(23 Dec 2023)
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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip – 23 December 2023
1. Various of people performing Islamic funeral prayer in front of dead bodies wrapped in shroud outside Al Aqsa hospital
2. Two men placing body on the ground as others gather for funeral prayer
3. People performing funeral prayer in front of dead bodies
4. People performing funeral prayer in front of dead body placed in trailer
5. Men boarding trailer to leave for burial
STORYLINE:
Families in Gaza were burying their dead on Saturday, a day after health officials said the number of Palestinians killed in the war between Israel and Hamas has reached a grim milestone of 20,000 deaths.
The deaths in Gaza amount to nearly 1% of the territory’s prewar population — the latest indication of the 11-week-old conflict's staggering human toll.
Israel expanded its offensive and ordered tens of thousands more people to leave their homes.
Israel’s aerial and ground offensive has been one of the most devastating military campaigns in recent history, displacing nearly 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people and leveling wide swaths of the tiny coastal enclave.
More than half a million people in Gaza — a quarter of the population — are starving, according to a report Thursday from the United Nations and other agencies.
Israel declared war after Hamas militants stormed across the border on Oct. 7, killing some 1,200 people and taking roughly 240 hostages.
Israel has vowed to keep up the fight until Hamas is destroyed and removed from power in Gaza and all the hostages are freed.
AP video shot by Abdel Kareem Hana
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