A patient surrounded by family members sits on a bed in a corridor lit by sunlight seeping through a window after a power cut at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, which has run out of fuel to power generators to keep the lights on in the packed medical facility on May 23, 2024 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
A man carries an injured child as wounded Palestinians are brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital following an Israeli attacks on Bureij refugee camp, in Deir el-Balah, Gaza on Tuesday [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]
A Palestinian girl carries bottles to collect water as she walks by houses which were destroyed in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
In the last 24 hours, there has been a clear increase in all military attacks across Gaza, starting with the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City. A four-storey building was completely destroyed, killing at least 16 Palestinians, including 10 children. An evacuation centre was also targeted.
Palestinian children inspect the damage around charred fishing boats hit by an Israeli airsrike on the Mediterranean coast of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2024 [Eyad Baba/AFP]
Officials in Japan are scrambling to pass initiatives to encourage more people to have kids. They range from the thoughtful – such as sponsoring free lunches – to the ridiculous – such as when the government floated spending taxpayer money on AI-driven matchmaking apps.
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As Japan continues to face rapid population decline and aging, its government considers a new tactic to grow families: make childbirth free. Learn more about the proposal - and why it's likely not enough - in our latest.
“We are running out of words to describe what is happening in Gaza. We have described it as a catastrophe, a nightmare, as hell on earth. It is all of these, and worse.”