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Israeli troops carried out building-by-building searches at Gaza's main hospital on Friday, after a communications blackout in the Palestinian territory compounded fears for civilians trapped inside the facility. Al-Shifa hospital has become a focal point for Israeli operations in northern Gaza since soldiers raided the complex on Wednesday, hunting for a command centre they say militant group Hamas operates at the site. Hamas and hospital managers deny that charge, and there has been international concern about thousands of people -- including wounded patients and premature babies -- believed to be inside. As Israeli forces search Gaza hospital, FRANCE 24's Will Hilderbrandt is joined by Dr Rob Geist Pinfold, Lecturer in Peace and Security in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.
Paris's iconic Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe were lit up in pink hues on Sunday night to mark the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. With 60,000 new cases each year in France, breast cancer remains the most common cancer that women develop. If detected at an early stage, however, some 9 in 10 women recover fully within five years. Epigenetics could also usher in a new therapeutic era, as our Science Editor Julia Sieger explains.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday began hearing a case brought by six Portuguese youths against 32 nations for not doing enough to stop global warming, the latest bid to secure climate justice through the courts. More than 80 representatives and other lawyers for the states were present for the hearing's opening, though Russia was not represented and the plaintiffs have withdrawn their complaints against Ukraine. As activists increasingly turn to courts to force greater efforts by governments to tackle climate change, FRANCE 24's Nadia Massih is joined by Ruth Delbaere, Senior Legal Campaigner for Avaaz.
A global aid effort for Libya is gathering pace after a tsunami-sized flash flood killed thousands with thousands more missing -- a death toll the UN blamed in part on the legacy of years of war and chaos. The enormous surge of storm water burst two upstream dams late Sunday and reduced the city of Derna to an apocalyptic wasteland where entire city blocks and untold numbers of people were washed into the Mediterranean. For more on all of the humanitarian aid and rescue efforts underway, FRANCE 24's Erin Ogunkeye is joined by UNICEF's Representative for the Libya Country Office Michele Servadei.
A global aid effort for Libya is gathering pace after a tsunami-sized flash flood killed thousands with thousands more missing -- a death toll the UN blamed in part on the legacy of years of war and chaos. The enormous surge of storm water burst two upstream dams late Sunday and reduced the city of Derna to an apocalyptic wasteland where entire city blocks and untold numbers of people were washed into the Mediterranean. For more on all of the humanitarian aid and rescue efforts underway, FRANCE 24's Erin Ogunkeye is joined by UNICEF's Representative for the Libya Country Office Michele Servadei.
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