Category World News

Who: Tottenham Hotspur vs. Arsenal
What: English Premier League
Where: The Emirates Stadium, London
When: Sunday at 4:30pm (16:30 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 13:30 GMT in advance of our live text commentary stream.

Arsenal and Tottenham take on Tottenham in the North London derby, the standout Premier League game of the weekend, with Spurs attempting to deny their bitter rivals’ title hopes while reviving their own sluggish season.

League leaders Arsenal are 26 points ahead of second-placed Man City, but their streak of 10 straight victories and eight straight clean sheets came to an end with a 2-2 draw at Sunderland before the international break.

Spurs are fifth with 18 points going into the weekend, which probably flatters Thomas Frank’s side, who have been incredibly creative and prone to defensive errors.

Spurs travel to the Emirates with the best away record in the league this season despite dominating recent derbies that were unbeaten in the last six.

Gabriel’s “weeks” off are a major blow to Arsenal.

Manager Mikel Arteta confirmed on Friday that Gabriel Magalhaes, a defender for Arsenal, will be out of action for “weeks” due to a broken ankle sustained while on international duty.

The Brazil center-back has always been present in the Premier League for the Gunners’ back line, which has allowed just five goals in 11 games. However, he injured his thigh during Brazil’s 2-0 friendly win over Senegal at the Emirates Stadium last weekend.

He’s our leader in our back line, which is a blow to me, Arteta said.

The good news is that there are excellent options and that people must now stand up and carry out their duties.

A “privilege” to lead Arsenal in the derby, according to Arteta.

Arteta spoke to Arsenal’s internal media about the enthusiasm for the north London derby and how honored he is to play in these events.

We’ve changed a lot over the years, and it’s just beautiful, especially when we play in front of our people, he said, because we know what it means to them.

It’s just a privilege to play those kinds of games because of the energy they’re going to bring, the team’s energy in every single action. We are looking forward to Sunday.

Against Arsenal, Frank wants “controlled chaos.”

Spurs are still far behind their archrivals, according to the manager of Tottenham, who believes they can disrupt Arteta’s side on Sunday.

Frank, who will be getting his first taste of the derby, said to reporters, “The interesting thing is that probably both Mikel and I would like a little bit more of a controlled game, but it will probably end up completely madhouse.”

“I anticipate a challenging [match], but one that can go anywhere,” the player said.

With an emphasis on set-pieces and data that were so effective at Brentford, Frank is regarded as a much more pragmatic coach than Ange Postecoglou, the coach he replaced in the close season.

Frank won’t be telling his side on Sunday to just hope to get a point.

Because chaos can be good, Frank remarked, “Avoid controlled chaos, or chaos we like to create, if that makes sense.” “Chaos can be transitions, high-pressure sets-piece second phases, and all of those are areas we would like to exploit if we can,” he said.

By the way, we never want a goal of 0-0. Even though it might come to an end, we will always try to win. Always, always, always. “

Tottenham’s impressive away form

The Dane said that will give them confidence ahead of Sunday’s showdown after Frank’s side took 13 points from five games.

By a considerable margin, “Arsenal are at the top of the table,” Frank said. Although they have been around for a while, we need to do everything to reverse that.

“There will be one game on Sunday,” says the coach. I’ll try my best to defeat them.

Head-to-head

Spurs and Arsenal have fought each other on 211 occasions, with Arsenal winning 89 of those matches and Tottenham winning 67, with 55 of those games ending in draws.

Tottenham have won just two of their last ten meetings with Arsenal since December 2020, and the Gunners did it twice last year over their rivals last year.

Tottenham have won the Premier League twice in the last 15 years, winning with a 3-2 victory over their neighbors at the Emirates, but they haven’t won at the Emirates since a League Cup game in 2018.

In the Premier League, Spurs last defeated Arsenal 3-3 in May 2022.

news from the Arsenal team

Arsenal will miss Gabriel, but Piero Hincapie and Cristhian Mosquera, who have been signed this summer, offer strong backup options.

Martin Odegaard, the club’s captain, is still out with a knee injury, while Kai Havertz, who has recovered from a relapse, has been ruled out. After suffering an ACL tear, Forward Gabriel Jesus is slowly recovering, but he won’t be expected to return until the new year.

As they continue to recover from injuries, left-back Riccardo Calafiori, wingers Gabriel Martinelli and Noni Madueke, and striker Viktor Gyokeres are major doubts.

Eberechi Eze will likely start on the left wing while Leandro Trossard is likely to receive the nod.

Arsenal’s starting XI was anticipated

Raya, Timber, Saliba, Hincapie, Calafiori, Eze, Zubimendi, Rice, Saka, Merino, Trossard, and others

news from the Tottenham team

Randal Kolo Muani, who was injured in the team’s 2-2 draw with Manchester United last time out, is back.

Pape Matar Sarr is also available in the Spurs squad despite suffering a broken foot while playing for Senegal, as is midfielder Lucas Bergvall, who was forced to leave the Sweden squad.

