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Gaza cancer patients face rising death rate due to Israeli control

Gaza cancer patients are dying at two to three ​times the pace they did before the start of the genocide in the territory, as Israel blocks many from travelling for treatment after destroying the only ‌local specialised facility. Israel blew up Gaza's specialised cancer hospital last year after claiming that troops found a tunnel used by Hamas running beneath it, a claim that they have yet to substantiate. That means that an estimated 17,000 Gazans with cancer have no local option for chemotherapy or other advanced therapy. Practically no Palestinians can afford to travel for treatment, and those who can face Israeli restrictions. The military imposes strict caps on daily crossings to Egypt, despite a 2025 Israel-Hamas ​"ceasefire" deal that requires free movement in and out. Asked for comment, COGAT, the Israeli military agency that controls access to Gaza, said it coordinates medical evacuations with the ​World Health Organisation. To depart, Gazans mus...
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TikTok removed nearly 25m Pakistani videos in early 2025

TikTok removed nearly 25 million videos in Pakistan during the first quarter of 2025, according to its Q1 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, which covers activity from January to March. According to the report, a total of 24,954,128 videos were taken down in Pakistan for violating the platform’s community guidelines. The proactive removal rate in the country remained exceptionally high at 99.4 percent, with 95.8 percent of the flagged videos removed within 24 hours of being posted. Globally, TikTok removed approximately 211 million videos during the same period, which accounts for about 0.9 percent of all content uploaded to the platform. Of those, over 184 million were detected and removed through automated systems, while more than 7.5 million were reinstated following a secondary review.The proactive removal rate stood at 99.0%, with 94.3% of the flagged content removed within 24 hours of posting. Read: Senate introduces bill to ban social media accounts for under 16s The report further revealed that 30.1% of all removed videos globally contained sensitive or mature themes, making it the most common reason for enforcement. Other violations included breaches of privacy and security guidelines (15.6%), safety and civility standards (11.5%), misinformation (45.5%), and the use of edited media or AI-generated content (13.8%). TikTok said that its quarterly enforcement reports are part of its ongoing commitment to transparency and accountability. The company noted that the reports are designed to help users, regulators, and the general public better understand how content moderation is carried out at scale and what types of violations are being addressed most frequently. The full Q1 2025 report is available on TikTok’s Transparency Centre, accessible in both Urdu and English, where users can explore the platform’s community guidelines, reporting tools and content safety policies in greater detail

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