Almost four months after the ceasefireThe landscape of the Gaza Strip remains one of almost complete destruction from north to south and east to west. Despite daily promises of reconstruction, the reality on the ground is quite different, and so far no one has lifted a finger to provide stable housing for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have lost everything.

The En Bin-Salon hair salon is located on Enric Prat de la Riba street in Hospitalet de Llobregat. They offer barber services, as well as nail styling, eyelash extensions, and makeup. Next to the main sign are smaller letters in Chinese: 阿彬形象设计. This essentially means they do all kinds of "styling." Some customers criticize the salon for being dirty and for their insistence on cash payments. This Tuesday, the owner was led out of the salon in handcuffs. He is a 38-year-old man of Chinese origin who was arrested by the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) for allegedly participating in the financing of the terrorist organization Hamas, based in the Gaza Strip, according to a statement released by the Catalan police.

The newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat This week, an unbelievable report about Hamas was published. According to this Arab media outlet, the leadership of the Islamist organization is reviewing documentation regarding a transformation of the armed movement into a political force, including the laying down of arms. a complete renunciation of armed struggle

In the following days to the ceasefire between Hamas and IsraelGaza is experiencing a disturbing return to internal violence that few dare to name. According to various local and diplomatic sources, the Islamist movement has executed dozens of people accused of "collaborating" with the enemy or of committing common crimes. Some of these executions were reportedly carried out in public, in front of crowds, in war-torn neighborhoods. The scene, repeated in different parts of the Strip, is reminiscent of a time when power was asserted through fear rather than legitimacy. A video geolocated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) shows several men kneeling in a Gaza street before being shot dead by individuals wearing Hamas insignia. The authenticity of the footage was confirmed by independent verification teams, although the movement has not explicitly acknowledged the events. In a subsequent statement, the Gaza Interior Ministry merely indicated that "certain criminal elements" had been executed after receiving "a full legal process." This version contrasts with the Palestinian Authority's denunciation in Ramallah, which described the executions as "atrocious crimes" committed "outside of any legal framework."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that the Israeli army has received the coffins containing the bodies of two hostages returned by Hamas. A statement from Netanyahu's office explains that the Red Cross handed over the remains of two people who were kidnapped by the Islamist group and who, until now, were still in the Gaza Strip. Once in Israel, they will be taken to the Israel Institute of Forensic Sciences for identification. Hamas's armed wing had previously announced that it had recovered the bodies of Israeli hostages Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch. With Thursday's handover, 15 of the 28 deceased Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas, in addition to the 20 who returned to Israel alive. The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas included the return of all Israeli hostages, both living and deceased, but the Islamist group has insisted that it is having difficulty locating the remains of all those kidnapped who died during the war. This issue could derail the fragile ceasefire, which is already hanging by a thread, since Israel has killed approximately 200 people during the truce.

The showers have returned, the floods, the overflowing ravines in Terres de l'Ebre, especially in Montsià, but also in Baix Ebre, Ribera d'Ebre, Baix Camp, and Terra Alta. Flooded houses, garages, and basements, unpaved streets...

The phone rang and it was the poet friend explaining that he was quitting chemotherapy. It would be the last conversation. At one point in the conversation about how he was experiencing the end of his life, he concluded: "It's all in the Iliad". Humankind endlessly demonstrates that it learns neither from fury nor from compassion. It was a Saturday morning, the sun was shining, and I was cutting the dead leaves of an aspidistra, a humble, slender plant that demands no attention and whose name he had taught me.

On October 7, 2023 at 3:03 a.m., three and a half hours before the accident occurred the Hamas attack In Israel, the Israeli intelligence agency issued a suspicious activity alert in Gaza through its security services. But the police, who were responsible for security at the Nova music festival, didn't receive it until 7:03 a.m., half an hour after the massacre in the city of Sderot and the border kibbutzim had already begun. This is according to a report from the Israeli police intelligence division, to which the newspaper has had access. Haaretz.

Today, the world's eyes are on Egypt, where Israeli, Palestinian, and American negotiators are meeting to decide whether or not to sign Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza. The United States is pressuring Hamas to sign. Netanyahu bombs Gaza to get Hamas to sign, and Hamas must quickly say whether it accepts the 20-point plan agreed upon by Trump and Netanyahu.

