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Israeli troops continue their assault on Jan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip

Israeli troops continue with their assault on the southern city of Jan Yunis, more than a week after their return, in which they issued evacuation orders from the east and southern neighborhoods, which had previously been designated as part of the humanitarian zone.

“During the last day, the troops eliminated dozens of terrorists, some of whom fired at our soldiers and dismantled infrastructure,” an Army statement on Monday reported.

The Hebrew forces left Jan Yunis last April, after four months of offensive, by assuring that they had all achieved “their military objectives.” Now, they justify their return by claiming that in those areas there is “terrorist infrastructure of Hamas.”

In addition, this Sunday the Army also ordered the evacuation of part of the Bureij refugee camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip, after detecting rocket launches from that point and Shuhada, according to the Army’s Arabic spokesman, Avichay Andraee.

“The military will act forcefully in the area,” the statement says.

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The solution that Israel gives to these Gazans is the same as the one it gave in the other evacuation orders, that is, that they flee to other points of the humanitarian coastal zone of Mawasi, already crowded with refugees who live in tents, without water and without electricity, and whose perimeter is increasingly reduced.

Last night, thousands of Palestinians began to evacuate the areas of the Bureij camps and headed for the nearby cities of Deir Al Balah and Nuseirat, according to the Palestinian news agency, Wafa.

Palestinian media reported this morning of Israeli airstrikes against a residential block in the Bureij refugee camp.

On the other hand, the Army also maintains its offensive in Rafah, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip, where it assures that in the last hours they managed to kill “numerous” militiamen in hand-to-hand meetings.

“In the last 24 hours, our Army attacked 35 terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip, including armed cells, infrastructure and buildings loaded with explosives,” they add in their note.

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Since the war began in the Gaza Strip, almost 300 days ago, at least 39,324 people, most of them women and children, have died and more than 90,800 have been injured in the devastated Palestinian enclave, according to the latest data from local health authorities.

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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.

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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.”

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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.