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17 minutes ago
- Business
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Four people killed as starving Palestinians storm Gaza aid warehouse
'Hordes of hungry people' stormed a warehouse in central Gaza as aid trickled into the Palestinian enclave on the brink of famine, a United Nations agency said on Thursday. Eyewitness video independently verified by Reuters showed large crowds of people pushing into the warehouse and removing bags and boxes while gunfire could be heard in the background. Doctors at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah reported that two people died after being crushed by the crowd and two more people were shot dead. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the gunfire. The incident comes one day after the Israeli military was seen firing warning shots in the area outside a distribution site run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which was briefly rushed by people waiting for aid. The World Food Programme, a UN agency, said the deadly stampede showed an immediate scale-up of food aid was necessary 'to reassure people that they will not starve'. 'Hordes of hungry people broke into WFP's Al-Ghafari warehouse in Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza, in search of food supplies that were pre-positioned for distribution,' WFP said in a statement on X. 'Initial reports indicate two people died and several were injured in the tragic incident,' WFP said, adding that it was still confirming details. #Gaza — WFP in the Middle East & North Africa (@WFP_MENA) May 28, 2025 On Tuesday, footage from the GHF site showed fences broken down by crowds as private security contractors fell back before restoring order. The UN human rights office said that 47 people had been injured. The foundation said aid distribution continued on Wednesday without incident as it opened a second distribution hub. Across the two sites it has so far given out the equivalent of 840,262 meals. The GHF said it is working to open four sites and expand further in Gaza in the weeks ahead. Israel ended an 11-week long aid blockade on Gaza 10 days ago following international pressure but so far only the GHF and the UN has been allowed to deliver the food and supplies. UN Middle East envoy Sigrid Kaag told the Security Council that the amount of aid Israel had so far allowed the UN to deliver was 'comparable to a lifeboat after the ship has sunk' when everyone in Gaza was facing the risk of famine. Israel has denied cutting of aid, instead accusing the terror group Hamas of diverting and seizing supplies. Hamas has denied the claims. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel's killing of Hamas Gaza chief Mohammad Sinwar marked a turn towards the 'complete defeat of Hamas', adding that Israel was 'taking control of food distribution' in Gaza. At the UN, Slovenia's UN Ambassador Samuel Zbogar said some members are working on a draft resolution to demand unimpeded aid access. 'Remaining silent is not an option,' he told the council. Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon told the Security Council that Israel would allow aid deliveries 'for the immediate future'. However, Israel ultimately wants the UN to work through the GHF, which is using private US security and logistics companies to transport aid into Gaza for distribution by civilian teams at so-called secure distribution sites. 'The UN should put their ego aside and cooperate with the new mechanism,' Mr Danon told reporters before the council meeting. The UN and other international aid groups have refused to work with the GHF because they say the plan is not neutral. People in Gaza have said they are frightened to attend GHF aid sites over concerns the deliveries are part of an Israeli plot to gather intelligence. A non-profit registered in Geneva and Delaware, it is still not clear who is funding GHF, which has been rocked by the recent resignation of two of its most senior officials. Jake Wood, the executive director, resigned on Sunday because GHF's plans could not be consistent with what he called the 'humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence'. David Burke, the chief operating officer, also resigned, sources told the Washington Post. Jonathan Whittall, a senior UN aid official for the occupied Palestinian territories, told reporters in Jerusalem on Wednesday: 'This new scheme is surveillance-based rationing that legitimises a policy of deprivation by design.' 'The UN has refused to participate in this scheme, warning that it is logistically unworkable and violates humanitarian principles by using aid as a tool in Israel's broader efforts to depopulate areas of Gaza,' he said.
