Who determines what is true? In the era of fake news, manipulated algorithms, and post-truth, a group of architects, journalists, engineers, and lawyers work together, putting technology at the service of facts. They call it forensic architecture and they dedicate themselves to reconstructing disputed events, from demonstrations to military attacks around the world. Since 2023, they have focused on Gaza, and their reports are used as evidence in South Africa's accusation against Israel at the International Court of Justice. We speak with Júlia Nueno, a researcher at Forensic Architecture, based in London, and editor of Genocides. A Forensic Reading (Galaxia Gutenberg).

A bittersweet blow and a bitter pill to swallow in the legal setback the British government received this Friday. The High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled that the ban on the group Palestine Action as a "terrorist organization" is "illegal." The three judges on the panel reached their decision unanimously. And while they acknowledged that the organization had used "criminal methods," they determined that these had not crossed the "extremely high threshold" that defines terrorism, thus dismantling the Home Office's punitive strategy.

Perplexity. Unease. Indignation. These are some of the moods that frequently appear in our daily lives amidst an international landscape filled with uncertainty. Is the world falling apart? Answering this question may seem like a daunting task. However, there are many committed voices that give us a push to digest these and other doubts, and extend a hand to help us move forward.

On January 29, 2024, the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service received a call from Layan Hamadeh, a very distressed 15-year-old girl who said that the car she and her family were fleeing Gaza City in had been attacked by the Israeli army, and that her parents were dead. "They're shooting at us! We're in a car, and the tank is right next to us!" the girl was heard saying before a burst of gunfire silenced her voice. When Red Crescent operators called the cell phone, it was answered by a six-year-old girl, Hind Rajab, Layan's cousin, who had also been in the car. Terrified, she explained that all the other occupants of the car were dead: her aunt and uncle and her three cousins. Between sobs, she pleaded for rescue: "I'm so scared, please come. Get me out of here." On February 10, after the Israeli army withdrew, Hind's family was able to enter the city and find the car containing the bodies of the girl, her aunt, uncle, and cousins. A subsequent investigation revealed the vehicle had sustained 355 bullet impacts.

When Andorra recognized the Palestinian state a few days ago, it did so partially and jointly with several countries, including France, within the framework of the United Nations Assembly held in New York. The head of government, Xavier Espot, explained to X that recognition would not have "full diplomatic effect" until Hamas released the hostages and handed over its weapons. It would also not have to take effect until a Palestinian government was created outside the Islamist group. In her address to the UN, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Imma Tor, stressed that, in this way, Andorra remained "faithful" to "more than seven centuries of peace" and to the country's "active neutrality" in the face of international conflicts. What does this mean? What is the country's position on Palestine? We try to unravel it.

One of the most brilliant aspects of Lewis Carroll's two books about Alice is the ongoing discussion between her and her interlocutors about the meaning of words, the need for speakers to agree on the same meaning given to each word, and the continued appearance of linguistic perplexity. Thus, for example, in Alice in Wonderland, the Eagle responds in this way to something he has heard: "Speak less convolutedly! I don't understand the meaning of half of the long words you have used, and I'll tell you more: it seems to me that you don't either!" (This is a very common phenomenon, now that all languages, not just Catalan, proceed in the forward direction.) Further on in the same book, Turtle says: "Look, if a fish came to me and told me he was going on a journey, I would say to him: "With what page?"" And Griffo says: "Don't you mean "luggage"? And Turtle answers: "I mean what I say." It reads something similar to Alice Through the Looking GlassHumpty Dumpty says: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean." And Alice replies: "The question is, can words be made to mean different things?"

We citizens are exposed daily to political combat, that heap of shouting and manipulation that they shower upon us like a golden shower (without us ever having told them that we like to be peed on). We don't deserve it; we just voted for them. Why do they punish us by insulting our intelligence, calling us idiots or amnesiacs, or both? Few of the figures currently occupying the representative bodies are there out of a democratic vocation. It's a bad thing to say, but most, judging by their demeanor, are interested only in power for power's sake. If they have principles, they hide them very well. If they act according to values that go beyond those imposed by law, they don't show it in their actions. And now that populism based on widely disseminated lies is becoming normalized, the atmosphere has become even more nauseating. I hate them all because I deeply believe in democracy, freedom, the common good, and justice, and they are busy shuffling these civic niceties like someone shuffling mountain shit.

More than 1,300 film and audiovisual professionals from around the world have signed a manifesto committing the signatories to not working with Israeli festivals, production companies, distributors, television networks, or other institutions that they consider "implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people." The document, titled Film workers pledge to end complicity, was promoted by the organization Film Workers for Palestine and was made public this Monday.

Israel has demolished more than 1,500 homes in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City since it began at the beginning of the month the offensive ground to conquer the enclave, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense. The destruction, documented by satellite images analyzed by the Sanad fact-checking agency for the Qatari network Al Jazeera, is also concentrated in residential areas such as Jabalia al-Balad, the Jabalia refugee camp, and Tel Az Zaatar, where entire neighborhoods have been virtually wiped off the map. According to the analysis, Israeli forces penetrated up to four kilometers from the eastern border and advanced toward Jabalia al-Balad and Jabalia al-Nazla.