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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…

Forcing a showdown with Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will try Wednesday to salvage the wartime funding from a collapsed deal that had included border enforcement, pushing ahead on a crucial test vote for tens of billions of dollars for Kyiv, Israel and other U.S. allies. Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 19:46 3 min With the border deal off, the New York Democrat planned to force Republicans to take two tough procedural votes. First, on the long-negotiated $118 billion package with border enforcement measures that collapsed this week after Republicans rejected it; then, for a modified package with the border…

Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 15:53 Authorities in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have both declared public health emergencies over an outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever. The move comes just days before Carnival celebrations kick off across the country. Dengue is considered a re-emerging disease as the number of reported cases worldwide has risen from 500,000 to 5.2 million between 2000 and 2019. FRANCE 24’s Julia Sieger tells us more. Source link

Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 07:42Modified: 07/02/2024 – 10:44 01:35 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived overnight in Israel after meeting the leaders of mediators Qatar and Egypt in the most serious diplomatic push of the war so far aimed at reaching an extended truce. Read more on related topics: Source link

Salah Abdeslam, sentenced to life in jail over the 2015 Paris jihadist attacks, was removed from his Belgian prison cell on Wednesday and transferred back to France. Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 15:52 2 min Abdeslam is the only surviving member of the Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in the French capital in November 2015, the worst terror attack in the country’s history.Found guilty in Belgium last year of planning subsequent 2016 attacks in Brussels, his transfer back to continue serving out his French prison sentence had been blocked by an appeals court on human rights grounds.The Belgian…

Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 15:22 Since premiering in Venice in September, Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s refugee drama “Green Border” has been showered with prizes and praise. But it sparked outrage from Poland’s now former right-wing government, with politicians calling it “Nazi propaganda”. FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson explains the backlash to what she calls an “excellent” film. We also look at French thriller “Roll of the Dice” from Yvan Attal, about two couples whose friendship is tested by lies, guilt and suspicion.Lisa also takes us to the Clos Lucé, the French chateau where Leonardo da Vinci spent the last three years of…

Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 08:24Modified: 07/02/2024 – 10:48 01:20 On the eve of the tribute in Paris paid to the victims of the attack by Hamas against Israel on October 7, families of French-Israeli hostages asked for help. “We don’t need people to have hope for us. I have hope. We need help to free citizens from the captivity of Hamas”, says Ayala Yahalomi Luzon, who has had no news of her brother Ohad, aged 49, for “123 days”. Read more on related topics: Source link

The vote to delay Senegal’s presidential election until December “cannot be considered legitimate”, the US state department said, after the move plunged the normally stable West African nation into its worst crisis in decades. Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 14:42 3 min The reaction is the most critical to date from one of Senegal’s major international allies, after the delay to the February 25 poll sparked growing concern both at home and abroad. Lawmakers voted almost unanimously in favour of the postponement on Monday night, but only after security forces stormed the chamber and removed some opposition deputies, who were unable to…

Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 12:49 For this final edition of Middle East Matters, we bring you a series of reports from our correspondents in the region. We begin in Israel, where as the war in Gaza drags on, divisions in Israeli society are growing more stark. Immediately after the attacks of October 7, the vast majority of people supported the government’s decision to pursue Hamas aggressively. But a growing, vocal minority argues the government’s strategy is not working – particularly when it comes to rescuing the Israeli hostages. Our correspondent Claire Duhamel reports. Over in south Lebanon, there have been near-daily exchanges of…

Back to homepage / Shows / Perspective Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 12:05 07:30 PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 Exactly four months after the Hamas attacks on southern Israel, more than 100 Israelis remain in captivity, with very little known about their fate. The families of those held captive are continuing to urge their government, and the international community, not to give up on their loved ones. We spoke to Eyal Kalderon, whose cousin Ofer was kidnapped by Hamas from the Nir Oz kibbutz on October 7, and remains a hostage in Gaza. Ofer’s two children were kidnapped with him. Both Erez, who…