The complaint against Pilar Rahola for her statements in favor of Israel and her actions in Palestine will not proceed. The Barcelona Provincial Prosecutor's Office has decided to archive it following the pre-trial proceedings it ordered on April 13. The complaint, filed by two militants of the Socialist Youth Organization (OJS), was for crimes of incitement to hatred and complicity in the genocide in Gaza, but the public prosecutor's office considers that there is not enough evidence to continue investigating the journalist. The decision is not subject to appeal, according to the resolution dated this Monday to which ARA has had access.

Murals on the streets, protesters in front of their homes, calls on social media. Pro-Israel militants have begun a persecution campaign against the directors of the documentary No Other Land, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, a film that denounces the killing of civilians by the Israeli army through testimonies from soldiers. After being premiered and awarded in Venice, the documentary is scheduled to be screened at the New York Film Festival. On the festival's own Instagram post, there are already intimidating threats such as: "Yuval, don't come back, I recommend it". This Monday, Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, deemed the documentary "an intolerable antisemitic incitement".

With most buildings razed and almost no space left in displacement camps, many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have no other alternative than to barely survive in apartment blocks semi-destroyed by Israel's genocidal campaign. A crowded building collapsed early this Wednesday in Gaza City.

Last year the Venice Film Festival was impacted by the striking The Voice of Hind, which mixed fictional scenes and the real voice of a Palestinian girl to denounce the genocide in Gaza. Kaouther Ben Hania's film ended up winning the Grand Jury Prize, and it wouldn't be surprising if history repeated itself this year with Naza, the documentary in which Israeli journalists and filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor expose the war crimes committed by their country's army during the Gaza War. Although it must be said that, beyond the rigorous exploration of the methods employed by the Israel Defense Forces, Naza manages to transcend the denunciation of war barbarism, and offers a lucid and terrifying portrait of the most sinister face of the contemporary world, marked by the threat that artificial intelligence poses to the most basic notions of empathy, democracy and humanity.

Ansam al Ruhal (Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip, 1999) was until two months ago a nurse at the Indonesian Hospital, one of the few medical centers still operational in northern Gaza, amidst the relentless Israeli offensive on the ground. She arrived in Barcelona in June, welcomed by the refugee student program at the University of Barcelona (UB). She is 27 years old and has survived five wars. As a child, she was injured in an Israeli attack that killed two of her sisters.

The same Mediterranean that for some families is synonymous with holidays, beach, and long afternoons is today, for others, the memory of a life that no longer exists. A few kilometers away, two realities coexist before the same blue horizon. In Gaza, the Jneid family looks at the sea from a tent set up on the coast. In Tel Aviv, families go down to the beach when the workday ends and try to hold onto an idea of summer that, since October 7, 2023, is no longer exactly the same.The voice of Naeem Mohammed Jneid, known as Abu Obaida, comes from a reality that is difficult to imagine from the other side of the Mediterranean. Throughout his life, he has worked with a clear idea: to build a stable future for his children. Before the war, he had managed to turn the family business into the center of daily life. He owned a supermarket where his children worked and a farm with about 1,500 chickens.But the memory that Abu Obaida holds most strongly is that of summer. Before the war changed the streets, the houses, and the routines, the arrival of the heat meant one simple thing: being together. "We used to go to the sea as a complete family. It was our time to rest and enjoy," he recalls. Summer was also the time for weddings and celebrations. Among all the memories, there is one he holds especially dear: his son's wedding. "It was like a festival. All the family and friends came. There were singers, a stage, and everyone he loved was there."Today that life no longer exists. The family home, 240 square meters in Jabalia, in the north of the Strip, was destroyed, according to the family, during the war. One of their sons, Amr, died in July 2024 while looking for products to maintain the small business they had set up during their displacement to Deir al-Balah, in the center of Gaza. Now, Abu Obaida lives with part of his family in a tent in Gaza City, on the same coast where they used to spend summer afternoons. "Our house was large, it was equipped and had air conditioning. It was a place where we could be calm," he explains. Now, the feeling is of living "practically on the street". "We have no security or stability. Anyone can enter the tent. There are rodents, stray dogs, mosquitoes... My grandchildren are sometimes even afraid to go out to go to the bathroom," he adds.Their days begin before the sun rises. Around six in the morning, the family goes out to queue for water and then waits at the food distribution points. In the afternoon, the children collect firewood to be able to cook and, when they can, they try to continue learning in improvised educational activities. Despite everything, Abu Obaida still imagines a normal summer afternoon: a table full of fruit and drinks and, most importantly, with the whole family gathered.

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.