For Israelis, it's a long-eyed target. For Palestinians, a symbol of their suffering. After days of laying siege to Al Shifa hospital, Israeli soldiers moved in Tuesday overnight after years of claiming that Hamas operated a command center on the grounds of Gaza's largest medical center.
Now it's on to the next objective, with many parts of northern Gaza laid to waste. Israel has now dropped leaflets telling Palestinians to evacuate four specific neighbourhoods of Khan Younis. In the last 24 hours, Israel's ground operation has netted the bodies of two hostages: a 65-year old woman and a 19-year old female soldier, a reminder that there's more than 200 still believed to be held.
Germany welcomed Turkey's president for a long-planned state visit, one that shows up opposing views on the eruption in the Middle East.
The EU's executive arm joined IBM and halting advertisement on Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter. The last straw: Musk's seeming endorsement of a tweet from a far-right account claiming that members of the Jewish community were stoking hatred against white people.
What this world certainly needs is a healthy dose of de-escalation. So even if they didn't issue a joint statement, many found reason to at least exhale when Joe Biden sat down with Xi Jinping for four hours on the sidelines of the APEC summit in San Francisco. A joint agreement on climate targets, reassurances on opening a hotline between US and China's military... all good. Of course then there was a press conference where reporters asked if Biden stood by his June branding of his Chinese counterpart as a dictator.
David Cameron became the first former UK prime minister in decades to return to government. His first trip abroad to Ukraine: a reminder that David Cameron was in power a decade ago when it all kicked off.
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Juliette Brown and Lila Paulou.