Telegraph
32 minutes ago
- Lifestyle
- Telegraph
Prince Harry has just done something so dim, I'm almost starting to like him
No doubt in my mind about the week's finest newspaper headline. It featured no tabloid-style puns or other verbal japery. It simply summed up the story in 11 exquisitely deadpan words. They were: 'Prince Harry flies from LA to Shanghai to promote greener travel.' Magnificent. But, at the same time, a tiny bit troubling. Because you've got to wonder: before dear Harry set off on the journey in question, did he not see such a headline coming? Did he not pause, just for a moment, and think: 'Hang on. I'm about to give a speech about saving the planet. But, in order to reach the venue at which I'll be speaking, I'll be getting into an aeroplane, and flying approximately 6,500 miles. Is there perhaps a small risk that headline-writers will try to make me look like some kind of comical hypocrite?' Maybe he did ask himself this, and then earnestly considered the alternatives. Consulting an atlas will have revealed that cycling was sadly out of the question. He will have searched railway timetables in vain for a direct service from California to eastern China. And, fit though he is for a man in his 40s, even he might have struggled to swim. In Harry's defence, he wasn't calling for air travel to be banned, or reserved for the exclusive use of Montecito-dwelling memoirists. His speech was about the need, in his words, to 'put trusted sustainability information into the hands of travellers, empowering them to make more informed choices'. Which I think means stuff like telling them to compare the carbon emissions of available flights, and choose the one with the lowest. I'm sure he means well. But in the grand scheme of things it sounds pretty futile. I mean, if you truly believed that air travel was destroying the planet, surely you'd just stop doing it. And in no circumstances would you use a private jet, as certain prominent semi-royals have occasionally been reported to do. At the very least, though, you'd say to yourself: 'Hang on. I don't need to fly 6,500 miles to give this speech. Because apparently there's been a remarkable new technological breakthrough known as the 'video call'. So, to demonstrate my selfless commitment to saving the planet, I'll use it to give my speech from home.' Harry, however, didn't do this. Which suggests to me that he simply has no idea how daft he looks.
Telegraph
32 minutes ago
- Business
- Telegraph
Jack Mosley: ‘People who never knew my dad felt like they had lost a friend'
The lucky among us cite our parents as inspirational figures in our lives, but for Dr Jack Mosley, 32, it's a sentiment that is particularly true. His father, the late Dr Michael Mosley, was the nation's trusted authority on how we should be improving our health, sharing his evidence-backed advice through television documentaries, books and his Just One Thing podcast until he died of suspected heatstroke last June while on holiday in Greece. Weight loss was a theme that ran through his projects – from playing the guinea pig for intermittent fasting and ingesting tapeworms in a bid to lose fat, to writing books that popularised the 5:2 and Fast 800 diets, which helped the masses shift the scales. Now, seven years after becoming a doctor and a year on from his father's death, his son Jack, the only one of his four children to become a doctor, is continuing to follow in his father's footsteps with his book Food Noise. It navigates the new world of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, better known as Wegovy, Ozempic (technically a Type 2 diabetes drug) and Mounjaro. He explores how they work, the risks and benefits, and how to use them safely. 'My dad was clearly a massive inspiration to me,' Jack says. 'He would have written a book on weight loss medications had he not passed away.' The book is dedicated to Michael, whom Jack describes as a 'guiding light'. 'He could see that the GLP-1s could be a massive breakthrough in obesity,' he says. 'We talked about them around the dinner table. He was very excited about them but could see they were a tool in the toolbox to combat obesity, rather than replacing the toolbox altogether.' 'When he passed away, we ourselves as a family didn't really know the scale of how many people he made such a difference to,' Jack says. 'People who never knew him felt like they had lost a friend. I think that was such a testament to how much help he gave to so many people.' Jack spoke to his mother, the GP Dr Clare Bailey Mosley, brothers Alex, 34, and Dan, 30, both management consultants in the City, and sister Kate, 25, a lawyer, about how best to continue his legacy of helping people to improve their health. The book was born out of that discussion. 'One of the ways was to spread his message through Food Noise,' he says. It became a family project – he planned out the chapters with his mum during a packed train journey through Austria, and she contributed 50 recipes for it. 'I thought I couldn't beat the skinny gene' Outside of discussions with his father, Jack had developed his own interest in Britain's obesity crisis and weight loss while studying medicine at Newcastle University, where he wrote his dissertation on diabetes with a particular focus on weight loss maintenance. 'One of the things that most interested me is the fact that a poor diet – now the number-one risk factor for early death worldwide – is at the heart of so many chronic diseases,' he says. Then, while working as a junior doctor, the naturally slim-built Jack experienced first hand how easy it was to pile on weight. He gained 2st 5lb (15kg) in his first year working in a hospital, bringing his weight to 15st 11lb (100kg), which he puts down to stress, over-zealous snacking habits and a lack of exercise. 'I thought I couldn't beat the skinny gene, but it turns out that I could put on weight much more easily than I thought,' he says. 'I was really stressed, as I was trying to work out my place in the hospital – no amount of medical school can teach you what it's actually like to work as a junior doctor. 