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Added on the 17/09/2023 18:23:23 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
AERIAL SHOTS of fires in the Brazilian Amazon as the rainforest has recorded more than 42,000 forest fires from January 1 to August 19, according to the INPE, the worst number in nearly two decades. IMAGES
During a UN press briefing, UNICEF's senior emergency coordinator, Hamish Young, says that "Over 14,000 children have reportedly already been killed in this conflict" while over 100,000 people have fled Rafah in recent days, according to the head of OCHA's sub-office in Gaza. SOUNDBITE
"The seven souls we mourn today were there so that hungry people could eat," chef Jose Andres says of the World Central Kitchen staffers who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, during remarks at a ceremony honoring their lives at the Washington National Cathedral. SOUNDBITE
Relatives of four Indigenous environmentalists killed in 2014 in an Amazon area on the Peru-Brazil border march to a Peruvian court in Pucallpa, where the perpetrators were sentenced to nearly three decades in prison. IMAGES
Palestinian mourners gather for the funeral of three people killed in Jenin in an Israeli air strike on their vehicle. The Israeli military said it had "eliminated" Ahmed Barakat, who it accused of a May 2023 attack that killed an Israeli settler. Jenin and its adjacent refugee camp are a stronghold of armed Palestinian groups opposing Israel, which has occupied the West Bank since 1967. Israeli troops regularly carry out incursions into Palestinian communities but until several months ago had rarely struck the West Bank from the air. IMAGES