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The Israeli military has said that its planned operation in Gaza City would prevent Hamas fighters from regrouping and planning future attacks. Israel entered Gaza City earlier in the war, but said this time it would move into parts of the city that Israeli soldiers have not previously attacked or held.
The risks to civilians who leave — and those who stay — are enormous. Further intensification of military operations in Gaza City would cause a “catastrophe” for civilians, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has warned.
Gaza City and the surrounding region are officially suffering from famine, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification announced in August. The United Nations and aid agencies rely on the group, known as the I.P.C., to monitor and classify global hunger crises.
Photos and videos taken on Tuesday showed crowds of Palestinians heading south from Gaza City. Still, others said they planned to stay, saying the journey was too expensive, that they had nowhere to go, or that if they left, they feared they could never come back.
Eyad Baba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
In its evacuation order for Gaza City, the Israeli military instructed people to go to what it called a “humanitarian zone” in the southern half of the territory, a thin coastal strip where hundreds of thousands of people have already taken refuge.
The Israeli military said there were “vast empty areas” that were “free of tents” there. But hundreds of thousands of Palestinians already live there, and parts of the zone overlap with areas the military has ordered evacuated.
At least 22 Palestinians, including two young children, are among the latest deaths in Israel’s round-the-clock bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip, adding to the 72 Palestinians killed over the last 24 hours, medical sources have said.
Ten of those who were killed since dawn on Thursday were in Gaza City, where Israeli forces are currently conducting a siege and launching daily strikes on residential buildings as they prepare a major offensive against the Palestinian group Hamas.
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The Times of Israel, citing Israeli military figures, reported that a total of 200,000 Palestinians have already been forced out of Gaza City in recent weeks, in an operation described by rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday as “unlawful and inhumane”.
In an Israeli attack early on Thursday, two Palestinians were killed, including an infant, and several others injured after tents sheltering displaced people were hit near Yarmouk Street in Gaza City.
Another Palestinian child was killed after Israeli forces opened fire in the Bureij camp in central Gaza, a source from al-Awda Hospital told Al Jazeera.
Sources from al-Awda and al-Mahmoudiyah hospitals also reported early on Thursday several deaths and injuries following Israeli shelling of Shujayea district east of Gaza City.
Further south, at least four Palestinians waiting for aid were killed in two separate incidents in Rafah, while one person was killed in Israeli shelling northwest of Khan Younis.
Earlier, Palestinian authorities and medical sources reported at least 72 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza within a 24-hour period on Wednesday.
These figures bring the number of people killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the war to at least 64,718, with 163,859 wounded, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
‘Further compounding genocidal conditions’
Israel accelerated its military campaign on Wednesday, with the army attacking dozens of homes in areas of Gaza City in an attempt to push Palestinians out of the area.
In a statement on Wednesday, Amnesty International urged Israel to “immediately rescind” the mass displacement order, calling it “cruel” and “unlawful”, while warning it it “further compounds the genocidal conditions of life” that Israel is inflicting on Palestinians.
“Amnesty International has repeatedly and unequivocally stated that forcibly displacing Palestinians within the Gaza Strip or deporting them violates international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity,” the statement said.
Heba Morayef, a senior Amnesty official for the Middle East, said the Israeli order “is a devastating and inhuman repeat” of the mass displacement order issued for all of North Gaza in October 2023.
Amnesty said some of those who are trying to flee since the order was issued were unable to do so because they cannot afford transport costs, or fit into the small area designated by Israel for evacuation.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said people are making their way from the area to the southern and central areas of the Strip, “but some people are coming back because they are unable to find a place to stay”.
“So as of this moment, there is no safe place in Gaza, including the ‘humanitarian zone’ designated by Israel. The journey itself, from north to south Gaza, has become a matter of life or death.”
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it will remain in Gaza City, despite the Israeli order.
In a statement published on X by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the UN organisation said it is “appalled” by Israel’s order, saying the evacuation zone “has neither the size nor scale of services” required to support the displaced people.
“This catastrophe is human-made, and the responsibility rests with us all,” the statement said, while calling for an “immediate ceasefire” and for upholding international humanitarian law.
A woman pushes a man in a wheelchair as Palestinians, displaced by the Israeli military offensive, take shelter in a tent camp on Thursday [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, died on Wednesday, Sept. 10.
The conservative activist was speaking into a microphone at Utah Valley University, sitting beneath a white tent emblazoned with the slogans “The American Comeback” and “Prove Me Wrong,” when he was fatally shot.
