In January 2024, amidst the Israeli offensive against Gaza, Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl, was traveling with six other members of her family in a car in the Strip's capital. Suddenly, someone opened fire on the car. Unlike her relatives, who died during the attack, the girl survived the shooting, but days later a rescue team found her lifeless body next to two of the medics who had tried to save her in an ambulance.

We read in ARA that the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said that "Israeli forces should 'kill thirty or forty' Palestinians every night in Gaza, in addition to those who may pose a danger at this specific moment." He said this in a podcast he recorded with Rom Braslavski, who is a man who was kidnapped by Palestinian militias. By this I mean that in that tumultuous land, where there are several "chosen peoples" (each one of them the true one), there are few who are completely innocent.

For years we have been talking about the violence of settlers in the West Bank. So much so that perhaps we have settled into a too comfortable imaginary. When we talk about it, we do so to refer to extremist groups that attack Palestinians, burn houses, uproot olive trees, or appropriate land, while the Israeli state appears in the background, incapable, little or not at all willing to contain them. But this image explains less and less what is happening.

"They brought me here to kill me. I don't think I'll get out alive." This is the last message that pediatrician Hussam Abu Safiya was able to convey through his lawyer from his captivity. He had recently been transferred to Rakefet, an Israeli underground prison where inmates never see the light of day. When lawyer Nasser Odeh visited him on July 2, he barely recognized him: his face was full of bruises, he had difficulty speaking and breathing, and he could barely stay seated. Several times he seemed on the verge of losing consciousness.

The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced this Sunday that he rejects the 15-point plan announced by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to move towards the second phase of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and reiterated that the Israeli army will not abandon the Palestinian enclave until Hamas is disarmed.

112 people were buried this Tuesday in the largest funeral held in the Gaza Strip. Inside the coffins covered with Palestinian flags lie the victims of an Israeli bombing that took place almost three years ago, on November 22, 2023, six weeks after Hamas's attack on October 7.

The exhibition When healthcare becomes a refuge builds a visual and documentary narrative through two connected realities: on the one hand, the impact of the war on the healthcare system in Gaza and its consequences on children, and on the other, the healthcare reception initiatives that allow some of these children to be treated in hospitals in Catalonia.

Hamas announced on Monday the name of the man who will politically lead the Islamist organization after the internal election process to replace the last leaders killed by Israel. It is Khalil al-Hayya, a hawk from the old guard who participated in the founding of the organization in Gaza, on the eve of the First Intifada, in 1987. Al-Hayya was already part of the five-man council that was provisionally appointed after in 2024 Israeli soldiers killed Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Islamists within the Strip, considered the mastermind of the October 7 attacks. In turn, Sinwar had replaced Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the movement who died in an Israeli attack in Tehran in 2024, a few months before his successor.

Lawyer Khaled Quzmar(1964) has been working for almost four decades to defend the rights of the Palestinian population. Executive Director of the Palestinian Centre for Child Rights (PCCR), a few days ago he visited Barcelona at the invitation of the NGO Mundubat to denounce the impact of the occupation and genocide on children in Gaza and the West Bank. He spoke to ARA before meeting with representatives of the Parliament and travelling to Madrid to meet with the Minister of Youth and Children, Sira Rego.Since October 7, 2023, more than 20,000 Palestinian minors have been killed in Gaza, 44,000 have been injured, and 58,000 have been orphaned, according to UN data.

The National High Court has admitted two lawsuits against two high-ranking Israeli military officials for alleged crimes of illegal detention in the assault on the Global Sumud Flotilla last October. The civil mission was intercepted in international waters by the Israeli military when it was carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Contrary to the criteria of the Public Prosecutor's Office, magistrate Francisco de Jorge, head of Central Court of Instruction Number 1, has admitted the lawsuits filed by the Communist Party of Spain, United Left Federal and other individuals against Eyal Zamir, head of the Armed Forces, and Ram Rothberg, commander of the Naval Forces.

An Israeli attack in Gaza on Tuesday killed an Egyptian volunteer who was organizing the public screening of the match between Argentina and Egypt, minutes before the initial whistle. Israel's offensive also caused the deaths of two more men and two children, according to local authorities.

