Gazans mourn their dead, including Al-Nuseirat camp mayor killed in Israeli strikes

Record ID: 1823791

  • Title: Gazans mourn their dead, including Al-Nuseirat camp mayor killed in Israeli strikes
  • Date: 7th June 2024
  • Summary: DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA (JUNE 7, 2024) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS) PALESTINIANS GATHERING AT AL AQSA MARTYRS HOSPITAL WHERE BODIES OF PALESTINIANS KILLED IN ISRAELI STRIKES HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO WOMAN HOLDING ON TO A BODY ON THE GROUND WOMEN CRYING (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) GRANDMOTHER OF ONE OF THE MEN KILLED IN ISRAELI STRIKE, UMM (MOTHER) YAHYA AL HASANAT, SAYING: “Before this, f
  • Embargoed: 21st June 2024 09:40
  • Keywords: Deaths Funerals Gaza Israeli Military Offensive Nuseirat Palestinians Strike
  • Location: DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA
  • City: DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA
  • Country: Palestinian Occupied Territory
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East
  • Reuters ID: LVA001880707062024RP1
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  • Story Text: PART AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING
    Palestinians mourned their dead on Friday (June 7), after Israeli tanks and warplanes blasted central and southern areas of the enclave overnight, killing at least 23 Palestinians according to local medics.
    The body of the mayor of Al-Nuseirat Eyad Al-Mghari, who was also killed in an overnight strike, was brought to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
    Municipal workers held prayers for the mayor, whose body was covered in a white sheet and draped with a high visibility vest.
    Other mourners also gathered at the hospital, bidding relatives farewell, including Umm Yahya Al Hasanat, whose grandson was killed in a strike, she said.
    Israel vowed to destroy Hamas as it launched an air and ground offensive in Gaza last October after militants stormed across the border into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing around 1,200 people and taking more than 250 people hostage, according to Israeli tallies. About 120 hostages remain in Gaza.
    Israel's invasion and bombardment of Gaza since then has killed over 36,000 people, according to health officials in the coastal enclave, who say thousands more dead are feared buried under rubble, with most of the 2.3 million population displaced.
    (Production: Doaa Rouqa, Bassam Masoud, Nisreen Bathish)
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