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A Palestinian walks past destroyed residential buildings in Hamad City, Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Saturday. Credit: Hatem Khaled/ REUTERS. Published by Associated Press, republished by Haaretz.

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Palestinians carry a body as they inspect damage in Hamad City, following an Israeli raid in Khan Younis on Saturday. Credit: Hatem Khaled/Reuters. Published by Haaretz

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The Associated Press
Aug 24, 2024 7:43 pm IDT
Published by Haaretz

Multiple Israeli airstrikes killed at least three dozen Palestinians in southern Gaza, health workers said on Saturday, as officials including a Hamas delegation gathered for high-level cease-fire talks in neighboring Egypt.

Among the dead were 11 members of a family, including two children, after an airstrike hit their home in Khan Yunis, according to Nasser Hospital, which received a total of 33 bodies from three strikes in and around the city that also hit tuk-tuks and passersby. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said it received three bodies from another strike.

The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports.

First responders also recovered 16 bodies from the Hamad City area of Khan Yunis after a partial pullout of Israeli forces, 10 bodies from a residential block west of Khan Yunis and two farther south in Rafah. The circumstances of their deaths were not immediately clear, but the areas were repeatedly bombed by the Israeli military over the past week. An Associated Press journalist counted the bodies.

The Hamas-run health ministry said that a total of 69 dead and 212 wounded had been brought to hospitals across the strip over the past 24 hours.

Some residents returned to Hamad City, walking between destroyed apartment buildings

"There is nothing, no apartment, no furniture, no homes, only destruction," said one woman, Neveen Kheder. "We are dying slowly. You know what, if they gave a mercy bullet it would be better than what is happening to us."

Experts were meeting on Saturday on technical issues ahead of Sunday's high-level talks in Cairo on a possible cease-fire mediated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar. CIA Director William Burns, Qatar's foreign minister and Egypt's spy chief were meeting Saturday evening in Cairo, according to an Egyptian official with direct knowledge of the talks.

A Hamas delegation arrived Saturday in Cairo to meet with Egyptian and Qatari officials, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Merdawy told the AP. He stressed that Hamas will not take part directly in Sunday's talks but will be briefed by Egypt and Qatar.
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Day 323: Israeli Forces Continue Relentless Bombardment of Gaza

by IMEMC News
Aug 24, 2024

On Saturday, day 323 of the ongoing Israeli attack on the entire Palestinian civilian population of Gaza, Israeli forces launched airstrikes on several different parts of the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding a number of Palestinian civilians, including children.

Eleven Palestinians were killed and others, including children and women, were injured at dawn on Saturday, due to Israeli shelling that targeted different neighborhoods in Khan Younis city and north of Al-Nuseirat camp.

Health sources reported the killing of 11 Palestinians, including 4 children and 4 women, and the injury of at least 15 civilians as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of a house belonging to the Kalakh family in Al-Madrasa Street in Al-Amal neighborhood west of Khan Younis, while others were injured as a result of Israeli artillery shelling in the vicinity of Al-Salam Street in Joura Al-Lut, and the vicinity of the Al-Tahlia area south and east of the city.

Palestinians trying to flee Khan Younis after Israeli military orders them to evacuate, even though there is nowhere to go:

Three Palestinians were killed and others were injured, Saturday morning, in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a residential apartment in the Ein Jalut Towers in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza .

Three Palestinians were also injured when an Israeli drone targeted a school housing displaced persons north of the Nuseirat camp.

In addition, Palestinian Civil Defense sources said that concentrated Israeli shelling led to the destruction of residential buildings in the Kuwaiti roundabout area, the Aliyin square, and the university college in the south of Gaza City.

Four Palestinians were killed on Friday evening when the Israeli occupation bombed gatherings of citizens in the northern Gaza Strip.

The number of people killed in the Gaza Strip has risen to 40,265 and the number of injuries to 93,144 since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. A number of victims are still under the rubble and in the roads and streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them .

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