The attack comes just days after the start of the trial of a man charged with attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump—and Kirk’s reach was so vast that it was the president himself who announced his death.
“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, later adding that he was ordering all American Flags throughout the U.S. to fly at half-mast until Sunday evening.
It underscored the power Kirk had amassed in such a short time. At just 31 years old, he was already a political force with a direct line to the White House and a $100 million-a-year movement behind him. Trump had credited him with mobilizing the youth vote that propelled his 2024 victory, frequently hosting him at both Mar-a-Lago and the Oval Office.
Kirk dropped out of college to found Turning Point USA at just 18
Born in 1993 to a counselor mother and an architect father in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Kirk grew up in a conservative household with dreams of joining the military. As a teenager, he was an Eagle Scout who set his sights on West Point, the US military academy that trains officers.
In a 2015 speech to the Conservative Forum of Silicon Valley, he said getting into the Army was his ‘No. 1 dream in life’, but implied he was rejected for being a white man.
But that rejection became a sliding-doors moment that launched his political career. Instead of joining the Army, Kirk began dabbling in politics—volunteering for Illinois Republican Mark Kirk’s (no relation) Senate campaign while still in high school.
He then wrote his first opinion piece for right-wing outlet Breitbart against what he called the “indoctrination” of liberal textbooks, which led to his first media appearance on the Fox Business channel at the age of 17.
From there, the speaking engagements started rolling in, and that’s how Kirk met his future mentor and cofounder, Bill Montgomery, who convinced him to dropout of college and go all-in on activism. Together, they co-founded Turning Point USA in 2012, when Kirk was just 18.
What started as a shoestring campus operation snowballed into a right-wing powerhouse. With backing from Republican donors like Foster Friess and Home Depot co-founder, Bernard Marcus,Kirk built Turning Point into one of the fastest-growing conservative nonprofits in America.
A political powerhouse with millions of followers
Today, Turning Point says it has a presence in more than 3,500 high school and college campuses nationwide—and its revenue, per tax filings, has skyrocketed from $4.3 million in 2016 to $81.7 million in 2023. When combined with its political-action arm, Turning Point Action, that figure tops $92 million.
And as the non-profit’s popularity has surged, so too has Kirk’s. In his mid-20s, he became the youngest speaker at the Republican National Convention in 2016 and just two years later made Forbes’ “30 under 30” list.
By 30, he had become a household name in conservative circles, impossible to ignore despite stoking frequent backlash. He was both celebrated and criticized for accusations of spreading conspiracy theories on COVID-19, climate change, and the 2020 election, as well as anti-trans rhetoric.
But his influence was undeniable: Across social media, he had a huge following with more than 8 million followers on TikTok, 8.9 million on Instagram, 5 million on X and 3.8 million on YouTube.
His podcast, The Charlie Kirk Show, has also built a large following—some reports suggest it’s downloaded between 500,000 and 750,000 times each day—and it consistently charts in the top top on Spotify and Apple. Meanwhile, several books to his name, including the 2020 best seller “The MAGA Doctrine” and many speaking appearances, helped cement his status as one of America’s highest-profile conservative activists.
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South Africa’s highest court has ruled that husbands can take the surname of their wives, overturning a law that barred them from doing so.
In a victory for two couples who brought the case, the Constitutional Court ruled that the law amounted to gender-based discrimination.
Henry van der Merwe was denied the right to take the surname of his wife Jana Jordaan, while Andreas Nicolas Bornman could not hyphenate his surname to include Donnelly, the surname of his wife, Jess Donnelly-Bornman, reports the public broadcaster, SABC.
Parliament will now have to amend the Births and Deaths Registration Act, along with its regulations, for the ruling to take effect.
The two couples had argued that the law was archaic and patriarchal, and violated equality rights enshrined in the constitution that South Africa adopted at the end of white-minority rule.
They successfully challenged the law in a lower court, the High Court, but asked the Constitutional Court to confirm its ruling.
A legal body, The Free State Society of Advocates, joined the court case in support of the two couples.
It argued that by restricting a man’s right to assume their wife’s surname, the law perpetuated harmful stereotypes, as it denied men a choice available to women, the Sowetan news site reports.
Neither the Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber nor the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Mamoloko Kubayi opposed the two couples’ application, according to the IOL news site.