Hamas announced this Monday the resignation of the members of the provisional government of Gaza to cede it to a Palestinian technocratic committee, as foreseen in Donald Trump's plan. The measure remains, however, a symbolic gesture, because Israel has not allowed the committee members, who were constituted a few months ago in Cairo, to enter the Strip. The Islamists send the signal that the government of Gaza is not an obstacle to advancing the plan of the American president, which only carries peace in name, since the genocide of the Palestinians has not stopped.

While everyone is focused on Iran, Israel, and Lebanon, the Gaza Strip is experiencing the worst moment in its history. The ceasefire of October 10, 2025, is only being implemented by Palestinian militias, as Israel continues to kill civilians and bomb at a rapid pace.

The United Nations presented a report this Tuesday accusing Israel of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Gaza for shooting children in the Strip with the intent to kill. Srinivasan Muralidhar, the president of the UN's International Independent Commission of Inquiry for the Palestinian Territories – the body responsible for the report – stated at a press conference that children are being killed "mainly in two ways": through aerial attacks with high-explosive ordnance with a wide radius of impact, or by the use of quadcopters, drones, and snipers "who specifically aim at the head and upper body to kill them".The report assures that it has enough evidence to state that “Israel attacks children to weaken demographic vitality and deny the Palestinian people the right to self-determination”, in the words of the president. Furthermore, Muralidhar has denounced that since October 2023, more than 20,000 children have been murdered in Gaza, in addition to the 44,000 who have been injured and the 58,000 who have been orphaned.The text also points out that Palestinian children, especially adolescents, are “detained, tortured, and mistreated in Israeli prisons and detention centers” and that cases of sexual violence against minors have been documented. On the other hand, it denounces that Israeli attacks against pediatric hospitals have “systematically deprived children of access to vital care,” and also notes the use of starvation as a method of warfare.Furthermore, the Indian jurist recalled that 97% of schools in the Strip have been destroyed, and alleged that Israeli authorities have “systematically disrupted children's ability to learn, sabotaging the intellectual and social foundations of Palestinian society”. On the other hand, Muralidhar reminded the UN member states that they have different options to hold Israel accountable: “they can exercise universal jurisdiction in their national courts, and we have asked them to arrest any Israeli official against whom the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant”. He also reiterated the call to stop sending weapons to Israel.This Tuesday's is the second report accusing Israel of genocide, published by a Commission that does not officially represent the UN. Last September, a first report indicated that there are sufficient grounds to state that Israel has committed four of the five genocide crimes defined in the Geneva Convention of 1948.The Israeli Foreign Minister, Gideon Sa'ar, has declared that he "categorically" rejects the report's conclusions and has called it a "defamatory farce" and "as scandalous a piece of propaganda as the previous ones." Since October 7, 2023, at least 73,305 Palestinians have died due to Israel's attacks in Gaza, according to the Strip's Ministry of Health.

A ceasefire is a pause in the war, a moment when the bombs fall silent, either to give a respite to exhausted civilians and soldiers or, in the best of cases, to open an opportunity for diplomacy. But in recent months, in the mouths of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu, this concept has been completely emptied of content to become merely a smokescreen behind which the war continues.

“In Gaza, right now, we no longer control 50%, but 60%”. With this sentence, uttered during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly voiced what various humanitarian organizations, geospatial experts, and Israeli media had been denouncing for months: Israel is consistently changing the map of Gaza despite the ceasefire brokered by the United States in October 2025.

The Israeli Parliament approved this Monday one of the most exceptional legal initiatives in its recent history: a special legal framework to try those responsible for the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, with the possibility of imposing the death penalty. The legislation, dubbed the law for the prosecution of participants in the events of the October 7 massacre, has achieved unusual political consensus between the government and the opposition. It has been driven by the Israeli Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, and sponsored by MPs Simcha Rothman, a member of the government coalition, and Yulia Malinovsky, from the opposition. The law advanced this Monday to its second and third readings in the Israeli Parliament, and was finally approved with 93 votes in favor out of a total of 120. The legal text foresees the creation of a special military tribunal in Jerusalem to begin trying at least 300 attackers captured in Israel after the October 7 assault. For the last two and a half years, Israeli authorities have held these detainees in various penitentiary centers while they debated which legal framework would allow them to be prosecuted.An 'ad hoc' law

