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Susquehanna overgrowth hazard solved with some help from abc27 reporter [Video]

SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WHTM) Overgrown lots are lovely places for rats and snakes, but for the humans who live next to them, not so much. We have an update on the overgrown lots reported on Monday. An overgrown lot in Susquehanna Township off Progress Avenue has caused stress among its neighborsso much so that []

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Israeli airstrike hits UN school in Gaza and kills at least 14 people, hospital says [Video]

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 14 people, including two children, when it hit a U.N. school sheltering displaced Palestinian families in central Gaza on Wednesday, hospital officials said.The Israeli military said it was targeting Hamas militants planning attacks from inside the school, located in the Nuseirat refugee camp. The claim could not be independently confirmed.Officials from Awda Hospital in Nuseirat said they had received 10 dead from the strike, and another four dead were brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. At least one woman and two children were among those killed, and at least 18 people were wounded in the strike, hospital officials said.One of the children was the daughter of Momin Selmi, a member of Gazas civil defense agency, which works rescuing wounded and bodies after strikes, the agency said in a statement. Selmi hadnt seen his daughter for 10 months, since he remained in north Gaza to keep working while his family fled south, the agency said.Tens of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes by Israeli offensives and evacuation orders are living in Gazas schools.The school hit Thursday called the al-Jaouni Boys Preparatory School, one of the many in Gaza run by the U.N. agency for Palestinians UNWRA has been hit by multiple strikes over the course of the war.Israel frequently bombs schools, saying they are being used by Hamas militants. It blames Hamas for civilian casualties from its strikes, saying its fighters base themselves and operate among civilians.More than 90% of Gazas school buildings have been severely or partially damaged in strikes, and more than half the schools housing displaced people have been hit, according to a survey in July by the Education Cluster, a collection of aid groups led by UNICEF and Save the Children.Israels 11-month-old campaign in Gaza has killed at least 41,084 Palestinians and wounded another 95,029, the territorys Health Ministry said Wednesday. Israel launched its campaign vowing to destroy Hamas after the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and abducted 250 others.

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Biden backs Israel’s claim that IDF killing of American activist was accidental [Video]

President Joe Biden on Tuesday described the killing of a 26-year-old American activist in the Israeli-occupied West Bank last week as an apparent accident, backing the Israel government’s description.Israel has claimed that Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was “hit indirectly and unintentionally by IDF fire” on Friday. Biden said his administration was still looking into her death.”We’re finding more detail,” Biden told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday. “Apparently, it was an accident. It ricocheted off the ground and it (she) got hit by accident, but we’re working that out now.”U.S. officials have sharply criticized Israel for the death of Eygi, who was shot dead at a protest. Earlier Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said her death was “unprovoked and unjustified” and called for Israel to make “fundamental changes” to how it operates in the West Bank.”No one, no one should be shot and killed for attending a protest. No one should have to put their life at risk just for expressing their views,” he said. “Now we have the second American citizen killed at the hands of Israeli security forces. It’s not acceptable. It has to change. And we’ll be making that clear to the senior-most members of the Israeli government.”The IDF in an earlier statement said Eygi was killed amid a “violent riot,” while the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), with whom Eygi had been volunteering, described the Sept. 6 protest as peaceful.Eygi, who was born in Turkey, was a recent graduate of the University of Washington and had been volunteering with the same pro-Palestinian activist group as Rachel Corrie, a U.S. citizen killed in 2003 while attempting to stop an Israeli bulldozer from demolishing Palestinian homes in Gaza.Israeli troops and settlers have killed nearly 700 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since October, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah, whose figures do not distinguish between militants and civilians.