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Updated on Monday, 30august2021-20: 24

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They were killing each other. While at the Kabul airport the last US soldiers stationed in Afghanistan collected their belongings and headed for the boarding stairs, a nearby neighborhood mourned their dead: 10 people from the same family, seven of them minors. They had been killed by a US drone on Sunday in an attack that the Pentagon had defined as

"successful"

against, it said, a suicide vehicle.

Neighbors assured 'The New York Times' that the drone hit the trunk of the Toyota Corolla driven by

Zemari Ahmadi,

an employee of a local NGO who was coming home, just as he was being received by the neighborhood kids. They all died on the spot. This Monday, what the US said in this regard is that it "was not in a position to dispute" the allegations of these innocent deaths, the latest in a heavy list of so-called

'collateral victims'.

The United States leaves, and it does so by receiving, in its chaotic withdrawal, rocket salvoes from the Islamic State in Khorasan, which claimed the launch of a

shower of projectiles

against the airfield at dawn this Monday. One was intercepted by the US anti-missile system, three fell outside and one more inside the airport, leaving no victims. For Washington they are the last; for the Afghans, if the threat of the so-called IS-K, the first of this new era of terror, is fulfilled.

Starting Wednesday, millions of Afghans will be trapped between violent jihadists, ready to attack until they own the situation, and Islamic fundamentalists whom the world is doing its best to look favorably upon, despite the fact that, under any circumstances light, be

the same ones that once stoned, prohibited, subdued.

Although it is unpopular to formalize direct ties with the Taliban Islamic Emirate, each country is following its own path to contact them.

There are not a few countries that, in recent days, have announced

"guarantees"

from the Taliban to preserve the rights of women, respect journalists or even allow Afghans who have received safe-conducts from abroad to leave through the airport. The reality, at street level, is that every day women have fewer places where they can be visible, the beatings and raids of activists and journalists are increasing and the Taliban have lists of 'collaborators'. Some of them have been killed.

To continue with the evacuations, since it is estimated that there are a large number of accredited or creditable Afghans with safe conduct who have not been able to leave the country, France, Germany and the United Kingdom took this Monday to the UN Security Council a proposal of

' safe zone '

for Kabul airport. "It is a solution that we have used before [...], which could involve the creation of a zone that would allow people to get to that airport," French leader Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday. From Uzbekistan, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas asked to

involve Russia and China

in any equation to address the future of Afghanistan.

At the moment, no further details of the plan have emerged, which has the backing of Qatar, a country that defends a mediator role between the world and the Taliban. The fundamentalist movement has rejected such a possibility, although it is locked in talks with Turkey to hand over the management of the airport. There are no details, either, on which troops would maintain such a security deployment, being tomorrow Tuesday the

last day

since 2001 in which NATO boots will set foot on Afghan soil.

What is opening is a

humanitarian abyss,

as UNHCR warned this Monday. In the midst of the pandemic, with the international community doubting how to relate to the Taliban government and aid shipments hampered by the airport, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, warned that

"a major crisis is only beginning" .

After the US and its allies completed the largest evacuation operation in its history, with 116,700 people removed from Afghanistan in just two weeks, the UNHCR chief warned last Friday that up to half a million Afghans could try to leave the country. by the end of this year.

Grandi insisted on his

call to keep the borders open

and for more countries to share their "humanitarian responsibility" with Iran and Pakistan, the main recipients of Afghan refugees.

The borders with both countries are these days overflowing with people trying to outrun the Taliban.

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