(7 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir al-Balah, Gaza – 7 June 2024
1. Paramedics and relatives of Palestinians killed in Deir al-Balah carrying them on stretcher to the morgue
2. Mid of bodies inside the morgue
3. Various of relatives weeping
4. Mourners putting bags of bodies on the ground for prayers
5. Various of prayers
6. Paramedic putting a paramedic vest on one of the bodies
7. Mourners weeping
8. Man holding his mother crying
9. Various of bodies being carried for burial
STORYLINE:
Dozens of Palestinians gathered on Friday at Al-Aqsa hospital to receive bodies of relatives killed overnight by Israeli strikes.
Palestinian health officials said Friday that at least 18 people were killed, including children, in Israeli airstrikes overnight across Central Gaza.
Strikes hit the Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps and Deir al-Balah and Zawaiyda towns.
The bodies were taken to the al-Aqsa hospital where an Associated Press journalist counted them.
Four children and one woman were among those killed as well as the mayor of the Nuseirat, according to hospital records.
Mourners held a prayer ceremony outside the hospital and then carried the bodies for burial
Israel’s army said Friday it was continuing operations in parts of Central Gaza including eastern Bureji and Deir al-Balah.
It said its troops had killed dozens of militants, located tunnel shafts and destroyed infrastructure in the area.
The strikes come a day after at least 33 people were killed at a United Nations-run school sheltering displaced Palestinian families.
Israel said the school was being used as a Hamas compound, without providing evidence.
Israel’s military said it was not aware of any civilian casualties in the strike on the school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, and later said it had confirmed killing nine militants.
AP video by Abdel Kareem Hana
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