A broadcast engineer working for Al Jazeera lost 19 family members in the bombing of the largest refugee camp in Gaza by Israel during their ground battle targeting Hamas operatives.

Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan, who works at the Gaza bureau, lost his father, brother, two sisters, and eight nephews and nieces among other relatives in the Israeli air raids on Jabalia camp, Al Jazeera reported, condemning what it said was a “massacre” by the Israeli forces.

Days earlier, another Al Jazeera correspondent had lost his wife, son, daughter and grandson in Israeli air raid, the report said.

Israel, which has vowed to crush Hamas, said the strike on Jabalia camp killed 47 people, including a top Hamas commander who was involved in the October 7 attack that prompted Israel to declare a war against Hamas.

Palestinian authorities claimed over 50 have died in the refugee camp bombing.

The explosion hit the densely packed Jabalia camp just before nightfall with Israel saying its warplanes had struck a tunnel complex that killed several Hamas operatives, including commander Ibrahim Biari. Hamas has denied the presence any of its leaders at the camp.

An Israeli military spokesman said Biari played a pivotal role in the planning and execution of October 7 Hamas raids into Israel in which 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed.

Israel has expanded its ground operatives in Gaza and ruled out any ceasefire in its war against Hamas. The war began after Hamas launched a fierce rocket on Israel on October 7 and its operatives went on a rampage in border towns, killing and kidnapping civilians.

At least 230 hostages, who were dragged across the Gaza border from Israel, are still being held captive by Hamas.

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Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to turn X, formerly Twitter, into an “everything app” has for long sparked speculations about what the would encompass the “everything”. In a recent internal meet, the billionaire dropped a hint at an unlikely new feature for the micro-blogging site — dating.

Musk has in the past said that X needs to compete with sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, FaceTime as well as banking apps to become a one-stop solution for a user’s every need. Now, the Tesla CEO is also aiming to add a dating app-like feature for people to find love on the platform, a report by Verge said.

In an internal meet, which marked one year since Musk officially bought Twitter for $44 billion, the X owner along with CEO Linda Yaccarino told employees that the company is “rapidly transforming from Twitter 1.0, to the everything app.”

Referring to the recent X update, which allows verified organisations to post job listings, Musk said a person’s X posts can be “the biggest indicator” on whether they someone you’d want to hire.

“I think the same is true also on the romantic front. Finding someone on the platform. Obviously, I found someone and friends of mine have found people on the platform. And you can tell if you’re a good match based on what they write,” he said.

“So, X Dating around the corner then?,” asked Ms Yaccarino.

“Yeah. There’s already some stuff happening to some degree. But I think we might be able to improve the dating situation. Part of it is how do you discover interesting people? Discovery is tough,” Musk replied.

The tech billionaire’s Musk’s tumultuous takeover of Twitter last year has been marked by drastic changes in the platform including renaming it to X. Since he bought it, X has lost a majority of advertisers as well as many users and has seen a string of job cuts affecting even the most senior employees including the CEO.

The Manipur Police sent the reinforcements to the border town, 115 km from the state capital Imphal, after police officer Chingtham Anand was shot dead by an insurgent sniper while he was overseeing the construction of a helipad.A combined force of police commandos and the army’s Assam Rifles were ambushed at two places on the hilly Imphal-Moreh highway while they were going to the border town. Three police commandos were injured in the attack by insurgents.Subsequently, despite two ambushes in a single day, the police commandos pressed on towards Moreh and reached the border town by midnight, sources said. Night visuals show a long column of armoured SUVs and other vehicles entering Moreh.The Manipur government extended the mobile internet ban till November 5 to prevent law and order issues following the killing of the police officer, whose colleagues said they remember him as a pleasant, cheerful officer who maintained a good rapport with locals.The Manipur government in a statement after an emergency cabinet meeting yesterday said a first information report (FIR) has been filed against an organisation called ‘World Kuki-Zo Intellectual Council’ (WKZIC) for issuing a statement on October 24 asking “volunteers” in the Kuki-Zo community to take up arms.The WKZIC in the statement allegedly said the Kuki National Army and other insurgent groups cannot “join the war” due to the tripartite suspension of operations (SoO) agreement with the centre and the state government, so they needed “volunteers”.At least 25 Kuki insurgent groups have signed the SoO agreement, under which they have to stay at designated camps, and keep their weapons in locked storage for regular joint monitoring with the security forces.Kuki civil society groups, meanwhile, in statements alleged the ambushes were shoot-outs with village volunteers over alleged indiscriminate use of force by police commandos. The Kuki groups alleged the Manipur government has been pouring in state forces to Moreh to harass civilians and have demanded the centre to withdraw the police from the border town.Commandos of the Manipur Police have arrested at least 10 Myanmar nationals in as many days for looting homes of Moreh residents, who left the border town when ethnic clashes broke out on May 3 between the hill-majority Kuki tribes and the valley-majority Meiteis.Though the Manipur ethnic violence is said to be over the Meities’ demand for inclusion under the Scheduled Tribes category, many leaders including Union Minister Home Minister Amit Shah and Foreign Minister S Jaishankar have said entry of illegal immigrants is one of the main factors behind the unrest in the northeast state, which is ruled by the BJP.