Relatives arrive at Khan Younis hospital to identify loved ones killed in Israeli airstrikes

(27 Oct 2023)
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Khan Younis - 27 October 2023
1. Various of scene outside Nasser Hospital as people identify and carry bodies, women crying and men carrying bodies while chanting
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A tent set up outside a hospital in Khan Younis allowed people, mostly women and children, to identify the bodies of their loved ones as the war between Israel and Gaza entered its 21st day.

The war started after Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip blew through Israel's highly fortified separation wall on October 7, and attacked an open-air music festival and Israeli border communities.

They killed scores of people and abducted men, women, and children - including elderly and disabled.

Israel launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and sealed it off from food, fuel and other supplies in retaliation for a bloody incursion, vowing to destroy the militant group. The war is the deadliest of five Gaza wars for both sides.

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said Thursday that more than 7,000 Palestinians have been killed so far - more than three times the number killed in the six-week-long Gaza war in 2014. In the occupied West Bank, more than 100 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids following Hamas' surprise rampage on Oct. 7 in southern Israel.

The Associated Press couldn't independently verify the death tolls cited by Hamas, which says it tallies figures from hospital directors.

The fighting has killed more than 1,400 people in Israel, according to Israeli officials, mostly civilians who died in the initial Hamas attack. Israel's military has raised the number of remaining hostages in Gaza to 222 people, including foreigners believed captured by Hamas during the incursion. Four hostages have been released so far.
AP video shot by Mohammad Jahjouh

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