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“Anywhere you walked, body parts,” he said. Many of the bodies were burned and dismembered beyond recognition, Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal told NBC News. At least 93 people were believed to have been killed in the strike, according to the Gaza Civil Defense agency. “We only saw body parts of him,” he said. Mahany said that in the days following the strike, he would also learn that two of his other children had been killed.

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☆ Israel Orders Evacuations as Strikes Pound Gaza City
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Top NewsIsrael ordered people in part of eastern Gaza City to evacuate on Thursday as Palestinian officials and residents reported heavy strikes and multiple casualties. Image A wounded Palestinian boy receiving treatment at a hospital in Gaza City on Thursday. Shajaiye, one of Gaza City’s largest neighborhoods, is home to a battalion that is considered one of the strongest in Hamas’s military wing. In December, nine Israeli soldiers were killed there on what the Israeli military reported was one of the deadliest days of the war for its forces. In recent months, some residents had returned to Shajaiye as Israeli forces turned their focus to southern Gaza.

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What We Know About the Deaths Near the Gaza Aid ConvoyGazan authorities said that more than 100 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a chaotic scene early Thursday morning in Gaza City, where a crowd gathered around a convoy of trucks carrying desperately needed aid and the Israeli military opened fire. A small number of people may have been struck by aid trucks during the panic, and two Israeli military vehicles are also visible at the scene. Israeli military vehicles Aid convoy AL RASHID Israeli military vehicles Aid convoy AL RASHID Israeli military vehicles Aid convoy AL RASHID Still image of Israeli military drone footageA separate video released by Al Jazeera of the crowd near the aid convoy captures the sound of gunfire and shows multiple tracer rounds, originating from the southwest where an Israeli military base is located. The two tanks visible in the drone video were stationed on Al-Rashid around 250 meters from the base. Aid delivery has also been hampered by the breakdown of civil order as increasingly desperate civilians converge on aid convoys before the trucks can get to distribution centers.

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☆ Human Rights Watch says rocket misfire likely cause of deadly Gaza hospital blast
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A satellite image shows Al-Ahli hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza November 7, 2023. The explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital triggered outrage across the Arab world. Palestinians blamed an Israeli air strike, while Israel said it was caused by a misfiring Palestinian rocket launch. The Al-Ahli hospital blast was one of the most fiercely disputed incidents in a war marked by accusations from both sides of disinformation and war crimes. Palestinians accuse Israel of targeting hospitals and schools, while Israel says Hamas uses ordinary Gazans as human shields by placing military positions in civilian buildings.

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A satellite identifies tank tracks in the dirt, and a mall security camera catches the moment a bomb in Gaza detonates. While journalists' access to the war in Gaza is limited, a flood of video from all sorts of sources documents what is — and isn't — going on. That means combing through an endless supply of video posted on sources like X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Instagram, Telegram and Facebook. Sometimes images from video games are passed off as real, but experts can usually spot them. Satellite images, video and photos helped The Washington Post track where Israeli forces went during their initial incursion into Gaza.

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[1/5] Palestinian girl Orheen Al-Dayah, who was injured in her forehead in an Israeli strike amid the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, has her wounds stitched without anaesthesia, at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, November 8, 2023. The war started on Oct. 7 when Hamas gunmen burst through the Gaza Strip's border fence with southern Israel. Procedures that have been performed by staff at Al Shifa under such circumstances have included amputating limbs and fingers, stitching up serious wounds, and treating serious burns, said Abu Selmeyah, without elaborating. Israel said the blast at the Al Ahli Arab Hospital was caused by a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group. For the first 12 days of the war, no aid was allowed into Gaza.

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☆ Israel Accuses Freelance Photographers of Advance Knowledge of Oct. 7 Attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Mark Landler | More About Mark Landler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

“It is reckless to make those allegations, putting our journalists on the ground in Israel and Gaza at risk,” the statement said. The furor over the Gaza photographers is part of a broader information war that has raged alongside the actual war. But it said in a statement that it was no longer working with Mr. Eslaiah, who filed the earliest and most extensive photos of the attack. There were other red flags about Mr. Eslaiah. He said he had no advance knowledge of the attack and had no links to Hamas, despite the photo with Mr. Sinwar.

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☆ Horror and Grief: Inside Gaza’s Hospitals
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( U.S. News Staff | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +9 min

Israel has argued that Gaza’s biggest hospital, al-Shifa, conceals underground command centers for Hamas – a claim the group denies – stoking concerns the facility could be targeted. (Ali Mohmoud/AP)Oct. 23, 2023 | People injured after Israeli attacks are treated at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. (Belal Khaled/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Oct. 23, 2023 | People injured after Israeli attacks wait for treatment at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Oct. 17, 2023 | Wounded Palestinians wait for treatment at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City following the al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion. (Fatima Shbair/AP)Oct. 11, 2023 | A wounded Palestinian girl lies on a hospital bed waiting for treatment at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

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☆ A Gaza Pediatrician’s Desperate Plea for Fuel for Hospitals - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Hussam Abu Safyia | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

At Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, we are no strangers to treating victims of airstrikes over the years. The people who flocked to Kamal Adwan to sleep in our hallways or even the parking lot, believing it safer than their homes, were no doubt as frightened as we were. Kamal Adwan is far from the only hospital reaching its breaking point, as doctors like myself desperately cry out for more aid to Gaza. As Kamal Adwan Hospital and Gaza itself run out of everything — food, water, fuel, medicine — the one thing we have not yet run out of is hope. In order for hospitals like Kamal Adwan to continue functioning, we desperately need more resources — especially fuel for our generators.

