Despair in Gaza as fighting intensifies, more than 23,000 Palestinians killed
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00:00 Dawn breaks over the Gaza Strip as the war enters its 97th day.
00:04 Though overnight, Israeli flares lit up the sky in the latest aerial assault of the Strip.
00:11 For days now, southern Gaza has been an epicentre of fighting.
00:15 Here in Rafah, buildings are gutted by a strike and the mourning relatives of the victims
00:19 can't hold back their grief.
00:22 "A five-storey building with two apartments on each floor, that's 14 apartments.
00:28 14 apartments filled with women, children, men, newborns.
00:34 Where can we lodge a complaint?
00:36 Where's the ceasefire?
00:37 They're liars, they're criminals."
00:40 Strikes also continued in central Gaza.
00:43 Here in Dhar al-Bala, the Palestinian Red Crescent grieved the loss of its staff after
00:49 an Israeli strike hit an ambulance.
00:51 Nearby, the wounded continued to arrive at the al-Aqsa hospital after a school was bombarded.
00:58 "People rushed to receive aid at the school, then they were hit by a strike.
01:02 Twenty were buried there.
01:04 There are injured people at the school since last night and no cars nor ambulances are
01:08 reaching them.
01:09 Nothing."
01:11 Israeli army ground troops, however, argue that the blood of civilians is on Hamas' hands,
01:16 who they claim are using women and children as human shields.
01:20 In Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the Israeli army claims to have discovered traces of the
01:25 hostages in underground tunnels.
01:27 "We found in this tunnel hostage remains, hostage DNA.
01:34 Hostages were held here in this tunnel system."
01:36 According to the latest figures from the Hamas-run Gazan Health Ministry, one in every 100 Gazans
01:42 has died in the war, with over 23,000 killed so far.