Hunger in post-war Spain, despite the dictatorship's attempts to mask it, is quite present in literature. We perceive it in novels such as Nothing (1945), by Carmen Laforet; The beehive (1951), by Camilo José Cela; Time of silence (1961), by Luis Martín Santos, and The Diamond Square (1962), by Mercè Rodoreda. the historian Michelangelo del Arco Blanco (Granada, 1979) goes a step further: it documents and demonstrates it in The Spanish famine (Crítica, 2025). He speaks of the victims of hunger but also of those responsible. "All the great famines of the 20th century are related to political decisions. In Spain, it was a weapon of war against the vanquished," he states.

Look, yesterday's news – we have it every day – about hunger in Gaza says that a rare neurological disease spreads, especially among children. It causes paralysis and lifelong consequences (for those who survive, of course).

A rare neurological disease has spread to the Gaza Strip, especially among children, according to an alert issued by the Hamas-backed Health Ministry. Over the past week, at least 95 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, an immune-mediated disease that affects peripheral nerves and causes paralysis, have been detected. The disease has particularly affected children. The muscles, starting in the lower limbs, gradually become flaccid until the paralysis reaches the respiratory muscles, where it becomes life-threatening. At least three people have died from the disease since July—two of them under the age of fifteen—from being unable to receive adequate treatment due to the Israeli blockade.

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.