A children’s birthday party is organised in front of the charity Save the Children International’s headquarters in London, on the day that Emily Hand, an Irish-Israeli girl taken hostage to Gaza on October 7, turns nine years old. Organiser Florit Shoihet says the families of those taken during the attack "feel the world is zipping away very quickly" while they still have no information about the situation of the 240 hostages, among them 40 children. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES