(23 Jul 2025)
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++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES OF DEAD, INCLUDING CHILDREN++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 23 July 2025
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1. Various of mourners around dead bodies inside hospital morgue
2. Mourners around body
3. Men carrying bodies of children, man writing the name of child on body cover
4. Relatives taking bodies of children to their injured mother
5. Mona Derdisawi, the mother of killed children crying while touching their bodies
6. Derdisawi and relatives kissing dead child
7. Mourners performing funeral prayers
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed al-Derdesawy, uncle of children:
"One (of the children) was 11, another was 8 and the third was 6 years old, a boy and two girls. They were sleeping in God’s safety and everything was normal and then they were targeted. We were at our home and we received a call from their neighbors who told us, ‘your brother was targeted’ and that we should go check them in Shifa hospital"
9. Various of man putting a boy’s body on the ground
10. Woman crying and kissing body of child
11. Man hugging body of child
12. Bodies inside morgue
13. Various of wrapped bodies on the ground, people crying
14. Various of mourners performing funeral prayers
15. Various of mourners carrying bodies outside hospital
STORYLINE:
Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 21 people late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
More than half of those killed were women and children, health authorities said.
One Israeli strike hit a house Tuesday in the northwestern side of Gaza City, killing at least 12 people, according to the Shifa Hospital, which received the casualties.
The dead included six children and two women, according to the Health Ministry’s casualty list.
Another strike hit an apartment in the Tal al-Hawa area in northern Gaza, killing at least six people.
Among the dead were three children and two women, including one who was pregnant.
Eight others were wounded, the ministry said.
A third strike hit a tent in the Naser neighborhood in Gaza City late Tuesday and killed three children, Shifa Hospital said.
The children’s mother was also wounded in the strike and taken to the Shifa hospital for treatment.
Her relatives brought the children, wrapped in white sheets, to her hospital bed.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strikes.
It blames Hamas for civilian casualties because the militants operate from populated areas.
The Israeli military said in a statement Wednesday that forces were operating in Gaza City, as well as in northern Gaza.
It said without elaborating that in Jabaliya, an area hard-hit in multiple rounds of fighting, an air strike killed “a number of” Hamas militants.
Troops struck roughly 120 targets throughout Gaza over the past day, including militant cells, tunnels and booby-trapped structures, among others, the military said.
Desperation is mounting in the Palestinian territory of more than 2 million, which experts say is at risk of famine because of Israel’s blockade and nearly two-year offensive.
A breakdown of law and order has led to widespread looting and contributed to chaos and violence around aid deliveries.
More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in the Gaza Strip, mostly near aid sites run by an American contractor, the U.N. human rights office said Tuesday.
More than 100 human rights groups and charities signed a letter published Wednesday demanding more aid for Gaza and warning of grim conditions causing starvation.
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