Fergal Keane Special correspondent Watch: BBC joins Gazans airlifted abroad for treatment after 19 months of war We were flying through the warm light of the setting sun. There were villages and small towns where the lights were coming on. It was a peaceful landscape where people walked and drove without constantly looking to the...
Fergal Keane Special correspondent BBC cameraman captures Israeli strike on Gaza hospital The war’s horrors multiply. The dead, the pieces of the dead. The dying. The starving. More and more of them now – all the weight of human suffering witnessed by my brave colleagues in Gaza. The urge to avert our gaze can be...
The BBC’s Fergal Keane reports on the rise of malnutrition in Gaza’s children. Read full article at source...
This spring, with hands overflowing with tenderness, Lolo Mando Al-Qishawi — a Palestinian mother living on Yaffa Street in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in the eastern part of Gaza City — lovingly adorned her daughter in her Eid dress, her eyes reflecting the girl’s pure, uncontainable joy. But soon, those same hands, trembling with heartbreak, had...
Tiffany Wertheimer BBC News Caritas Jerusalem The vehicle is being refitted and will be ready for when the humanitarian corridor is reopened into Gaza, Caritas Jerusalem said One of Francis’s popemobiles, which the late pontiff used to greet thousands of people, will be turned into a mobile health clinic to help the children of Gaza....
Jason Arunn Murugesu BBC News, North East and Cumbria Family photo A body believed to be that of Layton Carr, 14, was found in a fire-hit industrial unit Fourteen children arrested over the death of a teenage boy following a fire at an industrial unit have been released on bail. The blaze broke out at...
Fourteen children have been arrested over the death of a 14-year-old boy in a fire at an industrial unit. The blaze broke out at Fairfield industrial park in the Bill Quay area of Gateshead on Friday evening. It was extinguished, but a body believed to be that of Layton Carr, who had been reported missing,...
India’s human rights body is investigating reports that more than 100 children fell ill from eating a school lunch after a dead snake was found in the food. The cook reportedly still served the lunch despite removing the dead animal from it, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said in a statement. The commission said...
Reuters The Princess of Wales met a young girl during a walk in Ardura Community Forest in Mull The Prince and Princess of Wales are spending their second and final day on the Isle of Mull with children taking part in an outdoor learning session with forest rangers. William and Catherine celebrated their 14th wedding...
Polling station staff can help you, or you can bring someone with you. In England, anyone over the age of 18 can help you cast your vote. They do not need to be eligible to vote in the election. Polling stations should have large-print sample ballot papers and tactile voting devices to help people with...
The Trump administration has deported three U.S. citizen children to Honduras: a 4-year-old who was actively receiving treatment for a rare form of stage 4 cancer, his 7-year-old sister, and a 2-year-old girl who was separated from her father and expelled with her undocumented pregnant mother. The mothers were coerced into taking their U.S. citizen...
Three young children who are US citizens – including one with cancer – were deported to Honduras alongside their mothers last week, according to advocacy groups and the families’ lawyers. One of the children is a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was sent without medication, a lawyer for the child’s family said. Donald Trump’s...
The children’s commissioner for England is calling on the government to ban apps which use artificial intelligence (AI) to create sexually explicit images of children. Dame Rachel de Souza said a total ban was needed on apps which allow “nudification” – where photos of real people are edited by AI to make them appear naked...
Federal immigration authorities deported three U.S. citizen children on Friday — including one with cancer who was reportedly expelled without medication — in a move that critics and one judge appointed by President Donald Trump said was carried out without due process. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) New Orleans field office deported the American...
Jon Kay BBC Breakfast presenter André Rhoden-Paul BBC News ‘You don’t know what your children are looking at’ warn parents of teen Jools Sweeney A group of British parents who believe social media played a part in the death of their children have travelled to the US to demand better online safety protections for children....