![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaClothes of French toddler Emile Soleil found near remains in French AlpsPublished21 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, @GendarmerieImage caption, Emile Soleil had been dropped off at his grandparents’ house hours before he went missingBy Paul KirbyBBC NewsThree days after remains of a French boy were found along an Alpine path not far from where he disappeared nine months ago, police have found some of the clothes he was wearing close by.However, prosecutors say the mystery of Emile Soleil’s disappearance in July last year has still not been solved.A hiker found a skull and some teeth on Saturday, about 25 minutes’ walk from the village where he was last seen.The skull was quickly matched to the missing boy’s DNA.Now a T-shirt, shoes and shorts that Emile was wearing on the day he vanished have been recovered, scattered over a small area about 150m (500ft) from where his remains were found.Details of the new find came from local public prosecutor Jean-Luc Blanchon, who said Emile’s death was still unexplained. It is still unknown if Emile Soleil was the victim of an accident or a crime.”These bones by themselves do not allow us to say what the cause of Emile’s death is,” he told reporters. “Between a fall, manslaughter or murder, no theory can be treated as more likely than another.”Emile, who was two-and-a-half, had been in the village of Haut-Vernet in south-east France for just a few hours when he went missing. His disappearance has been a cause celebre in France ever since.He had gone to stay at his grandparents’ holiday home in Haut-Vernet, a village of 25 people at an altitude of 1,200m (4,000ft) on the slopes of the Massif des Trois-Evêchés mountain range. He was last sighted by neighbours walking on the only street in the village in a yellow T-shirt and white shorts at 17:15 on Saturday 8 July.Despite long and widespread searches of the entire area, no trace of the boy was found.Two days after a re-enactment of his disappearance last Thursday involving 17 people, a local woman out walking just over a kilometre from Haut-Vernet stumbled on some of his remains.”This heart-breaking news was feared, and the time has come for mourning, contemplation and prayer,” the child’s parents said in a statement.The child’s skull was sent away for analysis by forensic teams. Sniffer dogs, soldiers, police and firefighters scoured the area for more evidence. Image source, NICOLAS TUCAT/AFPImage caption, Only 25 people live in Haut-Vernet where Emile disappearedJean-Luc Blanchon told a news conference on Tuesday that the skull had sustained “small fractures and cracks” after the boy’s death, as well as bites from one or more animals.”No trauma has been observed [on the skull] ante-mortem,” he stressed, adding that it was clear the remains had not been buried in the ground.What remains a mystery is why the boy’s skull and clothing had not been detected earlier. The rest of his remains are yet to be found.A spokeswoman for France’s gendarmerie (military police) has already suggested the bones could have been placed there by a person or an animal, or they could have been shifted by changing weather conditions. Or they could have been missed entirely during the extensive searches of the area last summer.The public prosecutor said the female hiker had found the bones between 12:00 and 14:00 on Saturday afternoon on a “narrow, forest path” which she remembered walking on more than a month earlier. The clothes were found further away, close to a stream, he explained.”We cannot be sure Emile’s body was already present in the search area,” said the prosecutor, or “that every square metre was covered by a member of the search teams”. He also made the point that because the original search took place when the undergrowth was especially thick, it was possible the summer temperatures could have affected the sniffer-dogs.He accepted that his conclusions would not satisfy anybody, including Emile’s family and investigators, and said the search would resume on the ground, probably on Wednesday.Related TopicsAlpsFranceMore on this storyFrench toddler’s remains found but death a mysteryPublished1 day agoTop StoriesLive. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaClothes of French toddler Emile Soleil found near remains in French AlpsPublished21 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, @GendarmerieImage caption, Emile Soleil had been dropped off at his grandparents’ house hours before he went missingBy Paul KirbyBBC NewsThree days after remains of a French boy were found along an Alpine path not far from where he disappeared nine months ago, police have found some of the clothes he was wearing close by.However, prosecutors say the mystery of Emile Soleil’s disappearance in July last year has still not been solved.A hiker found a skull and some teeth on Saturday, about 25 minutes’ walk from the village where he was last seen.The skull was quickly matched to the missing boy’s DNA.Now a T-shirt, shoes and shorts that Emile was wearing on the day he vanished have been recovered, scattered over a small area about 150m (500ft) from where his remains were found.Details of the new find came from local public prosecutor Jean-Luc Blanchon, who said Emile’s death was still unexplained. It is still unknown if Emile Soleil was the victim of an accident or a crime.”These bones by themselves do not allow us to say what the cause of Emile’s death is,” he told reporters. “Between a fall, manslaughter or murder, no theory can be treated as more likely than another.”Emile, who was two-and-a-half, had been in the village of Haut-Vernet in south-east France for just a few hours when he went missing. His disappearance has been a cause celebre in France ever since.He had gone to stay at his grandparents’ holiday home in Haut-Vernet, a village of 25 people at an altitude of 1,200m (4,000ft) on the slopes of the Massif des Trois-Evêchés mountain range. He was last sighted by neighbours walking on the only street in the village in a yellow T-shirt and white shorts at 17:15 on Saturday 8 July.Despite long and widespread searches of the entire area, no trace of the boy was found.Two days after a re-enactment of his disappearance last Thursday involving 17 people, a local woman out walking just over a kilometre from Haut-Vernet stumbled on some of his remains.”This heart-breaking news was feared, and the time has come for mourning, contemplation and prayer,” the child’s parents said in a statement.The child’s skull was sent away for analysis by forensic teams. Sniffer dogs, soldiers, police and firefighters scoured the area for more evidence. Image source, NICOLAS TUCAT/AFPImage caption, Only 25 people live in Haut-Vernet where Emile disappearedJean-Luc Blanchon told a news conference on Tuesday that the skull had sustained “small fractures and cracks” after the boy’s death, as well as bites from one or more animals.”No trauma has been observed [on the skull] ante-mortem,” he stressed, adding that it was clear the remains had not been buried in the ground.What remains a mystery is why the boy’s skull and clothing had not been detected earlier. The rest of his remains are yet to be found.A spokeswoman for France’s gendarmerie (military police) has already suggested the bones could have been placed there by a person or an animal, or they could have been shifted by changing weather conditions. Or they could have been missed entirely during the extensive searches of the area last summer.The public prosecutor said the female hiker had found the bones between 12:00 and 14:00 on Saturday afternoon on a “narrow, forest path” which she remembered walking on more than a month earlier. The clothes were found further away, close to a stream, he explained.”We cannot be sure Emile’s body was already present in the search area,” said the prosecutor, or “that every square metre was covered by a member of the search teams”. He also made the point that because the original search took place when the undergrowth was especially thick, it was possible the summer temperatures could have affected the sniffer-dogs.He accepted that his conclusions would not satisfy anybody, including Emile’s family and investigators, and said the search would resume on the ground, probably on Wednesday.Related TopicsAlpsFranceMore on this storyFrench toddler’s remains found but death a mysteryPublished1 day agoTop StoriesLive. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaIsrael Gaza: US weapons to Israel a sign of thaw in strained tiesPublished41 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage source, EPAImage caption, Israel has insisted it will attack Rafah, dismissing international concern that it would cause untold suffering amongst a large number of peopleBy Yolande KnellBBC News, JerusalemDespite a week of tensions with Israel over its conduct of the Gaza War, Washington is reported to have authorised arms transfers to its ally worth billions of dollars. These include more than 1,800 MK84 2,000lb (900kg) bombs and 500 MK82 500lb bombs, as well as 25 F35A fighter jets, The Washington Post and Reuters news agency have said.The larger bombs have previously been linked to air strikes in Gaza causing mass casualties.Washington gives $3.8bn (£3bn) in annual military assistance to Israel.But the latest package comes as the Biden administration has been raising concerns about rising civilian deaths in Gaza and humanitarian access to the territory, which the UN says is on the verge of famine.The administration has also said it “cannot support” an anticipated large-scale Israeli ground offensive in Rafah on the Egypt border, where there are more than a million displaced people.The Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs in Ramallah criticised the US for inconsistencies in its positions. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, it said: “demanding [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu to stop killing civilians and supplying him with weapons is an unprecedented principled and moral contradiction”.Image source, ReutersImage caption, New talks on the release of Israeli hostages and a truce with Hamas are being heldNews of the arms transfers emerged on the same day that President Joe Biden spoke of “the path being felt by so many in the Arab-American community with the war in Gaza”.The arms transfers have also been strongly criticised by some senior members of the president’s Democratic party who have been calling for US military aid to be limited or conditional on changes in how Israel conducts military operations. The US State Department told the BBC that it was unable to confirm potential or pending US arms transfers before Congress was formally notified. Quoting Pentagon and State Department officials, the Washington Post reported that the extra warplanes being sent to Israel were initially approved as part of a larger package by Congress in 2008 and had been requested last year – in advance of the deadly 7 October attacks by Hamas which triggered the Gaza war.When Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant went to Washington last week, it was said he had taken a long list of US weapons his country wanted to receive in an expedited manner.Gaza starvation could amount to war crime, UN human rights chief tells BBCWhy are Israel and Hamas fighting in Gaza?Stories of the hostages taken by Hamas from IsraelDuring the war Israel, though itself a major weapons exporter, has been heavily reliant on American air defences and munitions. Tens of thousands of bombs have been dropped on Gaza, with military experts saying the aerial campaign has been one of the most intense and destructive in recent history.Late last year, analysis of bomb craters from satellite imagery drew major US news outlets to conclude that Israel had routinely used its biggest 2000-pound (900kg) bombs.The New York Times quoted explosives experts who said that while bombs of that size were used by several Western militaries, they were almost never dropped by US forces in densely populated areas anymore.Meeting top US officials, Mr Gallant stressed the need to preserve his country’s qualitative military edge in the Middle East and prepare for a possible escalation in fighting with the powerful Lebanese armed group, Hezbollah. He also sought to ease tensions with his country’s most important ally, which had sunk to their lowest point of the Gaza war after the US abstained from a key UN Security Council vote on Monday. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, reacted angrily when this allowed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire to pass. This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, Aid worker in Gaza: People are ‘desperate, eating anything they can find’In the wake of the vote, White House spokesman John Kirby had rejected claims that the US had changed its position and denied that it was ready to start conditioning aid to Israel. “It’s not about trying to use some sort of power dynamics here with our good friend and ally, Israel. It’s about helping them defend themselves,” he told journalists. “We still have Israel’s back. As you and I are speaking, we are still providing tools, capabilities, and weapons systems so that Israel can defend itself against what we agree is still a viable threat [from] Hamas.”Since the new arms transfers were reportedly given the green light, there have been signs that relations between Israel and the US have eased. A high-level Israeli delegation is now expected to travel to Washington to discuss possible alternative plans for operations against Hamas in Rafah. The trip had previously been cancelled by Mr Netanyahu in response to the UN Security Council ceasefire vote. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaIsrael-Gaza war: Gazan girl begs rescuers to save brother first as entire family killedPublished1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warThis video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, ‘I wish for death’ – 12-year-old orphan in GazaBy Orla GuerinSenior International Correspondent, JerusalemIn video recorded by a Palestinian rescuer, a shout comes from under mounds of smashed concrete.”I’m Alma.” “Don’t help me first. Help my mum and dad. And please help my brother Tarazan. He’s a baby, 18 months old.”It’s morning on 2 December 2023, and 12-year old Alma Jaroor has been buried under the rubble of a five-storey building in downtown Gaza City for over three hours. “I want to see my brothers and sister,” she shouts. “I have missed them.”But the rescuer reaches Alma first, and she clambers out – unaided – from between jagged slabs of concrete and twisted metal bars. She is coated in dust but has no major injuries. They ask where her family is. She points to the rubble on her right and left.Warning: This article contains details some readers may find disturbingThree months on, Alma tells the BBC her story, at length and in detail. Her uncle Sami sits nearby. She is sheltering with him and his family in a tent in Rafah, in southern Gaza. Her words are a torrent of horror and loss.”I remember waking up under the rubble. I checked my iPad, and saw it was 09:00. I hoped my brother Tarazan would still be alive. I was calling out to him, and holding on to hope that one of them would be alive. “I could smell the blood. It was dripping on to me. I was screaming for anyone to rescue us. I was hearing others