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Palestinian rescuers carrying an injured youth at a hosptal after a strike at the Osama bin Zaid school, which shelters displaced people in the Saftawi area, north of Gaza City on November 3, 2023. AFPIsrael resisted US calls for a pause in fighting and pressed its siege of Gaza City Saturday, with deadly strikes hitting an ambulance convoy and a school-turned-refugee shelter.
At the Osama bin Zaid Boys School north of Gaza City, AFP saw the aftermath of what Hamas authorities said was tank shelling that killed 20 people.Stunned onlookers wept and wandered the scene with hands clasped above the head in horror and disbelief. Speaking in Tel Aviv, Blinken accused Hamas of “cynically and monstrously” using civilians as human shields, and of deliberately locating military assets “beneath residential buildings, schools, mosques, hospitals.”
In Gaza City’s centre, there was another strike Friday, this one on the doorstep of the territory’s largest hospital Al-Shifa. “We reiterate: patients, health workers, facilities and ambulances must be protected at all times. Always”, he said. That meeting comes amid mounting Arab anger over the civilian death toll from war, and increasing fears that the conflict could spread.
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