Universal Music Group‘s UK-based Polydor Label Group (PLG) has restructured its senior management with a series of internal promotions, appointing Jodie Cammidge as the sole Managing Director of the whole group.
Jodie Cammidgewill work closely with artists and teams as PLG seeks to bolster operations across its four UK labels: Polydor, Capitol, 0207DefJam and ChaosRecords.
Paddy Mclean moves up to General Manager of PLG, where he’ll oversee day-to-day marketing operations and execution. Mclean previously handled operational responsibilities.
The company also appointed Jade Bradshaw as General Manager of 0207 Def Jam. Bradshaw previously managed international artists, including work on KendrickLamar campaigns. Her new role focuses on developing UK talent.
Helen Fleming and AliTant have both been promoted to Directors of Marketing. The pair has worked on campaigns for artists including Glass Animals, Florence + The Machine, Holly Humberstone, Michael Kiwanuka, Sam Fender, Lewis Capaldi, Inhaler, Billie Eilish and Good Neighbours.
Jamie Ahye, meanwhile,takes over as Head of Pop Marketing, a role that builds on his work with Olivia Dean, Sabrina Carpenter and Lady Gaga.
In dance music, Silas Howison-Waughray assumes a dual role as Director of Dance Marketing and General Manager of Chaos Records. He previously managed campaigns for Irish artist Jazzy and will now oversee the electronic music subsidiary’s operations.
Lastly, ChloeKyei has been promoted to Senior Marketing Manager at 0207 Def Jam. She has handled campaigns for Doechii, Chrystal, and Playboi Carti.
The promotions come as Polydor Label Group maintains strong momentum with its roster. Sabrina Carpenter’s new album Man’s Best Friend hit No.1 on the Official Albums Chart with the biggest opening week of 2025 so far by an international artist, selling 85,000 units.
It also broke the record for the most-streamed album on Spotify in a single day by a female artist this year.
“These promotions are richly deserved and reflect the strength, vision, and creativity that drives everything we do at Polydor Label Group.”
Capitol Records UK rising star Olivia Dean currently holds two singles in the UK Top 10, while her collaboration with Sam Fender sits at No. 11.
Commenting on the latest wave of promotions, BenMortimer, President, Polydor Label Group, said: “We are incredibly proud to see this group of leaders step into their new roles.
“Each one of them has made an enormous contribution to our culture, our campaigns, and the continued success of our artists.
“These promotions are richly deserved and reflect the strength, vision, and creativity that drives everything we do at Polydor Label Group.”
The leadership reshuffle comes almost a year after Universal Music UKmerged two renowned London-based frontline labels: Island Records UK and EMI. This change led to the formation of Island EMI Label Group and Polydor Label Group.
Today on the GMM podcast we have 50 freestyle Olympic and World Champion Cameron McEvoy. This sprint star, known as The Professor, has done more than win medals, he has revolutionised training in a way I don’t think we can turn back from.
Cameron, a graduate from Griffith University with a bachelor’s in physics and mathematics, trusts the data and it has rewarded him. This isn’t just another training conversation, Cameron shares the far edge of human performance and what it takes to move water at top speed. The results are undeniable, and the ripple effects are going to change how the sport thinks about sprinting.
Here’s the best part: Cameron isn’t keeping this to himself. He’s documenting it. Right now, his film is in the can, being edited. It’s coming soon, and SwimSwam will drop the release date as soon as we get it. Best of all, this won’t be behind a paywall. It’ll be free to watch on YouTube.
In this podcast we cover, and this is a taste:
Aliens (yes, little green men) –I had to ask that question because of a famous Cameron quote.
Weight Training & Power Blocks since Paris – And how long Cameron pushed his power block (meaning little to no swimming).
Swimming Blocks – How much Cameron swims in total and how little he actually swims slowly (warmup).
Cameron Business – And why he didn’t seek endorsements after the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Cameron Lifestyle – Marriage and fatherhood and how he has leaned into peers like Adam Peaty and Caeleb Dressel.
Cam’s Upcoming Sprint Training Doc Film – Why he’s producing it and what went into the production.
LA2028 – His intentions to compete in LA and beyond, and the 2032 Brisbane Olympics is not off the table.
If I missed any topics or questions, share in the comments. When Cam drops his documentary film we will unpack that media and pick up your questions.
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Protests fueled by anger against President Emmanuel Macron and the country’s political direction erupted across France on Wednesday, a day after the appointment of a new prime minister.
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