‘A genocide of women and children’: Israel continues strikes on Gaza’s Rafah

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00:00 A toddler and a preschool child from the same family.

00:06 They spent their short lives together and died together in Israel's unrelenting strikes

00:11 on Rafah.

00:27 In the destruction after the latest bombardments, shell-shocked survivors dig in search of the

00:33 unknown number of victims under the rubble.

00:37 "I lost my family and my children.

00:43 I lost my job.

00:46 I came back and I'm still here."

00:49 We are sending a message to the world that this is a genocide.

00:53 A genocide that's killing only women and children and is destroying Gaza.

00:58 Six hundred thousand children are in the line of fire in Rafah.

01:03 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to double down on his promise for

01:07 a ground operation in the city, saying it's the only way to eliminate the remaining Hamas

01:12 brigades.

01:13 Humanitarian agencies are looking on in desperation.

01:35 UNICEF reports that already more than 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza since the

01:41 start of the war.

01:43 Gaza's entire population is on the brink of famine and the health system is completely

01:48 non-functional.

01:49 UN agencies warn siege, hunger and disease will soon become the biggest killers.

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