Al Jazeera analysis
On October 10, a ceasefire in Gaza was officially announced. International news media were quick to focus on what they now call “the peace plan”. United States President Donald Trump, they announced, will go to Cairo to oversee the agreement and then to Israel to speak at the Knesset. The air strikes over Gaza, they reported, have stopped.
[On 29 July 2024, a horrific racist attack took place in Southport, UK. A mass stabbing targeting young girls occurred at a dance studio in the Meols Cop area of Southport, Merseyside. Two girls died on the spot, six injured children and two adults were taken to hospital in critical condition, and the next day a third girl died. An 18-year-old youth named Axel Rudakubana was convicted of stabbing the three girls to death. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.