That echoed a report from an aid group, ActionAid, which said a doctor at the Al-Awda maternity hospital in northern Gaza had told the group that malnourished mothers were delivering stillborn children.

Yazan’s parents had struggled for months to care for their son, whose condition, experts say, would have left him with difficulty swallowing and requiring a soft, nutritious diet. After the Israeli bombardment of Gaza following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, his parents fled their home and took Yazan and their three other sons to a place they hoped would be safer.

Then they fled again, and again, and again, his father said, in search of a better place for Yazan, whose condition meant he could not tolerate the chaotic, unsanitary shelters. Any movement was complicated by the fact that Yazan could not walk.

His parents could do little but watch as his health steadily deteriorated.

“Day by day I saw my son getting weaker,” said his father, Shareef Kafarneh, a 31-year-old taxi driver from Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.

They eventually ended up in Al-Awda, in the southern city of Rafah, where Yazan died on Monday morning. According to Dr. Jabr al-Shaer, a pediatrician who treated him, he suffered from both malnutrition and a respiratory infection. Dr. al-Shaer blamed the lack of food for weakening Yazan’s already weak immune system.

Obtaining enough food had been a struggle for many in the blockaded Gaza Strip before the war. An estimated 1.2 million Gazans had done so need food aidAbout 0.8 percent of children under the age of five in Gaza were acutely malnourished, according to the United Nations, according to the World Health Organization.

Five months into the war, that appears to have peaked: About 15 percent of Gazan children under the age of 2 in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished, as are about 5 percent in the south, the World Health Organization said in February. With half of all children in Gaza being fed formula, Dr. Stobaugh says, Gaza’s lack of clean water to make formula is exacerbating the crisis.

Adele Khodr, Middle East director at UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency, said this week: “These tragic and horrific deaths are man-made, predictable and entirely preventable.”

The situation has left parents in panic.

Ali Qannan, 34, does not know what is wrong with his 13-month-old son Ahmed, who is being treated at the European Hospital in southern Gaza. That includes the doctors at the five hospitals he has taken Ahmed to since the baby developed a swollen belly, diarrhea and vomiting a month after the war began. Ahmed has continued to deteriorate, with breathing problems and worrying blood tests, but given the war, doctors say they cannot perform the appropriate diagnostic tests, Mr Qannan said.

Every pediatrician has had a different suggestion for what to feed Ahmed, Mr. Qannan said — boiled potatoes, bread, a special fortified formula for treating severely malnourished children — but each suggestion was either impossible to find or didn’t seem to help. Mr Qannan says he is certain malnutrition has something to do with Ahmed’s problems.

A transgender blogger from New Jersey and her wife have been accused of endangering the welfare of children after allegedly keeping their 10-year-old autistic son in a “filthy house” covered in feces.

Kirstyn Piper, 45, who identifies as a transgender woman, and her wife Amy Plummer, 46, were arrested in Ocean County, New Jersey, as reported by Reduxx.

The 10-year-old boy, who was diagnosed with autism in 2016, was found in December last year in a house with rubbish strewn about and the bathroom covered in faeces.

He later revealed to detectives in an interview that he had been living in those “deplorable conditions” for a year.

The child was immediately removed from the home. Piper and Plummer were taken into custody on December 12 and released a week later pending trial.

A nurse at Lanes Mill Elementary School reported to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCPP) that there were “ongoing concerns” about the boy’s hygiene and appearance, according to an affidavit obtained by Reduxx.

Upon arrival at his home, DCPP workers found the home in deplorable conditions and immediately alerted police.

‘The bathroom of the house was covered in feces. There were several Home Depot buckets around the residence… containing feces,” the statement said.

“DCPP also reported that trash, empty bottles/cans and recycling items were strewn throughout the residence.”

During an interview with detectives, the child said his home had a sewage problem that prevented fecal matter from being flushed down the drain.

Plummer, the child’s mother who graduated from Kean University last year, said the plumbing problems have persisted since March 2022.

