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<article data-history-node-id="424486" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bombing-hospitals-red-line-unless-israel-doing-it" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bombing-hospitals-red-line-unless-israel-doing-it" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Bombing hospitals is a red line - unless Israel is doing it</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>On Thursday morning,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/iran" target="_blank">Iranian</a>&nbsp;missiles&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/missile-strikes-injure-dozens-soroka-hospital-and-tel-aviv-buildings-hit" target="_blank">struck</a>&nbsp;Soroka hospital in Beersheba, triggering expressions of outrage from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;officials.&nbsp;</p> <p>National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/itamarbengvir/status/1935568012477620322" target="_blank">likened</a>&nbsp;the Iranian regime to “Nazis who fire missiles at hospitals, the elderly and children”. President Isaac Herzog<a href="https://x.com/Isaac_Herzog/status/1935576516483506667" target="_blank">&nbsp;evoked</a>&nbsp;imagery of a baby in intensive care and a doctor rushing between beds.&nbsp;</p> <p>Culture Minister Miki Zohar&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/zoharm7/status/1935579359785386080" target="_blank">declared</a>&nbsp;on social media that “only the scum of the earth fires missiles at hospitalized children and elderly people in their sick beds”. The chair of Israel’s medical association, Zion Hagay,<a href="https://www.ima.org.il/ENG/ViewContent.aspx?NewId=5766" target="_blank">&nbsp;decried&nbsp;</a>the strike as a war crime and urged the international medical community to condemn it.</p> <p>This swift and unified condemnation by Israeli political and medical leadership underscores a striking contradiction: these same actors not only ignored but openly justified the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals over the past two years.</p> <p>Since 7 October 2023, Israeli air strikes and ground invasions have decimated Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure. The World Health Organisation&nbsp;<a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/22-05-2025-health-system-at-breaking-point-as-hostilities-further-intensify--who-warns?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank">has recorded</a>&nbsp;around 700 attacks on healthcare facilities. Major hospitals - al-Shifa, Nasser and the Indonesian hospital, among others - have been besieged, bombed and dismantled.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a data-qa="message_attachment_title_link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bombing-hospitals-red-line-unless-israel-doing-it" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bombing hospitals is a red line - unless Israel is doing it</a></h3> <p><img alt="Smoke billows from a building at Soroka hospital in Beersheba, Israel, after an Iranian missile attack on 19 June 2025 (Maya Levin/AFP)" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/israel-soroka-hospital-attack-beersheba-june-2025-maya-levin-afp.jpg.jpg?itok=-6HGgxuM"></p> </div> </div> </article>

The first phase of the Human Tissue Act 2024 is due to come into operation from tomorrow, meaning everybody will be considered an organ donor unless they opt-out or are included in a so-called "exclud...

<article data-history-node-id="423431" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unsc-vote-again-resolution-ceasefire-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unsc-vote-again-resolution-ceasefire-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UNSC to vote - again - on resolution for ceasefire in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><meta charset="UTF-8"></p> <p>The 10 elected members of the United Nations Security Council have asked for the full 15-member body to vote on Wednesday on a draft resolution that demands "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;respected by all parties," unnamed diplomats cited by the Reuters news agency said.</p> <p>Reuters reported that the draft text demands the release of all captives held by Hamas and other groups in Gaza, and the immediate lifting of all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid for safe and unhindered distribution at scale.&nbsp;</p> <p>A resolution in the Security Council requires nine out of 15 votes in order to pass.&nbsp;</p> <p>- <em>with reporting from Reuters</em></p> </div> </div> </article>

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