'The other thing was that I had a long commute in the car. I was driving over an hour there and sometimes more than an hour back home. I got into the habit of munching on sweets in the car. Like my dad, I have a sweet tooth.' Haribos were a particular vice, as was snacking on chocolate generously gifted by patients and feasting on a family-sized bag of Doritos with salsa on the sofa, which he could get through 'in half an hour'. 'Then, I'd be having these beige lunches with my colleagues – hospital canteens are not known for their good food,' he says. 'I managed to get my first two fillings,' Jack says. 'My fiancée is a dentist, so I wasn't too impressed by that.' However, he shed the weight quickly after he settled into his job, returned to planning his meals more carefully, started exercising regularly and banned himself from buying large packets of sweets. 'I know I'll just eat the whole thing in an hour, so I'll buy sweets sometimes but a smaller pack,' he adds. Obesity crisis 'is not a collapse in willpower' While he is now a healthy weight, Jack is in the minority. More than half the population (64 per cent) are now overweight or obese. 'In the 1960s, 1 or 2 per cent of people in the UK were living with obesity – now it is 30 per cent,' Jack notes. 'This is not a collapse in willpower; there has to be something going on in the environment for this to happen.' Instead, it's a result of the dramatic change in how we're exposed to food on a daily basis. There has been an explosion in the mass manufacturing of cheap, highly calorific and highly palatable food; snacking (unheard of in the 1960s) has become the norm; and there's a fast food outlet on seemingly every street, as Jack details in the book. 'A lot of people do have good intentions to stick to a healthy diet, but in this food environment, that can be so easily derailed,' he says. 'We're surrounded by foods that are designed to be over-eaten. They're designed to reach the bliss point, where you have this perfect combination of sugar, salt, starchy carbs, fat and flavourings that just sends our brains haywire. 'A lot of these foods are actually really addictive and they light up the pleasure centres in our brain in a similar way that smoking or alcohol do.' The weight-loss jabs silencing 'food noise' The term 'food noise' has gained popularity against this backdrop of the obesity crisis and the rise of weight-loss drugs, which work by effectively 'muting' our desire to be constantly eating. 'Food noise is not a scientific term,' Jack notes. 'It refers to your cravings, your internal food monologue. It's that constant chatter about food. It can be that voice that's telling you to grab that extra slice of chocolate cake or packet of crisps, sometimes even when you're not hungry.' While some people rarely 'hear' food noise, others live with constant thoughts about their next meal, imagining the taste of food and wanting to eat, he says. While food noise is key to our survival – it tells us when we're hungry and need to eat for fuel – it is also the driving force behind overeating, he explains. 'Weight-loss drugs brought the term to prominence because they are so effective at silencing, or at least quietening, that food noise, because they work not just by reducing your appetite but also reducing your cravings,' he says. He notes that some users have reported not only being drawn to healthier foods but feeling nauseated at the thought of consuming alcohol or their favourite sugary, fatty food. 'I like to look at these drugs like noise-cancelling headphones, so you put them on, you can go about your day, you can ignore the siren call of processed junk,' he says. 'But when you stop the medication, this all comes racing back, so it's really important that you get the right nutritional strategies to quieten that food naturally.' 'I adopt a diet-first approach,' he says. While taking the drugs, and after coming off of them, he recommends following the Mediterranean diet, including plenty of vegetables, protein and fermented food, and exercising regularly, particularly strength-based workouts to maintain and increase muscle mass. 'I think that these medications are for people who are living with obesity and potentially obesity-related diseases,' Jack notes. 'People who are regarded as more of a healthy weight should not be taking these drugs. They're not a cosmetic drug and they're not a drug to get you 'beach body ready'.' Treating obesity on the front line Jack has now been a doctor for seven years, starting off in A&E in the north-west of England, and then taking on emergency units in Melbourne and the Australian Outback, before returning to the UK to work as a GP registrar, a role that sees many patients enter the treatment room because of weight-related conditions. 'There is a huge amount of disease related to obesity, and we see them all the time,' he says. 'A lot of primary care is treating these diseases before they become raging infernos.' Heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, obstructive sleep apnoea and dementia are just some of the conditions that are being fuelled by Britain's bulging waistline. 'A lot of these diseases are linked to inflammation, which can be as a result of obesity, poor diet and a lack of exercise,' he explains. 'Inflammation in the body is like a smouldering fire that's just slowly damaging your organs and body over time.' 'There has been a rise in colon cancer, especially in younger people and realistically, that is very likely to be tied to the rise in processed junk foods and all this inflammation going on in the body,' Jack adds. 'Many of these diseases can be prevented by following a healthy lifestyle,' he notes. Continuing the legacy Food Noise became an instant Sunday Times bestseller, of which Michael had nine in his lifetime. 'I'm absolutely delighted about that,' Jack says. '[My mother] was so happy, she was really, really pleased, and it's been really nice to be able to work with her on some of this,' he says. Looking forward, he plans to keep working part-time as a GP registrar but has his sights on future books and projects related to how we can be living healthier lives. 'I absolutely loved writing this book,' he says. 'I'm thinking about diet and exercise, and even things like sleep. I think that's something that hasn't had enough focus until more recently, especially within medicine itself. We'll see what the future holds.'
