- Title: Rubble and destruction following Israeli strikes in Gaza City
- Date: 19th March 2025
- Summary: GAZA CITY, GAZA (MARCH 19, 2025) (REUTERS) PEOPLE STANDING ON RUBBLE FROM DAMAGED BUILDING FOLLOWING ISRAELI STRIKE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE BREAKING CONCRETE FROM DAMAGED BUILDINGS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN WHOSE RELATIVE WAS KILLED IN AN ISRAELI STRIKE, AHMED AL-HATTAB, SAYING: “It was around 2:00, 2:10 (in the morning), a missile... An F-16 plane brought down the five f
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- Keywords: Ceasefire Gaza Gaza city Hamas Israel Palestinians Strike aftermath bodies funeral hospital
- Location: GAZA CITY, GAZA
- City: GAZA CITY, GAZA
- Country: Palestinian Occupied Territory
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East
- Reuters ID: LVA001999919032025RP1
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- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City left a scene of destruction on Wednesday (March 19), as families were digging through the rubble of a collapsed building.
“There were more than 32-34 people (in the building), of whom about six got out, and they are in Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital,” said Ahmed Al-Hattab who lost his relatives in the strike.
At the hospital, mourners were gathered around bodies wrapped in white clothes.
Israeli strikes killed at least six Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, local health workers said, as the Israeli military resumed its bombardments and issued new orders for residents to evacuate combat zones.
The Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas site in northern Gaza, where it had detected preparations for firing into Israeli territory.
On Tuesday (March 18), Israeli airstrikes killed more than 400 people, according to Palestinian health authorities, in one of the highest single-day death tolls since the beginning of conflict, with Israel warning the onslaught was "just the beginning".
Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaching the truce, which had offered a respite for Gaza's 2.3 million residents after 17 months of war that has reduced the enclave to rubble and forced the majority of its population to displace multiple times.
In Wednesday's violence, three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Sabra suburb in Gaza City, while another airstrike left two men dead and wounded six others in Beit Hanoun town in the north, the Gaza health officials said.
Hamas-led gunmen attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. The subsequent Israeli campaign in Gaza has killed nearly 49,000 people, say Palestinian health authorities.
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