Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, was placed under house arrest and taken into police custody after altering his ankle monitor. Some Brazilians are ecstatic over it, while others are holding vigils to pray for the end of his “persecución.”
Mohammed Ibrahim, a US teen who has been imprisoned in an Israeli prison for nine months without trial, was released in a video statement from US Senator Chris Van Hollen, who demanded more be done. The senator has learned that the Florida-born boy has been beaten and has lost weight.
The Israeli military has destroyed everything that is encircling Gaza’s shoreline, but the coast offers some fleeting solace from the besieged Palestinian enclave’s ongoing devastation.
Before the genocidal war, where the local artists had built sand sculptures on the beach to gather residents from the shoreline, which were once a magnet for large crowds.
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With utterly limited resources, they have transformed the beach into an open space for expression that also offers displaced Palestinian survivors a chance to unwind after more than two years of fighting.
Palestinian artist Yazid Abu Jarad [Screengrab/Al Jazeera] creates art on the sand of Gaza to escape Israel’s war.
Despite last month’s ceasefire with Hamas, Yazid Abu Jarad and his team used tape measures to carve letters in the sand and draw crowds, including children who have been left infected by the relentless Israeli attacks, which have continued despite the United States’ and mediators’ mediations.
“We see so many people gathered around us when we create art on the beach in Gaza. You can see it on the faces of young children and the elderly as well. He told Ibrahim al-Khalili on Al Jazeera that people “drift into a different world for a moment.”
They notice the bombings, destruction, and drone buzzing in the artwork, which is completely different from what they’ve been seeing since the war started. Even a small picture can influence how people feel in our drawings.
The artists use anything they can find as tools, including a broken tile, a stick pulled from the shore, and a small brush, which are all left over from the ongoing destruction of Gaza.
Their work is only temporary, just like the coastline itself.
Even though the tides cause the work to disappear by evening, another artist, Majd Ayada, told Al Jazeera, that he and others are daily drawing on the shore from morning until night.
“We return the following day and begin again.” We adore sculpting and drawing on the soil of Gaza, he said.
We never give up even after two years of fighting, they say.
After being repeatedly displaced by Israel, other Palestinian families are forced to use the little-used tents and flimsy plastic coverings as meager protection against the winter cold.
Palestinian sculptors [Screengrab/Al Jazeera] create art on the sand of Gaza Beach.
The young people’s ability to create images and sculptures of Gaza, according to Fathi Abu Maoud, makes his family happy because it strengthens their bond to the place even more.
This is our home, according to the statement, “We were born here, our children were born here.” He claimed that Gaza is where we are rooted.
In an effort to escape Israel’s war, children run near sculptors’ artwork [Screengrab/Al Jazeera] on Gaza beach sand.
In one of the worst kidnappings in Nigeria’s Niger state, over 300 children were taken from a Catholic school. In the same week, dozens of Muslim students and Christian worshippers were also taken captive, making this the third mass abduction.
Lando Norris, the driver of the Formula One championship, and Oscar Piastri, his teammate at McLaren, were suspended from the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Sunday for technical violations.
After the race, it was determined that neither car’s skid blocks exceeded the required depth.
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Red Bull’s title-chasing Max Verstappen, who had finished second, was followed by Piastri, who finished fourth.
With the disqualification, Norris will now be 24 points clear of both Piastri and Verstappen in Qatar’s final weekend race, which includes a sprint.
If Verstappen and Piastri earn two more points over the course of the weekend than both of them, Norris can win the title in Qatar with a maximum of 58 points in the final two Grands Prix.
With only two rounds left in the 2025 calendar, Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen’s gap to Lando Norris’ 42 points at the end of Sunday’s Las Vegas Grand Prix has now decreased to just 24. [Gary A Vasquez/Imagn Images via Reuters]
In the most recent incarnation of a ceasefire that started on October 10, Israel’s military launched air strikes in Gaza. At least 24 people have been killed and 54 have been injured, including children, according to health officials in Gaza.
Israel claimed that the strikes on Saturday were carried out as a response to gunfire directed at its soldiers. They came as a result of renewed international interest in Gaza since the UN Security Council on Monday approved a United States strategy for territory security and governance.
It authorizes the establishment of a global stabilization force for security, approves a transitional authority that will be overseen by US President Donald Trump, and provides a roadmap for a possible future state for Palestinians.
In Gaza City’s Remal neighborhood, Rami Mhanna, managing director of al-Shifa Hospital, where the casualties were taken, reported that one of the strikes targeted a vehicle, killing 11 Palestinians and injuring more than 20 people. According to hospital director Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the majority of the injuries were suffered by children.
At least three people were killed and 11 were hurt in a house attack near al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza, and 16 were hurt in another attack on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the hospital.
According to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, a second bomb targeted a house in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza also claimed the lives of three people, including a woman.
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, Israel has violated the US-brokered ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing hundreds of Palestinians.
342 civilians have been killed in the attacks, with the majority of the victims being children, women, and the elderly.
As required by the ceasefire, Israel continues to severely restrict the arrival of desperately needed medical supplies and aid into the devastated enclave.