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NPR News: 11-07-2023 2AM EST
More Than 100 Romanian Citizens, Family Members Due To Be Evacuated From Gaza Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Israel will have “overall security responsibility” for Gaza once the fighting ends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with US broadcaster ABC News.
The Israeli PM also resisted calls for a ceasefire but said humanitarian pauses might be possible to let aid into the enclave and Israeli hostages out.
Overnight there were reported explosions in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis and elsewhere as Israel bombards the StripIt’s been one month since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 people and kidnapping more than 200 others – almost all remain captive.
The Israeli military has responded by launching air strikes on Gaza and sending in troops – it says it’s targeting Hamas infrastructure and minimizing civilian deaths.
More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza according to the Hamas-run health ministry, including more than 4,100 children.
UN chief António Guterres has warned that Gaza is becoming a “graveyard for children” and the need for a “humanitarian ceasefire” becomes “more urgent with every passing hour.”
Letters confiscated by Britain’s Royal Navy before they reached French sailors during the Seven Years’ War have been opened for the first time, the BBC reports.
Written in 1757-8, they were sent by loved ones for crew onboard a French warship, but never reached them.
Prof Renaud Morieux, who discovered the letters, said they were about “universal human experiences”.
The Seven Years’ War was a battle mainly between Britain and France about control of North America and India.
It ended with the Treaty of Paris, which gave the UK considerable gains.
Prof Morieux, a University of Cambridge academic, unearthed the collection of 104 letters from the National Archives in Kew, and said it was “agonising how close they got” to reaching their intended recipients onboard the Galatee.
The French postal administration took them to multiple ports in France to attempt delivery, but were unsuccessful.
The Galatee was captured by the British on its way from Bordeaux to Quebec in 1758.
Upon learning the ship was in British hands, French authorities forwarded the letters to England, where they were handed to the navy and ended up in storage.
British Admiralty officials deemed the letters had no military significance.
Prof Morieux said he only asked to look at the box in the archives “out of curiosity” before discovering them.
“I realised I was the first person to read these very personal messages since they were written,” he said.
“Their intended recipients didn’t get that chance. It was very emotional,” said Prof Morieux, whose findings were published in the journal “Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales”.
The United States on Monday condemned the killing of a Georgian national by Russian soldiers in Georgia, TURAN’s Washington correspondent reports.Tamaz Ginturi, a Georgian citizen died as a result of shooting by the Russian occupying forces near the village of Kirbali, Gori municipality.”We extend our condolences,” State Department’s Spokesperson Matthew Miller noted. “This death is a stark example of the destruction caused by Russia”s ongoing occupation …