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<article data-history-node-id="446747" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-military-attacks-have-killed-4352-lebanon-2-march" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-military-attacks-have-killed-4352-lebanon-2-march" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli military attacks have killed 4,352 in Lebanon since 2 March</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli military operations across Lebanon since 2 March have killed 4,352 people and injured 12,318, the&nbsp;Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health said in a statement.</p> <p>The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has warned that “despite lower levels of violence than earlier this year, the situation in south Lebanon remains fragile".</p> <p>The peacekeeping force said that between 21-27 August, it recorded 1,030 projectile trajectories in the area, an average of 147 per day.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="445694" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/300-palestinian-children-killed-300-days-gaza-ceasefire-unicef-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/300-palestinian-children-killed-300-days-gaza-ceasefire-unicef-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">300 Palestinian children killed in 300 days of Gaza ceasefire, Unicef says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 300 children — an average of one child every day — &nbsp;have been killed in Gaza in the 300 days since a ceasefire was announced in October 2025, according to Unicef.</p> <p>"A ceasefire that leaves an average of one child dead each and every day is failing children," Unicef Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edouard Beigbeder, said in a statement.</p> <p>&nbsp;"With hundreds more children injured, many severely, children in Gaza are still waiting for the end to the violence they were promised,” he said.</p> <p>Across the Strip, children continue to face acute malnutrition, disease, unsafe water and damaged sanitation systems, the statement added.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">"A ceasefire that leaves an average of one child dead each and every day is failing children.<br> Children have heard promises before. This time, agreements must translate into action."<br> <br> — Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa<br> <br> Read the full… <a href="https://t.co/Df7VSI3hXh">pic.twitter.com/Df7VSI3hXh</a></p> — UNICEF MENA - يونيسف الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا (@UNICEFmena) <a href="https://x.com/UNICEFmena/status/2085314954157060303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="443524" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-breast-cancer-patients-face-immediate-mastectomies-doctors-plead" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-breast-cancer-patients-face-immediate-mastectomies-doctors-plead" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza's breast cancer patients face immediate mastectomies as doctors plead for end to blockade</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Physicians and health professionals in Gaza marked 1,000 days of genocide on Thursday with a plea for international pressure to lift Israel's nearly two-decade blockade, as well as its ban on critical medical supplies for Palestinians that even include chlorine bleach to disinfect hospitals.&nbsp;</p> <p>In a virtual call hosted by the global non-profit&nbsp;Doctors Against Genocide, a slate of experts described conditions that can barely sustain the healthiest residents of Gaza, let alone those who are elderly, disabled, or with illnesses that predate the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, and the subsequent genocide in Gaza.</p> <p>Israel's assault has so far killed 1,700 medical workers, wholly or partly destroyed 38 hospitals, and hit nearly 200 ambulances in the enclave, the Gaza health ministry has said.</p> <p>Women with breast cancer are undergoing immediate mastectomies because it's the fastest way to save their lives when there are no deeper diagnostic tools or cancer drugs,&nbsp;Dr Ahmed Shatat, director general of International Cooperation and Planning in Gaza, said on the call.</p> <p>"Previously, we were holding seven MRI machines. Now we have not even one MRI machine - zero - in the Gaza Strip," he added.&nbsp;</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-breat-cancer-patients-immediate-mastectomies-doctors-please%20end-blockade">Gaza's breast cancer patients face immediate mastectomies as doctors plead for end to blockade</a></h3> <figure class="image"><img alt src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/2026-06-29T111440Z_387317529_RC2K3MAHT0U2_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-2.jpg.jpg?itok=tFJMUTnZ"> <figcaption>A man looks over the shrouded body of Palestinian child Malik Abu Shawish, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on 29 June 2026 (Mahmoud Issa/Reuters)</figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> </article>

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