According to Plummer, Piper, who is also the child’s biological parent, had “taken over” the issue and refused to seek help from anyone.

She added that physical disabilities had prevented her from walking too far, and she had no income to hire a plumber.

The 10-year-old reportedly told officers that his parents transported feces in an orange Home Depot bucket when the toilet was full.

He could not bathe because the bathtub was also filled with feces and was bullied at school for his poor hygiene, he said.

Piper runs a photography service called Puzzling Moment and is an LGBTQ activist on several social media platforms.

Until July 2023, she posted content advocating for LGBTQ+ issues and transgender rights with hashtags such as #lesbianpride, #transpride, #transgirl and #savetranskid.

In addition to her photography business, Piper also designed and sold “trans kids” and “trans girls” stickers at local night markets.

In social media posts Piper has shared over the years, her child has been captured at various LGBTQ events with his parents.

In some photos, the boy is wearing a T-shirt with the slogan ‘I love my 2 mommies’ and appears to have dyed his hair in rainbow colours.

The family are also seen in a series of photos from June last year, showing Plummer kneeling and proposing to renew their wedding vows to Piper.

According to Reduxx, Piper wrote a blog article in February last year about introducing LGBTQ issues and transgender rights to children from a young age.

“As caregivers, it is our responsibility to provide a safe and inclusive environment for our children, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation,” Piper wrote in the now-deleted blog.

“By exposing them to diverse perspectives and experiences, we can help them understand and appreciate the unique struggles that people from different communities face,” Piper wrote.

The next hearing for Piper and Plummer is scheduled for March.

DailyMail.com has reached out to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office for more information.

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By Pranav Harish for Daily Mail Australia

Published: 11:25 PM EST, February 16, 2024 | Updated: 11:32 PM EST, February 16, 2024

Gwen Stefani gave her 10-year-old son Apollo a history lesson when he asked about her upcoming music performance at Coachella.

“I literally had to be in bed with Apollo and he said, 'But Mom, what is Coachella? Everyone says it. What is this? It sounds like it's a big deal,” Gwen, 54, recalled People on Friday, January 26. (The “Hollaback Girl” singer shares sons Kingston, 17, Zuma, 15, and Apollo with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale.)

“So we had to watch the 'Don't Speak' video, and he said, 'But wait, which one was your boyfriend?' It was so weird and so funny. I literally had to tell him every band member,” she said, referring to her ex-boyfriend and bandmate Tony Channel.

Gwen will reunite with her No Doubt bandmates at Coachella in April, more than a decade since the band's last hiatus. Days before the music festival's official announcement, the band sparked reunion rumors when they had a video chat and teased an upcoming performance.

'I'm going to do a show! Do you want to do a show?” Gwen asked Kanal, 53, and other members Adrian Young And Tom Dumont. (She co-founded No Doubt with her brother in 1986 Erik Stefaniwho left the band in 1995, and John Spencewho died by suicide in 1987. Kanal, Young, 54, and Dumont, 56, joined the group before their debut album was released in 1992.)

The band rose to popularity in the 1990s, with Gwen emerging as the group's breakout star. Gwen has continued to pursue her own music career and has released four solo albums since 2004.

No Doubt last traveled for them in 2012 Seven night stand tour, but went on an official hiatus the following year. While Gwen was seemingly never against a No Doubt reunion, she previously expressed her uncertainty about whether that was possible.

“I don't know what's going to happen with No Doubt. When Tony and I connect creatively, it's magic. But I think we've grown apart in terms of the kind of music we want to make,” she explained Rolling stone in 2016. “I was really exhausted and burned out when we recorded [2012’s Push and Shove]. And I had a lot of guilt: 'I have to do it.' That's not the right setting to make music. There's some really great writing on that record. But the production felt really contradictory. It was sad that we all waited so long to release something and it wasn't followed up.”

By Joe Hutchison for Dailymail.Com

Published: 9:06 PM EST, January 27, 2024 | Updated: 01:53 EST, January 28, 2024

Two men allegedly raped a ten-year-old girl in Ghaziabad’s Loni area when she ventured outside her home to attend a wedding procession.

