| | | | | | | Hello. My colleagues have kept us updated on the war that started more than two weeks ago, after Hamas gunmen entered Israel to kill more than 1,400 people. In Gaza, Rushdi Abualouf tells us about how the conflict is affecting him personally, as his family narrowly avoided a strike in southern Gaza. More than 4,600 people have been killed in the strip according to the Hamas-run health ministry. |
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| | | | Top of the agenda | | Israel prepares for months-long war | | | | Palestinians flee following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Source: EPA-EFE |
| | Israel's military campaign in Gaza "may take a month, two or three", its defence minister Yoav Gallant said on Sunday, adding the next stage of the war, a widely-expected ground invasion, would "come soon". But Western leaders who’ve publicly embraced Israel’s right to defend itself are also sending messages, in public and private, about the need to "avoid rushing forward in rage", explains our chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet. A pause could give more time to free more than 200 hostages held in Gaza, help foreign nationals to get out of the enclave, and let in more desperately needed aid. Humanitarian convoys are barely trickling into Gaza from Egypt while the situation on the ground is "catastrophic", according to a Red Cross spokeswoman. | | • | The latest: Israel says it hit 320 more targets in the Gaza Strip, while Palestinian authorities say homes were hit "without warning". Follow our live coverage. | | • | Hospitals under strain: The Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in central Gaza is running out of material to cover the dead, my colleague Adnan El-Bursh reports. (Warning: distressing details) | | • | 'Worried sick': A British-Israeli woman has had no news of her brother and her 79-year-old mother since the day of the attack on their kibbutz by Hamas gunmen. |
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| AT THE SCENE | Khan Younis, Gaza | | 'My daughters don't understand that we cannot return.' | | You've surely read my colleague Rushdi Abualouf or seen him on BBC News as he reports in Gaza on a conflict he cannot escape from. He has shared with us his personal experience, after he had to relocate his family four times in the past two weeks. | | | | Rushdi Abualouf, BBC News |
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| Two days ago, my wife and children nearly died. They were about to leave for the day to meet me when an Israeli drone attack punched through the top floor of a four-storey building in Khan Younis, Gaza. My nine-year-old twin daughters ran out into the street screaming, separated from their mother, who was struck in the head by a piece of rubble.
My daughters have had to leave behind everything they love in Gaza City and head south - their school, their friends, their horse riding club, their favourite pizza shop. Both of them are constantly asking to go back there, to relative normality. They are begging to go back. They don't understand that we cannot return. |
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| | | | | | World headlines | | • | US tensions: Samantha Woll, the president of a synagogue in Detroit, was found stabbed to death on Saturday. No evidence has suggested that killing was motivated by antisemitism, police said, but it comes at a time of growing fear among Jewish and Muslim communities across the country. | | • | Chip thrills: China has launched an investigation into Taiwan-based iPhone-maker Foxconn, according to Chinese state media. Foxconn's founder Terry Gou is running as an independent candidate in Taiwan's presidential election that is due to take place in January. | | • | India-Canada row: India will resume issuing visas to Canadian citizens if it "sees progress" in the safety of its diplomats there, the country's Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said. The two countries are still clashing over accusations from PM Justin Trudeau that India could be linked to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada. | | • | In Tehran: A teenage Iranian girl who fell into a coma after an alleged altercation with morality police is now considered to be "brain dead", state media say. Many Iranians have drawn parallels with Mahsa Amini, who died in custody in September 2022. | | • | Technical drama: Lewis Hamilton was disqualified from second place in the US Grand Prix after his car was declared illegal for excessive wear on the underfloor skid blocks. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc was eliminated for the same reason. To the shock of no-one, Max Verstappen won. |
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| | | | | | Beyond the headlines | | Argentina's firebrand populist faces setback | | | | Javier Milei has vowed to scrap the central bank and replace the Argentine peso with the US dollar. Credit: Reuters | |
| | Argentina's economy minister Sergio Massa has defied expectations by winning more than 36% of the vote in Sunday's first round of the presidential election. He is on course for a run-off contest with far-right candidate Javier Milei, who was expected to be the star of the show. Many pollsters believed Mr Massa would be punished by voters for presiding over the financial crisis plaguing the country. | | | | |
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| | | | Something different | | Under the sheets | | The Welsh library you can sleep in. | | |
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| | | | And finally... | | You might be aware of the trendy world of strong peppers, from celebrity interviews on YouTube to boutique chilli oils. At the top of this world sits the aptly named Ed Currie, creator of Pepper X, which won the coveted Guinness World Record for hottest chilli last week. Eating Pepper X had Mr Currie "literally bent over groaning in pain" for three or four hours, he said, adding: "It was kind of euphoric." Take a look at the small but mighty beast. |
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