Gaza Death Toll Nears 45,000

Gaza Death Toll Nears 45,000

A wounded child sist on a hospital bed after the bombing of Al-Karama School, northern Gaza Strip, December 18, 2024. Targeting schools like Shaaban Al-Rayes and Al-Karama, shelters for displaced families, worsens the humanitarian crisis in the region. The overall death toll since last year rose to 45,338, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Tuesday. A ministry statement added that some 107,764 others were injured in the ongoing assault. Israel has continued a the bloodbath on the Gaza Strip since a Hamas attack on October 7 last year despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire. Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FAMILY-TIBETAN NEW YEAR (CN)

(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FAMILY-TIBETAN NEW YEAR (CN)

(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sichod Wangmo (R) eats chema, roasted barley and fried wheat grain in a two-tier rectangular wooden box, at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sist