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People search bodies for family members after Israeli attack on school shelter


A Palestinian man carries an injured child after an Israeli air strike in Deir el-Balah

We’re still seeing more of the surviving family members who rushed to the hospital to check for their children and check for their family members to see if they were among the casualties or not. Some of them are still missing.

We saw one mother going through the bodies, just looking for anything that could lead to the body of her son. She said there is a birthmark – that she’s going to continue to search.

Another person was looking for the body of his wife, who happened to be at that evacuation centre when it was targeted. She was given an appointment to go pick up formula milk for her newly born child that happened to be distributed at this evacuation centre.

She was in the morgue of Al-Aqsa Hospital. He was able to recognise the body from the clothes that she was wearing. That’s the hardest part of what we have been seeing so far here at the hospital.

The situations continue to be very difficult inside the emergency department where medical staff are pretty much unable to provide any necessary medical intervention to save lives.

The bomb that was dropped by the F-16 packed with nails, packed with pieces of metal and shrapnel that cut through the flesh and caused severe bleeding. Many of the victims arriving at the hospital, their blood filled up the courtyard of the hospital the moment the door of the ambulance vehicle opened.

The situation continues to be very tragic and very difficult at all levels here at the hospital.


A Palestinian child wounded in the Israeli bombardment is treated at a hospital in Deir el-Balah


Three Israeli soldiers killed in northern Gaza Strip: Israeli military

The Israeli military says the men died during fighting in the besieged enclave’s north and their families have been notified.

Two of the men, both 32 years old, were of the rank of master sergeant while the other, aged 37, was a major from Jerusalem.


One killed in Gaza’s Jabalia in Israeli strike: Civil Defence

The rescue organisation says it has removed the body of one person killed after being targeted by Israeli aircraft at the Abu Sharar roundabout in the northern Strip.

Israel has been carrying out a siege on several areas of the northern Gaza Strip, especially Jabalia, for nearly a week, killing scores of Palestinians.


Death toll in the Gaza Strip rises amid ongoing Israeli air strikes

Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that 63 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip today.



A Palestinian boy stands at the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip


Israeli fighter jets, helicopters carry out attacks on northern, central Gaza

The Israeli military has carried out attacks in the north of the Gaza Strip in recent hours, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report, citing local sources.

Several people were injured when Israeli fighter jets bombed a house near al-Ihsan Mosque in Jabalia, while Israeli artillery shelling has resumed on al-Sikka Street in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City.

Israeli helicopters have also launched an air attack on the al-Hakr area in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza.