Giant panda mother seen breastfeeding twin cubs at Sichuan base

A panda mother was spotted breast-feeding her chubby twin cubs at a breeding base in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

The footage shows the warm scene of the twins feeding from their mother at the Shuangnan Garden of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda Dujiangyan Base.

The twins were born last year to the mother panda named Pan Wang through a wild breeding program which commenced back in 2017.

Pan Wang is one of the pandas in the panda reintroduction program who mated with a wild panda, with the birth of the twins helping raise the genetic diversity of the panda population.

The CCRCGP is a world-leading institution for the breeding and conservation of one of China's national treasures. The center has also established a global platform for promoting international cooperation and exchanges involving 18 zoos from 16 countries and regions, as well as 39 domestic animal breeding institutions and more than 10 scientific research institutes.

The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 42,010 since October 7, 2023, the Gaza-based health ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

Over the past 24 hours, Israel's military operations in Gaza killed 45 people and wounded 130 others, bringing the total injuries to 97,720, said the ministry.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, relentless Israeli bombardment has laid waste to numerous residential neighborhoods and triggered an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in the besieged strip.

Israel's repeated displacement orders have forced more than 90 percent of the enclave's population into ever-shrinking areas, according to the Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).