Скачать или смотреть Israeli strike in Gaza kills at least 8 from the same family, Palestinians say

(17 Dec 2024)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 17 December 2024
1. Various of doll among the rubble after Israeli airstrike
2. Children looking at destruction
3. Various of destruction
4. Various of remnants of missile
5. Various of destruction, smoke rising
6. Various of burnt food
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salah Al-Turuk, survivor of airstrike and relative of those killed:
"Tonight, there was a bombing in the house at 12 o’clock at night, and we were sleeping in the house. We are all civilians in this house, elderly, children, there is no one (wanted). The bombing occurred and from its strength we did not comprehend what had happened. The fire burned throughout the house. We took the children out. They were all in pieces, old people, all in pieces, pieces of flesh burned by the fire. 8 people were martyred, five children, and three elderly people."
8. Various of destroyed building after airstrike
9. Various of people gathering near wrapped bodies lying on the ground
10. Various of people praying for victims
11. Various of people carrying bodies and loading them onto vehicle, vehicle leaving
STORYLINE:
An Israeli strike in Gaza killed at least eight people from the same family, most of them women and children, Palestinian medics said on Tuesday.

The strike late on Monday hit a house in Gaza City’s central neighborhood of Daraj, according to the Gaza Health Ministry’s ambulance and emergency service.

Among the bodies recovered from the rubble were a father and his three children, and the children’s grandmother, according to a casualty list obtained by The Associated Press.

One local man, Salah Al-Turuk, said he was sleeping in the house and also survived the blast.

"We are all civilians in this house, elderly, children, there is no one (wanted)," he exclaimed, as he stood amongst the debris of the destroyed house. "8 people were martyred, five children, and three elderly people."

The Israeli army said the airstrike targeted a Hamas militant in a “terrorist infrastructure site.”

Israel blames Hamas for civilian casualties, saying militants often operate in residential areas in the densely populated Gaza Strip.

Rights groups and Palestinians say Israel has failed to take sufficient precautions to avoid civilian deaths.

Israeli bombardment and offensives in Gaza have killed more than 45,000 Palestinians over the past 14 months, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

The ministry’s tally does not distinguish between combatants and civilians, but it says more than of half the dead were women and children.

Israel launched its campaign in retaliation for Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel in which militants killed some 1,200 people and abducted 250 others, around 100 of whom remain in captivity.

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