calling out as well.” But after Alma was rescued, she saw Tarazan’s remains. Image source, Family handoutImage caption, Alma (L) and Tarazan, her 18-month-old brother”I lifted the blanket that was covering him. I found him in an unimaginable state,” she says, “his head severed.” At this she falls silent, haunted by what she cannot unsee.”I wish for death after seeing my brother like that,” she says. “He was only 18 months old. What has he done in this war?” Tarazan was not her only loss. Her entire family was gone, killed side by side – her parents Mohammed, 35, and Naeema, 38; brothers Ghanem, 14, and Kinan, 6; and sister Reehab, 11. Alma’s parents had tried hard to outrun Israel’s bombardment and keep their children safe. She tells us the first area the family fled to was bombed, and the second. And in the third place, the bomb landed on them.Relatives say the building where they were sleeping was brought down by an Israeli air strike. The Israeli army told us it could not comment on this claim without co-ordinates for the building. Image source, Family handoutImage caption, Alma (R) with her sister Reehab (C) and brother Ghanem (L)”We were happy together as a family,” Alma says. “We used to hug each other when we were scared. I wish I could hold them all. I didn’t have enough time with them.”And she is still waiting to bury them. Only Tarazan’s body was recovered.”There were 140 refugees [Gazans displaced by the war] in the building, and only some of the bodies have been found,” she says. “My family’s bodies are decomposing under the rubble. I long to see them and give them a proper burial.”At times, Alma can forget – just for a moment – all she has lost.She sits on the cold floor of the tent with her young cousins. They are fashioning a kite from scraps of plastic and imagination. Alma joins in, chatting and smiling. She no longer cries all the time, she says, because she knows that her parents are “happy in heaven”.She has found comfort with her uncle Sami’s family, but not safety. Image caption, Alma now lives with her uncle Sami and her cousinsLike every child in Gaza, she could be killed at any minute. Especially vulnerable are those in Rafah, where Israel continues to threaten a ground assault. It is home to 1.4 million Palestinians.The war in Gaza was sparked by the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October, which killed around 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians.Since then, the children of Gaza have paid a terrible price.The United Nations children’s agency, Unicef, says 13,000 children in Gaza have been killed by Israel since the war began, a rate of killing it describes as “staggering”. Health ministry officials in the Hamas-run territory say that the overall death toll in the war is at least 31,923 people. The World Health Organization regards their figures as “credible” and says the real figures could be even higher.Israel says it does all it can to minimise civilian casualties. Palestinians counter that many bombs have been dropped on residential buildings teeming with the displaced, killing families like Alma’s.Her relatives share a photo with us. It shows Alma smiling broadly, surrounded by a group of six young cousins. All are now dead, except for her. They were killed in the 2 December attack, along with her immediate family.Image source, Family handoutImage caption, Alma, standing in the centre, with the cousins that were also killed in the reported air strikeAnd how many Almas are there now, robbed of their mothers and fathers? The war has created at least 20,000 orphans as of the end of February, according to preliminary information gathered by researchers from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. It is an independent non-governmental organisation supported by the EU which works on the ground in Gaza.The real number may be higher, according to the centre, but that can’t be confirmed because of the difficulty and danger of accessing information in Gaza.On a patch of dirt, between rows of tents, Alma plays hopscotch with her uncle Sami’s children, leaping from square to square. She looks happy and relaxed. It’s another moment of forgetting.Before the war took everything, she liked to sing, and was hoping to become a doctor – as her father wanted her to. “I had dreams that I wanted to achieve,” Alma says, “but now I have no more dreams. I feel pain in my heart and it will stay with me for the rest of my life, because they were my family, my parents, my sister and brothers. And they were all gone, in one night.”All Alma wants is to escape from Gaza and reach her grandmother, who lives abroad. “I want to go to her, and hug her, and feel safe,” she says.Additional reporting by Wietske Burema, Goktay Koraltan and Haneen AbdeenRelated TopicsIsrael & the PalestiniansIsrael-Gaza warGazaMore on this story’He will come back’ – Israeli hostage families cling to hope, and demand a dealPublished6 days agoGaza widows and orphans struggle with loss in makeshift campPublished5 MarchGaza children search for food to keep families alivePublished26 FebruaryTop StoriesLive. 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