(10 Jul 2024)
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Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip – 10 July 2024
1. Woman holding then putting down body of baby
2. Various of woman mourning and crying
3. Bodies of children on the ground
4. Man mourning, UPSOUND (Arabic): "God suffices for me against them (referring to those who wronged him), god suffices for me."
5. Bodies of children, man covering body with blanket
6. Women crying
7. Various of women mourning loss of relatives
8. Various of people gathering next to bodies on the ground
9. Various of people praying for victims
10. Various of people gathering near the bodies
11. People carrying a body and leaving
12. Various of people praying for victims
13. People carrying bodies and leaving
STORYLINE:
Israeli airstrikes early Wednesday killed 20 Palestinians in central Gaza, including six children and three women, some of them inside a purported "safe zone" declared by the Israeli military, hospital authorities said.
Palestinian mourners held prayers for the dead on Wednesday morning as relatives mourned their loved ones.
This second straight night of deadly strikes in the central town of Deir al-Balah and nearby refugee camps came as U.S., Egyptian and Qatari mediators as well as Israeli officials came together in the Qatari capital, Doha, for talks trying to push through a long-elusive deal for a cease-fire and hostage release.
Israel and Hamas had appeared to narrow the gaps in recent days, but obstacles remain.
Strikes early Wednesday hit three houses in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing 12 people including five children, said authorities at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where the casualties were taken.
An Associated Press reporter counted the bodies.
The camp, like others around Gaza, was originally erected to house Palestinians driven from their homes during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation.
It has grown into an urban neighborhood in the decades since.
A fourth strike early Wednesday killed four men, three women and a child when it hit a home in Deir al-Balah, an area that is located within the "humanitarian safe zone" where Israel has told Palestinians to seek refuge as it conducts offensives in multiple parts of the Gaza Strip.
In nine months of bombardment and offensives in Gaza, Israel has killed more than 38,200 people and wounded more than 88,000, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.
Nearly the entire population has been driven from their homes. Many have been displaced multiple times. Hundreds of thousands are packed into sweltering tent camps.
Israel’s onslaught was triggered by Hamas’ cross-border raid on Oct. 7, during which militants killed 1,200 people in southern Israel, most of them civilians, according to Israeli authorities.
The militants took roughly 250 people hostage. About 120 are still in captivity, with about a third said to be dead.
AP video shot by Abd Al Kareem Hana
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