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Sharon Avigdori hugs her son and relatives after the Israeli mother and her 12-year-old daughter Noam were released on Saturday from Hamas captivity in Gaza upon their arrival at Israel's Sheba Hospital. IMAGES
Beit Aomr, Jul 28 (EFE/EPA).- Palestinians mourned Wednesday the death of 12-years old Moayad Al Alami, who was reportedly shot dead by Israeli soldiers at an Israeli army checkpoint, while passing in a car with his father. The funeral was held in the West Bank town of Beit Aomr near Hebron. (Camera: ABED AL HASHLAMOUN).B-ROLL OF THE FUNERAL OF 12-YEARS OLD MOAYAD AL ALAMI IN THE WEST BANK TOWN OF BEIT AOMR.
The United States calls the death of six-year-old Gaza girl Hind Rajab, who days earlier had pleaded for help, "heartbreaking" and urges a prompt Israeli investigation. "It is just a devastating account, a heartbreaking account, for this child, and of course there have been thousands of other children who have died as a result of this conflict," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters, adding, "We have asked the Israeli authorities to investigate this incident on an urgent basis." SOUNDBITE
The nationalist pro-Irish Irish party Sinn Fein says the installing of a nationalist first minister in North Ireland, after the main pro-UK party agreed to endorse a deal with London, will be "a moment of very great significance". Speaking in Belfast, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says it will mark "the extent of change that has occurred here in the north and indeed right across Ireland". The The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP agreement with London -- approved on January 30 in an internal vote at a closed-door meeting in Lisburn, near Belfast -- formed a basis to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, that has been paralysed for nearly two years. SOUNDBITE
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves Paris courtroom at the end of his appeal trial in the Bygmalion case. The public prosecutor has requested a one-year suspended prison sentence against the conservative politician, who was sentenced at first instance to one year in prison. The ruling has been set for 14 February. IMAGES
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives Elon Musk, owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, a tour of kibbutz Kfar Aza that was targeted in the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. In September, Netanyahu urged Musk to combat anti-Semitism on X, calling on him to find "the ability to stop not only anti-Semitism, or rolling it back as best you can, but any collective hatred". IMAGES