(24 Sep 2025)
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Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip – 24 September 2025
1. Man carrying wrapped body out of Al Aqsa hospital morgue and placing it on ground
2. Various of wrapped bodies on ground
3. Various of men carrying another wrapped body, bodies on ground
4. Various of people seated near bodies
5. Various of woman mourning lost relatives
6. Various of mourner Ahmad Khattab seated beside wrapped bodies
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Khattab, sister and family killed in Israeli strike:
"My sister, her husband and her children, they are all gone. What is their fault? They are not guilty at all. They were hit while they were sleeping in the room. I can’t say more than that. (The cameraman’s question: The whole family is gone?) Only a girl and a boy remain, thank God.”
8. Various of people praying beside bodies
9. Various of people carrying bodies and placing them in vehicle, vehicle leaving
STORYLINE:
Four members of one family – two parents and their two children – were killed in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza, officials at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the town of Deir al-Balah said on Wednesday.
The strike hit a family house in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, the hospital said.
Ahmad Khattab, the brother of the deceased woman, mourned his family’s loss outside the hospital on Wednesday.
"My sister, her husband and her children, they are all gone. What is their fault? They are not guilty at all. They were hit while they were sleeping in the room," he said to the AP.
At least 26 Palestinians were killed in overnight strikes in the northern and central Gaza Strip, officials said on Wednesday, as Israel intensified its offensive in Gaza City.
More than half of the dead were killed in a strike that hit tents sheltering displaced people in the Souq Firas area in the eastern side of Gaza City, according to Al-Ahly hospital which received the casualties.
At least 22 Palestinians, including nine children and six women, were killed in that strike, it said.
The latest strikes came as France, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, and Monaco on Monday announced or confirmed their recognition of a Palestinian state at the start of a high-profile meeting at the United Nations aimed at galvanizing support for a two-state solution to the Mideast conflict.
Those announcements came a day after the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Portugal did the same.
More nations are expected to follow, in defiance of Israel and the United States.
The recent shift among nations is unlikely to have much if any short-term impact on the ground, where Israel is waging a major offensive in famine-stricken Gaza City and expanding settlements in the West Bank.
The almost two-year war has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians and left hundreds of thousands on the brink of famine, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
The ministry does not say how many killed were civilians or combatants, but says more than half have been women and children.
The war began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants carried out an attack inside Israel that killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, saw about 250 people taken hostage.
Israel says its operation in Gaza is aimed at pressuring Hamas to surrender and return the remaining 48 hostages. Israel believes around 20 of the captives are still alive.
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