‘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.
01:55 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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