Ghaziabad rape: A 10-year-old girl who was on her way to a wedding in the Loni area of ​​Ghaziabad district in Uttar Pradesh was allegedly raped by two men in a car after they lured her into the vehicle on the pretext of taking her home to have brought.

Both suspects, 58-year-old Zakir and Nizam (32), have been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police, an official said, adding that Nizam was shot in the legs by police when he tried to flee after they went to arrest him . .

Giving details, a senior police official said the victim had gone out of her house under the jurisdiction of Tronica City Police Station at around 7pm on the evening of December 10 to attend a wedding procession in the area but lost her. way. She was approached by the two accused men who lured her into their car on the pretext of taking her home and raped her, he said.

“The accused offered her a lift home in a Maruti Eeco car and took the minor girl to a secluded spot in the forest area near Nithora Road where they raped her,” Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Loni said. Suryabali Maurya. a statement.

The ACP said the accused men then dropped her off at the same place they picked her up, adding that the minor somehow managed to get home but did not reveal the ordeal to her family.

However, the incident came to light when the girl’s health deteriorated the next day and after her mother inquired, she narrated the horrific ordeal to her parents. Initially, the victim’s mother tried to search for the suspect herself, but eventually approached the police and filed a complaint on December 12.

When questioned, the girl revealed that one of the suspects had deformities in all ten fingers due to a condition that made it easier to hold the suspect, police said.

After his arrest, one of the suspects, Nizam, was taken to the crime scene to recreate the incident. However, he grabbed a police officer’s gun and opened fire on the police in an attempt to flee. Police retaliated and Nizam suffered bullet injuries in both legs, an official said.

Ghaziabad, UP: Mohammad Nizam (32) and Mohammad Zakir (58) had kidnapped the 10-year-old minor girl in their car from a wedding event and then raped her.

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The rental car used in the crime has also been seized by police, he said.

Factory worker from Delhi is raped in front of friends in Ghaziabad

In a similar incident earlier this month, a 23-year-old woman was allegedly raped by three men while returning from her office in Ghaziabad district along with her two friends/colleagues – a man and another woman.

According to reports, the incident took place within the jurisdiction of the Tronica City Police Station.

According to reports, the victim – a resident of Delhi – was returning home from her office in Ghaziabad’s Tronica town on Friday along with two of her friends, including another woman. While traveling through a remote area, the trio was waylaid by a group of unknown men who attacked and overpowered the victim’s friends, dragged her behind bushes and took turns raping her before fleeing the scene.

After the nightmarish ordeal, the woman – who works at a toy factory in Ghaziabad – and her friends rushed back to their families and told them what had happened. Later, the victim filed a complaint with the Tronica City police station, based on which the police registered an FIR against the unidentified assailants under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and initiated an investigation.

Meeting your father for the first time in adulthood would be, for anyone, fraught with anxieties and uncertainties.

Will I like him? Will he like me? Will he reject me? The questions are legion.

To Samantha Bryan, however, these considerations matter not. As she revealed in an interview with The Mail on Sunday seven years ago, Samantha’s biological father is Ian Huntley, whose murder of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire in 2002 horrified the nation.

Samantha, 25, has no desire to get to know her father or like him or be liked in return. To her, he is a monster. But today she is explaining why she wants to meet him, just the once. Foremost, because she is seeking answers for the sake of Holly and Jessica’s parents. And also to bury her own demons.

She is hoping Huntley will finally give her not the deeply harrowing but still-sanitised version of events he served up at his trial, but the truth about what really happened to the ten-year-old friends, whose image, in red Manchester United jerseys, became imprinted on the nation’s consciousness 21 years ago.

She has written a powerful letter to her father at HMP Frankland in Durham, where he is midway through a 40-year sentence. ‘If my existence means anything to you, I’m pleading with you to finally reveal the whole truth about the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman,’ she told him. ‘It’s time that everyone was given some peace and closure.’

