| | | | | | | Hello. Today, we have a fascinating piece from my colleague Alice Cuddy in Jerusalem. She's been reporting on the evacuation of the al-Zahra neighbourhood in Gaza, and the dentist mysteriously tasked with organizing it by someone calling him from a private number. I also have updates on Tuesday's US elections, WeWork's fall from grace and French romance letters. Thanks for reading. |
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| | | | Top of the agenda | | 'We have the order to bomb. You have two hours' | | | | Mahmoud Shaheen led a mass evacuation of his neighbours - and then watched his neighbourhood explode. Credit: BBC/Getty Images |
| | Mahmoud Shaheen is a Gazan dentist who lived in al-Zahra, a quiet area largely untouched by Israeli air strikes until the morning of 19 October. Then, he received a phone call that would turn into the most terrifying conversation of his life. "I'm speaking with you from Israeli intelligence," a man said, according to Mahmoud. The caller told him to evacuate his neighbourhood. Mahmoud rushed around, screaming at people to flee, and hundreds poured into the streets. Three tower blocks were later destroyed in strikes. And that wasn’t the end of the ordeal, as he has told my colleague Alice Cuddy. Her report offers unprecedented insight into how Israel's military warns Palestinian civilians about its operations. The Israel Defense Forces says it strikes military targets and these actions are subject to the "relevant provisions of international law". Thanks to Mahmoud's efforts, it is believed none of his neighbours died that day. Take a moment to read his harrowing story. | | • | The latest: G7 leaders press for pauses in the fighting in Gaza, but do not demand a ceasefire. Israel says its troops are "in the heart of Gaza City". Follow our live coverage. | | • | A new wave of refugees: Hundreds of civilians left Gaza City on foot on Tuesday as the fighting was intensifying. Watch the video. | | • | In Israel: Archaeologists have been enlisted to help the military identify the remains of some of the 1,400 people killed in Hamas's attack a month ago. The remains of at least 10 missing people have so far been found. Read about their efforts. |
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| | | | | | World headlines | | • | US elections: People in Ohio have voted to enshrine abortion rights in the state's constitution. Sam Cabral, in Washington, has the key takeaways from a night when various states voted to select governors or who controlled their legislature. | | • | 'Gobsmacking': That was scientists' reaction to the latest record-breaking global temperature data. Matt McGrath and Mark Poynting explain why 2023 is "virtually certain" to be the warmest year on record. For essential climate news and hopeful developments, sign up to our Future Earth newsletter. | | • | Not laughing: Possession of nitrous oxide, also known as NOS or laughing gas, for its "psychoactive effects" has become a criminal offence in the UK. The government says the move will reduce damage to users' health, although its advisers had stopped short of recommending a ban. | | • | Man bites crocodile: What would you do if a crocodile sank its teeth into you? Australian farmer Colin Deveraux ended up biting back - and lived to tell the tale. Here's his story. | | • | Harper's Bazaar: Wednesday star Jenna Ortega and Grammy-nominated singer Janelle Monae were among the winners at the luxury fashion magazine's Women of the Year Awards. See pictures from the event for a taste of the glamour. |
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| | AT THE SCENE | Berlin, Germany | | Holocaust survivor retraces escape 85 years on | | George Shefi was about seven years old in 1939, when his mother Marie sent the Jewish boy on his own to be fostered in the UK. He would not see her again, and she was killed at Auschwitz a few years later. Now 92, the Holocaust survivor returns to Berlin, to tell schoolchildren his story. | | | | Damien McGuinness, BBC News |
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| | At the site of George's former school in Berlin, a wall of memorial stones in the playground commemorates local Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust, including Marie. George has come back here to talk to a class of 11-year-old German schoolchildren about his life. "For a mother it must be really, really difficult. You put your child on the train, and you never see them again," says one student, Tuana. The children give George a present: a small box containing a fragment of tile, a remnant of his school building that was burnt down in the pogrom. |
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| | | | Beyond the headlines | | How WeWork’s founder flew too close to the sun | | | | Adam Neumann in 2017. Credit: Reuters |
| | Free beer and P Diddy-hosted office parties were just two small signs of the business hubris behind Adam Neumann's success The office-sharing firm he founded, WeWork, filed for bankruptcy on Monday but the tall, handsome, barefoot, tequila-shooting founder is still raking up investments, explains Simon Jack. | | | | |
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| | | | Something different | | The truth on passive income | | BBC Worklife on whether side hustles really bring in the big bucks influencers promise. | | |
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| | | | And finally... | | "Good night, my dear friend. It is midnight. I think it is time for me to rest." These are the final words of a letter from a French woman to her husband, around 1757. But he never read it: it was confiscated by the British Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War. In fact, it was only opened for the first time by Prof Renaud Morieux, a Cambridge researcher who discovered the missive and many others in a box of archives. Read the stories he has unearthed. |
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