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Israel used internationally banned white phosphorous bombs in a strike on an apartment building in the residential Bashoura district in the early hours of Thursday, Lebanon’s state news agency NNA reported. The strike started a fire in the heavily-populated Beirut district close to Lebanon’s parliament and UN headquarters, according to comments from the prime minister’s office and the Lebanese parliament. It hit the office of a medical centre run by the Hezbollah-affiliated Health Society killing nine people and injuring 14 others. The organisation said seven of its staff, including two medics…

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