(24 Dec 2023)
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++CLIENTS NOTE: FOOTAGE OF COVERED BODIES++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Al Aqsa hospital, Deir Al Balah - 24 December 2023
1. Various of people gathering and praying over bodies laid outside Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza Strip
STORYLINE:
Prayers were held over the bodies laid outside the Al Aqsa Hospital in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.
Footage captured by The Associated Press showed people in quiet reflection next to bodies covered in white sheets in the parking lot of the hospital.
Israel declared war after Hamas gunmen stormed across the border into Israel on Oct. 7, killing some 1,200 people and taking some 240 hostages.
More than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war to destroy Hamas and more than 53,000 have been wounded, according to health officials in Gaza, a besieged territory ruled by the Islamic militant group for the past 16 years.
The Health Ministry in Gaza on Saturday evening said 201 people had been killed over the past 24 hours.
Airstrikes on Friday flattened two homes, including one in Gaza City, where 76 people from the al-Mughrabi family were killed, making the attack one of the deadliest of the war, said Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defense department.
AP video by Abdel Kareem Hana
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