Netanyahu calls Rafah strike "tragic" mistake; Spain pledges €1bn for Ukraine, and more
The World in Brief from The Economist
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🗓️ 28 May 2024
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| 0:37.0 | Our top stories, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, said that civilian deaths in an Israeli |
| 0:47.3 | air strike on a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Raffa were a, quote, tragic mishap and that Israel was investigating. |
| 0:55.0 | Earlier however Israel's army insisted at the attack which killed at least 45 people |
| 1:00.5 | according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, targeted a Hamas compound and was carried |
| 1:05.6 | out with, quote, precise ammunition and on the basis of precise intelligence. |
| 1:10.8 | The strike appeared to start fires that spread throughout the camp. |
| 1:14.0 | Spain pledged 1 billion euros or 1.1 billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine. |
| 1:22.0 | The bilateral security deal was announced during a visit |
| 1:25.3 | by Volorimier Salenski Ukraine's president to Madrid. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro |
| 1:30.4 | Sanchez said it would help Ukraine's beleaguered air defenses. |
| 1:34.0 | A Russian airstrike killed 16 people in a supermarket in Kharkiv, a northern city over the weekend. |
| 1:42.0 | Russia criticized NATO's boss, Jain Stoltenberg, for saying in an interview with the |
| 1:47.0 | economist that Ukraine should be free to strike inside Russia using Western weapons. |
| 1:52.4 | Mr. Zelensky has repeatedly pleaded with the |
| 1:54.6 | Alliance's members to allow Ukraine to do that. The Kremlin spokesman |
| 1:59.0 | Dimitri Pescov told Russian media that by echoing Mr. Zelensky's call, NATO was quote |
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