Dozens feared dead in Gaza after Israeli strikes
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Israeli strikes in Gaza and Lebanon escalate, causing significant casualties and displacements, with U.S. envoy seeking truce negotiations.
“Dozens of people were killed or unaccounted for after Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip,” a hospital director and the Civil Defence Agency said Thursday (November 21, 2024).
One strike near the Kamal Adwan hospital in the north of the territory left “dozens of people” dead or missing, the facility’s director Hossam Abu Safiya told AFP.
The process of retrieving the bodies and wounded continues, he said, adding: “Bodies arrive at the hospital in pieces.”
Another strike was reported in a neighbourhood of Gaza City.
“We can confirm that 22 martyrs were transferred (to hospital) after a strike targeted a house” in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, Civil Defence Spokesman Mahmud Bassal said.
“There is a headless body. We don’t yet know who this is,” Moataz al-Arouqi, who lives in the area, told AFP.
Since Hamas conducted its October 7, 2023 attack, the deadliest in Israeli history, Israel has been fighting a war in Gaza, which the militant group rules.
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