The US ambassador to Israel said it was ‘revolting’ that France intends to recognize Palestine as a state.

He is survived by his wife, also a doctor, and their only remaining child, who was seriously hurt.

The victims ranged in age from 67 to 88.

‘Those names are not just statistics.’

Yaqueen was murdered alongside dozens of other children at an ‘indescribably painful’ scene.

A Palestinian doctor learnt about the killing of nine of her 10 children in an Israeli bombardment when their charred remains were brought to the hospital where she works.

Dr Alaa Al-Najjar, a paediatrician at Al-Tahrir Clinic in the Nasser Medical Complex, was at work during the attack on her home, south of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, on Friday.

The children – the eldest aged 12 and the youngest just six months – were severely burned in the bombing.

Footage circulated by the Palestinian Civil Defence shows the bodies of at least seven small children being pulled from rubble.

Eyewitnesses reported that Dr Al-Najjar collapsed when she identified their remains.

The children were identified as Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eve, Revan, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra.

Her husband, Dr Hamdi Al-Najjar, was critically injured and brought to the Nasser Medical Complex, and so was her last surviving son, aged just 11.,

British surgeon operated on surviving sibling

British surgeons Graeme Groom and Victoria Rose, who travelled to Gaza were the ones who operated on the boy.

Dr Groom said in a video on Instagram: ‘Nine of his brothers and sisters were killed. And his father was badly injured.’

He described it as an ‘unimaginable’ situation for Dr Al-Najjar.

After some speculation that Israel may have been targeting the father, Dr Groom stressed that he had been told he had ‘no political and no military connections and doesn’t seem to be prominent on social media’.

‘Yet, his poor wife is the only uninjured one, who has the prospect of losing her husband, and has already lost nine of her children,’ he added.

‘They are absolutely charcoal’

Dr Rose, who was sent a video of rescue services going inside the bombed house, said the family lived opposite a petrol station.

‘So, I don’t know if the bomb set off some massive fire,’ she explained.

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‘The video shows all of the children being pulled out of the fire and they are absolutely charcoal… horrific.

The hospital initially posted on Facebook that eight children had died, but then two hours later updated that number to nine.

Dr Munir Al-Bursh, director general of the Palestinian ministry of health, said in a post on X, commenting on the bombing: ‘This is the reality our medical staff in Gaza endure.

‘Words fall short in describing the pain. In Gaza, it is not only healthcare workers who are targeted -Israel’s aggression goes further, wiping out entire families.’

Israel resumed operations in Gaza on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire.

Gaza’s health ministry said Saturday that at least 3,747 people had been killed in the territory since then, taking the war’s overall toll to 53,901, mostly civilians.

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I will never forget what I witnessed.

I will never forget what I witnessed.

Police said Rodriguez wasn’t on their radar.

‘What is on my mind all the time is how to bring more people to settle the Palestinian land.’

This is what Daniella Weiss, often referred to as the ‘godmother’ of Israel’s settler movement, proudly told Louis Theroux during his BBC documentary ‘The Settlers’.

The 79-year-old is among several people sanctioned by the UK today over inciting or carrying out violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Foreign secretary David Lammy said about the measures: ‘The sanctioning of Daniella Weiss and others demonstrates our determination to hold extremist settlers to account as Palestinian communities suffer violence and intimidation at the hands of extremist settlers.

‘The Israeli government has a responsibility to intervene and halt these aggressive actions.

‘Their consistent failure to act is putting Palestinian communities and the two-state solution in peril.’

Who is Daniella Weiss?

Weiss is the founder and leader of Nachala, a radical settler organisation, and a former mayor of Kedumim, an Israeli settlement located in the West Bank. 

For more than 50 years, she has been prominent in the creation of illegal settlements on territory captured by Israel in the Middle East war in 1967.

Nachala’s ambition is for Israel to annex both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Weiss also believes that Lebanon, Jordan and parts of Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq are all part of Greater Israel.

The UK government described Weiss as a ‘high-profile extremist settler’ and said she is now subject to an asset freeze, travel ban, and director disqualification.

It added: ‘Weiss has been involved in threatening, perpetrating, promoting and supporting, acts of aggression and violence against Palestinian individuals.’

Nachala, which has been involved in ‘facilitating, inciting, promoting and providing logistical and financial support for the establishment of illegal outposts and forced displacement of Palestinians’ is now subject to an asset freeze.

What did Louis Theroux said about Weiss?

