Gazans hold prayers for people killed in Israeli strike on shelter housing the displaced

Record ID: 1889387

  • Title: Gazans hold prayers for people killed in Israeli strike on shelter housing the displaced
  • Date: 16th December 2024
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CARRYING BODIES
  • Embargoed: 30th December 2024 09:03
  • Keywords: Gaza Israel Palestinians displaced funerals school shelter
  • Location: KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA
  • City: KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA
  • Country: Palestinian Occupied Territory
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA002740816122024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
    Gazans held funeral prayers on Monday (December 16) for people killed in Sunday (December 15)'s Israeli strike on a shelter housing displaced families in southern Gaza's Khan Younis.
    Medics said at least 20 people, including women and children, were killed when the airstrike hit the shelter.
    Israel says Gaza's militants regularly embed among civilians, using them as human shields. Hamas denies this.
    Reuters was unable to confirm whether any of the people killed were fighters. Hamas does not disclose its casualties, and the Palestinian health ministry does not distinguish in its death toll between combatants and non-combatants.
    The war began when the Palestinian militant group Hamas stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking more than 250 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli authorities.
    Israel then launched an air and land offensive that has killed almost 45,000 people, mostly civilians, according to authorities in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. The campaign has displaced nearly the entire population and left much of the enclave in ruins.
    (Production: Hussam al-Masri, Bassam Masoud, Tarek Fahmy)
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