home than the Blues (21) during that period. Victory for Boro, who have suffered six defeats at home in the Championship this season, gives them hope of reaching the final of the competition they won 20 years ago. Link

The centuries-old practice of eating dog meat has been fading in South Korea, and activists cheered the ban as a historic victory for animal welfare. SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday banning the consumption and sale of dog meat, in a move cheered by animal welfare groups. “This is history in the making,” JungAh Chae, executive director of Humane Society International Korea, said in a statement. “I never thought I would see in my lifetime a ban on the cruel dog meat industry in South Korea, but this historic win for animals is testament to the passion and determination of our animal protection movement,” she added. The centuries-old practice of eating dog meat has been fading in South Korea, though some older people especially still believe it provides health benefits during the hot summer. Up to 1 million dogs are farmed and killed in South Korea each year for human consumption, according to Humane Society International Korea. The tradition stemmed in part from the needs of ordinary people with limited access to beef and other meat, and advocates of the ban had argued there was no longer any need to consume dog meat since South Korea is now an affluent society with the world’s 13th-biggest economy. A caged dog in Seoul, South Korea, in November. As South Korea has developed dogs have surged in po[CENSORED]rity as pets, with an estimated 6 million in Korean homes, Humane Society International Korea says. South Koreans often treat their pets as cherished family members, sometimes giving them burials as elaborate as those for humans. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has six dogs and eight cats with his wife, Kim Keon Hee, a vocal supporter of the ban. Eighty-six percent of South Koreans say they have little or no intention of consuming dog meat in the future, according to the results of a survey released in September that was conducted by Nielsen Korea and commissioned by Humane Society International Korea. In the same survey, 57 percent of respondents said they would support a ban on the dog meat industry. The ban had been opposed by farmers, restaurant owners and others involved in the dog meat industry who said they would be harmed economically. In November, about 200 held a rally against the legislation during which some protesters clashed with Seoul police. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee posing with puppies at the Samsung Guide Dog School in Yongin on Dec. 24, 2022. “South Korea is rapidly moving towards a society focusing on the welfare of animals and the time is now for the South Korean government to act to resolve the problems of canine consumption,” South Korean Agriculture Minister Song Mi-ryung said. “We plan to continue to communicate with the animal protection advocate groups and the canine consumption business community to devise ways to provide a reasonable and rational compensation,” she added. Violations of the legislation, which takes effect three years from now, are punishable by up to three years in prison or 30 million won ($22,800) in fines. South Korea joins a growing list of Asian countries and territories that have banned the dog meat trade, including India, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Link

… and we can confirm Volkswagen is bringing back proper steering wheel buttons. Hurrah! The Volkswagen Golf turns 50 this year, and the celebrations/mid-life crisis (delete as appropriate) will kick off later this month with a facelift for the much-maligned Mk8. And from first glance at this camouflaged Mk8.5 GTI, it would seem as though Volkswagen has actually listened to some of the criticism. Just take a peek at the interior. Yep, those are actual, physical buttons on the steering wheel rather than those shoddy haptic touch-sensitive pads that were first offered on the Mk8. “They’re dreadful,” we said of the wheel-mounted controls in our original review of the pre-facelift GTI. “Setting the cruise control or cycling though radio stations is now a right old chore. Please VW, bin this Apple-wannabe nonsense and put some proper buttons back in the GTI.” So, this is good news. As is the inclusion of VW’s updated infotainment system, which features a massive screen plonked in the middle of the dash, but crucially adds illuminated sliders so that you’re actually able to change the volume or temperature at night. Phew. And there are updates to the exterior too by the looks of things. We spy a slightly redesigned front end with a sharper bumper, and is that a full-width light bar hiding under the camo? Not sure, but there are certainly new rear lights, possibly a more pronounced rear diffuser and what looks like the Akrapovic exhaust system from the GTI Clubsport 45. There’s no technical detail from VW as of yet, but obviously the 2.0-litre turbocharged four-pot will remain. All signs do point to the manual gearbox option being dropped though, which would be a crying shame for the hot hatch… Link

The judges also questioned the attorneys about whether they should even render a decision on his claim of immunity and instead allow the case to move forward in the trial court. WASHINGTON — Federal appeals court judges on Tuesday questioned former President Donald Trump broad claim of immunity from prosecution for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election that resulted in a chain of events that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The all-woman three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said nothing to suggest they would embrace Trump's immunity argument, although they raised several options on how they could rule. The court could issue a ruling that decisively resolves the immunity question, allowing the trial to move quickly forward, or alight on a more narrow ruling that could leave some issues unresolved. They could also simply rule that Trump had no right to bring an appeal at this stage of the litigation. Trump arrived at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., a few minutes before oral arguments began at 9:30 a.m. and sat at his lawyers' table. He was mostly muted during his lawyers’ presentation but grew flustered at points when the prosecution's lawyer was speaking. He could be seen passing notes to his lawyers on a yellow legal pad. Former President Donald Trump listening as his attorney D. John Sauer, standing, speaks before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals at the federal courthouse on Tuesday in Washington. Special counsel Jack Smith was also present at the hearing, which lasted for a little over an hour. The case is one of four criminal prosecutions Trump faces as he fights on multiple legal fronts while remaining the presumptive front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. With Trump running for office again, whether the Washington trial originally scheduled for March can take place ahead of the election continues to hang in the balance. Smith has asked the court to move quickly, a bid to keep the trial on schedule. The appeals court is hearing the case on an expedited schedule, so a ruling could come quickly, possibly in time to allow Trump’s trial to begin as scheduled. Judge Florence Pan immediately peppered Trump's lawyer with hypothetical situations in which, under Trump's theory, presidents could not be prosecuted. Could a president, she asked, be prosecuted for selling pardons or military secrets, or by ordering the assassination of a political opponent? "I understand your position to be that a president is immune from criminal prosecution for any official act that he takes as president even if that action is taken for an unlawful or unconstitutional purpose, is that correct?" Pan said. Trump's lawyer, D. John Sauer responded that such a prosecution can only take place if the president is impeached and convicted by the Senate first. The position taken by prosecutors “would authorize for example, the indictment of President Biden in the Western District of Texas after he leaves office for mismanaging the border allegedly," Sauer added. Judge Karen Henderson, the sole Republican appointee on the panel, cited another part of the Constitution, a provision that requires the president to ensure that laws are faithfully executed. “I think it’s paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal law,” she said. Judge Michelle Childs mentioned the fact that President Richard Nixon was pardoned upon leaving office as a data point suggesting that no one has ever assumed presidents are immune from prosecution after leaving office, whether or not they have been convicted in an impeachment proceeding. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached. His pardon indicates “an assumption that you could be prosecuted,” Childs said. The judges of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals at the federal courthouse on Tuesday in Washington. Sauer made it clear that a president can be prosecuted for purely private conduct, but argues instead that he has immunity under the Constitution’s principle of separation of powers because his actions questioning the election results and urging Congress to block certification of Biden’s victory constitute “official acts” while he was serving as president. Later in the argument, Henderson appeared more supportive of Trump, raising a concern that a ruling saying the president does not have immunity would lead to politically-driven prosecutions of future presidents. “How do we write an opinion that would stop the flood gates?’ she said. The Justice Department has previously acknowledged that “criminal liability would be unavoidably political,” she added. The Trump investigation “doesn’t reflect that we are going to see a sea change of vindictive tit for tat prosecutions in the future,” said James Pearce, the lawyer arguing on behalf of Smith. “Never before has there been allegations that a sitting president has with private individuals and using the levers of power sought to fundamentally subvert the Democratic Republic and the electoral system,” he added. Trump on Monday suggested that if the court does not rule in his favor and he wins the presidential election, he would have President Joe Biden indicted. Henderson also raised the prospect of the case being sent back to the trial court for analysis on whether Trump’s actions could be considered official acts as president, which could affect his immunity argument and potentially delay the trial. After the argument, Trump spoke to reporters, saying he had done "nothing wrong" and warning that the prosecution was a "threat to democracy." Trump insisted that his acts were part of his presidential responsibilities in fighting election fraud, despite the lack of evidence of any widespread fraud in 2020, a conclusion reached by the then-Trump administration's own Justice Department. "If it weren't me, that would be the end of this case. But sometimes they look at me differently than they look upon others and it's very bad for our country," Trump said. Whatever happens in the appeals court, the losing party is likely to immediately appeal to the Supreme Court. The justices would then face a decision on whether to take up the case and issue their own ruling, potentially also on a fast-tracked basis. Trump’s appeal arises from the four-count indictment in Washington including charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. Trump has pleaded not guilty. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan in December denied Trump’s attempt to dismiss the indictment on presidential immunity and other constitutional grounds. The case is on hold while the appeals process plays out. Former President Donald Trump before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals at the federal courthouse, on Tuesday in Washington. They cite in part a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that endorsed presidential immunity from civil lawsuits when the underlying conduct concerns actions within the “outer perimeter” of the president’s official responsibilities. Trump's team concedes that a former president can be prosecuted for conduct unrelated to official acts. Smith, who is prosecuting Trump, argues that there is no broad immunity that prevents former presidents from being prosecuted for criminal acts committed while in office. Furthermore, Trump’s attempt “to use fraudulent means to thwart the transfer of power and remain in office” should not be considered an official act, Smith argues in court papers. Trump also argues that any prosecution is prohibited because he was impeached and acquitted for the same underlying conduct. Smith countered in his own court papers that the Constitution clearly states that a president who is successfully impeached can also face criminal prosecution. There is nothing in the Constitution to suggest that an unsuccessfully impeached president cannot be charged, he added. The judges also addressed an argument not made by Trump or Smith but by the liberal group American Oversight in a friend-of-the-court brief that the appeals court does not have the authority to hear the appeal at this stage. Pan asked Pearce why he was not arguing that the appeals court cannot hear the appeal at this stage of the litigation because Trump does not have the right to make the request before trial, known as an “interlocutory” appeal. “Why aren’t you taking position that we should dismiss this appeal because it’s interlocutory? Doesn’t that advance your interests?” Pan said. Pearce said it would not be the "right analysis" even though it would benefit prosecutors in the short term. It was unclear from the questions asked by the judges whether the court would take that approach, which would lead to the case being returned to Chutkan so that the trial could go ahead.. Link

