This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Jalil and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 29th of November,

these are our main stories.

There are reports of heavy gunfire in the city of Janine in the occupied

West Bank as the Israeli army conducts an operation in the main refugee camp

there. A study by the European Union finds out who faces most online hate and abuse.

The party of the former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran says he stepped down as chairman to focus on his legal woes.

Also in this podcast, after Australia's prime minister apologizes for the Thalidomide scandal,

we hear how the drug continues to affect survivors.

It impacts every single minute of every single day of my life.

To do the simplest thing like brush my teeth, I stand on my left leg and raise my right leg and put it up onto the basin.

While the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas now into its sixth day appears to be holding in Gaza,

violence appears to be escalating in the other Palestinian territory, the occupied West Bank.

Officials there say two children have been killed in the city of Janine as Israeli troops continue

their military operation in the main refugee camp there. Soldiers are reported to have surrounded a house

and fired on the residence. Two people were detained. One of them is said to be a

member of an armed group called the Janine Battalion. Hospitals are also reported

to have been under siege. A senior official from the ruling FATA party in the West Bank,

Sabri Sedam, told my colleague Lucy Hockings about the impact the Israeli

operation was having there.

The situation is extremely dire.

The expansion of operation is in clear defiance of the truth that exists and the agreement of seizing

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