<article data-history-node-id="449495" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-340-palestinian-children-killed-gaza-ceasefire-unicef" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-340-palestinian-children-killed-gaza-ceasefire-unicef" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Over 340 Palestinian children killed in Gaza since ceasefire: Unicef</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>More than 340 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since a ceasefire was announced just over a year ago, the UN children’s agency said on Friday.</p> <p>In the past two weeks alone, five boys and two girls were reported killed and at least 33 children seriously injured in Israeli air strikes, drone strikes and gunfire across the Strip. Two more boys died of earlier injuries.</p> <p>“Those terrible statistics do not equate with a ceasefire as most would imagine one,” Unicef spokesperson Ricardo Pires told reporters in Geneva.</p> <p>Pires said some 800,000 Palestinian children remain displaced, most living in tents or damaged buildings.</p> <p>An estimated 60,000 have lost one or both parents, and nearly all need some form of mental health support.</p> <p>He warned that children now face a fourth winter in dire conditions. All six of Gaza’s wastewater treatment plants are out of service, and most raw sewage is pumped into the sea.</p> <p>Pires said the Sheikh Radwan stormwater basin, which is half full, risks overflowing into residential areas when the winter rains arrive.</p> <p>It could be drained within two weeks, he said, but Israel has not allowed the necessary equipment into Gaza.</p> <p>He urged Israeli authorities to allow in materials, spare parts, generators and fuel to restore essential services, and to uphold the ceasefire.</p> <p>“Gaza’s children have suffered far too much, for far too long,” he said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="449367" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/british-mp-ian-byrne-calls-lifting-ban-palestine-action-after-rooney" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/british-mp-ian-byrne-calls-lifting-ban-palestine-action-after-rooney" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">MP urges lifting Palestine Action ban after Sally Rooney UK book sales halt</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>British Member of Parliament Ian Byrne has called on the government to de-proscribe Palestine Action, after Irish novelist Sally Rooney said she can no longer sell her books in the UK due to support for the pro-Palestine group.</p> <p>Byrne wrote on X that when he voted against the proscription of Palestine Action, he and many others "warned of the draconian consequences it would bring".</p> <p>He said that since then, thousands have been arrested and criminalised "simply for holding a sign".&nbsp;</p> <p>Byrne added: "Now this injustice against one of the finest writers of her generation.</p> <p>"An utterly disgraceful attack on freedom of expression. This ban must be overturned."</p> <p>Rooney's publisher Faber said on Wednesday that she can no longer sell her books in the UK because of her support for Palestine Action.</p> <p>Rooney has previously expressed her support for the group, which was banned as a "terrorist" organisation by the UK government in July 2025. It is not banned in Ireland, where Rooney lives.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">When I voted against the proscription of Palestine Action, I and many others warned of the draconian consequences it would bring. Since then, we’ve seen thousands arrested and criminalised simply for holding a sign. And now this injustice against one of the finest writers of her generation. An utterly disgraceful attack on freedom of expression. This ban must be overturned.</p> — lan Byrne MP (@IanByrneMP) <a href="https://x.com/IanByrneMP/status/2110462840138264628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>