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VIDEO ▶️ https://youtu.be/LQCSaO3DMnk | One year ago, Palestinian militant group Hamas carried out the deadliest attack in Israeli history, triggering a war in Gaza. Israel's retaliatory military campaign has killed close to 42,000, according to the health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza, whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations. The war has left much of Gaza in ruins and has left its population of 2.4 million facing a dire humanitarian crisis. Fighting is now also spreading to other fronts in the region, notably to Lebanon, where Israel's battle with Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah is intensifying.
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PLAYLIST ▶️ u.afp.com/AFP80years | AFP is one of the world’s largest news agencies, with more than 1,700 journalists working in 150 countries. To mark our anniversary, we’re turning our cameras on our own journalists. They will tell you about the work they do, through their most memorable stories. Some covered the war in Ukraine, documented the beginning of a global pandemic, interviewed world leaders or reported on deforestation in the Amazon. Many have risked their lives several times. They did it all with one goal in mind: to provide the world with impartial and verified information.
You can find our journalists' stories across all our social media platforms from 9 September.
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📸Palestinian AFP photographer Mahmud Hams has won the prestigious Visa d'Or News prize for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza. Hams, who has worked for AFP in the Palestinian territory since 2003, relentlessly documented the war ignited by Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October. Having remained in Gaza for several months with no way to leave, Hams and his family evacuated the territory in February.
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📸 As the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games come to a close, bringing an end to a summer of sport in the French capital, here are some stand-out moments captured over 11 days of competition by AFP photographers:
1. France's Alexis Haunquinquant celebrates after crossing the finish line to win the Para Triathlon Men's PTS4 event.
2. US double amputee sprinter Hunter Woodhall celebrates his Paralympic gold in the T62 400 metres with his wife Olympic women's long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall.
3. Japan's Yuki Hasegawa (L) attempts to block US' Sarah Adam as they compete in the final match of the Open Wheelchair Rugby.
4. Gold medallists Brazil's Jerusa Geber dos Santos and her guide Gabriel Aparecido dos Santos Garcia compete in the women's 100m T11 final.
5. Brazilian swimmer Gabrielzinho celebrates his third Paris Paralympic gold medal win at the end of the men's 200 metres freestyle S2 final.
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📷 80 years ago, in the tumult of World War II, Agence France-Presse (AFP) was born. On 20 August 1944, after four years of German occupation, a group of Resistance journalists stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom in Paris. "Nobody moves, nobody leaves," shouted Claude Martial-Bourgeon, the eldest in the group. "From now on you work for France, and not the Germans." The building had once been home to Havas, the world’s first international news agency, and had been turned into a channel for Nazi propaganda. Five days later Paris was liberated and AFP journalist Basile Tesselin got the scoop. "General Leclerc entered Paris this morning, at 8:45...," he reported on 25 August. AFP's first stories were printed on early stencil duplication Roneo machines and distributed by cyclists to newspapers and Resistance offices across the city. In 2024, AFP is still headquartered at the same address, and has expanded to cover more than 150 countries, becoming one of the world's biggest news agencies.
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🥇 What was your favourite moment of the Olympics?
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📷 France bids a reluctant farewell to a fortnight of Olympic sport as athletes headed home from Paris praised a dazzling edition of the Games. Hollywood star Tom Cruise abseiled into the national stadium descending on a wire in front of 71,500 spectators, grabbed the Olympic flag and jumped onto a motorbike, to the delight of thousands of dancing athletes and awe-struck fans. American gymnastics icon Simone Biles joined Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass as the Olympic flag was formally handed over, also celebrating the United States coming out on top in the medal count. The final act of the Paris Olympics brought relief that an event foreshadowed by worries about terror attacks, strikes or protests had passed off with barely a hitch.
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📷 300 days of war in Gaza have left at least 39,480 people dead in the besieged territory, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run Strip. Most of Gaza's 2.4 million residents have been displaced multiple times and are facing a dire humanitarian situation. The assassination of Hamas's political leader Ismail Haniyeh in a 31 July strike in Iran has heightened regional tensions. The escalation has intensified concerns among Israelis over the fate of the 111 hostages still held in Gaza, including 39 confirmed dead by the Israeli military. As the war nears 10 months, no ceasefire deal is in sight. The war in Gaza erupted after members of the militant group Hamas carried out the worst attack in Israeli history on 7 October 2023. Israel responded with a devastating military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
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📷 The Olympic spotlight is finally set to fall on the French capital when the opening parade on the river Seine begins at 7:30 pm local time. Nearly 7,000 athletes will sail six kilometres down the Seine. A huge artistic display that will take place during the event has been kept tightly under wraps. Despite the excitement, expected showers and sabotage of the French rail network loom over the eve of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
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📷 AFP photojournalist Christina Assi carries the Olympic Flame outside Paris, almost a year after being gravely wounded while reporting in Lebanon. Assi was joined in the relay by AFP video colleague Dylan Collins, also hurt in the same incident. Assi said that she wished slain Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and other journalists killed in the fighting "were here to witness this today". The journalists also remembered Arman Soldin an AFP video journalist who was killed in 2023 while reporting in Ukraine.
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