A Palestinian medical charity said Tuesday that Israel destroyed its main center in Gaza City after ordering its evacuation. The Palestinian Medical Relief Society said an Israeli strike reduced its six-story building in the central Samer area to rubble.

In Gaza, as in much of the world, September usually means sharpened pencils, pressed uniforms, and the first day of class. This year, the month arrived with bombed-out buildings, new displacement orders, and worsening famine.

Hamas-linked social media channels say "three collaborators who were spying for the occupation" were executed.

France and several other Western nations formally declared their recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations on Monday in a move that deepens Israel’s international isolation as it pursues its maximalist war aims in Gaza and expands settlements in the occupied West Bank.

A growing number of experts have said Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel’s isolation and risking untold damage to the country’s standing even among allies.

Dozens of Western nations called on Monday for the reopening of the medical corridor between Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, offering to provide financial aid and medical staff or equipment to treat Gaza's patients in the West Bank.

Three students recently evacuated from Gaza have arrived in Northern Ireland to study at a Higher Education institution, Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald has said. It is understood they are among a group of 34 students that arrived in the UK in recent days.

French President Emmanuel Macron uses the UN General Assembly to position France as an alternative global power, renewing calls for Palestinian state recognition.

Even as criticism of Israel ramps up and a growing number of countries say they’ll recognize a Palestinian state, concrete actions remain limited.

Trump and foreign leaders meet this week at the UN General Assembly, though Trump will largely be isolated from more than half of the member nations over the war in Gaza.