AN Israeli drone strike on Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood has killed a child, as negotiations continue in Doha over the fate of the ceasefire, with the US proposing a 60-day extension for the release of more Israeli captives.
A United Nations official says the UN has documented at least 54 attacks on healthcare facilities in the occupied West Bank since January, putting 20 out of service entirely.
Meanwhile its untold agony as Palestinians search mass grave near Gaza City hospital for remains of their loved ones.
Using shovels and their bare hands, Palestinian families exhumed dozens of bodies from a mass grave beside al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City.
Many want to have a dignified burial elsewhere for their loved ones – but first, they have to find them.
“I’m here to search for my son,” Soha al-Sharif told The Associated Press news agency, breaking down in tears.
“He wasn’t unidentified. His name was written on his wrist.”
Gaza’s Civil Defence said 48 bodies were unearthed as of Thursday afternoon, including 10 unidentified people. The grave has more than 180 bodies.
Abu al-Abid, a Gaza City resident, was also present, searching for his pregnant daughter’s remains.
He told the agency she was killed on January 13 by an Israeli air strike that killed 25 of her family members, including her three children.
Al-Shifa was once the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip but after Israel’s war, it is now severely damaged, with its walls collapsed and riddled with bullet holes.
The mass grave is in a courtyard strewn with rubbish, rubble, and placards bearing the names of those buried.
