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Israel’s army has admitted to carrying out “a targeted attack” on the Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing two people, including Palestinian journalist Hassan Eslaih.
Gaza’s Government Media Office on Tuesday confirmed the killing of Eslaih, who was receiving treatment at the hospital’s burn unit for severe injuries sustained during an April 7 Israeli strike on a media tent located next to the hospital.
The AFP news agency footage from Nasser Hospital after Tuesday’s strike showed smoke rising from the facility as rescuers searched through the rubble by the light of torches.
A hospital worker who gave his name as Abu Ghali said the Israeli bombardment “does not differentiate between civilians and military targets”.
“This is a civilian hospital that receives injured people around the clock,” he told AFP.
Eslaih was the director of the Alam24 News Agency and a freelancer who contributed to international news organisations, including photos of the Hamas-led October 7 attack.
Israel has claimed Eslaih was a Hamas fighter who participated in the October 7 attack, an allegation he vehemently denied.
At least 178 journalists and media workers have been killed in Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon since the war began, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Gaza’s Government Media Office put the death toll at 215.
Israel’s military said in a post on Telegram that the strike targeted a Hamas “command and control complex” at the hospital – the largest in southern Gaza – without providing further evidence.
“The compound was used by the terrorists to plan and execute terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and [military] troops,” the post said, in what appeared to be a reference to Eslaih and Hamas.
Gaza’s Health Ministry on Tuesday condemned “the repeated targeting of hospitals and the pursuit and killing of wounded patients inside treatment rooms”, saying it “confirms Israel’s deliberate intent to inflict greater damage to the healthcare system”.
Hospitals in Gaza have been a frequent target of Israeli attacks since the war began in October 2023, although attacking health facilities, medical personnel and patients is illegal under the 1949 Geneva Convention.
According to officials in Gaza, Israel has bombed and burned at least 36 hospitals across the enclave since the war erupted.
Nottingham Forest striker Taiwo Awoniyi was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery on an abdominal injury, according to reports on Monday.
The Nigerian international suffered the injury when he collided with a post during Forest’s 2-2 draw against Leicester at the City Ground on Sunday.
Awoniyi had stretched in a failed bid to convert Anthony Elanga’s cross and tried to carry on playing after receiving several minutes of treatment.
The true extent of the injury was only discovered by Forest’s medical staff on Monday, and reports said he was immediately taken for the surgery, which was not believed to be life-threatening.
“The Club can confirm Taiwo Awoniyi has undergone urgent surgery following an abdominal injury sustained during Sunday’s match against Leicester City,” the club said in a statement on their X handle.
“Everyone at Nottingham Forest sends their best wishes to Taiwo. The Club will provide further updates when appropriate.”
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The Club can confirm Taiwo Awoniyi has undergone urgent surgery following an abdominal injury sustained during Sunday’s match against Leicester City.
Everyone at Nottingham Forest sends their best wishes to Taiwo.
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The incident had provoked an angry reaction from Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis, who stormed on to the pitch and confronted boss Nuno Espirito Santo in a bizarre incident after the final whistle.
Marinakis said he was concerned about Awoniyi’s condition after he was left on despite Nuno consulting with his medical staff during stoppage-time.
Sending our love, and very best wishes for a quick recovery to Taiwo Awoniyi @NFFC Eisern! pic.twitter.com/d1RFvEyslg
It was a disappointing day for Forest, whose Champions League hopes suffered a major blow as a result of the draw with relegated Leicester.
Nuno’s seventh-placed are no longer in charge of their own destiny in their bid to appear in the Champions League for the first time since 1980-81.
They sit one point outside the Premier League’s top five places — which guarantee qualification for the Champions League — with two games left against West Ham and top five rivals Chelsea.
Forest are assured of at least a place in the UEFA Conference League, which will see them play European football for the first time since 1995-96.
Katie Price reflects on dating an older man when she was 15
Katie Price’s trauma stems from childhood experiences with angry, jealous and perverted men, she has revealed in her most explosive interview yet.
The mum-of-five, who revealed she is in perimenopause at the age of 46, opened up about her first relationship aged 15, when she met a man 10 years her senior. Katie, who was then known as Katrina Infield – her birth name – was still in school at the time, and was picked up by an ex-prisoner who had his own Ford Fiesta XR2.
“My first boyfriend, I was 15 and he was 25,” she told Paul Brunson on a special episode of his podcast We Need To Talk. “He was always p****d. He’d just come out of prison.”
Katie’s mum Amy Price was understandably worried for her daughter and tried to stop her from going out with the older man – but Katie would pick fights with her and go out anyway, she said.
