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lawmakers this week that it was “very possible” the death toll was even higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s tally.Īt least 1,200 people have been killed in Israel, mainly in the initial Hamas attack, and 41 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the ground offensive began, Israeli officials say. While recent Israeli steps to try to minimize civilian harm are positive, he said, they are not enough.Īssistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf told U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that “far too many” Palestinians have died and suffered. Another 2,650 people have been reported missing. More than 11,070 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and minors, have been killed since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between civilian and militant deaths. Israel estimates that more than 850,000 of the 1.1 million people in northern Gaza have left, according to military spokesman Jonathan Conricus. More than two-thirds of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have fled their homes since the war began. It also announced the opening of a second route, along the coastal road, after an agreement announced by the White House a day earlier. The Israeli military announced an expanded six-hour window Friday for civilians to escape northern Gaza along Salah al-Din, the route used since last weekend. … Where are human rights? Where is the United Nations? Where is the United States? Where is the International Criminal Court? Where is the entire world?”

Houses collapsing on the heads of civilians. “We’re talking about children killed in a hospital,” shouted one man, Abu Yousef. Reem Asant, 50, described seeing bodies on the streets as he and others made their way out of Gaza City, trying to avoid shelling. They arrived hungry, exhausted and with a stew of emotions: relief, rage, and despair. Among them were wounded and older people. With no fuel for vehicles, the crowds walked for hours as explosions echoed a short distance away. Tens of thousands of new evacuees from the north, some from Shifa, flowed down Salah al-Din road - the central spine running the length of the Gaza Strip - and reached the central city of Deir al-Balah on Friday. He has pointed to international humanitarian law, which states that protection of civilians and hospitals, schools, and homes is paramount.

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Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said on multiple occasions that Hamas uses civilians as “human shields,’’ while stressing that this does not give Israel free rein to target buildings where militants are hiding among civilians. Israel has produced video that it says is evidence that Hamas uses not only hospitals, but schools and mosques as well, as cover for military activities. Israel “does not fire on hospitals,” he said, but if militants are seen firing from them “we will do what we need to do” and kill them. Richard Hecht said Israel is “aware of the sensitivity” of hospitals and that forces were closing in on them slowly. She said it was not known what happened to patients there, including children receiving dialysis and on life support - “things that you cannot possibly evacuate them safely with.” The strike on Nasr forced the shutdown of its children’s hospital, the only remaining specialized pediatric care in north Gaza, said World Health Organization spokesperson Margaret Harris. Abu Selmia said at least 25 people were killed when a strike hit a Gaza City school where people were sheltered inside.

Another strike near the Nasr Medical Center killed two people, according to the ministry. The Health Ministry said one person had been killed at Shifa and several were wounded.

“Where are we going to evacuate them?” he said, speaking to Al Jazeera television.

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