Telegraph
32 minutes ago
- Health
- Telegraph
The touching family story powering Jack Draper through French Open
The first factoid people usually quote about Jack Draper is that his father Roger used to be the chief executive of the Lawn Tennis Association. But Roger was absent from the player box on Tuesday for Draper's maiden victory at the French Open. Instead, the seats were occupied by Jack's brother Ben, his mother Nicky and his grandfather Chris Entract. There is another family narrative here, running alongside the LTA one, and it relates to the awful illness that has robbed Chris's wife Brenda of her memory. The trauma of her condition has led Jack to become an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society. In December, he organised a 'memory walk' along the banks of the Thames in her honour. It was Brenda who shaped the whole family's love affair with tennis. As a coach in the Dorset town of Dorchester, she helped train up her children – Nicky and Jonathan – to become outstanding juniors. Then she moved on to the next generation. As Jack has explained: 'My nan and grandpa used to take me to lots of tournaments. They were a huge part of my development, always supportive.' But then, despite her healthy and athletic lifestyle, Brenda began to become forgetful. The decline grew steeper until she couldn't recognise her own grandchildren. 'It started around 11 years ago,' Draper has said. 'It was hard to understand that as a 13-year-old. I didn't really get the severity of it. 'There's many stages to Alzheimer's. At first, you're not thinking properly, and you lose your memory. Then the worst stage is when you're physically capable, but you're angry. 'There's many different stages that I've watched her go through, like not wanting to get in the shower. And then it's like, 'How do you get this strong woman into the shower every day?' It's impossible. And so carers like my grandad, he's an absolute hero to keep on doing what he's doing, just putting one foot in front of the other.' 'I want to honour all the carers' Draper takes his role with the Alzheimer's Society very seriously. Indeed, he credits it with boosting his motivation on the court. As he said on the memory walk: 'It's such an important cause because it's about honouring my grandad, honouring all the carers, the people who are stuck in this situation. 'As a tennis player, it's an individual sport, and we always focus on ourselves. So it's important for me, especially as my career progresses, to have a purpose outside of my tennis as well. 'I just feel like I'm doing something apart from hitting a decent tennis ball. I have other things I'm trying to support and other things I'm trying to raise awareness for.' Sadly, Brenda is now effectively a blank slate. Alzheimer's has robbed her of any agency, so that – in Jack's words – 'she's not in any pain, she's pretty content, but she just sits there needing to be fed, doesn't know anything'. For Chris to come to Paris this week, the family have had to find other carers to take over the job. 'He is having a little bit of a holiday,' Jack said this week. 'Hopefully, he will stay out. It gives him so much excitement. It is nice for me to have him here, inspiring for sure. 'He's always on the live ranking, watching my tennis. He's obsessed with it. He knows everything that is going on around the world, on the tours, and he knows what all the Brits are up to. He just loves tennis. So to have him here is a massive, massive thing for me.' On Tuesday, Chris and the rest of the Draper clan were able to enjoy Jack's first-round match, which delivered an increasingly impressive four-set win over his junior contemporary Mattia Bellucci. That was on the lovely Court Suzanne-Lenglen, the second-string arena at Roland Garros. Next up for Draper – who is now guaranteed to climb to No 4 in the world when the next set of rankings are published in 10 days' time – will be a debut on the main stage: Court Philippe-Chatrier. He has been scheduled to play Thursday's night-session match against home favourite Gael Monfils: a contest which could easily turn into one of the rowdiest and most partisan occasions of the week. As for Roger Draper, he might be popping in later in the tournament, but for now, he is busy playing a veterans' clay-court event in Bournemouth. Although he and Nicky are no longer married, tennis remains essential to the lives of both Drapers and Entracts.
