Our daily voyage around the world

💥 Israel-Hamas war update: After its troops captured Al-Shifa hospital – the largest in Gaza – on Wednesday, Israel released footage of a tunnel opening within the hospital, representing the first evidence to support its assertion that Hamas’s vast tunnel network runs underneath the medical complex. Hamas has denied claims that it used the Al-Shifa as a command center, and requested the hospital be reviewed by international organizations. Israel also said it discovered some Hamas weaponry, uniforms, and other equipment within the hospital, but didn’t find vast quantities of weaponry, Hamas forces, or hostages.

🇪🇺 TikTok and Meta are suing the EU over its new gatekeeper law. The lawsuits are challenging the EU’s Digital Markets Act, which designates companies with 45+ million monthly active users as “gatekeepers.” Starting next March, these gatekeepers will be outlawed from favoring their own services or preventing users from removing pre-installed software, or face fines of up to 10% of global revenue. TikTok is arguing that it’s a newer competitor taking on established platforms and shouldn’t be covered under the law, while Meta disagrees with including Marketplace and Messenger.

🇪🇸 Spain’s Socialist Party leader was reelected prime minister. Although the conservative Popular Party earned more votes than any other party in July’s general election, it failed to win a majority of Parliamentary seats and form a government. Incumbent Socialist PM Pedro Sánchez secured an absolute majority through an amnesty deal with two political parties involved in a failed bid to secede the Catalonia region from Spain in 2017. Tens of thousands of Spanish residents have protested since October, saying Sánchez violated the Constitution for his political gain. The EU is currently reviewing the amnesty deal for Catalonian secessionists.