On Christmas Day, we woke up around five in the morning to four explosions. One in particular rattled the windows of the Doctors Without Borders house like tambourines, or rather, like the clatter of zambombas, typical of these days of celebration or bombing, depending on where you happen to be born. It was the "proportional" response announced by the Israeli authorities to a Christmas Eve attack in the southern Gaza Strip that wounded an Israeli soldier. Here in Gaza, the Tió de Nadal (a traditional Catalan Christmas log) poops explosives.

In the streets ripped open by bombs and the alleyways where the dust never settles, thousands of Palestinian families live with a suspended grief. The war has not only multiplied death, it has shattered the very possibility of saying goodbye. Bodies pile up in makeshift morgues, in numbered bags, in hastily dug graves. Others remain missing beneath collapsed buildings, reduced to unrecognizable fragments. In Gaza, death has lost its name.

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.

Benjamin Netanyahu is going through a particularly delicate political moment. After almost two-week ceasefire with Hamas, the governing coalition in Israel faces the approval in the first reading of a bill providing for the annexation of part of the West BankThe initiative has generated concern in Washington. President Donald Trump expressed his discontent, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to Tel Aviv to monitor the situation and warn of possible diplomatic repercussions.

Israel carried out a wave of bombings in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, after its forces and Palestinian militants clashed in the morning near Rafah, in the south of the enclave. The Tel Aviv government also again banned the entry of humanitarian aid. After several bombings throughout Sunday, by night both Israel and Hamas claimed they were reinstating the ceasefire, and US President Donald Trump himself had criticized the temporary breakdown of the truce. "The ceasefire is still in effect," Trump said, noting that he does not believe the Hamas leadership was involved in the events that Israel had denounced as a reason for resuming the bombings.

Catalonia experienced a day of strikes this Wednesday, road and train blockades that complicated mobility for hours, and demonstrations in various cities to denounce the situation in Gaza. The strike called by minority unions and the two-hour walkouts per shift supported by the majority unions (CCOO and UGT) barely had any impact on the workplace. However, the day did have a strong response in the streets, with demonstrations in the morning and afternoon that in Barcelona together drew more than 22,000 people, according to data from the City Police.

Last August, when the world was crying out against the images Increasingly frequent cases of malnourished children in Gaza Due to Israel's almost complete blockade of food and medicine, Hamas released a video showing a hostage, Evyatar David, also visibly malnourished. The images showed the 24-year-old man somewhere underground, and He claimed he was digging his own grave. In just three days, the Islamist group published three videos showing very thin Israeli hostages to denounce the hunger that was ravaging – and continues to ravage – the entire Gaza Strip, which brought tens of thousands of people to the streets of Tel Aviv. This Monday, David was one of the twenty hostages released alive.

Trump has proclaimed the end of the war and announced a new era in the Middle East, "an era of harmony." As always, everything about the American president sounds superlative and triumphant. It's undoubtedly very significant that the two years of hell in Gaza are over and the last Israeli hostages have been returned, exchanged for Palestinian prisoners. The ceasefire, of course, is a relief for everyone. But it's too early, and the announcement of a brave new world sounds naive and ridiculous. Trump's egotism is neither credible nor can it hide the harsh and unstable reality. The Israeli attempt at Palestinian ethnic cleansing has been as shocking as it is unfinished: amid the rubble, Gazans have returned to their destroyed homes.

"Welcome to the land of peaceThe sign at the entrance to the Sharm al-Sheikh convention center welcomed heads of state and delegations to the so-called Gaza Peace Summit on Monday. Amid heightened security and a blazing heatwave, the leaders walked the red carpet in a spectacular display of work a few hundred kilometers north, where the war between Israel and Hamas has left more than 67,000 dead and Much of the Strip reduced to rubble.

The ceasefire in Gaza explains better than any textbook how the international system works: the strong act with impunity, organized citizens can upset the balance, allies are suspicious – and sometimes overconfident – everything is negotiable and – often disguised as reasons of state – the decisions of the protagonists respond to personal interests and.

The Israeli army announced this Friday at noon that the troops have withdrawn in the agreed area and that the ceasefire agreement in Gaza entered into force at 12 noon local time, or 11 a.m. in Catalonia. This means the first phase has begun and the countdown has begun for the exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. The 72 hours following the agreement's entry into force will be crucial, but this is only a first step, and there are still many points that negotiators will have to resolve to guarantee a lasting peace. We review what this first agreement stipulates and what we should expect to happen until Monday morning.

Donald Trump has one fixation these past few days: he wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize.This summer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed the candidate, and the US President himself, without much modesty, has put himself forward for the award.

On the still-packed Tel Aviv beach, the yellow flags symbolizing the demand for the return of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza are frayed. On the signs with their photographs and names, someone has twice corrected the captives' ages with a marker: they have spent two birthdays in Gaza.

An agreement does not guarantee that the Gaza war will end. Of course, an agreement can be signed at any time, but this will not necessarily mean an immediate solution to the conflict, not even to the most basic problems of the ongoing war, if the systematic killing of thousands of civilians in the Gaza Strip can even be called a war.

President Donald Trump has accepted Hamas's response and ordered Israel to "stop bombing Gaza immediately, so we can get the hostages out safely and quickly." The president announced this in a post on Truth Social on Friday afternoon. "We continue to discuss the details to make this work. This is not just about Gaza, it's about lasting peace in the Middle East." Trump has accepted Hamas's response about releasing the hostages, and also plans to discuss other aspects of the plan with which he does not fully agree.

Hamas has not yet commented on the matter. the ultimatum presented to him on Monday by Donald Trump and Benjamin NetanyahuThe Islamist group did not receive the details of the plan proposed by the US president until the White House made it public shortly before the two leaders' appearance in Washington. After Egypt and Qatar, as mediators, sent the document to the negotiators, Hamas simply said it would study it "with good will."

The increasingly loud international outcry against Israel's war in Gaza has not caused the Israeli army to ease its foot off the accelerator. This Sunday, at least 40 more people were killed by bombing in the Palestinian enclave, bringing the total death toll to over 66,000.

Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to make momentous decisions in the coming days, following this week's spectacle at the UN General Assembly. That is, after a long list of countries around the world, including some of the most powerful, have officially recognized the Palestinian stateYes, a decision that comes too late for the Palestinians.

How far gone are those days when Alberto Núñez Feijóo landed in Madrid and promised that he would not contribute to the tension or use insults in politics. And also that Feijóo who, before the Catalan business community, displayed pro-autonomist sensitivity and respect for the Catalan language. If anything has become clear at the start of this political year, it is that the Galician leader is a complete hostage to the party's hard line, which is the same as saying the Madrid PP, led by José María Aznar and Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

London police arrested a total of 890 people on Saturday who were demonstrating in Parliament Square in support of the Palestine Action group, Scotland Yard sources reported Sunday. Specifically, 857 people were arrested for simply expressing their support for the group, and the remaining 33 for assaulting officers and committing other public order offenses. Among those arrested were many elderly people and even a nun, the 83-year-old Reverend Sue Parfitt, who was carrying a sign reading "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."