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Video shows massive detonations in Lebanon border village

Footage verified by AFP on Monday showed massive detonations in a southern Lebanese border village, where a local official said hundreds of houses have been wiped out by Israel since last year.The video, shared widely online on Monday, showed more than a dozen simultaneous detonations that ripped through Mais al-Jabal and razed homes to dust.Similar aerial scenes have been captured from several border villages, including Mhaibib and Odaisseh, since Israel sent ground troops into southern Lebanon in late September.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Video shows massive detonations in Lebanon border village

Gaza health ministry says Israel bombarding last hospital in north

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Monday Israeli forces are bombarding the last partially functioning hospital in north Gaza, an area of intense military operations for the past month."At this moment, occupation forces are continuing to violently bombard and destroy Kamal Adwan Hospital, targeting all parts of the hospital," the ministry said of the facility in the northern city of Beit Lahia.Hospital director Hossam Abu Safieh said in a statement that the situation was "catastrophic", and that "the army did not contact the hospital before directly targeting it".
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Gaza health ministry says Israel bombarding last hospital in north

Israel demolishes seven Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem

Municipal workers began demolishing seven homes in occupied east Jerusalem's Silwan neighbourhood on Tuesday, Palestinian residents and the municipality said, after an Israeli court called their construction illegal."This morning the Jerusalem Municipality, with a security escort from the Israel police, began its enforcement against illegal buildings in the Al-Bustan neighbourhood in Silwan," Jerusalem's Israeli-controlled city hall said in a statement.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israel demolishes seven Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem

Concern grows for Iran woman detained over underwear protest

Concern grew Tuesday for an Iranian student arrested after stripping to her underwear in protest at alleged harassment over her dress, with activists worried authorities could confine her in a psychiatric institution.In videos shared on social media, the woman, a student at Tehran's prestigious Islamic Azad University, was seen protesting outside the campus on Saturday dressed only in her bra and underpants.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Concern grows for Iran woman detained over underwear protest

Gazans want new US president to end the war

Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza told AFP on Tuesday that whoever emerges victorious in the US presidential election must end the conflict in the territory, which has taken an appalling human toll."We are hanging by a thread, and like every other people in the world, we are looking for someone who can stop the war," said Ayman al-Omreiti, 45, from Gaza City's Al-Daraj neighbourhood."Our hope is that the American people will choose someone who can end the suffering of the Palestinian people."
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Gazans want new US president to end the war