{"id":536179,"date":"2026-03-14T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:02:08","slug":"live-updates-iran-war-news-uae-targeted-after-us-strikes-irans-kharg-island-oil-export-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536179\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Iran war news; UAE targeted after US strikes Iran\u2019s Kharg Island oil export hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmqb88ay000e396tpjapu2v2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Israeli strikes and mass evacuation have disrupted peaceful forms of worship for Muslim families in Lebanon, according to an aid worker, as many try to observe the Islamic holy month of Ramadan \u2013 when people abstain from food and water from sunrise to sunset.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmqb9q3z000h396t3z6mrnfl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Palestinian refugees staying at a makeshift shelter in the town of Sebline, in southern Lebanon, including pregnant women and new mothers, spoke of \u201cfear,\u201d \u201cconfusion\u201d and \u201cpanic,\u201d a midwife working there with the UK-based NGO Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmqb9q3z000i396te036ya4c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cSome women told us they were preparing for suhoor (the meal eaten before dawn and the start of the fast) when warning sirens sounded, forcing them to leave immediately,\u201d Ola, the midwife, said in testimony shared with CNN by MAP.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmqb9q3z000j396t9ter3879@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThey had no time to take anything with them,\u201d she added. \u201cOthers said they had been preparing iftar (the breaking of the fast at sunset) when a strike took place nearby.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmqb9q3z000k396t64qdy353@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Israeli military campaign in Lebanon has killed hundreds of people, triggered mass displacement, depleted the healthcare system and exacerbated the country\u2019s economic crisis.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmqc482p0000356rqo8hpwmd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Many people have tried to seek safety in improvised shelters, mosques, community halls and unfinished buildings, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/lebanon\/flash-appeal-lebanon-march-may-2026-march-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the UN<\/a>. At least 773 people have been killed since March 2, including 103 children, according to the Lebanese health ministry.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmqb9q3z000l396teo52hnub@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Further south, in Burj Shemali refugee camp, an unnamed Palestinian mother warned that \u201crising prices are making it increasingly difficult to afford food.\u201d \u201cWe are fasting during Ramadan while struggling to meet our basic needs,\u201d she said, in testimony shared with CNN by MAP.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes and mass evacuation have disrupted peaceful forms of worship for Muslim families in Lebanon, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-536179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}