{"id":67247,"date":"2024-06-06T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/gazans-weep-and-pray-over-loved-ones-killed-in-attack-on-former-school\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:02:07","slug":"gazans-weep-and-pray-over-loved-ones-killed-in-attack-on-former-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/gazans-weep-and-pray-over-loved-ones-killed-in-attack-on-former-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazans Weep and Pray Over Loved Ones Killed in Attack on Former School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/06\/multimedia\/06mideast-crisis-gaza-voices-02-hpkc\/06mideast-crisis-gaza-voices-02-hpkc-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Gazans Weep and Pray Over Loved Ones Killed in Attack on Former School\" title=\"Gazans Weep and Pray Over Loved Ones Killed in Attack on Former School\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A mother begs her dead child to take her hand. A young man, wrapped in bandages, lies weeping next to the corpse of another man. A little boy, his face coated in dust and blood, stares vacantly from a hospital floor as people shout frantically around him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The scenes at the doorstep of the last functioning hospital in central Gaza, posted on social media by a Palestinian videographer after an Israeli strike hit a United Nations school complex, have yet again highlighted the awful dilemma that Palestinian civilians keep facing through eight months of war: The places where they seek refuge often end up being attacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The videos were posted to Instagram on Thursday after the strike. The New York Times verified that they were shot at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza city of Deir al Balah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the early morning hours of Thursday, Israel launched a strike on a school complex housing thousands of displaced Palestinians who had sought shelter there. Dozens were killed. Israel says its attack targeted and killed Hamas operatives using the school building as a base. Palestinian medical workers say it killed civilians. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Of 40 dead bodies from the attack registered by Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry, 14 were children and nine were women, the ministry said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Al-Aqsa hospital had warned for days that it was overwhelmed by an influx of dead and wounded since Israel launched an operation to root out Hamas militants in the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, crowds gathered at the hospital to weep and pray over the dead. A local Palestinian videographer posted a video that shows a young woman with the body of her small son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOpen your hands,\u201d she pleads with the dead boy as others around her try to wrap his body. \u201cAnswer me, you\u2019ve always answered me, you never liked to upset me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The number of people in central Gaza, particularly in Deir al Balah, had swelled in recent weeks as Gazans fled an Israeli offensive in the southern city of Rafah. Before Israel launched the operation in Rafah last month, that city had been a main port of refuge for civilians, urged by Israel to head there to avoid the fighting elsewhere. At one point, according to U.N. agencies, Rafah hosted around half of the population of Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Displaced Gazans often try to set up tents or find apartments near U.N. facilities or medical units in the hope that their humanitarian purpose, and the fact that aid workers often report their coordinates to Israeli forces, will make them less of a target. But Israel has emphasized throughout the war that it will strike wherever it believes Hamas is operating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just last week, two areas near the fighting in Rafah where civilians had hoped to find safety were hit by attacks. An Israeli strike near a tent camp in Rafah killed 45 people, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to say that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/27\/world\/middleeast\/israel-rafah-civilian-deaths.html\" title=\"\">civilian deaths<\/a> in the episode were a \u201ctragic accident.\u201d A few days later, a strike the area of Al-Mawasi, on the outskirts of Rafah, killing 21 people; Israel denied responsibility for that strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Khalil Farid, 57, a teacher in Nuseirat, said his neighborhood had already been struck so many times that \u201cthere are no windows in our house left to be smashed.\u201d But he and his family have given up on trying to flee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"> \u201cAt home, you know who is sharing the place with you, who your neighbors are, and it makes you feel safer somehow,\u201d he said. \u201cBut deep inside, I know nowhere is safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Nader Ibrahim<!-- -->, <!-- -->Christiaan Triebert<!-- --> and <!-- -->Rawan Sheikh Ahmad<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/06\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-un-school-strike.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mother begs her dead child to take her hand. 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