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💢 Video, satellite imagery, and weapons analysis indicate the U.S. dropped a 2,000-pound on a family home in a densely populated residential neighborhood on Iran’s Qeshm Island overnight Thursday, The New York Times reported. The strike killed a husband, wife, and their 2-year-old son. Two other children, now orphaned, were pulled alive from the rubble. The report says evidence raises serious questions about why one of the U.S. military’s largest conventional bombs was used in a residential area and whether the use is consistent with international law.

NBC News reported Thursday that attacks by Jewish extremists against Christians, including clergy, nuns, and pilgrims in Jerusalem’s Old City, are sharply escalating. Sister Mary Meline, interviewed by NBC, described the routine humiliation faced by Christian clergy in the city central to their faith: “The spitting on the ground for me it’s every time I go to Jerusalem nearly.” Christian leaders and Israeli activists told NBC the attack is part of a broader pattern of harassment and physical assault targeting clergy and pilgrims — often carried out by ultra-Orthodox Jewish yeshiva students. Jerusalem’s Christian population has collapsed from roughly 25% to less than 2% of the city over the past century.