Ex-Masterchef contestant Hoda Hannaway's 10-year-old nephew was killed when an Israeli air strike hit a building in Lebanon's capital. Now she worries about the rest of her family's safety.
"To lose a child would be like a piece of your heart ripped out," Hoda Hannaway says when speaking about her 10-year-old nephew who was killed by a recent Israel i air strike in southern Beirut .
Her family has been displaced while escaping "relentless" bombing in southern Beirut and the nation's south. It followed Hamas launching a surprise attack in southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking about another 250 hostage, according to Israeli authorities. "Lebanese civilians cannot be made to pay the price of defeating Hezbollah, and Lebanon cannot become the next Gaza," Senator Wong said.
Fire and smoke rise over Beirut's southern suburbs after a strike, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces this week.Mr Awada, who lived in Lebanon until he was 22, said he felt these recent attacks on the south "on a personal level". Professor Laachir said Mr Netanyahu's comments at the UN were questionable, given the ongoing death of civilians in Gaza.on the Occupied Palestinian Territories said Israel had perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza's healthcare system and committed war crimes with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities.
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