Israel killed 40,000 people in Gaza. What does that look like?
If 40,000 people joined hands, standing apart, to form a human chain, they could surround the entire island of Manhattan.
At least 53 children have been killed every day since October 7, and 72 men and women are killed in Israeli strikes, every single day.
At least 10,000 are missing under the rubble, most of them presumed dead.
Visualising 40,000 people
Madison Square Garden in New York City is a landmark indoor arena. Its total capacity is 19,500 people.
Gaza polio vaccine rollout hindered by Israeli evacuation orders, says UN
Aid workers preparing to distribute medicine to children in effort to contain outbreak call for pause in fighting
Tue 27 Aug 2024 14.32 BST
The UN has said its ability to function in Gaza is being crippled by a flurry of Israeli evacuation orders, herding Palestinians into ever smaller and more remote areas, days before a critical effort to contain a polio outbreak.
Aid workers warn that without a humanitarian pause, a vaccination drive due to begin this weekend could fail to reach enough children to stop the spread of the virus, which was detected there this month for the first time in 25 years. A baby has already been partly paralysed by the disease, and health experts have warned it could spread rapidly given the terrible sanitation and overcrowding in camps for Gaza’s exhausted, displaced population.
Kolkata protesters clash with police at rally against rape
Indian police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters who gathered in Kolkata to demand justice for a female medic who was raped and killed earlier this month.
Thousands of protesters in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata were dispersed with tear gas and water cannon on Tuesday, as they marched over the rape and killing of a female doctorearlier this month.
Protesters are demanding the resignation of Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal state, for what they describe as the mishandling of the investigation into the case.
They have also accused Banerjee's government of creating an unsafe environment for women that allowed for the doctor's murder to occur.
Russia warns France against trying to 'intimidate' detained Telegram founder Pavel Durov
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has suggested the French government is trying to intimidate Russian-born Pavel Durov, the CEO of messaging app Telegram, who was arrested outside of Paris on Saturday for 12 alleged crimes related to drug trafficking, the sale of child sexual abuse material and fraud on the messaging platform. Durov will be held in police custody in Paris for a further 48 hours, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The Kremlin said Tuesday that France had levelled "very serious" charges against Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and warned Paris against trying to intimidate him, after the tech tycoon was arrested at a Paris airport last week.
French prosecutors accuse the 39-year-old billionaire of failing to curb the spread of illegal content on Telegram – charges his company denies.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday denied any political link to the arrest.
Chinese violation of airspace in Kyushu shocks, confuses Japan
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 27, 2024 at 16:26 JST
Stunned Defense Ministry officials were scrambling to determine whether a Chinese military plane intentionally or mistakenly violated Japanese airspace off the Danjo Islands in Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture.
The incident on the morning of Aug. 26 was the first confirmed intrusion into Japanese airspace by a Chinese military aircraft.
“There is no doubt that a military aircraft violating territorial airspace sends a very strong message,” a senior official of the Self-Defense Forces said.
Ukraine says it controls 100 Russian settlements after three-week incursion
Summary
Ukraine says it now controls 100 Russian settlements and 1,294 square kilometres of Russian territory (500 square miles)
The incursion into the Kursk region began three weeks ago - last week, President Zelensky said Ukraine controlled more than 1,250 sq km of Russian territory
Ukraine's commander in chief Oleksandr Syrskyi also says Ukraine has captured 594 Russian soldiers
Elderly woman's killer released for second time to fight in Ukraine
A Russian murderer who was released from prison to fight in the war in Ukraine, only to then kill an elderly woman, has been released a second time to return to the front, according to the woman's relatives.
"Grandma’s killer has escaped punishment for his crime - again - and has gone to fight in the war," Anna Pekareva, the granddaughter of Yulia Byuskikh, tells the BBC.
In 2022, Ivan Rossomakhin was released from prison, where he was serving a 14-year prison sentence for murder, to join the Wagner mercenary group.
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