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The small bodies are lined up on the floor of the Khan Younis morgue, in the south of the Gaza Strip, all from the same family, which lost ten members, eight of them minors, in an Israeli bombing in the Palestinian enclave.
They all belong to the Al Bakri family clan, according to rescuers and witnesses. At the European hospital, the children’s remains were wrapped in white cloth, about to cover their bloodied faces, noted an AFP photographer.
The population pays a high price in the war that began on October 7, after the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas on Israeli soil.
More than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel, most of them civilians, at the hands of Hamas commandos. In the Gaza Strip, at least 3,785 people, including more than 1,500 minors, died due to Israeli bombings.
The Israeli military said on Thursday it had carried out hundreds of attacks against Hamas structures in the past 24 hours.
In the south of the enclave, Diyala, Ayman, Hamada, Zaher, Uday, Jamal, Nabil and Acil, aged between two and five, all from the same family clan, “were sleeping when (the Israelis) destroyed their house and it collapsed on top of them.” of them”, explains the patriarch of the Bakri family, Abu Mohammad Wafi Al Bakri, 67 years old.
According to witnesses, they were on the ground floor of a three-story house, between Khan Younis and Rafah, in the south of the enclave, and their bodies were found an hour after the bombing.
“None of my children are associated with Palestinian organizations. There were no men in the house at the time of the bombing.“, To add.
In Rafah, another bomb attack claimed the lives of a mother, Arij Marwan al Banna, and her two daughters, Sarah and Samya, under the age of 10, according to Palestinian medical sources. The woman fled her home in Gaza City, following the Israeli army’s evacuation warning, to take refuge in her parents’ home in Rafah.
I was seven months pregnant. Doctors at the city’s hospital induced a post-mortem birth, but the baby was stillborn, according to a medical source.
Medical personnel in Gaza say they can no longer treat the injured due to a lack of medicine, water and fuel for generators.
The Health Ministry of Hamas, which governs Gaza, said Thursday that the Deir-al-Balah hospital, in the center of the Palestinian enclave where more than two million people live, was running out of medical supplies.
Part of the Strip is completely under siege by Israel, which has cut off electricity, water and fuel supplies.
In Gaza City, Ahmad al Mulla carries two plastic bottles. He explains that his mother sent him to a water distribution point: “Sometimes we wait two hours for our turn to see at the end that there is no more water.”
“Water is life, no human being can survive without itsays this teenager.
Source: Elcomercio
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