Newspaper headlines: 'Holly quits' and 'Israel prepares ground invasion'

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By BBC News
Staff
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Israeli soldiers take position next to Kfar Aza kibbutz near the border with Gaza

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Israel's war with Hamas dominates coverage. The Guardian says the bodies of victims are still being recovered, four days after the attacks. Reports of children being killed in the village of Kfar Aza are reflected in the i, which carries the headline "massacre of innocents".

"This was a holocaust pure and simple," says the Daily Mail. The Express talks of "barbaric terrorists" from Hamas. The Times reporter Anshel Pfeffer, who visited the village, says the killings there are likely to be the greatest loss of civilian life in a terrorist attack in Israeli history.

"Israel prepares for ground invasion" is the headline in the Financial Times with news of a further 60,000 reservists mobilised. The paper reports on a warning from the UN of a "severe shortage" of water in Gaza which is under a tightened Israeli blockade. The Sun features a photo of devastated buildings in Rimal, Gaza, after Israeli air strikes with the headline "reduced to rubble".

A former chief of the General Staff, General Lord Dannatt, urges caution in Israel's response. Writing in the Telegraph, he says an Israeli ground assault could result in the death of large numbers of Palestinian civilians and the destruction of much of the already impoverished infrastructure of Gaza.

This, he adds, would play into the hands of Iran. But, elsewhere in the paper, the former army colonel Richard Kemp argues for the deployment of "overwhelming force" against Hamas, saying Israel must focus on "crushing its will to exist, something which is only attainable by eliminating fighters in large numbers and destroying combat capability through devastating military force".

Sir Keir Starmer's interrupted speech at the Labour party conference makes many of the front pages. There are photos of the protester covering him in glitter with the headlines "Starmer's time to shine" in the Daily Telegraph, and "Starmer versus stormer" in the Metro.

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The Daily Mirror describes Starmer's speech as "rousing". In its leader column, it says he delivered a "stunningly compelling, persuasive, case for political change". The Times describes him as "Steady Starmer". It says he sounded like a prime minister-in-waiting, but adds there are still questions to answer about his party's policies.

For the Mail, he was "Shallow Sir Keir..taking voters for fools". "With an election in the offing", the paper says, "voters deserve to know in specific detail how Labour would change their lives for the better".

A number of the papers report research which suggests the impact of private renting on biological ageing is nearly double that of being unemployed, and greater than that experienced by smokers.

The Times says owning your own home can slow down the ageing process because it is less stressful than renting.

The former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher has lent his voice to a new project, the i reveals. Manchester's Metrolink passengers will hear his work for the first time this weekend when he becomes the voice of tram stop announcements on the service as part of a festival in the city.