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Intense fighting was under way both north and south Gaza, a day after the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel's "indiscriminate" bombing of civilians was costing international support.

Warplanes again bombed the length of Gaza and aid officials said the arrival of winter rain worsened conditions for hundreds of thousands sleeping rough in makeshift tents. The vast majority of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been made homeless.

Israel had global sympathy when it launched a campaign to annihilate the Hamas militant group that controls Gaza after fighters stormed across the border fence on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, and seizing 240 hostages.

But since then, Israel has besieged the enclave and laid much of it to waste. Gaza's health ministry said on Wednesday at least 18,608 people have been killed and 50,594 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7. Many thousands more are feared lost in the rubble or beyond the reach of ambulances.

In Rafah, in Gaza's south where hundreds of thousands of people have sought shelter, the bodies of a family killed in an overnight air strike were being laid out in the rain in bloodied white shrouds, including several small children. One, the size of a newborn, was wrapped in a pink blanket.

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[-] glimse@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Israel reported 10 of its soldiers killed in the past 24 hours, including a full colonel commanding a forward base and a lieutenant-colonel commanding a regiment. It was the worst one-day loss since 15 soldiers were killed on Oct. 31.

Omg 10

[-] Sodis@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Did you expect more from the headline? Journalism at its best...

[-] casmael@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

Wow Reuters blocking my adblocker is not cool. Fuck all these corpos man I have no respect for that shit

[-] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Reuters is a quality news source and as long as the ads are non intrusive I'll allow them.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Reuters seems unable to detect my ad blocking, I'm using AdAway in root mode on Android and able to read the article without ads

[-] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

Urban warfare increases casualties. Especially when it's house to house.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You mean when it's ruins to ruins

[-] ours@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Or when dropping huge bombs from aircraft.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Fuck ‘em.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Israel had global sympathy

No it didn't.

Fuck Israel.

this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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