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Dead and injured brought to hospital after Israeli strike in central Gaza

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(5 Sep 2024) 

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Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip - 5 September 2024

1. People carrying injured child to emergency department ++NIGHT SHOT++

2. Various of injured children on ground receiving first aid ++NIGHT SHOTS++

3. Bodies on the ground inside the morgue ++GRAPHIC IMAGES++

4. Various of people inspecting destruction near tents of displaced people at Al-Aqsa Hospital 

5. Various of children holding part of missile that hit tent 

6. Various of destruction 

7. Displaced family sitting near destroyed tents

8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Mohammad Wadi, displaced woman staying at Al-Aqsa Hospital: 

"What did these people do to target them like this while they were sleeping? What did we do to them? No hospital is safe, no school is safe, no house is safe, and no market is safe. We woke up to martyrs in the morgue. People were mourning and bidding farewell to them. These people were sleeping, poor people. What did they do to be bombed while they were sleeping?"

9. Various of people praying for the victims 

10. Various of people carrying bodies and leaving hospital, man shooting in the air 

STORYLINE:

An Israeli strike on a tent camp in Gaza killed four men and wounded two children, Palestinian health officials said.

The strike early Thursday hit an encampment near the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah. 

Hospital officials confirmed the toll, and an Associated Press reporter saw the bodies.

The Israeli military said it carried out a precise strike on a command-and-control center operated by Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group that was embedded in a humanitarian zone.

The nearly 11-month-long war has displaced about 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people, often multiple times. 

Israel has ordered mass evacuations into so-called humanitarian zones but occasionally carries out strikes there as well.

At the hospital, a girl was laid on a piece of cardboard while doctors treated a wound on her left leg. A boy sat beside her with bandages on his arm and elbow.

A woman who identified herself as Umm Mohammed Wadi said she was staying in a tent close to where the strike occurred.

"What did they do to be bombed while they were sleeping?" she said.

"No hospital is safe, nor any school or home," she added.

Israel says it only targets militants and tries to avoid harming civilians.

Israeli massive military offensive in Gaza has killed at least 40,861 Palestinians and wounded more than 94,000, according to Gaza Health Ministry. It does not differentiate between civilians and fighters in its toll.

The war began after Hamas launched a wide-scale attack into Israel on October 7, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250 people. 

Around 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, about a third of whom are believed to be dead, after most of the rest were released during a cease-fire in November.

AP video by Wafaa Shurafa 

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