News about Jan Egeland

Early this morning, the IDF intensified its bombardment in and around Khan Younis, bringing ambulances, private cars, and even trucks racing into the local Nasser hospital ladening with wounded civilians in a bloody new phase of the conflict. It came as eyewitnesses reported that Israeli tanks were closing down in after satellite photos from Sunday showed around 150 Israeli tanks and armoured personnel carriers less than four miles from Gaza's second-largest city's heart. "Nowhere is safe in Gaza, and there is nothing left to go," Lynn Hastings, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, said Monday. The conditions that are needed to provide assistance to the people of Gaza do not exist.' If possible, an even more horrific scenario is likely to unfold.' More than 15,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 2,000 have been displaced by over three-fourths of Gaza's 2.3 million inhabitants, according to the deadly war. Gaza's Health Ministry said the death toll in the territory since Oct. 7 has surpassed 15,890, with more than 41,000 people wounded.

Families in Gaza fled yesterday, after aid organizations warned that it would be reduced to a "hellhole." Women carried children in their arms as they escaped on foot, fear and emptiness etched on their faces and their possessions as they fled on foot, with confusion and despair piled high on trucks and donkey carts. Families were refused official advice from Hamas to remain in their homes and instead embarked on a spectacular flight into the unknown.

Hundreds of protesters have descended on London's Israel Embassy, shouting "free Palestine" and lighting flairs, with a heavy police response evident.

The new Mada 9 prototype sports car, which is shown here, is the culmination of five years of design and development led by thirty engineers at company ENTOP and Kabul's Afghanistan Technical Vocational Institute (ATVI). The vehicle's capabilities on the road remain to be seen - in nearly every video circulated on social media, and ENTOP has not released any performance data whatsoever. It's unlikely to compare to Bugatti and McLaren's engines, although Mada 9's team claims that the engine is a replica of a smaller Toyota Corolla hatchback, though ATVI Ghulam Shahamat's chief told Afghanistan's TOLO News that engineers will upgrade it to an electric powertrain at a later date.