| Dear readers, As the Gaza war enters its seventh month, EL PAÍS used satellite imagery and damage assessment data to document the devastation in the Strip caused by the Israeli offensive. Up to 57% of buildings in the enclave have been damaged or destroyed, according to analysis carried out at the University of Oregon, but that figure rises to 75% in the capital, Gaza City. Khan Younis, from which Israeli troops withdrew last weekend, has been razed to the ground, according to returning residents. In total, one million people have lost their homes, and two out of three have been displaced, according to a report by the U.N. and the World Bank. EL PAÍS also spoke to Palestinian journalist Wael Dahdouh, who has lost his wife and three of his children in the war. “Israel is deliberately killing journalists in Gaza,” said the bureau chief of Al Jazeera television in the Strip. “They do not want us to continue documenting what is happening.”
The mysterious “Havana syndrome” once again made headlines around the world this week. A fresh investigation into the illness that has apparently affected some 200 people for several years, including employees of the White House, the CIA and the FBI and seems to back the theory pointing to Russia as one of the direct culprits through military intelligence Unit 29155, which allegedly deployed “directed energy” weapons. According to the investigation, a collaboration between Russian media The Insider, Der Spiegel, and 60 Minutes, members of the unit were decorated and promoted for the development of “non-lethal acoustic weapons,” and were stationed in locations around the world “just before or at the time when anomalous health incidents occurred.” Both Cuba and Russia have denied the allegations in the report, which Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described as “baseless accusations.”
We also interviewed Nadège Vanhee, who has worked as creative director of women’s ready-to-wear at Hermès for the last decade, a tenure that has lasted practically an eternity by fashion standards. One of the few women at the helm of a major brand, Vanhee operates in a way that runs in contrast to the public image of the industry, maintaining a low profile and avoiding social media and public exposure. “Recently I’ve been thinking that fashion is overly obsessed with image and the media, because everything is measured in economic terms,” she says. “I’m not against numbers, obviously, but by giving them so much protagonism, we’re seeing things in a slightly sterile way. We’re losing our capacity to surprise and enjoy.”
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