Telegraph
32 minutes ago
- Politics
- Telegraph
The cyber hub guiding UK flagship through perilous waters
At the British military's cyber headquarters in Wiltshire there is one critical task on everyone's minds: ensuring the safety of Carrier Strike Group 2025. This week, HMS Prince of Wales transits through the Bab-el-Mandeb in the Red Sea – the most perilous passage it will undertake on its eight-month mission. John Healey, the Defence Secretary, is all too aware of the dangers facing the £3 billion aircraft carrier and its group of support vessels. The area has suffered sustained Houthi attacks for over a year with the Royal Navy actively involved. Meeting members of the Royal Navy, who are based at MoD Corsham, the UK's military cyber HQ, Mr Healey spoke with personnel who are monitoring Operation Highmast, as it is known, around the clock to ensure its safety. In a room with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that overlook huge digital boards covered with information pertaining to the movements of the strike group (CSG), Mr Healey asked those gathered: 'What preparations did you do to make sure they were secure before going into this area?' It was explained they had 'gameplanned situations' to ensure they felt confident with a number of scenarios should the group encounter any trouble with the Iranian-backed Houthis. Mr Healey took his hat off to their efforts, saying work in the cyber field was all the more important because 'we don't see it'. 'We have to protect CSG in the next few days,' Mr Healey told one sailor. 'It will be a really dangerous high-risk passage', he said, adding that he was aware the 2,100 British military personnel involved in the mission were being 'digitally protected'. One important element of this is keeping an eye on phishing campaigns, which can happen at sea because personnel are connected to the internet. When asked by The Telegraph if he was concerned about the threats CSG might encounter, Mr Healey said: 'The Carrier Strike Group is in a high risk area. We know that, they know that, they are fully trained for that and they are as well prepared and well protected as they can be, physically, militarily and digitally and in cyber.' A senior defence source involved in operations at MoD Corsham warned: 'Houthis are well resourced by Iranians. They have offensive cyber capability.' When CSG set sail for the Indo-Pacific from Portsmouth last month, Commodore James Blackmore, in charge of the group, told The Telegraph he was ready to undertake any route required and would engage in active combat in the Red Sea if required. 'That's what a Carrier Strike Group does, that focus on that middle word, 'strike',' he said. 'I know I've got to transit through the Red Sea. I'm acutely aware of the dynamics that are associated with the Red Sea at the moment. I am always prepared and ready to not only defend myself but also any stage in this deployment if I am asked to undertake combat operations, I am absolutely ready.' From a practical point of view, those working at MoD Corsham are also on-call to help if something goes wrong. 'If something breaks down on the ship, we get notified and fix it here,' one naval officer said. On the walls on either side of the digital boards mapping the strike group's movements, clocks dedicated to telling the time of Op Highmast tick away. Men and women in dark blue Navy uniforms circulate the floor, but there are also many in civilian clothing, some sipping Monster energy drinks as they hunch over computers – staff no doubt brought in for their cyber expertise, something the MoD is actively recruiting for. Earlier this year, the MoD announced that military recruits will be fast-tracked into specialist roles to tackle the growing cyber threat to the UK through the Cyber Direct Entry programme. They were told that not only would starting salaries begin over £40,000, with potential for up to £25,000 in additional skills pay, but that there was no requirement to serve in dangerous environments or handle weapons. The days when all British military personnel were hyper-fit and able to handle weapons are being left behind as cyber dominates the landscape. As part of the highly anticipated Strategic Defence Review, which will be published on Monday, the digital realm will be put front and centre as the MoD seeks to explain how defence will look over the next decade. A senior defence source from MoD Corsham explained the importance of developing AI systems for the front line. He stressed they would not seek to replace traditional weapons systems such as tanks and aircraft, but complement them. 'At the moment we put people into places without all the information which would give them the greatest advantage on the battlefield,' he said. 'Our approach around cyber will make sure all of them are fully integrated with wider operations. It's not about cyber winning the war. It's how cyber is a multiplier in the other domains.' The passage of Britain's flagship carrier will be a crucial test in Britain's ability to compete on the battlefield of the future.
