(11 May 2024)
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++CLIENTS: EDIT HAS SHOTS OF MOSTLY COVERED BODIES BUT SOME BODY PARTS VISIBLE++
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Deir al-Balah, Gaza - 11 May 2024
1. Various of bodies of 19 people covered in sheets laying outside Al Aqsa hospital, mourners and journalists looking over
STORYLINE:
The bodies of 19 people which included children, were laid outside Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah on Saturday, following three strikes in central Gaza.
Eight women, three men and eight children were killed in three different strikes early Saturday.
Mourners and journalists gathered outside the hospital where the bodies were draped in white and coloured sheets.
The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution Friday to give Palestine more “rights and privileges” and called on the Security Council to favourably reconsider Palestine's request to become the 194th U.N. member.
In Gaza, heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the outskirts of the southern city of Rafah has left aid crossings inaccessible, a U.N. humanitarian official said Friday. The World Food Program will run out of food for distribution in southern Gaza by Saturday unless more aid arrives.
About 110,000 people have fled Rafah for other parts of the besieged territory, the U.N. estimates. Some 1.4 million Palestinians - over half Gaza’s population - had sought refuge in the city.
Israel says Rafah is the last stronghold of the Hamas militant group and vowed to launch a full-scale invasion of the city. The U.S. says a Rafah offensive would jeopardise cease-fire talks and threatened to halt more military aid to Israel.
The death toll from the war in Gaza has soared to more than 34,500 people, most of them women and children, according to local health officials. Israeli bombardments and ground assaults have caused vast destruction to apartments, hospitals, schools and refugee centres across several cities.
The war began Oct. 7 when Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting about 250 others. Israel says militants still hold around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others.
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