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Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent.The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”.The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers.In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published…

From Iran to Hollywood, in the domains of space travel, football and tech, 2023 was a year shaped by strong personalities. Some inspired us, most made us reflect, and others occasionally annoyed us. As the year comes to an end, FRANCE 24 has selected some of the personalities leaving a mark on 2023. Narges Mohammadi, fighting for human rights in Iran Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”. The journalist plays a key role in Iran’s “Women, Life, Freedom” movement…

Issued on: 27/12/2023 – 15:12Modified: 27/12/2023 – 16:23 01:03 Tensions continue to simmer in the West Bank © FRANCE 24 Tensions continue to simmer on Tuesday in the West Bank where Israeli forces raided a refugee camp, killing several Palestinians. Israeli forces seized rockets and other weapons during the raid and arrested Palestinians linked to militant group Hamas, FRANCE 24’s Luke Shrago said.  Read more on related topics: Source link

In political speeches, UN resolutions, social media posts or everyday speak, they were the terms in 2023 that everyone used – or should have used. Some were brand new, others old-new, but they all had a particular resonance this year.   The news year began with an old-new, as seasoned Brazilian statesman Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn into office on January 1, 2023, for his third presidential term.Older, grayer, but still fighting, Lula was back. Novelty had lost its sheen after a single Jair Bolsonaro term. The familiar brought comfort at the dawn of the new year.But by…

Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the largest in the enclave, receives data from every hospital in the strip. Hospital administrators say they keep records of every wounded person occupying a bed and every body arriving at a morgue. The ministry also collects from other sources including the Palestinian Red Crescent.The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”. The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN…

Russia launched 122 missiles and 36 drones against Ukrainian targets, officials said Friday, killing at least 30 civilians across the country in what an air force official said was the biggest aerial barrage of the 22-month war. At least 144 people were injured and an unknown number were buried under rubble during the roughly 18-hour onslaught, Ukrainian officials said. A maternity hospital, apartment blocks and schools were among the buildings reported damaged across Ukraine.In the capital, Kyiv, broken glass and mangled metal littered city streets. Air raid and emergency service sirens wailed as plumes of smoke drifted into a bright…

Issued on: 28/12/2023 – 07:12Modified: 28/12/2023 – 10:18 01:41 In the past few days, Israeli strikes have reportedly killed dozens of people in several refugee camps across central Gaza. Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Wednesday that strikes on a central refugee camp in Gaza had entered a third day, and that an additional brigade had been deployed to the southern city of Khan Younis, the recent focus of heavy urban combat. “We keep getting stuck from one place to another,” a Palestinian man in Gaza told reporters.  Read more on related topics: Source link

Iran on Friday hanged four people convicted of spying for arch foe Israel, the judiciary said, less than two weeks after authorities had executed a man on similar grounds. Issued on: 29/12/2023 – 08:50 1 min “Four members of a sabotage group related to the Zionist regime [Israel]… were hanged this morning” in Iran’s northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported.It identified them as three men – Vafa Hanareh, Aram Omari and Rahman Parhazo – and one woman, Nasim Namazi, who had all been sentenced to death on charges of “moharebeh”, or waging war against God, and…

Issued on: 28/12/2023 – 07:28Modified: 28/12/2023 – 10:25 01:30 The border between Lebanon and Israel has seen escalating exchanges of fire, mainly between the Israeli army and Hamas ally Hezbollah, since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, raising fears of a broader conflagration. “There has been a distinct upswing in violence on the border,” says FRANCE 24 journalist Luke Shrago, reporting from the ground in Tel Aviv. Read more on related topics: Source link

A celebrity-studded “Almost Naked” party in Moscow’s famed Mutabor nightclub has drawn outrage from Russia’s political establishment, which has become increasingly po-faced since the assault on Ukraine. Issued on: 29/12/2023 – 11:43Modified: 29/12/2023 – 13:57 2 min Footage showing Russian VIPs in lingerie and raunchy costumes led to the arrest of a rapper for wearing nothing but a strategically-placed sock, and calls for boycotts and investigations.The scandal shows the shrinking space for anything deviating from conservative patriotism in Russia since its deadly assault in Ukraine almost two years ago.Amid the backlash, organiser Anastasia Ivleeva published a tearful apology video. “I would…