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Scores killed in intensified Israeli strikes in Gaza despite truce talks

Thursday, July 10


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At least 55 Palestinians, including eight children, have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Thursday, local hospital sources said.

Aerial strikes and ground assaults across the besieged coastal territory intensified on Thursday amid ongoing indirect ceasefire negotiations with Hamas.

Witnesses said 17 individuals, including eight children and two women, lost their lives in an attack near a medical facility in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

Yousef Al-Aydi, 30, a survivor, recounted the horror. He was one of many individuals, primarily women and children, who were waiting for nutritional supplements outside the medical point.

“Suddenly, we heard the sound of a drone approaching, and then the explosion happened. The ground shook beneath our feet, and everything around us turned into blood and deafening screams.”

Another witness, Mohammed Abu Ouda, 35, described seeing a mother and child lying lifeless on the ground.

“I saw a mother hugging her child on the ground, both motionless — they were killed instantly. What was our fault? What was the fault of the children?”

At least four Palestinians were also killed in an Israeli attack on the al-Karama neighborhood northwest of Gaza City, a source at al-Shifa Hospital said. Others sustained wounds in the attack.

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Three more Palestinians, including a woman, were killed near an aid center north of the southern city of Rafah, sources at Nasser Hospital said.

In the north, two people were killed in an Israeli attack near al-Zahraa school east of Gaza City, sources at Ahli Hospital said.

One person was killed southwest of the southern city of Khan Younis by Israeli military fire.

Moreover, at least two Palestinians were killed and five were wounded in a new Israeli attack on civilians gathering near al-Daraj School in Gaza City.

According to the United Nations, over 600 individuals have lost their lives around aid distribution centers and convoys in Gaza since late May, when Israel commenced permitting a trickle of supplies into the region, as reported in early July.

At least 57,680 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and another 137,409 individuals injured in the brutal Israeli onslaught on Gaza since October 7, 2023.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant, citing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the besieged coastal territory.

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