Abdul Hakim El Suwaisy, a 20-year-old engineering student at Al-Azhar University, says the situation in Gaza City has deteriorated so much following the military offensive launched by Israel in August that his goal is to survive day by day, without knowing what the future will hold. And with a mother with diabetes and a sister with Down syndrome, he adds, everything is even more complicated. "We survive one day, and when the next day comes, we begin a new story of survival searching for food and clean water," he explains to ARA.

In mid-March, while Sudan's main paramilitary group collapsed in the last positions they had been able to hold in the capital.In Khartoum, its leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, declared that they would not give in and would expand the conflict. Days later, his brother, Abdelrahim Dagalo, who is increasingly acting as the group's de facto commander, issued a similar warning, threatening to extend the war to the north and east of the country, areas that until then had remained relatively isolated.

One of Israel's leading human rights groups, B'Tselem, published this week a report claiming that his country is committing genocide in Gaza and that its international allies either assist it or fail to arrest it due to a lack of political courage. They also warn that Israel's practices in the occupied West Bank are similar to those in the Gaza Strip on a small scale and could soon degenerate into open genocide. ARA spoke with a spokesperson for the organization, Shai Parnes, to delve deeper into the investigation's findings.

Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, speculation about the fall of Benjamin Netanyahu's Israeli government has been constant. First, due to the shock of the attack, in the greatest security blunder in the country's history. Later, due to the opposition of the ultra-Orthodox wing of the executive branch to halting the genocidal offensive in Gaza. Even in June, after the war with Iran, there was speculation that the prime minister would try to take advantage and call elections.

The Commissioner-General of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, denounced this Thursday that, due to the famine caused by Israel in Gaza, people in the Strip "are neither alive nor dead" but rather "walking corpses." The UN diplomat warned in particular about the situation of the majority of children—"emaciated, weak, and at high risk of dying" if they do not receive urgent treatment—who are being treated by his teams in the territory.

In a further step toward fragmenting Gaza, the Israeli army announced Wednesday that it had completed the construction of a new 15-kilometer corridor south of the territory in a previously designated security zone where residential buildings and farmland have been destroyed. Named Magen Oz, the land axis runs between the east and west of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Strip, and effectively divides a new city from the Strip, which has already been razed by Israel.

In early July, the Gaza Interior Ministry, linked to the Hamas governing structure still operating in the territory, issued an unusual statement: it urged the leader of a rival militia operating in the southern Strip with Israeli support to surrender within ten days. He was charged with treason and collaboration with hostile entities, forming an armed group, and armed rebellion. Failure to do so, the message warned, would result in a trial in absentia.

Since the controversial humanitarian aid distribution centers Run by an opaque foundation with ties to the United States and Israel, the attacks began in late May in Gaza. Episodes of deadly attacks by Israeli soldiers against groups of Palestinians searching for food to combat the hunger imposed in the Strip have followed one after another. The Gaza Ministry of Health has documented more than 400 deaths and hundreds injured.

Last Friday night, hell opened up again in the skies of the Al Baraka neighborhood in the city of Deir al Balah in central Gaza, in the form of renewed bombing by the Israeli army. One of the targets of the attack was a family home, which was razed to the ground. And from the rubble, one of the bodies recovered was that of Yaqin Hamad, an 11-year-old girl who had become one of the influencers youngest and most popular in the Strip.

Until a few years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had mastered the art of extracting domestic benefits from his prodigious talent in foreign policy. Netanyahu, who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 1998, has been a premier For 18 of the past 29 years, he met as an equal regularly with leaders such as Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modi, and Xi Jinping. He was the only Israeli leader capable of moving so nimbly outside the country. The ultimate statesman.

US President Donald Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for his first foreign tour since returning to the White House, with the mission of closing pompous trade and investment agreements from a setting ideal for him: the petromonarchies of the Gulf. Trump's trip, which will last until Friday and includes Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, comes, however, at a time of Strong regional instability due to Israel's war on Gaza and tensions with Iran, which will also mark its agenda.

The opportunity to spend a few years in the land of the pharaohs doesn't come along often, so when it presented itself in 2022 to Alba Ruiz, a 34-year-old teacher from Mataró, and her husband, with whom they had just had a child, they decided to take advantage of it. He had been offered the option of temporarily moving to Egypt for work, and she requested a leave of absence from the school where she had been working for eight years, San José in her hometown, so she could travel. "It was now or never," she explains.

At the gates of Easter, A group of nearly a thousand Israeli Air Force reservists published a letter This has caused a political earthquake in the country. The brief statement was limited to demanding an end to the war in Gaza to ensure the return of the hostages still in the Strip. But it was quickly rejected by the government and the army leadership, triggering an unprecedented domino effect of similar demands from thousands of veterans, reservists, and active members of the army and state security forces.

For the first time in almost two years of civil war, a khaki and brown military helicopter landed at the devastated airport in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, on Wednesday. From inside, the country's president and head of the army, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, emerged. After descending the three steps of the aircraft, he took two steps and knelt on the runway for a few seconds, while a general behind him raised his right fist with his index finger pointing to the sky.

The Israeli army has already killed at least 591 people in Gaza, including 200 minors, since On Tuesday, he unilaterally broke the ceasefire agreed with Hamas. and resumed large-scale attacks against the Strip, according to the latest data released by the local Ministry of Health. The two main mediators between Israel and Hamas, Egypt and Qatar, have redoubled efforts to return to the truce, but Tel Aviv expanded its troop deployment in the enclave on Thursday, and the Palestinian group responded for the first time with a limited series of rocket fire.

Political calculations have long since become the main element that guides the decisions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Gaza. And despite the fact that the Israeli leader has once again blamed Hamas of the breakdown of the ceasefire in the Strip, his government had never hidden its intention to resume the war to advance its genocidal agenda in the Palestinian territories, but also to take advantage of the clash to further its autocratic plans.

The Arab world expressed its support for a reconstruction plan for Gaza that excludes Hamas and that Egypt has been preparing in recent weeks, during a summit in Cairo, to articulate a joint alternative to the US President Donald Trump's proposal to take control of the Strip after expelling the population. However, the Egyptian proposal leaves several key issues regarding the future governance of the territory unresolved, and its viability is called into question by the current lack of support from Tel Aviv and Washington.

Hamas on Saturday handed over the last six living Israeli hostages it had promised to release. during the first phase of the ceasefire agreement signed with Israel in January, and in exchange, the Israeli authorities must release more than 600 Palestinian prisoners. For the moment, Israel has postponed this release until it has guarantees of the next exchange. Attention is now turning to the second phase of the truce, which is expected to begin in early March, despite the fact that there are still deep disagreements pending negotiation between Tel Aviv and the Palestinian movement.

When the first three Israeli hostages were released by Hamas in mid-January in Gaza, coinciding with the entry into force of the ceasefire agreement with Israel, all of them looked better than expected and the medical services that treated them declared that their health was stable. The rest of the hostages who were released in two subsequent rounds were also in similar conditions. But this Saturday, during the latest hostage exchange The situation was very different, however. The three Israeli men who were released were visibly emaciated and thin, looking much more damaged than the previous hostages and with the effects of nearly 500 days of captivity evident on their bodies.