The cost of war on Gaza's civilians is "far too high", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. Mr Blinken said Israel needed to remove barriers so more essential aid could be allowed into Gaza. But he said Israel faced a huge challenge in fighting an enemy in Hamas which had embedded itself within the civilian po[CENSORED]tion. Mr Blinken was speaking after meeting Israeli leaders on his fourth trip to the country since the conflict began. America's top diplomat told a press conference in Tel Aviv that leaders in the region shared US concerns about the "dire humanitarian situation" on the ground. But he said he had heard a new and powerful message from Israel's neighbours over the last three days. They are willing not only to live with Israel but to integrate the region in a way that makes everyone secure, including Israel, Mr Blinken said. In other words, talk of diplomatic normalisation with Israel - which had appeared to be derailed by the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel - is on the table. That, he said, would require some hard decisions and hard choices - which include Israel agreeing to a "clear pathway to the realisation of Palestinian political rights and a Palestinian state" which he said was vital for long-term peace. Mr Blinken would not be drawn on whether this was something Israel would consider. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously voiced his staunch opposition to such a state, citing security concerns. Israel launched its offensive in Gaza in response to a cross-border assault by Hamas - designated a terrorist organisation by Israel and many western nations including the US. 1,300 people were killed in the attacks. Since then, more than 23,200 people - mostly women and children - have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. When asked about whether there was any evidence that Israel was de-escalating its military campaign in Gaza, Mr Blinken answered that no one in the region - including the Israelis - wanted the conflict to escalate. That may be reassuring for many worried about the conflict spreading, but he gave no indication that Israel told him it was winding down its military operations anytime soon. In recent weeks, Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based organisation designated a terrorist group by the US, has increased rocket fire into northern Israel. Yemeni Houthi rebels have also attacked commercial shipping in the Red Sea - one of the world's most important trading routes. The Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas are backed by Iran. Mr Blinken's meetings in Israel on Tuesday were not entirely without tangible results. He announced that the US and Israel agreed on a plan for the UN to conduct an "assessment mission" that would be the first step toward allowing Palestinians to return to the areas of northern Gaza that have been devastated by the Israeli offensive. Even here, however, Mr Blinken warned that their return would not happen "overnight". Too much has to be done to clear the area of unexploded ordinance and booby traps, as well as to ensure supporting infrastructure is in place. Mr Blinken also told the press conference that South African claims that Israel was committing genocide, filed at the International Court of Justice, were "meritless". But he said: "The daily toll on civilians in Gaza, particularly on children, is far too high." He cited UN figures that 90% of the po[CENSORED]tion continued to face severe food insecurity, adding: "For children, the effects of long periods without sufficient food can have lifelong consequences." "More food, more water, more medicine, other essential goods need to get into Gaza. And then once they're in Gaza, they need to get more effectively to the people who need them." Link

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