The second anniversary of the Gaza war arrives this week with an opportunity for a ceasefire on the table. It is the peace plan agreed upon by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, two leaders not exactly known for being pacifists or lovers of dialogue, but who find themselves in a clear position of strength. On the other side of the table is Hamas, a terrorist and ultraconservative organization, however desperate it may be. The future of the people of Gaza depends on leaders who have not made dialogue their greatest virtue. But at the same time, an agreement is more necessary than ever: Gazans are starving, and, according to the authorities in the Strip, at least 67,000 have already died as a result of this conflict.

As the second anniversary of the Gaza war approaches, moves toward a ceasefire are accelerating. After Hamas announced Friday night that it is willing to implement Donald Trump's plan and hand over all hostages, the Israeli army announced this morning that it is pausing operations to conquer Gaza City, as the US president had demanded the day before. However, the pause is not being realized on the ground: there has been bombing throughout the day in Gaza City, and even in the area designated by the Israeli army to concentrate Palestinians, south of the Strip. Civil Protection teams report an attack on a building in the Jafa neighborhood of Gaza City, which left seventeen dead (including seven children between two and eight years old), forty injured, and at least fifteen people buried in the rubble. Fifty-four deaths were reported in the Strip's hospitals this Saturday from midnight to 6 p.m. local time.

The emergency Arab-Islamic summit held this Monday in Doha was organized against the clock after Last week's Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Qatari territoryThe incident called into question the emirate's role as a regional mediator and forced its leaders to act quickly to avoid losing influence in an increasingly fragile environment. The meeting brought together heads of state and foreign ministers from more than twenty countries, with the aim of establishing a common position in the face of the escalating violence and sending a clear political message: Israel must be stopped.

The killing in Gaza continues at a dramatic pace. Benjamin Netanyahu's army has killed at least 41 Palestinians in various attacks on the Strip since early Saturday morning, hospital sources confirmed to Al Jazeera reporters on the ground. In fact, the death toll since the start of the Israeli offensive in October 2023 now exceeds 62,600. At least 62,622 Palestinians were killed and 157,673 were wounded in Gaza, according to sources within the Hamas government.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu continues his headlong flight and, after a meeting lasting more than ten hours with military and security chiefs, announced that he will launch a plan to occupy the Strip, starting with its main population center, Gaza City, home to an estimated one million people. The length of the meeting is already indicative of the resistance Netanyahu has encountered within his own general staff, which believes the army currently lacks sufficient troops to sustain an operation of this magnitude over time and that it would also put the lives of the hostages still in the hands of Hamas at risk.

The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has released a new propaganda video showing 24-year-old Israeli kidnapped Evyatar David in Gaza digging his own grave inside a narrow tunnel. In the video, David claims he is digging his own grave and admits that "time is running out." Following the video's release, some 60,000 people took to the streets of Tel Aviv to demand the release of the hostages, in a large demonstration attended by the US special envoy to the region, Steve Witkoff.

Yesterday an almost paranormal phenomenon occurred: President Isla, the Minister of the Interior Parlón, Carles Puigdemont and Oriol Junqueras all agreed to react in the same way and on the same topic: the interview in ARA of Ione Belarra saying that she is against Catalonia having the powers in immigration so that The Mossos d'Esquadra would carry out racist raids.

The head of International Affairs, Francesc Millan, spent a week in Israel speaking with local people—both ordinary people and experts and analysts—and explains the paradoxes of a complex, divided society that has learned to live with war. In this Sunday's dossier, we analyze how Israeli lobbies operate in Europe and what strategies they use to impose their narrative. We also show how Western and other cultural intellectuals and philosophers analyze the situation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that Israel has been arming Hamas opposition groups inside Gaza. The information was reported in Israeli media by Defense sources and has drawn criticism from the opposition, which accused Netanyahu of endangering the security of IsraelisBut the prime minister has taken to social media not only to confirm it but to defend the measure. "What's wrong with that? It only saves the lives of Israeli soldiers," he said in a tweet on the X network, where he denounced that making it public, as those media outlets had done, "only helps Hamas."

All the teenagers around me have seen the documentary about the Supernova music festival, which was attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, in a coordinated attack in the Gaza Strip. The documentary is the account of the survivors (young and beautiful, like them, eager to party), illustrated with cell phone images of victims and executioners. A executioner laughing as he shoots a pleading boy. A girl hiding in a dumpster asking her mother for forgiveness for making her suffer like that. They all seem "secular."

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen on Sunday ordered the immediate cutting off of any electricity supply provided by the Israel Electric Corporation in the Gaza Strip, he said in a video message. A week after suspend all entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip, now Israel is going a step further and also cutting off the electricity supply.