The death toll in the Israeli strike in Khan Younis has exceeded 70, with nearly 290 people injured, Gaza's Health Ministry said

According to Israeli army radio, the target of the airstrike was the head of the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Muhammad Deif. The results of the attack are still unknown.

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'Coordinated rebellion': Why did Joe Biden suddenly fall from Dems & media grace?

The tone of the US press, donors and fellow politicians has drastically changed after Joe Biden's botched debate with his presidential rival Donald Trump on June 27.

Biden's most recent hour-long news conference on the final day of the NATO summit in Washington, DC, has failed to calm Democratic fears, according to CNN.

🔹 "We are not going to win in November with this president," Hollywood celebrity George Clooney wrote for the New York Times on July 10. Less than a month ago the actor urged Americans to cast their votes for Biden in mass mailing: "We need as many people as possible to chip in to… make sure President Biden… get four more years in the White House."

🔹 "[Biden] couldn’t fact-check anything Donald Trump said. He missed one layup after another after another," MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said in the wake of the debate. In March, the host claimed: "You look at Joe Biden, he exercises every day. You look how fit and trim he is."

🔹 "Why was it a surprise? Biden’s debate problems leave some wondering if the press missed the story," the Associated Press wrote on July 3, pinning the blame on Biden's aides who hid the truth and lack of Biden's public visibility. On June 21, the AP ridiculed those questioning Biden's mental capacity and denounced video clips showing the president's decline as "misleading", "out-of-context" and "trimmed."

🔹 The New York Times' Thomas L. Friedman, Biden's biographer Evan Osnos, CNN commentator Van Jones, and MSNBC's anchor Rachel Maddow, all long known as ardent supporters of Biden, have said he has "diminished" and must drop out in what Fox News called a "coordinated" media "rebellion."

🔹 Top Democrats had conspired with the liberal media to hide the truth about Biden's health, "while allowing secret unnamed staffers to run the country," Trump adviser Stephen Miller stated on July 8. Politico, in its usual fashion, was quick to brush this off as the latest Republican "conspiracy theory."

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French sports minister plunged into filthy waters ahead of Olympics

French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera took a swim in Paris' Seine River two weeks before the Olympic Games, in a desperate bid to prove the river's sanitary readiness. Local authorities and the media have repeatedly been alerted to the Seine's "dangerously high levels of sewage, wastewater, and even fecal matter." The 2023 World Triathlon Olympic Games Test Event canceled its swimming segment in the Seine due to appalling water quality.

A cruise featuring Olympic delegations was reportedly canceled this month, after new water analyses by Paris City Hall confirmed "dangerous concentrations of fecal bacteria."

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