In court, Huntley, now 49, said both girls died accidentally, claiming Holly drowned in his bath and that he inadvertently suffocated Jessica while trying to stifle her screams. But in 2018 he confessed to deliberately killing Jessica to stop her from raising the alarm. He still insists Holly’s death was an accident.

In her mind’s eye, Samantha has already conjured up their encounter: entering the room, pulling up a chair, registering his every facial movement, hearing his voice, studying his hands – the hands that ended the lives of two children. It makes her feel sick. Steeling herself, she knows she will have to draw deeply on her reserves of courage. She hopes he will too.

Time, she feels, is against her. She fears he may take his secrets to the grave after suffering health problems and being subject to violent attacks in jail. He has also attempted suicide.

‘I’m begging him to find the courage to finally tell the truth,’ she says. ‘I have asked to meet face-to-face so he can tell me in his own words.’

She first discovered that Huntley was her father when she was 14 – by an extraordinary quirk of chance. She was asked to work on a school project on murderers – she was given Huntley to research – and it was while looking online that she saw an image of herself.

She said: ‘I clicked on it and recognised the dress I was wearing and remembered that day. The story said I was Ian Huntley’s daughter. It was like being thumped in the chest. I began to shake, I couldn’t stop the tears. I ran out of class, home to my mother and she confirmed it was the truth. But she told me she would never let him harm me and he would never get out.’

Even more distressing was learning of how Huntley subjected her mother Katie – who fell pregnant with Samantha aged just 15 – to terrifying violence before making her pregnant. They split when Samantha was born and she remarried.

Since her discovery, nearly every aspect of Samantha’s life has been poisoned by the Soham murders.

‘I’ve undergone counselling and it has impacted everything from my jobs to relationships,’ she says. ‘I have suffered constant nightmares. People still stop me in the street and say, “Your father is a monster” or “I know who your dad is”, so by meeting him I have nothing to lose.

‘The main comment that I used to get was, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” which has always cut very deeply because I am the absolute opposite. When I was younger I worried that everyone would think that and I would become isolated. Even with relationships, I’ve had people leave me and make comments about him [Huntley] and my connection to him. It was hard.

‘From the moment I discovered the connection he has become a bogeyman, like the Yorkshire Ripper or Fred West.’

Samantha, who is single, lives in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, and is training to be an administrator. She says she wants to ‘know for myself’ if her father feels any remorse. ‘I want him to tell the truth, so I can pass that on to the families of Holly and Jessica as they are very much on my mind.

‘Knowing their families have never been given the truth causes me profound sadness, I think about it far more than I should.

‘I hope that he will find it within his heart to open up. I want to know what he’d say when I sit in front of him, to be given that chance.

‘Nothing can ever change what has happened. I cannot think in terms of forgiveness. How can anyone forgive him?’

How much solace a full and frank confession would bring the parents of the two girls is hard to gauge. In a 2003 interview with the MoS, Holly’s parents Kevin and Nicola Wells said his cowardly refusal to tell the truth had left them in a never-ending torment of uncertainty as to what really happened in their daughter’s final minutes. They had many questions, the kind which – unanswered – can eat away at one’s soul.

‘Did he try to imprison one or both?’ said Kevin. ‘Did he sexually assault one and cause a scuffle: both Holly and Jessica would have gone to the other’s rescue – they were fierce and confident little girls.’

At the time Kevin reached this conclusion: ‘All these things we can never know because only one person is sure and I will never, ever believe a word that cold, calculating pervert utters. He took our daughter from us and lied and lied and lied.’

Samantha was just four years old when Huntley killed Holly and Jessica. They had been at a family barbecue at Holly’s home on August 4, 2002, wearing matching football shirts, before walking to a nearby shop for sweets. Then they vanished.

For 13 days their frantic parents prayed and police launched one of the biggest inquiries ever mounted. Thousands searched for the girls and Soham became a sombre, haunted town.

Throughout, Huntley, a caretaker at the girls’ school, and his partner, their teaching assistant Maxine Carr, gave endless media interviews appealing for the safe return of ‘two of the brightest, loveliest little girls in the world’.

