| | | | | | | Hello. As we mark two months since the 7 October attacks, Anna Foster has met survivors from the Nova Festival and therapists dealing with their guilt and grief. In Gaza, our colleague Adnan El-Bursh says he feels "completely lost" as he reports on the heavy fighting in the South, away from his family. I also have updates on the last US Republican presidential debate and a medical advance that could help us understand ageing better. |
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| | | | Top of the agenda | | Healing the festival survivors, two months on |  | | Lior Gelbaum, 24, says she still struggles to listen to music after surviving Hamas's attack on the Nova festival. Credit: BBC |
| | It’s two months to the day that Hamas gunmen broke through the fence between Gaza and Israel, unleashing a deadly attack on the bordering kibbutzim and the Nova Festival. Some 1,200 died that day. Hundreds of traumatised survivors were left “broken” and hollow-eyed, therapists tell our correspondent Anna Foster. Her powerful report finds festival survivors seeking help to deal with their guilt and grief. Meanwhile, in Gaza, Palestinians have endured weeks of war, as Israel pursues those behind the 7 October attacks. People are "traumatised and exhausted", our reporter Adnan El-Bursh writes from Khan Younis. He describes the relentless stream of ambulances carrying victims of airstrikes to the city's Nasser hospital. Adnan also describes a personal dilemma, over whether to keep working away from his family, or return to them in central Gaza. This way, “if it comes to the worst, then at least we die together”. | | • | UN reaction: UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the attention of the Security Council to "help avert a humanitarian catastrophe and appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire". Nada Tawfik explains why this is a rare and dramatic move. | | • | 'In immediate danger': Families of people being held captive in Gaza say they have "solid intelligence" that the health of several hostages has deteriorated. | | • | The latest: Israeli tanks are surrounding the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. No aid has reached the north of the Strip since the end of the truce. Our live page has all the updates. |
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| | | | | | | AT THE SCENE |  Mexico | | An agonising search for missing students | | On 26 September 2014, a busload of students heading to a protest in Mexico City met a roadblock. Shots were fired, police surrounded them and, in the chaos, 43 of them disappeared. Their families are still searching for answers in a world of corruption, cartels and conspiracies. |  | | Oliver Englehart, Mark Casebow & Laura Gaynor, BBC News |
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| | It's not like when a person dies and you say, well, at least I know where they are," says Luz María Telumbre about her only son, Christian. She and her husband Clemente were given a two-gram fragment of bone from his right foot in 2020, six years after he disappeared. It was seemingly all that remained of him, but Christian's family have not given up hope that they will one day be reunited. "While I don't have a whole body, my struggle continues," Clemente tells the BBC. |
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| | | | Beyond the headlines | | 'Next month's problem' |  | | Molly Plumb ended up with a bad credit score rating because of an unpaid Klarna bill. Credit: Molly Plumb. |
| | Paydays don't always align with the necessities of Christmas shopping. That's why many consumers spread the payments using "buy now, pay later" schemes, such as Klarna and Clearpay. But some say they are caught in a "vicious cycle" of spending that affects their credit score. Lenders say they have steps in place to help people avoid overspending. | | | | |
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| | | | Something different | | Tinder for Tudors | | The masterpieces that helped Henry VIII pick his wives. | | |
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| | | | And finally... | | A woman who hurled a burrito bowl at a restaurant worker was offered an unusual way to cut her jail time after being convicted of assault. Rosemary Hayne, 39, of Ohio, was ordered to spend two months working in a fast-food job, in exchange for a 60-day reduction to her prison term. And the judge offered some wry thoughts about her attitude to food. |
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