(18 Aug 2024)
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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip - 18 August 2024
1. Various of people carrying bodies of mother and her children out of the morgue
2. People placing bodies on the ground
3. Various of people gathering near bodies
4. Various of people praying
5. Various of people carrying bodies and placing them in ambulance
STORYLINE:
Israel’s bombardment in Gaza overnight killed 19 people, including three women and seven children, health authorities said Sunday.
The dead include a mother and her six children who were killed in an Israeli strike early Sunday on their house in the central town of Deir al-Balah, according to the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital.
An Associated Press journalist at the hospital counted the dead.
In central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, another Israeli airstrike hit a house and killed four people, according to the Awda hospital, where the bodies were taken.
In the northern town of Jabaliya, an Israeli airstrike killed a woman, her daughter and two men, the Health Ministry’s Ambulance and Emergency service said.
The strike hit two apartments in a residential building, it said.
Late Saturday, an Israeli strike struck a house in the town of Abssan, east of Khan Younis, leaving four people dead, including two women from the same family, the Nasser hospital where bodies were taken, said.
The latest casualties come as the U.S. and fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar appeared to be closing in on a deal after two days of talks in Doha, with American and Israeli officials expressing cautious optimism.
But Hamas has signaled resistance to what it says are new demands by Israel, and the long-running talks have repeatedly stalled.
The evolving proposal calls for a three-phase process in which Hamas would release all hostages abducted during its Oct. 7 attack, which triggered the deadliest war ever fought between Israelis and Palestinians.
In exchange, Israel would withdraw its forces from Gaza and release Palestinian prisoners.
Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed over 40,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, displaced the vast majority of the territory's 2.3 million residents and caused a humanitarian catastrophe.
Experts have warned of famine and the outbreak of diseases like polio.
Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the Oct. 7 attack and abducted around 250.
Of those, some 110 are still believed to be inside Gaza, with Israeli authorities saying around a third are deceased.
More than 100 hostages were released in November during a weeklong cease-fire.
AP video shot by Abd Al Kareem Hana
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