Israel-Palestine, Haiti, Argentina.

Today's three stories you should know.

Mar 12, 2024

I’m a little late but Ramadan Mubarak to all who celebrate.

Barry.

Israel-Palestine

Palestinian medical staff have told the BBC that they were detained, stripped, blindfolded and repeatedly beaten by Israeli soldiers after troops invaded the hospital where they worked in Gaza last month. The accounts, cross-referenced by the BBC, are harrowing. Footage shared with the BBC shows a row of men in their underwear in front of the hospital's emergency building. They are kneeling with their hands behind their heads and medical robes can be seen in front of some of them. "Anybody who tried to move his head or make any movement got hit," the general manager of Nasser hospital, Dr Atef Al-Hout, told the BBC.

Haiti

Things were already bad in Haiti with the country in chaos since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. But in the last week the situation has spun further out of control. Yesterday, the man who replaced Moïse, Ariel Henry, said he would resign after coming under pressure from the increasingly powerful criminal gangs who now control 80 percent of the country’s capital Port-au-Prince. The Associated Press news agency today published a useful explainer if you’d like to deepen your understanding of this quickly developing story.

Argentina

Argentina is going through its worst economic crisis in decades with inflation running at an eye-watering 250%, and 60 percent of the population estimated to be living in poverty. The new government of libertarian President Javier Milei has introduced harsh austerity measures in an effort to get the situation under control, piling more pressure on the country’s poorest. Reuters today ran a report in which it spoke to the worst-off Argentinians scavenging - literally - to survive.