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More than forty dead in Gaza after another night of Israeli bombings

– More than forty people died in the Gaza Strip, 16 of them in the city of Rafah, after another night of intense Israeli bombings, some of which reached several tents for displaced people near the centers of the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA).

The Gazati Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas, reported the death in the last hour of 46 people and more than a hundred injured.

According to sources from Rafah, at least seven people died in the Al Hashash area, while another seven perished in attacks against the displaced person camp in Al Baraksat, in the northwest of the town and near UNRWA shelters.

Two other Gazats, specifically an old man and a ten-year-old boy, died in artillery attacks, also in Rafah.

The boy’s family told the Qatari channel Al Jazeera today that his home was the target of a bombing when they were preparing to leave the Zourob neighborhood, in search of a safe place, in the face of the intensity of the Israeli attacks.

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In that same neighborhood, this morning there were movements of Israeli military vehicles and excavators “under intense fire of smoke bombs and flares,” in addition to the flight of helicopters and drones, according to the information provided to EFE by local sources.

There were also intense bombings in the Tal al Sultan neighborhood, an alleged “safe zone” in the northwest of Rafah that hosts hundreds of displaced people and in which at least 45 Gazans perished yesterday as a result of an Israeli attack that triggered a fire.

The more than 100 people who were injured in that attack have flooded the few medical services in operation.

As denounced today by the oenegé Doctors Without Borders (MSF), some of the attacks recorded in recent days took place near its stabilization center (where the most serious cases are treated), which prevented medical personnel from both entering and leaving the enclosure where they treated patients.

According to UNRWA, about one million Gazans have fled Rafah, since the Israeli ground offensive began in the area.

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Now they are also being forced to leave the western area of Rafah, heading for Jan Yunis, as the bombings grow and the troops approach.

The Israeli Army said today in a statement that it has dismantled tunnels and observation posts of Palestinian militias in the vicinity of the Yabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, where the armed forces returned to operation after leaving the area practically devastated at the beginning of the war, under the premise that Hamas was regrouping.

In addition, Israeli soldiers located several tunnels and weapons in Rafah, where they hold “close-range combats” with Palestinian militiamen.

“The activity is carried out while efforts are being made to prevent damage to civilians not involved in the area,” the Army said.

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Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.

Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.

Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.

However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.

International

Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

Guatemalan court decides Wednesday whether to convict journalist José Rubén Zamora

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.

“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.

The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.

His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”

International

Miyazaki’s style goes viral with AI but at what cost?

This week, you may have noticed that everything—from historical photos and classic movie scenes to internet memes and recent political moments—has been reimagined on social media as Studio Ghibli-style portraits. The trend quickly went viral thanks to ChatGPT and the latest update of OpenAI’s chatbot, released on Tuesday, March 25.

The newest addition to GPT-4o has allowed users to replicate the distinctive artistic style of the legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away). “Today is a great day on the internet,” one user declared while sharing popular memes in Ghibli format.

While the trend has captivated users worldwide, it has also highlighted ethical concerns about AI tools trained on copyrighted creative works—and what this means for the livelihoods of human artists.

Not that this concerns OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has actively encouraged the “Ghiblification”experiments. Its CEO, Sam Altman, even changed his profile picture on the social media platform X to a Ghibli-style portrait.

Miyazaki, now 84 years old, is known for his hand-drawn animation approach and whimsical storytelling. He has long expressed skepticism about AI’s role in animation. His past remarks on AI-generated animation have resurfaced and gone viral again, particularly when he once said he was “utterly disgusted” by an AI demonstration.