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<article data-history-node-id="428992" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-force-childrens-hospital-gaza-out-service" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-force-childrens-hospital-gaza-out-service" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli attacks force children's hospital in Gaza out of service</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Al-Rantisi Children's Hospital and the Eye Hospital were rendered out of service due to ongoing targeting by Israeli forces, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported on Monday.</p> <p>Israeli forces have killed at least 37 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn today, including 30 in Gaza City.&nbsp;</p> <p>Last week, the ministry said the Israeli army struck Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital three times while 80 patients were inside.</p> <p>Israel has killed at least&nbsp;65,300 Palestinians since it started its genocidal war in October 2023.&nbsp;</p> <p>UN's International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory has <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds">concluded </a>that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Israel has also imposed an aid blockade in the region, leading to the death of at least 442 Palestinians, including 147 children.&nbsp;<br> <br> More than half a million people in Gaza are <a href="https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/IPC_Famine_Review_Committee_Report_Gaza_Aug2025.pdf">trapped in famine</a>, marked by widespread starvation, according to UN's Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="428993" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strike-kills-father-and-three-children-south-lebanon-massacre" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strike-kills-father-and-three-children-south-lebanon-massacre" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli strike kills father and three children in south Lebanon massacre</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;drone strikes have killed five people, including a father and his three children, in the southern&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/lebanon" target="_blank">Lebanese</a>&nbsp;town of Bint Jbeil, in what has been denounced as “a massacre”.</p> <p>In the late afternoon on Sunday, two consecutive missiles were fired, with one targeting a motorcycle, and another hitting a car carrying a family of six.</p> <p>The victims were identified as Shadi Sharara and three of his children - Celine, Hadi, and Silane - all reportedly American citizens.</p> <p>Their mother Amani and sister Aseel were wounded. The driver of the motorcycle was identified as Mohammed Mroueh.</p> <p>Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said in a statement that the family held US citizenship. The US State Department, however, said there are indications they were not American citizens.</p> <p>President Joseph Aoun condemned the strike and urged the international community to pressure Israel to respect the ceasefire reached with Hezbollah in late November.</p> <p>“As we are in New York to discuss matters of peace and human rights, Israel continues its ongoing violations of international resolutions,” Aoun said in a statement on X.&nbsp;</p> <p>He accused Israel of “committing a new massacre in Bint Jbeil”. The president is in New York to attend the UN General Assembly.</p> <p>Despite the truce, the Israeli military has continued to strike what it claims are Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, while frequently violating Lebanese airspace and maintaining its occupation of areas in the south.</p> <p>Israel has stepped up both the number and frequency of its strikes this week.</p> <h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-kills-father-and-three-children-south-lebanon-massacre">Israeli strike kills father and three children in south Lebanon massacre</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Amani Bazzi, a woman who was severely wounded by an Israeli drone strike the previous day in Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, shows pictures of her killed children on a phone as she rests at a hospital in Tebnine on 22 September 2025 (AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0ae65fb7-fd23-4eee-bd75-545f11cc5679" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/israel-kills-children-south-lebanon-22-sep-2025-afp.jpg" width="2600" height="1462" alt="Amani Bazzi, a woman who was severely wounded by an Israeli drone strike the previous day in Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, shows pictures of her killed children on a phone as she rests at a hospital in Tebnine on 22 September 2025 (AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Amani Bazzi, a woman who was severely wounded by an Israeli drone strike the previous day in Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, shows pictures of her killed children on a phone as she rests at a hospital in Tebnine on 22 September 2025 (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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