Mohammed Kudus’ recovery from a knock against the Gunners is still a mystery.

As they recover from injuries, Kota Takai, and Radu Dragusin are all facing serious doubts.

Due to longer-term issues, Spurs are still without Yves Bissouma, James Maddison, Dejan Kulusevski, and Dominic Solanke.

Tottenham’s starting XI was anticipated

Nepal’s aviation crisis is investigated by 101 East, which takes to the skies.

The West Bank’s affluent citizens are being assaulted, and violence is out of control.

Since the ceasefire was declared on October 10, the division of Gaza into a so-called “green zone” under the control of the Israeli army and a so-called “red zone” where Palestinians have been displaced and contained has grown. The “yellow line” that separates the two is invisible.

The administration of Donald Trump’s administration has indicated that reconstruction will only be carried out in the “green zone” where Israel and its allies have been developing plans for ‘alternative safe communities’.

Although there were rumors last week that these plans were abandoned, humanitarian workers have informed me that Rafah, southern Gaza, is still the site of the first such community, and 10 more are planned along the yellow line and into the north.

If these “safe communities” are to be built, they will cause Gaza to become deadly fragmented. The intention behind the establishment of these camps is not to provide humanitarian aid, but rather to establish managed dispossession zones where Palestinians would be screened and vetted before entering. They would also be expressly prohibited from going back to the restricted and censored “red zone.”

What Israel has long desired to do in Gaza is recycled in these plans. As a UN official in charge of coordinating humanitarian operations in Palestine, I first heard about the use of “bubbles,” an initial, telling euphemism that the Israeli government had suggested.

The so-called ceasefire agreement in Gaza exhibits such a grim reality. It won’t bring peace; instead, it will sever Gaza and the Palestinian Authority’s ability to rescind. It’s more of a Gaza piece plan, in fact.

The UN Security Council approved the plan on Monday this week, granting authorization to an international stabilization force (ISF) to provide security and a board of peace to govern Gaza. What regions, however, will these forces secure? These forces cannot maintain an agreed-upon peace. The ISF would be positioned along the yellow line and would secure these newly established camps, as per maps I’ve seen of the “alternative safe communities.”

Unsurprisingly, Hamas rejected the UNSC resolution. It was obvious that the agreement’s provisions were not what had been reached. Point 17 may now be inferred in the 20-point Trump plan, which was included as an annex to the resolution: “in the event Hamas delays or rejects this proposal, the above, including the increased aid operations, will proceed in the terror-free areas handed over from the IDF]Israeli army] to the ISF.” The “alternative safe communities” may become the only authorized aid delivery centers in this way, extending the Palestinians’ total blockade in Gaza.

The UNSC-endorsed plan now incorporates the deadly logic of evacuation orders that have plagued the past two years and have driven Palestinians from their homes. People who remain outside of the alternative communities, in the “red zone,” run the risk of being labeled “Hamas supporters” and thus ineligible for protection under Israel’s warped interpretation of international law, as has been demonstrated in recent days.

Official planning consistently ignores the fate of Palestinians in the “red zone.” In fact, Israeli registration laws intended to stifle criticism and check staff for compliance are preventing humanitarian organizations from being able to save lives.

The concept of contained communities is not entirely new. In Malaya in the 1950s, the British and Americans established “strategic hamlets” in Vietnam in the 1960s, and the colonial authorities in Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) established “protected villages” during the so-called “counter-insurgency” in the 1970s.

In exchange for aid, civilian populations were forced and coerced into camps where they were screened. The intention was to reduce the general public’s support for colonial-era resistance organizations. It failed .

Bantustans, slang for “independent homelands” created by the apartheid regime in South Africa to enslave and control the Black population. Additionally, they failed to stop a colonial-colonial apartheid regime from crumbling.

Israel’s occupation of Gaza will remain intact and strengthened thanks to the peace plan, which was put in place rather than negotiated. The UNSC has supported a move that goes against the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) rulings regarding the occupied Palestinian territory, essentially whitewashing a massacre scene and creating a monument to impunity.

All of this occurs during a ‘ceasefire’, during which Palestinians continue to die for breaking the law created by the illegal occupation.

Countries that don’t want to sanction Israel may be relieved to revive trade and stifle public scrutiny because of this phase’s potential as the end of the conflict.

Implementing the ICJ’s decisions will require the exact accountability that the US and Israel have worked hard to avoid. New political coalitions are necessary to demand the equal application of international law while Western powers continue to undermine these institutions. This requires Palestinian-led reconstruction that ensures Palestinians are not perpetually bare to survive, and the unrestricted delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians wherever they are in the strip.

The international forces’ security surrounding Gaza’s gated communities would not be sufficient to erode the foundations of a so-called rules-based order. The only thing that can be done is to return to the guiding principle that has so far been ignored: the people’s unalienable right to choose their own future.