Israel’s military says the bodies of two hostages returned by Hamas on Tuesday have been identified as Arie Zalmanowicz and Master Sgt (res) Tamir Adar. Zalmanowicz , 85, was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and killed in captivity on 17 November 2023, … Read more
Sean Seddon, Wahiba Ahmed and Anna Foster Gaza health crisis will last ‘for generations’, says WHO chief Gaza is experiencing a health “catastrophe” that will last for “generations to come”, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that a massive increase in … Read more
BBC The Israeli military says 20 living hostages and the bodies of 15 deceased hostages have been handed over by Hamas and have returned to Israel under the Gaza ceasefire deal. Until 13 October, 48 hostages were still being held in Gaza, 28 of whom were dead. All but one of the hostages were among … Read more
Reuters The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said Israel has a legal obligation to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip by the UN and its entities to ensure the basic needs of Palestinian civilians there are met. An advisory opinion from the UN’s top court also said Israel had not … Read more
Benedict Garman, Emma Pengelly and Matt Murphy,BBC Verify BBC The Israeli military is exerting control over more of Gaza than expected from the ceasefire deal with Hamas, a BBC Verify analysis has found. Under the first stage of the deal, Israel agreed to retreat to a boundary running along the north, south and east of … Read more
Yolande Knell,Middle East Correspondent, Jerusalem and David Gritten Rubio: An Israeli annexation of West Bank would threaten peace deal US Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have criticised a move by Israel’s parliament towards annexation of the occupied West Bank. On Wednesday, far-right politicians in the Knesset took the symbolic step of … Read more
Researchers at University College Cork, led by Professor Yvonne Nolan, have uncovered the specific metabolic processes that explain how exercise helps offset the harmful behavioral effects of eating a Western-style cafeteria diet. Published on October 21 in the peer-reviewed journal Brain Medicine, the study shows that voluntary running can reduce depression-like behaviors triggered by diets … Read more
(MedPage Today) — A public health group and a top-tier journal will partner to publish an alternative to the CDC’s flagship weekly publication that has been diminished under the Trump administration. The Center for Infectious Disease Research…
A new review suggests that vitamin D supplements may help protect the ends of our chromosomes, known as telomeres, which play a vital role in slowing the aging process. This finding has raised hopes that the “sunshine vitamin” could support longer-lasting health. Researchers found that taking 2,000 IU (international units, a standard measure for vitamins) … Read more
(MedPage Today) — BERLIN — A single infusion of the investigational PRAME-directed T-cell receptor T-cell therapy anzutresgene autoleucel (anzu-cel) showed encouraging antitumor activity in patients with previously treated advanced or metastatic…