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(3 Dec 2023)
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++CONTAINS GRAPHIC SHOTS OF INJURED PEOPLE++

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 3 December 2023
1. Cars brining wounded people to emergency ward of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis
2. Various of people gathering, ambulances
STORYLINE:
Ambulances and civilian cars ferried wounded people to the Nasser Hospital in Gaza's Khan Younis city after a reported Israeli airstrike in the area on Sunday.

Israel's military on Sunday ordered more areas in and around Gaza's second-largest city of Khan Younis to evacuate, as it shifted its offensive to the southern half of the territory where it says many Hamas leaders are hiding.

Heavy bombardments were reported overnight and into Sunday in the area of Khan Younis and the southern city of Rafah, as well as parts of the north that had been the focus of Israel's blistering air and ground campaign.

Many of the territory’s 2.3 million people are crammed in the south after Israeli forces ordered civilians to leave the north in the early days of the 2-month-old war.

With the resumption of fighting, hopes receded that another temporary truce could be negotiated.

A weeklong cease-fire, which expired Friday, had facilitated the release of dozens of Gaza-held Israeli and foreign hostages and Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.

The Health Ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said Saturday that the overall death toll in the strip since the Oct. 7 start of the war had surpassed 15,200, a sharp jump from the previous count of more than 13,300 on Nov. 20.

The ministry does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths, but it said 70% of the dead were women and children.

It said more than 40,000 people had been wounded since the war began.

The war was sparked by an Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and other militants that killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel. Around 240 people were taken captive.

The renewed hostilities have heightened concerns for 137 hostages, who the Israeli military says are still being held after 105 were freed during the recent truce. Israel freed 240 Palestinians during the truce. Most of those released by both sides were women and children.

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