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Israel says it has used more than 10,000 bombs and missiles, and launched hundreds of airstrikes across Gaza, since the 7 October Hamas attack triggered the war.Gazan officials say more than 50% of housing units in Gaza have been destroyed, left uninhabitable or damaged since the start of the conflict.Almost two million people in the enclave – 85% of the population – are reported to have fled their homes.Drone shots captured in Khan Younis, Maghazi and Rafah show the scale of the damage, 100 since the war started.Video edited by Gem O’Reilly Source link

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Prof Norton also questions the need for deep-sea mining in the first place. “It produces a lot of manganese, which we’re not short of. It produces, in some cases, cobalt and nickel, which are actually used in some of the clean energies, for instance, batteries, but they’re not rated by the European Commission as being particularly at supply risk.” Source link

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The Post Office had prosecution powers and, between 1999 and 2015, it prosecuted 700 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses – an average of one a week – based on information from a computer accounting system called Horizon. Another 283 cases were brought by other bodies including the Crown Prosecution Service. Source link

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Since then Israel has killed nearly 24,000 people, mostly children and women, in its retaliatory attacks on Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The UN and humanitarian organisations have warned of the risk of famine in Gaza as well as the spread of disease among displaced people and have urged that more aid be allowed into the territory. Source link

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