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Record-breaking heat wave grips western United States

A record early heat wave striking the western United States on Friday is a one-in-500-year event and almost certainly the result of human-caused climate change, experts say. The heat has been toppling records this week and is set to continue into the weekend across western cities while expanding eastward. Four locations in the desert area near the California-Arizona border registered 44.4 degrees Celsius on Friday, a US national record for March. The readings were recorded near Yuma and Martinez Lake in Arizona, and around Winterhaven and Ogilby in California. Read: Intense heatwave grips US, triggering record-breaking temperatures Already, 65 cities have recorded new March highs, ranging from Arizona and California to Idaho, Weather.com reported. Death Valley reached 40°C on Thursday, while typically cool and foggy San Francisco tied its historic March record at 29°C. In Colorado, skiers were seen hitting the slopes shirtless. The National Weather Service issued extreme heat warni...
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Fighting between Hamas and Israeli forces rages after nearly 200 killed in Gaza strikes

Fierce Israeli tank fire and aerial bombing struck Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on Friday night, residents said, after nearly 200 Palestinians were killed in 24 hours in Israel's brutal campaign of retribution. Gaza health authorities said 187 Palestinians were confirmed killed in Israeli strikes in the 24-hour period, raising the overall toll to 21,507 - about 1% of Gaza's population. Thousands more bodies are feared to be buried in the ruins of neighbourhoods. ⚡️WATCH: Hamas published a brand new video showing scenes of targeting IOF soldiers & targeting military vehicles penetrating into the Al-Tuffah and Al-Daraj neighborhoods in Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/TRkClp7nbB — Arya - آریا 🇮🇷 (@AryJeay) December 29, 2023 Israeli aircraft also carried out a series of air strikes on the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, according to medics and Palestinian journalists. Israeli forces have been pounding Khan Younis in preparation for an anticipated further advance into the main southern city. The invading forces have not made any significant headway in the last few weeks. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed troops were reaching Hamas command centres and arms depots. The Israeli military also claimed it had destroyed a tunnel complex in the basement of one of the houses of the Hamas leader for Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, in Gaza City. Nearly all of Gaza's 2.3 million people have fled their homes at least once and many are on the move again, often reduced to taking shelter in makeshift tents or huddled under tarpaulins and plastic sheets on open ground. The narrow coastal strip is just 40 km (25 miles) long, making it one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Palestinian journalist killed A Palestinian journalist working for Al-Quds TV was killed along with some of his family members in an air strike on their house in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip, health officials and fellow journalists said. Gaza's government media office says 106 Palestinian journalists have been killed in the Israeli offensive. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said last week that the first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war were the deadliest recorded for journalists, with the most journalists killed in a single year in one location. Most of the journalists and media workers killed in the war were Palestinian. The report by the US-based CPJ said it was "particularly concerned about an apparent pattern of targeting of journalists and their families by the Israeli military." Earlier this month, a Reuters investigation found an Israeli tank crew killed a Reuters journalist, Issam Abdallah, and wounded six reporters in Lebanon on Oct 13 by firing two shells in quick succession while the journalists were filming cross-border shelling. ⚡️Hamas published a video showing the firing of missiles from northern Gaza towards occupied territories. pic.twitter.com/hbWdfwQLDy — Arya - آریا 🇮🇷 (@AryJeay) December 29, 2023 Israel has previously claimed it has never and will never deliberately target journalists and that it is doing what it can to avoid civilian casualties, but the high death toll has caused concern even amongst its staunchest allies. The US has called for Israel to scale down the war in the coming weeks and move to targeted operations against Hamas leaders, although so far it shows no sign of doing so. South Africa asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday for an urgent order declaring that Israel was in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention in its vicious war against the people of Gaza. It called on the court to issue short-term measures ordering Israel to stop its military campaign "to protect against further, severe and irreparable harm to the rights of the Palestinian people." No date has been set for a hearing.

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