Carr even showed off an end-of-term card the girls had sent her, covered in loving comments and kisses. A wan-faced Huntley befriended the media because he had a sinister motive: his need to know the details of the police inquiry. For the truth was that he had lured the girls into the home he shared with Carr, as they passed by. He has never fully revealed what took place there, but within an hour both girls were dead.

Then he hid their bodies near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, six miles away, and later returned to set fire to them. Huntley was convicted of the murders after pleading not guilty. Carr gave him a false alibi. She was sentenced to three-and-a-half years’ jail for perverting the course of justice and issued with a new identity on release.

Huntley will not be considered for release until he is 71. He is undoubtedly a target. In 2008 armed robber Damien Fowkes slashed his throat in Frankland, putting him in hospital, three years after murderer Mark Hobson threw boiling water over him in Wakefield Prison.

Samantha says: ‘I worry often that something will happen to him and no one will ever have closure.’

Huntley was 23 when he seduced Katie, then a schoolgirl in Grimsby. The relationship quickly turned abusive. Huntley raped her, forced her to eat cat food, chopped off her hair and threw her down the stairs when she was pregnant. As a baby, Samantha needed emergency open heart surgery – and her family have always blamed Huntley.

She says: ‘Sometimes, when I look at my scar, I think of what my mother went through. She told me I saved her, being pregnant with me gave her the strength to break free.

‘She said he did terrible, unspeakable things to her. I want him to say sorry – not that an apology will ever be enough – but to know there is some remorse means something.’

As well as securing answers for Holly and Jessica’s families, Samantha hopes meeting her father will assuage her own demons.

She says: ‘For years I’ve been haunted by the fear that a faceless monster would clamber through my bedroom window in the middle of the night or that he’d come and find me, or try to kill me when I was all alone.

‘My most recent nightmare was on Friday night. It was really detailed. His face is usually quite blurry, but this time it was vivid.

‘I’ve never heard his voice but in my dream he was shouting. He was trying to break into my nanna’s house. I woke up and I felt really sick. I thought: ‘I hope to god he never gets out.’ She adds: ‘I don’t feel like I have fully processed what has happened. I hope that by sitting in front of him it might enable me to let go of the nightmares and move forward with my life.’

She is quick to stress that her own pain in no way compares to the ‘unimaginable agony’ endured by Holly and Jessica’s parents. ‘He has now reached halfway through his sentences, but Holly and Jessica were robbed of their future and so were their families.

‘I don’t think he should ever be freed. But even so, he should do the right thing. It can just bring a little bit of peace to all of those who have the agony of wondering what happened every day.’

To this day, Samantha’s family keeps a brown cardboard box of newspaper clippings from Huntley’s arrest and trial.

When Samantha turned 18, her mother decided she needed to know the full story. She recalls: ‘My mum called me up to her bedroom, motioning for me to sit next to her on her bed. She handed me the box which was taped shut and said, ‘Sammy, this is what I call the box of nightmares. I’ve kept all of this as I knew that one day you would need to know everything. The only way I’ve been able to deal with it is to try as hard as I could to shut all memories of him away.’

‘Inside were all the neatly-folded newspaper clippings, reporting every horrific detail of Huntley’s crimes and what he did to my mum.

‘I read them all. I cried until I couldn’t cry any more. Then I put the lid back on the box, taped it shut and put it back under her bed.

‘Nowadays I try not to read stuff about him, or I turn over if it’s on the TV.

‘One day I may become a mother myself – and I want to be able to tell my daughter that while there is a monster in the family, he did meet me and did tell the truth and express deep remorse.

‘Perhaps expecting that to happen is a futile dream but it’s one that I’m willing to try.’

