Two days after Israel celebrated the return of Twenty live hostages from GazaWednesday was a day of burials for the first dead to return from the enclave this week. under a fragile ceasefire agreement.

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...

Donald Trump has done it. The ceasefire agreement he unexpectedly forced was finalized this Monday with the release of the 20 Israeli hostages who had been held captive since the October 7, 2023, attack, in exchange for the release of 1,968 Palestinian prisoners. Trump has forced Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to halt the war that has devastated the Gaza Strip over the past two years. Israeli troops have withdrawn from 47% of the territory, and aid has begun to flow in to alleviate the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. The US president arrived in Israel for a brief visit and to reap the rewards of the operation: he was the hero of the day.

One of the most repeated comments among those who witnessed the surprising and unusual hostage robbery on Wednesday, October 1st, at the Banco Santander office in Girona's Eixample district is that the robbers had seen "too many movies." But perhaps if they had seen Black afternoon (Dog day afternoon), by Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino as the early robber Sonny Wortzik, whose every move goes wrong, would have thought twice. In the film, just as happened in Girona, three robbers break into a bank and take seven hostages, but the plan quickly falls apart and the police surround the building. The final similarity is that the robbery of the First Brooklyn Savings Bank ends up being broadcast on television, turning into a veritable media circus, while the robbery of the Banco Santander, which also attracted countless onlookers and blocked street traffic, is broadcast via audio thanks to the indiscreet use of a cell phone. On the corner of Emili Grahit and Rutlla streets in Girona, however, the film ends after about 20 minutes, just long enough for the Mossos d'Esquadra and the local police to realize that the robbers are novices and, despite having hostages, decide to rush in and arrest the robbers. The assailants don't resist and throw to the ground the two fake pistols they had threatened employees and customers with. A happy ending, but with open questions.

Israel is experiencing a day of nationwide protests today, called by the families of the hostages held in Gaza. Since early morning, several demonstrations have begun in different parts of the country, with gatherings at roadside intersections and larger events planned in Tel Aviv in the afternoon. In Jerusalem, a group of relatives unfurled a large flag in front of the US Embassy, a symbol of the outcry that the families of the hostages wish to project both inside and outside Israel.

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.

Israel claims that one of the four bodies that Hamas handed over to it on Thursday does not correspond to any hostage. This was revealed by a forensic report, according to the Israeli army, which indicates that the alleged remains of Shiri Bibas do not match the woman. Liberman was the mother of the two minor hostages Ariel and Kfir, aged 4 years and nine months, and whose bodies - also handed over on Thursday by Hamas - have been positively identified.

Hamas has announced that it has already handed over to the Red Cross the remains of Shiri Bibas, the Israeli hostage it was supposed to return on Thursday. Israel denounced that the remains of one of the bodies that Hamas handed over on Thursday The remains were not matched to any hostages after DNA tests. Tel Aviv had accused the Palestinian group of "flagrant violation of the agreement" and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had vowed that Israel would make Hamas pay. The Palestinian militant group responded that there may have been a mistake and that the woman's remains had been mixed up with other victims of the Israeli bombing in which they say she and her two children, aged 9 months and 4 years, were killed in November last year.

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.