The overnight strike on a residential block levelled homes, reduced streets to rubble, and killed at least 36 people, tearing some of them apart. Bayoumi had come to check on his cousin only to find “flesh and bodyparts,” and his cousin’s family, including his wife and son, buried beneath the rubble. “I swear, we don’t understand anything.”A boy walks through the aftermath of the Israeli strike on Nuseirat. A man stroked the round cheek of another dead child, and two others, tiny enough to be fit into a single stretcher, were carried by the crowd for burial. For the dozens of people weeping and mourning over the dead that day, the grief was no less raw for its regularity.

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Persons: ” Akram Bayoumi, Bayoumi, ”, EYAD BABA, Abou Ayaman Elshaar, Elshaar, Jihad ”, Fadi, Ali, Al, NBC's, Mokthar Elshaar, “ It’s, Nuseirat, “ Organizations: Getty, Israeli Defense Forces, Jihad, Awda, War Child Locations: Gaza, AFP, Nuseirat