(13 Jul 2024)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 13 July 2024
1. Various of mourners next to a wrapped dead body with face exposed
2. Close of people mourning and hugging
3. People carrying a wrapped body
4. Various of people praying next to wrapped body on a stretcher
5. Various of women mourning next to a wrapped dead body with face exposed
6. Various of mourners carrying bodies and chanting
STORYLINE:
People in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis were mourning their dead on Saturday after Israeli strikes on the area.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported 71 dead and said at least 289 others were injured in the attack — one of the war's deadliest — and that many dead and injured were taken to overwhelmed Nasser Hospital nearby.
There, Associated Press journalists counted over 40 bodies. Witnesses described an attack that included several strikes.
Witnesses said the strike landed inside Muwasi, the Israeli-designated safe zone that stretches from northern Rafah to Khan Younis.
The coastal strip is where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have fled in search of safety, sheltering mostly in sweltering, makeshift tents and with little services.
Israel said it targeted Hamas’ shadowy military commander in a massive strike Saturday.
Hamas immediately rejected the claim that Mohammed Deif was in the area.
Israeli officials confirmed that Deif and a second Hamas commander, Rafa Salama, were the targets.
It was not immediately known whether Deif was among the dead.
A military official later said they were “still checking and verifying the result of the strike," and did not deny it took place inside an area the Israeli military had designated as safe for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Deif and Hamas’ top official in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, are believed by Israel to be the chief architects of the Oct. 7 attack that killed some 1,200 people in southern Israel and triggered the Israel-Hamas war.
Israeli ground offensives and bombardments have killed more than 38,400 people in Gaza and wounded more than 88,000, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
The ministry does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.
More than 80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes, and most are now crowded into squalid tent camps, facing widespread hunger.
AP video shot by Mohammad Jahjouh
Production: Wafaa Shurafa
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