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An Israeli official said that the government was assessing the data, which was released before Friday’s bombardment. The high number of children reported killed — about 40 percent of the total — is broadly in line with the high share of children in the Gazan population. In total, the list named 2,665 children who have been killed and 2,902 women and girls. The date of death is not listed for each individual, but a separate summary of the deaths from the health ministry indicates that the toll has been increasing in recent days. The ministry said the list did not include an additional 281 people who had been killed but could not be identified, bringing the total number to 7,028.

Persons: —, Biden, Mr, ”, “, Omar Shakir Organizations: Hamas, Gaza, Ahli Arab Hospital, U.S, Rights Watch, UNICEF Locations: Gaza, Al, Ahli, Israel, Palestine, Afghanistan, Africa

The ministry said the actual number of dead is likely to be much higher than stated in the report. The Palestinian Authority is run by a rival faction to Hamas, though the umbrella Ministry of Health maintains a relationship with the ministry in Gaza. But international agencies, including the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO), report figures provided by the Gaza ministry. The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Mohammad Shtayyeh, criticized Biden’s remarks, saying his health authority in the West Bank believed the Gaza numbers to be accurate. “I don’t have the numbers of people killed in Gaza Strip,” IDF Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht told CNN.

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U.S. intelligence agencies released no new imagery or other new evidence to make their case. A spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said The Times and intelligence agencies had different interpretations of the video. On Tuesday, U.S. intelligence officials reaffirmed their assessment that Israel was not responsible for the explosion. The evaluation reflected a higher degree of certainty by U.S. intelligence officials that Israel was not responsible for the blast. If the United States gets additional information that would point in a different direction, the official said, intelligence agencies will release it.

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American intelligence officials said Tuesday they now had “high confidence” that the blast at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza last week was the result of a Palestinian rocket that broke up mid-flight, and that no Israeli weapon was involved in the explosion. Those include how many people were killed or injured when, by the U.S. account, the warhead of a Palestinian rocket landed in the parking lot of the hospital. Last week, U.S. officials said their early intelligence showed that the blast was caused by an armed Palestinian group, rebutting Palestinian claims that an Israeli strike caused the explosion. The evaluation reflected a higher degree of certainty by U.S. intelligence officials that Israel was not responsible for the blast. The declassified assessment provides no specific information on where U.S. intelligence officials think a rocket causing the blast was launched from inside Gaza.

Persons: Israel, Biden, ’, Rishi Sunak, ” Mr, Sunak Organizations: Ahli Arab Hospital, Hamas, New York Times, Palestinian, United States Locations: Al, Ahli, Gaza, U.S, Palestinian, Israel, Jihad, Israeli, United, “, Gaza City

Hamas and Islamic Jihad have continued to target Israel with deadly rockets from hidden launch sites inside Gaza. Palestinian rockets have malfunctioned in the past and one estimate says 15 percent of rockets launched by Gazan militant groups fail. Hamas immediately blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israel Defense Forces soon denied any responsibility and placed the blame on a malfunctioning Palestinian rocket. Numerous media outlets have shown the video footage and several have cited it as evidence that a Palestinian rocket hit the hospital. It was launched from Israel, not Gaza, and appears to have exploded above the Israeli-Gaza border, at least two miles away from the hospital.

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Image Palestinians wounded in Ahli Arab Hospital blast were later treated at another hospital in Gaza on Tuesday. Israel said the strike on the hospital parking lot was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket, citing intelligence intercepts and videos of the sky above Gaza at the time. Al Jazeera, a Qatari news channel, concluded that a Palestinian rocket had been intercepted by an Israeli air defense missile. Scores of public institutions in northern Gaza, including hospitals like the Ahli Arab hospital, were warned by Israel to evacuate. American intelligence agencies have assessed that the blast killed 100 to 300 people.