A 10-year-old boy was killed in a monkey attack in Gandhinagar district of Gujarat. The incident took place near a temple in Salki village in Dehgam taluka when the child, identified as Dipak Thakor,

A 10-year-old boy was killed in a monkey attack in Gandhinagar district of Gujarat. The incident took place near a temple in Salki village in Dehgam taluka when the child, identified as Dipak Thakor, was playing with friends, according to police. “His intestine was torn out during the attack. He rushed to his home and was taken to a hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. This is the third attack by monkeys in the village in a week,” an official was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

“We rescued two langurs last week and set up cages to capture another langur. There is a large troop of monkeys in the village, including four adults who have been involved in attacks in the past week. Two of them were rescued. Efforts are on to cage another one,” said forest official Vishal Chaudhary.

Earlier this year, a monkey with a Rs. 21,000 bounties were shaken after it terrorized people in Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh city for two weeks, attacking 20 people.

The rescue team used a drone to locate the monkey, calmed it down with darts and then placed it in a cage.

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A team of generous builders teamed up to adapt the home of a 10-year-old boy who lost his arms and legs to a rare disease for free.

The generous traders stepped in to help North Yorkshire’s Luke Mortimer, who had a quad amputation after being stricken with meningococcal meningitis.

The serious bacterial infection quickly spread throughout his body and when Luke was diagnosed in 2019, he lost 50 percent of his skin and spent five months in hospital.

He later moved into a bungalow that his father, Adam Mortimer, had begun transforming for his needs, before contacting the Band of Builders charity for a helping hand.

And the team were only too happy to take on the project and have already installed a new shower room, underfloor heating and new wooden floors.

The stunning work is expected to be completed later this week, but Luke said he was overwhelmed by the progress the team had made in just a few days.

He thanked all the builders for their hard work and said ‘I can’t believe how fast everything has gone, looking forward to thanking and hugging everyone at the end’.

Delighted father Adam also praised the charity for being “absolutely amazing” and said his son was “ecstatic” about the project’s progress.

He said: ‘The construction has helped us a lot, it has put the house where we need to be so that Luke can have what he needs in the house.

‘The Band of Builders was absolutely amazing! Giving up their time and working long hours to keep the project on track.

Luke is ecstatic that his room is now paneled and plastered and is planning his room’s color scheme.

‘[He]has, as usual, charmed all the builders and has taken everything in its slightly smaller step.’

Formerly a keen rugby player for North York’s Skipton RFC, Luke was just seven when he was stricken with the terrible disease on December 13, 2019.

And he was transferred to Sheffield Children’s Hospital, where doctors discovered that life-threatening septicemia, also known as septicemia, had developed in his body.

Although he survived the deadly disease, he lost all his limbs and required 23 painful surgeries over a ten-week period to replace the missing skin and address his wounds.

John Firth, a family friend who set up a donation page for him, wrote at the time of the incident that his rugby-crazy family’s life was turned upside down after his illness.

He said: ‘Luke was a 7-year-old budding rugby player, a bundle of joy who had embraced life even at a young age and made every day a happy day.

‘His whole family was part of the rugby community, his father coached many youngsters of the age range and his mother ran a recycling stand for children’s rugby kits, ensuring that the young boys and girls always had the right equipment to play and train in. .

“While the rest of us bought and wrapped Christmas presents, family life was turned upside down.

On December 13, 2019, Luke fell ill with meningococcal meningitis.

“Luke’s young life has been saved, but the illness has taken its toll on his tiny body.” He has proven himself to be a fighter, but his life and that of his mom, dad and big brother will never be the same again.”

Over the next few years, Luke endured endless sessions of physical therapy and rehabilitation, always sporting his trademark beaming smile.

He later learned to walk – and run – on prosthetic legs.

And thanks to fundraising and donations from an army of benefactors, he also received his first robotic “hero” arms so he could do more for himself.

The bungalow where Luke now lives was previously adapted for a man who was paralyzed from the waist down.

Luke’s father Adam, a builder by trade, had worked on it before asking the Band of Builders for help.

The charity was founded in 2016 when the traders came together to renovate the home of a man diagnosed with terminal cancer

Thanks to the incredible response from builders across the UK, the project was completed and demonstrated what can be achieved when the industry works together.