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| - We are offering the following Editor's Choice stories which have been selected by AFP's chief editors for re-publication as some of the best of the week: + Israel's 'mixed' Jewish-Arab cities pay price of conflict + 'No one left but you': Bereaved Gaza father clutches wounded baby boy + Malnutrition strikes children in DR Congo's fragile Kasai region + In Colombia, cattle farmer declares truce with jaguar + Conspiracy epidemic, born in US, spreads in Europe Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Lod,SCENE LOD, Israel For years, Jews and Arabs have lived together in the central Israeli city of Lod. This week everything fell apart, leaving a man dead, a synagogue torched and neighbours facing off in hatred. 650 words by Majeda El-Batsh and Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Gaza,SCENE GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Inside a Gaza hospital, Mohammad al-Hadidi cradled his baby boy Omar -- his only surviving child after Israeli air strikes killed his wife and four other sons in the night. "I have no one left in the world but you," the 37-year-old father said. 550 words by Yahya Hassouna and Mai Yaghi. Picture. Video DRCongo-children-malnutrition,FOCUS MBUJI-MAYI, DR Congo Claudine Kamwanya's twins are barely two but have the ethereal look of the very old. "How can I satisfy their hunger?" Kamwanya asks helplessly. "My husband doesn't work and I sell only water." Acute malnutrition stalks the diamond-rich but fragile Kasai region in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- the world's worst-hit country in terms of food insecurity, according to the UN. 850 words by Marthe Bosuandole. Picture. Video Colombia-environment-animal-agriculture,FOCUS HATO COROZAL, Colombia On the plains of eastern Colombia, an age-old conflict between man and beast plays out near-daily. Jaguars attack cattle. Farmers retaliate with shotguns. 700 words by Juan Sebastian Serrano. Pictures and Video by Raul Arboleda Health-virus-France-Netherlands-Germany,SPECIAL REPORT PARIS Conspiracy theories, driven by the global health crisis, are taking root in Europe more than ever, drawing inspiration from the QAnon movement in the United States. 2,500 words by Pierre Donadieu, with Yann Schreiber in Stuttgart. Pictures by AFP bureaus. Video by Guillaume Bonnet. Graphic afp
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