The law is created to judge crimes committed between October 7 and 10, 2023, and will classify murders, rapes, kidnappings, looting, and other crimes as “crimes against the Jewish people”, “crimes against humanity”, and “war crimes”. It also includes offenses committed subsequently against hostages transferred to Gaza, including those who died during captivity. To be able to impose death sentences, the court will rely on existing laws in Israel, such as the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Offenses Law of 1950, offenses against the sovereignty of the State, or the anti-terrorism law approved in 2016. This would allow the death penalty to be applied not only for murders but also for rapes and genocide offenses.Although the court will be in Jerusalem, proceedings will be divided according to the attack scenarios, such as the Nova Festival or the communities in southern Israel, such as Nir Oz. Each case will have three judges, and in case of a death sentence, the appeal would be automatic before a court presided over by a former judge of the Israeli Supreme Court. The accused will have the right to legal representation by lawyers licensed in Israel or the West Bank. If an accused person does not have their own defense, the court will assign them a lawyer, and the Israeli state will attempt to subsequently recover the cost of the defense by deducting it from funds transferred to the Palestinian Authority.Retroactive character

One of the most controversial features is the public dimension of the trials. The main hearings, such as the opening of the trial, the reading of the charges, the verdicts, and the sentences, will be broadcast live via a dedicated website. Adding to this is another problematic point: the retroactive nature of the law. Unlike the law passed in March, which already expanded Israel's ability to impose the death penalty for terrorism offenses with fatalities, this law against participants in the October 7 attacks allows for the investigation and prosecution of acts that occurred before the legal framework was approved.Although Minister Yariv Levin, the main proponent of the initiative, has assured that the trials will meet "all international standards" and will allow for "international recognition and trust, especially from the United States," various Israeli human rights organizations have expressed concern about the content of the legal text.The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) states in declarations to ARA that despite the Ministry of Justice's efforts to preserve certain procedural guarantees, "this is not a standard criminal proceeding." The organization particularly warns about the elimination of the unanimity requirement in military courts for imposing the death penalty, so that a majority of judges will be sufficient to issue it.Along the same lines, organizations such as the legal center for the rights of the Arab minority in Israel Adalah, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), and the organization that provides legal assistance and defends the rights of Palestinians HaMoked have gone further in their criticism. In a joint report, they warn that the new legislation places Israel "in direct opposition to the international trend towards the abolition of the death penalty" and could violate international law obligations, including the prohibition of cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment.According to these entities, the text grants judges broad discretion to deviate from ordinary procedural guarantees. They also warn that the exceptional system of appointing magistrates and the risk of political influence could compromise the standards of a fair trial. The complaint further adds that the public broadcast of the proceedings could turn them into "show trials" and erode the presumption of innocence, by exposing defendants publicly before a final sentence is reached.Israel has only executed one person since its founding: Adolf Eichmann, convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the Holocaust in 1962. In 1988, Israeli courts also sentenced John Demjanjuk to death for crimes committed in Nazi camps, but the Supreme Court later overturned the sentence.

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The Gaza Flotilla sails again. Several boats set sail this Friday from Crete after a week ago about twenty ships were assaulted by Israel in international waters. The civil humanitarian mission thus resumes its course to Gaza. The next stop will be Turkey, where it will make a technical stop and more boats will join. It is expected that a total of more than 30 ships will sail.

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An Israeli court has extended until Sunday the detention of the two leaders of the Global Flotilla Sumud, the Catalan-Palestinian Saif Abukeshek and the Brazilian Thiago Ávila, who have been in a prison facility since they were captured in international waters in Wednesday's assault on the civilian humanitarian mission against the Gaza blockade. The court in the coastal city of Ashkelon, where they are being held, ruled on Sunday that the prosecution had two more days to present the formal indictment. The Israeli government accuses them of terrorism, and they are detained in Shikma prison, on a hunger strike for the seventh day.

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Israel has intercepted some of the humanitarian aid ships that are part of the Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza. This was reported by Israeli radio, citing military sources, and confirmed by the Global Sumud Flotilla through a statement in which they assure that speedboats identified as the Israeli army have stopped their ships. According to their account, they pointed their lasers and semi-automatic assault weapons at the crew members and ordered them to position themselves at the front of the boats and get on all fours.

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