In Theroux’s ‘Settlers’, Weiss is shown promoting the expansion of Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.

She described settlements as a fulfilment of a divine mission and made no apology for the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.

The activist told the British filmmaker that peace would only come through ‘Jewish control’ of the land.

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When Weiss said that she ‘does not think’ about Palestinian villages in the West Bank such as Beita, Theroux called her stance ‘sociopathic’.

Who else has been sanctioned by the UK?

Weiss’ inclusion on the sanctions list marks a rare move against a leading ideological figure in Israel’s settlement project.

Eliav Libi and Zohar Sabah, as well as two illegal settler outposts and two organisations ‘supporting violence against Palestinian communities in the West Bank’ have also been targeted.

‘These individuals and entities are now subject to measures including financial restrictions, travel bans, and director disqualifications, and will follow 18 other individuals, entities, and companies already sanctioned relating to serious violence against communities in the West Bank,’ the press release read.

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Hundreds of demonstrators faced off with police.

Hundreds of demonstrators faced off with police.

Ten weeks into a ‘fabricated, man-made and politically motivated famine’, Palestinians in Gaza are starving.

With United Nations food distribution centres shut down, bakeries bombed and humanitarian access throttled by Israel, people are resorting to eating animal feed, scraps and even turtles captured in the Mediterranean Sea to delay their death.

Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of UNRWA, the UN agency, which supports Palestinian refugees, told Metro that hunger is being used as a weapon of war in the Palestinian territory.

Perched under a tree in an outdoor café in central London, he is struggling to find words to describe the ongoing bombardments, only worsened by the blockade of food and medicine.

Lazzarini said: ‘Children are malnourished. Hunger is deepening, people are exhausted and living in fear.

‘This is not any type of famine – it is fabricated, man-made and politically motivated. Food and hunger are being weaponised in Gaza.

‘We are used to different types of malnutrition, created by climate change, by draught, by conflict.

‘In the context of Gaza, it is none of that, it is man-made from the start to what we see today.

‘Each additional day of siege is another day of suffering. There is no doubt this is a disgrace for our collective moral compass.’

UNRWA’s commissioner-general is not citing random, speculative figures – his warnings are backed by a new report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).

It is a venture by UN agencies, aid groups and governments that measures whether a famine is happening.

The group said ‘there is a high risk’ of outright famine if Israel does not lift its blockade.

The IPC says that 470,000 Gazans, about 22% of the population, are in a classification it calls ‘Phase Five’, meaning they are facing catastrophic hunger.

It is defined as ‘at least one in five households experience an extreme lack of food and face starvation resulting in destitution, extremely critical levels of acute malnutrition and death.’

The report also projects an alarming 71,000 children and more than 17,000 mothers will need urgent treatment for acute malnutrition.

Border crossings into Gaza have been closed for more than two months – the longest the population has ever faced – causing food prices in markets to spike to astronomical levels, putting what little food is available out of reach for most families. 

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At the same time, more than 116,000 metric tons of food – enough to feed one million people for up to four months – is positioned in aid corridors, ready to be brought in.

Hundreds of pallets of lifesaving nutrition treatments are prepositioned for entry as well.

Chris Newton, an analyst for the International Crisis Group, stressed that the lack of a famine declaration does not mean that people are not already starving, adding that a declaration should not be a precondition for ending the suffering.

He added: ‘The Israeli government is starving Gaza as part of its attempt to destroy Hamas and transform the strip.’

Lazzarini also agreed that there is ‘deliberate pressure’ to get rid of Gazans and to make the territory unlivable.

He told Metro: ‘There is deliberate pressure to make Gaza no longer livable for Palestinians. There is a political objective behind it and one of them is the displacement of the population.

‘They want the population to capitulate and ask to get out of Gaza.’

The Israeli military argued that enough aid has entered Gaza during a two-month ceasefire that Israel shattered in mid-March when it relaunched its military campaign.

Israel says the blockade aims to pressure Hamas to release the hostages it still holds.

An Israeli-American hostage was finally freed after 19 months of captivity in Gaza during a brief pause in fighting on Monday.

The release of Edan Alexander has given hope of a renewed ceasefire and the end of the blockade.

Hamas said it freed the 21-year-old as a goodwill gesture to Donald Trump, who is visiting the Middle East this week.

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My mouth opened but no words came.

Tensions boiled over as counter-protesters also gathered.

The band has faced huge backlash.

Members of Youth Demand tried to ‘shut down’ the capital to call for an end to arms sales to Israel.