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Live blog: Gaza kids face World War II conditions, Nobel Prize winner says

Tel Aviv's year-long war on Gaza has killed at least 42,126 Palestinians. Separately, Israeli attacks across Lebanon since October 2023 have killed more than 2,169 people and uprooted another 1.2 million.

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Children in Gaza face a humanitarian crisis of disease and malnutrition, cut off from safe water, food, and medicine, as the ongoing war has claimed the lives of 16,000 children in Israeli bombings. / Photo: AA

Saturday, October 12, 2024

0005 GMT — The situation with children in Gaza is similar to Japan at the end of World War II, Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of Nobel Prize winning group Nihon Hidankyo has said.

"In Gaza, bleeding children are being held (by their parents). It's like in Japan 80 years ago," Mimaki, who heads a group of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors, said at a news conference in Tokyo.

"Children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki lost their fathers in the war and their mothers in the bombings. They became orphans."

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement representing survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, known as Hibakusha.

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A coalition of 104 UN member states, along with the African Union, has condemned Israel's decision to declare Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "persona non grata."

The group voiced strong support for Guterres in a statement on Friday.

The statement, signed by the countries, including Türkiye, criticised Foreign Minister Katz’s decision and argued that giving Guterres the "unwelcome" label undermines the UN's mandate.

"In the Middle East, this could further delay an end to all hostilities and the establishment of a credible path towards the two-State solution, with the state of Palestine and Israel living side by side in peace and security, in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions," it said.

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Qatar demanded an immediate international investigation Friday for Israel’s targeting of the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

The Qatari Foreign Ministry condemned "the attack that targeted the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which resulted in injuries among (its) personnel."

It added that the attacks against UNIFIL are "a flagrant violation of the provisions of international humanitarian law and Security Council Resolution No. 1701."

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Israeli army said late Friday that a drone was fired from Syria and landed in an open area in the occupied Golan Heights.

It said air-raids sirens were activated but no injuries were reported from the strike.

No group has claimed responsibility. The last drone fired from Syria was in early September.

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