(25 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip – 25 June 2024
1. Various of couple crying next to body of person lying on floor, next to others in morgue
2. Injured boy crying next to body
3. Various of woman inside morgue holding hand of 9-year-old daughter Salma
4. Various of woman and others screaming, crying next to bodies lying on floor of morgue
5. Woman crying while looking at body of her 4-year-old daughter Zena Naser
6. Various of woman and children hugging body of 4-year-old girl Zena, wrapped in white sheet
7. Boy and others crying around body wrapped in white sheet
8. Woman placing her head on body wrapped in white sheet on ground
9. Various of woman receiving body wrapped in white sheet, hugging it and speaking with other woman
10. Various of people by bodies wrapped in white sheets
11. Various of people praying next to bodies
12. Various of men putting bodies onto truck and truck leaving
STORYLINE:
Inconsolable relatives of children killed in a strike in Central Gaza gathered around the bodies of their loved ones in the morgue of Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah on Tuesday.
An Israeli airstrike killed five people, including four children, and wounded at least 10 others who were in a house in Maghazi refugee camp late Monday, hospital officials said.
Officials said the children were ages 4, 9, 13 and 16.
The mother and relatives of Zena Naser, the youngest of the victims, hugged her body wrapped in a white sheet while she sat outside the hospital.
Others were seen praying and crying near the five bodies before they were taken to be buried in a cemetery nearby.
Israel launched the war after Hamas’ October 7 attack, in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.
Since then, Israeli ground offensives and bombardments have killed more than 37,600 people in Gaza, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this week he will only accept a partial cease-fire deal that would not end the 8-month-long war in Gaza, casting doubt on the viability of a U.S.-backed truce proposal.
International criticism is growing over Israel’s campaign as Palestinians face widespread hunger.
The war has largely cut off the flow of food, medicine and basic goods to Gaza, which is now totally dependent on aid.
The top United Nations court has concluded there is a “plausible risk of genocide” in Gaza — a charge Israel strongly denies.
AP video shot by Abdel Kareem Hana
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