The singing had been playing for five and a half hours by the time firefighters managed to stop it.

The toddler was put through an ancient and rigorous selection process.

'The scene was horrific. We all froze from that first moment we stepped into the pit and saw so many corpses superficially buried there.'

'We're looking forward to seeing our children.'

The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has surpassed 65,000.