One month after the massacre of some fourteen-hundred civilians in Israel, it is Palestinians bearing the brunt of a response that has killed more than ten-thousand and displaced tens of thousands this week from north to south. An estimated one-third of the buildings in the north of the Gaza Strip are damaged or destroyed.
For the past month, we have taken stock of just how much the eruption in the Middle East has stoked the ugliest sort of antisemitism and Islamophobia.
Thursday evening, there were commemorations throughout Europe for the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht when the Nazis carried out pogroms against Jews in riots defined as a seminal moment of the Holocaust.
While Iran champions the Palestinian cause, it seems publicity's forced it grudgingly to bend to the demands of this year's Nobel peace prize. The family Narges Mohammadi says she has ended a hunger strike after she received medical treatment without wearing the obligatory head covering.
In Spain, a coalition deal between the outgoing Socialists and the Catalan separatists convicted of using state funds to stage a banned 2017 independence referendum has sparked fury among critics of Pedro Sanchez. He is looking to weather the storm and keep his own troops in line as he moves to secure a razor-thin majority in the next parliament.
Here in France, we had the breakup of then-president Nicolas Sarkozy's marriage play out in public. More recently Canada's prime minister announcing he and his wife of eighteen years were separated.
That is life, right? Same goes for Giorgia Meloni who last month announced over Instagram announced that she and the father of her daughter were parting ways.
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Lila Paulou, Rebecca Gnignati and Imen Mellaz.