“My mum was nuts, but I denied it to her,” Katie recalled. “I argued with mum, ‘I’m going out, he’s picking me up’, and now I look back, thinking my mum was stopping me, but she wasn’t, she was protecting me.”
Katie didn’t have sex with her boyfriend until she was 16, after her mum begged her not to lose her virginity. “We didn’t have sex until my 16th birthday, after the East 17 concert,” Katie laughed. “My mum always said, ‘Don’t ever lose your virginity, make sure you’re at least 16.'”
But their relationship quickly soured as the older man would fly into jealous rages if he thought Katie was even looking at other men, she claimed. “The amount of times my mum had to pick me up, where he’d cut all my clothes off and I was naked in a telephone box, ‘Mum, he’s done it again. Pick me up’,” Katie revealed.
“If I was in a petrol station or anything, he’d be like, ‘are you looking at those men?’ I’d be like, ‘no, no, I’m not looking’. So I’d sit like that [head down] facing forwards. So jealous.”
Mum Amy was forced to take action to get her child away from the controlling boyfriend, and called Child Protection and the police to get him away from Katie. “I was training to be a nurse, because that’s what I wanted to do, be a registered nurse. But before I did the course, I worked in these nursing homes. I was like 16, and they had to call the police on him. These are memories that I’ve got, a big police van, him kicking off because he thought I fancied a guy that worked there,” Katie remembered.
“Oh my god, it took ages to get out of that relationship. It was dreadful. But I was so sucked into like, yeah, he’s older with the car. And it was near the end of my school years.”
Amy was right to be protective of her daughter – when Katie was seven, she was sexually assaulted in a park by a man who pulled her into a bush, she said.
“Basically a man did something to me, and I remember all the police being called. They took all our underwear and everything. He [the stranger who assaulted her] was basically saying to us, if you let me do this to you, I’ll go and get you an ice cream and all of this,” Katie recalled. “So that was my first, I suppose, traumatic thing with a man.”
Katie was later groomed by a photographer who took bikini pictures of her when she was just 13, after her mum had allowed her to do a photoshoot at his house.
“He was saying to my mum, ‘I’ve got these child model agencies, blah, blah, blah, we should go into modelling. Why don’t you come to mine? I’ll do a photo shoot.’ So we’d go to his house, a few times I went, but he’d never let my mum watch,” said Katie.
The photographer would make a pineapple milkshake and tempt her to drink it, while telling Katie’s mum and nan to take their dog out for a walk around the block.
“I didn’t like it, so I actually never drank it. And he’d tell my mum and my nan to just go and walk the dog and then come back. Then when we look at the pictures, I was in bikinis, sunglasses, doing all of this, sticking my tongue out, all of that,” said Katie.
“He’d always ring my mum and always speak to me, but it seemed so professional. Then we had a knock at the door, and it was the Child Protection. He’d been arrested. He had like, 12 different names, 12 different accounts, and he was in prison, and they said he was so obsessed with me that he had pictures of me in his cell. And this drink, he used to drug girls with it but I never took the drink.”
On a third occasion in her younger years, a man tried to pull her into his car, she said.
Andy Murray will no longer be coaching former rival Novak Djokovic, ending their six-month partnership, the pair announced.
Djokovic stunned the tennis world in November when he said he had hired the retired Murray, who had no track record as a coach, to lead his off-court team.
But the two 37-year-old tennis greats have already parted company, with the former British player thanking Serbian star Djokovic for an “unbelievable opportunity”.
Their split comes after Djokovic, the winner of a record 24 men’s Grand Slam singles titles, endured a difficult start to the season, including losing his first match at his last two tournaments.
“Thanks to Novak for the unbelievable opportunity to work together and thanks to his team for all their hard work over the past six months,” Murray said in a statement released on Tuesday.
“I wish Novak all the best for the rest of the season,” added the Scot, who defeated Djokovic in the 2012 US Open and 2013 Wimbledon finals to win two of his three Grand Slam titles.
Their partnership started well, with Djokovic defeating Carlos Alcaraz at the Australian Open, only to retire through injury during his semifinal against Alexander Zverev.
But success has since proved elusive, with Djokovic saying on Tuesday: “Thank you, coach Andy, for all the hard work, fun and support over last six months on and off the court, really enjoyed deepening our friendship together.”
Murray, who retired after the 2024 Paris Olympics, is a three-time singles Grand Slam winner and former world number one.
The pair go their separate ways less than two weeks out from the 2025 French Open, which begins on May 25 at Roland Garros, Paris.
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