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☆ Watch: Video Analysis Shows Gaza Hospital Hit By Failed Rocket Meant for Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A video analysis by The Wall Street Journal using security cameras and live feeds inside Israel and Gaza shows how a failed rocket caused the deadly explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital. Photo illustration: Ryan Trefes

Persons: Ryan Trefes Organizations: Wall, Ahli Arab Hospital Locations: Israel, Gaza, Al, Ahli

Within an hour of the blast on Tuesday night, the Hamas-run Gazan health ministry accused Israel of attacking the Ahli Arab hospital, a medical center in Gaza City where scores of families had been sheltering. The claim was widely cited by international news outlets, including The New York Times, before Israel issued its denial. Raising further questions about Hamas’s claims, the impact site turned out to be the hospital parking lot, and not the hospital itself. On Sunday, Hamas turned down requests by The Times to view any available evidence of the munition it said had struck the hospital, claiming that it had disintegrated beyond recognition. “The missile has dissolved like salt in the water,” said Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, in a phone interview.

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☆ Israel did not bomb that hospital, according to the latest intelligence. It's a reminder that in war, all sides engage in propaganda.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Israel was blamed for bombing a hospital in Gaza. The incident serves as a reminder that, in war, all sides engage in propaganda. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . First, the fog of war, paired with social media, is a recipe for inaccuracy.

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☆ Watch: Video Analysis Shows Gaza Hospital Was Hit by Failed Rocket Meant for Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A video analysis by The Wall Street Journal using security cameras and live feeds inside Israel and Gaza shows how a failed rocket launched from inside Gaza and meant for Israel caused the deadly explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. Photo illustration: Ryan Trefes

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☆ Opinion | To Win the War, Defeat Hamas and Stop Settlements
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Thomas L. Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

After that rocket failed and fell on the Palestinian hospital in Gaza, killing scores of people, Hamas and the P.I.J. (Netanyahu’s coalition agreement actually vows to annex the whole of the West Bank.) I am well aware that Hamas has been committed to eliminating the Jewish state since its inception — not because Israel has expanded settlements in the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority, which is ready to coexist with the Jewish state, needs to be able to actually win a free and fair election against Hamas in the West Bank or Gaza. So no, we’re not telling Netanyahu what to do in Gaza — Israel is a sovereign country.

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☆ Gaza Hospital Blast Reverberates Across Muslim World
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Omar Abdel-Baqui | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Police in Lebanon fired tear gas at protesters near the U.S. embassy in Beirut as protests erupted across the Middle East, including in Turkey and Jordan, following a blast at a hospital compound in Gaza. Photo: Bilal Hussein/Associated PressThe explosion at a Gaza hospital Tuesday night set off a wave of protests across much of the Middle East and the broader Muslim world, some of them calling for death to Israel. Hamas immediately blamed Israeli air strikes for the blast at the Al-Ahli Arab hospital and said 500 people had been killed. Israel, the U.S. and independent security experts on Wednesday cast doubt on Hamas claims, saying the preliminary evidence pointed to a Palestinian militant group. The amount of damage also appears inconsistent with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry’s assertion on Wednesday that 471 people were killed, experts said.

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☆ Israel Lays Out Case It Didn’t Attack Gaza Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel on Wednesday offered what it said was proof that it wasn’t responsible for the deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital compound, an incident that has caused widespread outrage in the Middle East and complicated a visit to Israel by President Biden. Israelis and Palestinians blame each other for the explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City Tuesday night, an event the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said killed at least 500 people. If the toll is confirmed, it would be the single deadliest incident in the enclave since the start of the war.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Wednesday, Ahli Arab Hospital, Gaza Health Ministry Locations: Gaza, Israel, Al, Ahli, Gaza City

☆ What We Know About the Gaza Hospital Blast
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Andrew Ackerman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A blast at a hospital in Gaza killed at least 500 people on Tuesday, according to Gaza health officials. Israeli and Palestinian officials blame each other for it. Photo: Dawood Nemer/AFPA blast Tuesday at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza killed hundreds of people and overwhelmed medical facilities in the enclave already operating at maximum capacity. The explosion came hours before President Biden was expected to visit Israel in a show of support and had immediate reverberations throughout the Arab world. Here is a look at what transpired.

Persons: Dawood Nemer, Biden Organizations: Ahli Arab Hospital, Israel Locations: Gaza, AFP, Al, Ahli

Israel, the U.S. government and independent security experts cast doubt Wednesday on Palestinian claims that an Israeli airstrike was responsible for a deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital compound, saying the preliminary evidence pointed to a local militant group. Independent analysts poring over publicly available images of Tuesday’s explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza and its aftermath say the blast site doesn’t bear the hallmarks of a strike with a bomb or missile of the types usually used by Israel.

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☆ Operator of Gaza Hospital Declines to Assign Blame for Blast
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, which runs the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, said the hospital’s parking lot, and not the hospital building itself, was directly hit in Tuesday’s explosion. Hosam Naoum, the Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, declined to assign blame for the blast during a news conference Wednesday. The church initially put out a statement on Tuesday saying it had been struck “during Israeli airstrikes.”Naoum declined to discuss a death toll, but said up to 5,000 people at various points in recent days had taken refuge on the grounds of the hospital, which was founded in the 1880s and is funded largely by the European Union and the Episcopal Church. “We know the casualties were many,” said the archbishop, without elaborating. He called on President Biden to push for justice and peace.

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