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Image source, The Times
Image caption,Many of Thursday's papers lead with the news that a number of injured people and foreign passport holders have been allowed to leave the Gaza Strip. The paper said some diplomats have suggested that up to 7,500 people could be allowed out of Gaza in the coming weeks.
Image source, The Daily Telegraph
Image caption,The Daily Telegraph says that "delays and confusion" over the border opening in Gaza are believed to have been due to "careful vetting and a delicate deal between Israel, Egypt and Hamas". The paper says that Israel was vetting all foreign nationals leaving the Strip "for links to terrorism".
Image source, The i
Image caption,The i also chooses to focus on the situation in Gaza after 400 people were allowed to leave the Strip - including British nationals.
Image source, Daily Mirror
Image caption,The Daily Mirror reports the latest from Gaza. Under the headline "Escape from hell," its front page features the photo of a severely wounded Palestinian boy who was let out of the enclave for treatment in Egypt.
Image source, Daily Express
Image caption,The Daily Express says the UK foreign secretary has vowed that although everything in Gaza is "difficult and uncertain", he "will not rest" until every UK national is brought home. James Cleverly's comments follow the announcement that the first British citizens have been allowed out of Gaza - although many more remain "trapped" at the Strip's border with Egypt.
Image source, The Sun
Image caption,"Bring them home," the Sun's front page reads. The paper says that Hamas kidnapped 32 children during its 7 October attacks on southern Israel and it says it is endorsing parents' calls to "free our children".
Image source, Daily Mail
Image caption,Several other papers on Thursday lead with the AI summit that is taking place at Bletchley Park. One of them is the Daily Mail, which reports Elon Musk as saying that AI is "one of the biggest threats" to humanity - but also says that Nick Clegg, the Meta president of global affairs, has disclosed that he feels the risk of AI has been "overstated".
Image source, Metro
Image caption,The Metro also devotes its front page to the Bletchley Park summit, quoting King Charles' opening speech in which the monarch said AI has the "potential to completely transform life as we know it".
Image source, FT
Image caption,The Financial Times leads with a piece on the US Federal Reserve announcing it would hold interest rates at a 22-year high amid "optimism" that inflation is under control. The paper also talks about the Bletchley Park summit - but only to say it was "upstaged" by the announcement that the US would set up its own institute to police AI.
Image source, The Guardian
Image caption,The Guardian leads with a different piece of news, focusing on a study which suggesrs that the pandemic caused "sustained harm to the brain health of over-50s" regardless of whether they caught Covid or not. The study says that lifestyle changes and pandemic conditions led to an "acceleration in cognitive decline".
Image source, The Daily Star
Image caption,The Daily Star reports a claim by Dominic Cummings that Boris Johnson once asked government scientists whether people could kill Covid by blowing a "special hair dryer" up their nose. Mr Cummings said the former prime minister shared a video of a man using such a device with his top advisers Sir Patrick Vallance and Sir Chris Whitty.
Most of the papers this Thursday focus on the re-opening of the Rafah border crossing which allowed civilians, including some British nationals, to cross from Gaza to Egypt.
"Escape from hell" is the Daily Mirror's headline, under the picture of a tearful Palestinian boy being taken to Egypt for medical treatment.
The Times says the Foreign Office refused to confirm how many Britons were allowed to leave. But it says diplomats expect around 7,500 foreign passport holders to cross into Egypt in the next two weeks.
The Daily Telegraph says many British citizens were turned away from the crossing because their names were not on a list of those approved to leave. The paper attributes delays and confusion to the fact that Israeli intelligence is vetting all foreign nationals for links with terrorism, before allowing their names to be included on the release list.
According to the i, people learned that there was a list of those allowed to leave only after arriving at the crossing. The paper says it's seen a list with only two British citizens on it; one of them was a 67-year-old transplant surgeon from Liverpool, Abdel Hammad, who was still turned away because by the time he arrived at the gate the crossing was closed again.
"Bring them home" is the Sun's front page headline, surrounded by pictures of 32 children taken hostage by Hamas on 7 October. The paper says the youngsters are being held underground in Hamas's network of tunnels in Gaza.
A warning from the billionaire tech entrepreneur, Elon Musk - that artificial intelligence poses one of the biggest threats to humanity - is highlighted by the Daily Mail. The paper says this contrasts with a comment by a senior executive at Meta, Sir Nick Clegg, who argues that the risks of AI are overstated.
An editorial in the Telegraph says Sir Nick's comments are not surprising given his post-politics career, and there's been a lot of special pleading by technology companies at the conference on safety of AI. But the paper also asks whether there is an over-reaction to the rapid evolution of AI, and questions if there is a risk that it will be regulated to the point of ineffectiveness.
In one of its editorials, the Times says the Covid inquiry has shown that Britain is badly served by a system which it says "promotes slippery amateurs into positions demanding integrity, professionalism and expertise". The paper says that when the pandemic struck, the closest advisers to the prime minister were people whose "claim to power was based purely on their success in managing campaigns", while the civil service was "distracted by Brexit and a radical shake-up promised by the then Downing Street chief of staff Dominic Cummings".
