The world finds no peace. At the end of a long summer, four war fronts still remain open, four pieces of Earth shaken by endless struggles that show no sign of abating: from Gaza to Ukraine, passing through Iraq, Syria and Libya.
In fact, the clashes in the Strip, where the Israeli army air raids continue. There would be seven victims of these latest attacks, with the taximeter, which after the brief ceasefire, has started running again and marks over 2100 Palestinian deaths since the beginning of hostilities.
Hamas' response was not long in coming: several mortar rounds were fired from Gaza towards the Erez crossing, the main transit point between Israel and the Strip. Several were injured, while it was news two days ago that Hamas publicly executed 18 alleged "collaborationist spies".
A spiral of violence that seems destined to continue, also according to the words of Israeli premier Benyamin Netanyahu, according to which the "Protective edge" operation could continue even after September XNUMXst: "Hamas will continue to pay a high price for the crimes committed . I call on Gaza residents to immediately leave any facility from which Hamas carries out activities against us. All sites like these are targets for us."
But the hottest front, for a few days now, and the one on which the greatest attention of the Western press seems to have focused, is the one that opened up in Iraq and Syriafollowing the beheading of US reporter James Foley by ISIS terrorists. An event that also had a profound impact on the West, shocked by the images of Foley's death and frightened by the possibility of terrorist attacks.
And if the circle around Foley's killer is slowly narrowing (according to the British press, it would be the former London rapper Abdel Majed Abdel Bary), the clashes that are flaring up in Syria and Iraq continue unabated. In fact, the jihadists of the Islamic State conquered the Taqba airport yesterday at the end of a long battle with the Syrian army, which claimed over 500 victims between both sides.
And it was precisely from Syria that Damascus foreign minister Walid al Muallim opened up to collaboration between the Syrian government and the United States of Great Britain. Damascus would be in favor of military action against ISIS on its territory, on condition, however, of full coordination with the Syrian government.
Violence seems to have no borders and also touches the Libya. Three years after the end of Muammar Gaddafi's regime, the North African state is a giant without masters, where the only reigning is chaos. There is no government, Parliament is delegitimized and large portions of the territory are in the hands of militiamen, who are also slowing down the exploitation of the country's major economic resource, oil.
The clashes have set fire to the major Libyan cities, namely Tripoli and above all Benghazi. Here too the Islamic militiamen of Misrata (a city 200 kilometers east of Tripoli) are claiming the conquest of an airport of great strategic importance, that of the capital.
In Ukrainefinally, there are the new accusations by the local authorities, according to which "a few dozen Russian tanks and armored vehicles crossed the border near the Sea of Azov, engaging in a battle, which is still ongoing, with the forces Ukrainians placed to guard the border.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that a second humanitarian convoy will be sent to Ukrainian territory.
