(17 Jul 2024)
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Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 17 July 2024
1. Various of people mourning relatives killed in Israeli airstrike
2. Various of people, including children, gathering near the bodies lying on the ground
3. Various of people praying for victims
4. Various of people carrying the bodies and loading them onto a vehicle
5. Vehicle loaded with bodies leaving the hospital
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Relatives grieved their loved ones on Wednesday after an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza killed at least seven people and wounded others, hospital officials said.
Bystanders, some of them children, watched in silence.
They then held funeral prayers for the victims and later loaded the bodies in trucks to be moved.
The airstrike on a home of the Diab family in the town of Zuweida hit before noon Wednesday.
The wounded were taken to a nearby hospital.
The latest strike came amid a steady drumbeat of deaths of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip even as Israel has scaled down major ground offensives.
Israeli airstrikes killed more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza from Monday night into Tuesday, according to hospital records and health officials.
The war in Gaza, which was sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, has killed more than 38,600 people, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.
The war has created a humanitarian catastrophe in the coastal territory, displaced most of its 2.3 million population and triggered widespread hunger.
Hamas’ October attack killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and militants took about 250 hostage.
About 120 remain in captivity, with about a third of them believed to be dead, according to Israeli authorities.
Twenty-three of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are out of service, and the rest are only partially functioning, according to the latest U.N. figures.
Only five field hospitals out of nine are operational.
And more than 60% of Gaza’s primary health facilities have shut down.
AP video by Abd Al Kareem Hana
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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