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."

It faces its military command, exhausted troops, the opposition of the families of the hostages and some of its European allies, but the Israeli government has told the local and international press that it is preparing to expand the genocidal offensive with the aim of "the total occupation of the Gaza StripThis Tuesday, the security cabinet was supposed to give the green light to the expanded offensive, but the meeting was postponed due to tensions with the army leadership. The cabinet, in order to avoid endangering their lives, worsening Israel's international image, and further exposing troops already showing clear signs of exhaustion after 22 months of indiscriminate attacks without achieving any of the declared objectives of the war: neither the release of the hostages nor the disappearance of Hamas, could dismiss him. They warned in a public letter to Trump on Monday that the only way to recover the hostages is through an agreement with Hamas and that militarily there is nothing more that can be done in Gaza. And the families of the hostages, who on Saturday brought 60,000 people to the streets of Tel Aviv, denounce that the total occupation is a death sentence for the hostages on October 7, 2023. Zamir and Netanyahu met this afternoon for three hours, in a meeting also attended by the defense minister. At the end of the meeting, Netanyahu's office simply issued a one-sentence statement: "The Israeli army is ready to carry out the decisions of the security cabinet."

Israel bombed Syrian military positions in Damascus on Wednesday. The attacks on the Syrian capital hit the presidential palace, the Defense Ministry, and the main entrance to the army headquarters, among other key targets, leaving three dead and 34 wounded, according to the Syrian state news agency. The new offensive comes after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that operations would continue and intensify if Syrian forces did not withdraw from the Suwayda region, where clashes between Druze militias, Bedouin tribes, and regime troops have already caused more than 240 human casualties.

With the end of the war that Donald Trump has been quick to dub "the 12-day war," all countries have claimed victory in the conflict, and both the United States and Israel have prided themselves on having achieved the objective for which they justified the attacks on Iran: preventing Tehran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. But to what extent has Iran's nuclear program been damaged? Can it be considered destroyed, as the American president boasts?

For more than two decades, Middle East analysts have speculated about the consequences of an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, a long-standing threat from Washington and Tel Aviv. The prevailing opinion had always been that such an attack would set the entire region ablaze and provoke a major war with unpredictable consequences. However, all calculations and balances in the region have changed following the October 7 attacks in Gaza, as the network of allies that Tehran had been building since the 1980s to protect it from an attack has become deeply flawed.

Six months have passed since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and Syria remains caught between hope and collapse. Ahmad al-Sharaa, former leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militia, now heads an interim government. which is trying to bring stability to a devastated country. Although it lacks constitutional legitimacy, it has some international support and has focused its efforts on breaking diplomatic isolation and attracting investment to boost reconstruction.

The United States and Iran met this Saturday in Muscat, the capital of Oman, in a first round of contacts to try to reach a new agreement. on Tehran's controversial nuclear program. The meeting, their first official negotiation in seven years, lasted two hours, and the delegations from both countries left with the commitment to meet again next week.

Israel is preparing to incorporate the city of Rafah and surrounding areas into the "pillow zone" it is expanding along the border, the Israeli newspaper reported Wednesday. Haaretz, citing army officials on condition of anonymity. Specifically, the Hebrew armed forces intend to absorb the area between the Philadelphia Corridor, which borders Egypt, and the Morag Corridor, a corridor created by the army and cuts through agricultural land between Rafah and Khan Yunis. This would represent an area occupying one-fifth of the Gaza Strip—about 75 square kilometers—where more than 200,000 Palestinians lived before the war.