DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — He wouldn’t let go. Omar, who was playing outside near his home, had been killed Tuesday in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli airstrike. In the photo made by Associated Press photographer Abdel Kareem Hana after the strike, al-Baghdadi’s eyes are shut. Omar and his three friends were playing soccer in the street near their …
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital overflowed Thursday as bodies came in faster than relatives could claim them on the sixth day of Israel’s heavy aerial bombardment on the territory of 2.3 million people. “Ambulances can’t get to the wounded, the wounded can’t get to intensive care, the dead can’t get to the morgue.” Lines …
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The morgue at the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital overflowed Thursday as bodies came in faster than relatives could claim them on the sixth day of Israel’s heavy aerial bombardment on the territory of 2.3 million people. I just have to stop myself from thinking about how much worse it will get.” Nearly a week after Hamas militants breached Israel’s highly …
